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    A good story should provoke discussion,
    debate, argument...and the occasional
    bar fight.
    -- J. Michael Strazynski




    ..:Hilarious Trajedy .:. Katie
    ..: Aerial Ambition .:. Tiff
    ..:Tales from Trent .:. Beej
    ..:Realm of Angst .:. Nikki
    ..:Mad Scientist .:. Bish
    ..:Grey Skye Blue .:. Brynne
    ..:Elected Potatoe .:. Sean
    ..:Magdelina .:. Kat

    ..:Fanthroplogy .:. Research
    ..:Scary Duck .:. Weirdness
    ..:The Dreaming .:. Neil Gaiman
    ..:Whedonesque .:. Joss Whedon
    ..:Photo a Day .:. Something Interesting
    ..:WKOA .:. Odd
    ..:Belle Du Jour .:. Secret Diaries
    ..:Nee Naw .:. Dispatchers Tales
    ..:Confessions of an Aca-Fan .:. Henry Jenkins
    ..:CJSD .:. Brando
    ..:LUTD .:. Tales from the Undeground
    ..:Inky Circus .:. Odd Tales
    ..:Copper's Blog .:. Met Cop
    ..:Occasional Superheroine .:. Marvel Girl
    ..:AE .:. Ed Kennedy's Blog
    ..:Sleep Talkin Man .:. Nocturnal Ramblings
    ..:Blag Hag .:. A Bit of Fun


    ..:Sakura Crisis .:. Manga Scanlations
    ..:Ill Will Press .:. Neurotically Yours.
    ..:The Very Secret Diaries
    ..:Pancino .:. A Kick Ass Indi Band!
    ..:Bubblewrap .:. Boredom
    ..:Threadless .:. Good Clothes
    ..:Magdelina Designs by Kat
    ..:My OCAD .:. Ontario Artists
    ..:Facebook .:. Online People
    ..:The Mall Ninja .:. Redneck Stupidity
    ..:The Penn and Teller Essays
    ..:Tales From Homeward .:. Uncle
    ..:Overheard in the Office
    ..:Evil Mad Scientist Labs
    ..:Cool Aggregator .:. Cultural Oddities
    ..:The Fail Blog .:. Wasting Time
    ..:Cute Overload .:. More Time-Wasters
    ..:My Life Is Average .:. Stranger than Fiction
    ..:Not Always Right .:. Proof Humans R Crazy
    ..:Oddly Specific .:. A Collection of Signs
    ..:1000 Awesome Things .:. Neil Pasricha
    ..:Texts From Last Night .:. Hilarious




    ..:Boy Meets Boy .:. Sandra Fuhr
    ..:Friendly Hostilities .:. Sandra Fuhr
    ..:Other People's Business .:. Sandra Fuhr
    ..:Questionable Content .:. J. Jacques
    ..:Girl Genius .:. Studio Foglio
    ..:XKCD .:. Who The Fuck Knows
    ..:Vampirates .:. Jones
    ..:Cigarro and Cerveja .:. Tony Esteves
    ..:Count Your Sheep .:. Adrian Ramos
    ..:Dog Eat Doug .:. Brian Anderson
    ..:The Awakened .:. Sarah
    ..:Menage A 3 .:. Giz & Dave
    ..:Gingers Bread .:. Carl Sjostrand
    ..:Legend of Bill .:. Dave Reddick
    ..:Brathalla .:. Jeff Stevenson
    ..:SGVY .:. Kittyhawk
    ..:Nice Hair .:. A. Mauchline
    ..:Something Positive .:. R.K. Milholland
    ..:Weregeek .:. Alina Pete
    ..:Schism .:.Leigh Bader
    ..:Least I Could Do .:. Ryan Sohmer
    ..:Basic Insturctions .:. Scott Meyer
    ..:Girls With Slingshots .:. Danielle Corsetto
    ..:Blip .:. Sage
    ..:The Abominable .:. Karl Kercht
    ..:All New Issues .:. Bill
    ..:Just a Little Bit Off .:. Jeff Zugale
    ..:Ctrl+Alt+Del .:. Tim Buckley
    ..:Shortpacked .:. David Willis
    ..:CAD Sillies .:. Tim Buckley
    ..:Looking for Group .:. Ryan Sohmer
    ..:Family Man .:. Dylan Meconis
    ..:White Noise .:. Madsniper
    ..:Magic High .:. Madsniper
    ..:The Dean Show .:. Minkmix
    ..:Saturnalia .:. Spacecoyote
    ..:Pandect.:. Dina Situ
    ..:Arcana .:. Kelly
    ..:Megatokyo .:. Fred Gallagher
    ..:Mini!Marvels .:. ChrisG
    ..:Mac Hall .:. Matt and Ian
    ..:9th Elsewhere .:. Caroline Curtis
    ..:Sluggy Freelance .:. Pete Abrams
    ..:YWAM .:. Aoi Hayashi
    ..:Skyfall .:. Rekka and Mirai
    ..:Picture Diary .:. Lianu
    ..:No Rest For The Wicked .:. Andrea
    ..:Shifters .:. M. Tary and J. Strocel
    ..:Oh My Gods! .:. Shivian







    ..:Ver. 1 .:. Half of Mine
    ..:Ver. 2 .:. Lost Girl
    ..:Ver. 3 .:. Broken Doll
    ..:Ver. 4 .:. Kanashimi
     ..:Ver. 5 .:. Sgoil Dhubh
    ..:Ver. 6 .:. Solas Suarach





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    .:Monday, June 16:.

