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posts labeled canada
10.31.2004
- Eh, Giles, ca commence! Y'a des tas de gens! - Merde! Qu'est-ce qin va faeire? - Tsi bouing de la faroule, non? ...
I Cannot Speak Your Crazy Moon Language
08.12.2004
: pouai che m'fis dzi la baing, tsi tellaiment chabouin, et t'amousse qu'il aie fairemin bieuvé, tabernac! : ha ha ha ha ...
Quirky Canada Has Own Currency, Laws
06.27.2004
I must keep reminding myself that I am a guest and a stranger here, and that following Canadian political life requires lowering one's excitement threshold. The in the Globe and Mail just a week before the ...
The Bay Of Fundy
10.20.2003
Tides turn out to be one of those things that the more you learn about them. Luckily, the reason for the extreme tides in the Bay of Fundy is pretty simple. The Wikipedia : I wanted to see a place calle...
Halifaxus Remotus
10.18.2003
Hurricane Juan Nova Scotia just a few weeks ago, and now every major park in the city is closed, the paths blocked by fallen trees. My own ninth-floor window overlooks the block-sized Public Gardens, and out of forty trees there are five that are lying on...
The Moon Wears A Sombrero
10.13.2003
I flew in to Charlottesville last Thursday night in astonishingly bright moonlight. I didn't realize it, but the hunter's full moon was on duty, and it had lit up the cloud tops right out to the horizon. You could count the rivets on the wing. There was a thick layer of stratus cloud just ...