    ..:Movies and Milling:..

    Spent a good chunk of this past weekend stuck up in Caledon babysitting the dog and the house, so I dragged a bunch of old friends out and we went to a crap load of movies. Pretty much spent the whole day in the theatre going from movie to movie as a friend was working podium and just let us in, so, the movies.

    Kung Fu Panda - I actually really really liked this, I don't care if it's daft, but it made me laugh alot and had some great jokes
    Don't Mess With The Zohan - Funny, but annoying. You got the impression they were trying to do a version of Kung Fu Hustle, same kind of slapstick ridiculous fighting and dialogue, but with Palestinians and Israeli terrorists, didn't really like it, possibly cause of an intense dislike of Adam Sandler
    The Hulk - suprisingly OK. Kept me entertained at least, although a good chunk of that could be the novelty... About half the movie was recognizably filmed on U of T campus and yongue street, and everyone knows it's a bit of a childhood dream to watch the hulk fucking OBLITERATE your school. And compared to the last hulk movie? It can only be an improvement, also, STARK WAS IN IT!!! TALKING ABOUT THE AVENGERS *dissolves into a fangirlish puddle*

    Other thing is that I started competing in the hypermilling, which is kinda the latest trend in Canada and the US. It's a competition to make a tank last the longest. Most cars take about 8-12 gallons per 100km that you drive (mine takes 5-7, take that SUV soccer moms!!) and the idea is to use a bunch of tricks to lower that as much as you can, the current record is 1.3 gallons to 100km, which is freaking mad in and of itself, if my gas did that a tank would last a month and a half.

    The idea is to treat your car as if A - it's about to rattle apart at any minute and B - that you don't have any breaks. (not really hard to imagine with puddles. Turn off the AC (also not hard as puddle's ac is broken, and likely to remain so as mere is BROKE) Coast to a stop whenever you can, don't slam on the gas or the brakes as that REALLY eats into the gas, and go the posted speed limit, I didn't know this, but a big part of the posted speed limit is what kind of wind conditions are ideal for gas mileage, not just road safety, so going 130? aparently causes your fuel to burn even faster.

    It means I have to get up about 10 minutes earlier, but I've doubled the life on my gas tank, so REALLY not complaining.

    Another thing? Mere's new resolution: GET THE FUCK IN SHAPE THIS SUMMER - I don't mind being a bit squishy around the edges, I like curves, but I have literally no upper body strength at all and that's just sad, so Mere is going to attempt to actually start going to the gym more than once a month when she feels really guilty after finishing a ben and jerry's tub of ice cream on her own.

    Shut up it was cookie dough and brownie fudge, like you could say no?

    Also, DID YOU SEE THE TRAILER FOR NEXT WEEK'S WHO?! Why is it not saturday yet? WHY?!


    Back to work now, blah.

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    Meru at 10:36 AM

    .:Monday, February 19:.

    ..:Compy: Dead:..

    So, computer has died a rather innoble death, which is why I wasn't able to blog over the weekend, am very sad.

    Come home on Friday night and turn on compy to check mail and engage in other time wasting activities, to find a virus slowly eating it's way through all my files. Luckily my computer model is one with a built-in help service and they were able to get rid of the virus, but I still lost alot. Last time I backed up my compy was over a month ago... Christmas I think. So anyone to whom I've given files (pictures, word files, etc) can you please send me a copy? Email is meredydd@rogers.com .

    Aside from compy's horrible and untimely demise, it was actually a good weekend. Went to the play Paperbag Princess with the family on saturday at Stage West. Was.... very much a little kids show, and we looked very strange being a group of 7 adults in a room with 400 little kids and parents. Still really funny though, I was amazed at how many of the kids knew all the lines in the stories. I mean, I remember reading this when I was a kid, but I really didn't expect the books to still be so well known.

    Also headed out to the movies to see Ghostrider. What a waste of money that was. I thought to myself when I first saw the trailers that it looked.... kinda cheesy. And it could go one of 2 ways: Really really good: or horrifyingly bad. Unfortunately the second option was definitely the dominate one.

    The lines were bad, the lead character acted like a complete and utter moron, the lines were horrible, the female lead had no personality beyond being a spokesperson for plastic surgery and the lines! Did I mention the lines? I have never in my life heard such cheesy and predictable writing! Only thing I can say to the positive for it was the graphics were impecable and the character designs were effective. Not enough to overshadow Nicholas Cage's bad acting, but still.

    Bah, gotta work now, blog later

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    Meru at 8:54 AM