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Interesting, to say the least

By Patrick | Published: April 22nd, 2010

I got a new watch from my wife for my birthday last month. It's a great watch, and I like it rather a lot. Today on my lunch break, for no other reason than "because I'm a nerd", I punched my watch's serial number into Google, expecting to find — I don't know, maybe its [...]

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Touring the Nonsuch

By Patrick | Published: March 2nd, 2010

My current WiP, Everything that Never Happened, is set mainly aboard a small 17th-century sailing vessel, a square-rigged ketch named the Mandalay. It's not a coincidence that it's a square-rigged ketch, just like the historical Nonsuch; ever since the first time I visited the Nonsuch gallery in the Manitoba Museum, I've been fascinated by the [...]

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Winter is pretty… sometimes.

By Patrick | Published: December 22nd, 2009

Right now there's hoarfrost on everything.

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This morning came awful early

By Patrick | Published: December 16th, 2009

When my wife's alarm clock went off at 5:30 AM, she said to me, "When did you get in last night?" Me: "3:30." Her: "Yeah. I woke up at 2:30, and you weren't in yet. I thought, Those idiots*, and went back to sleep." Those idiots were me and my cow-orker Craig, and the reason [...]

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Diptych

By Patrick | Published: November 19th, 2009

Sunrise: Sunset:

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The jetpack theory

By Patrick | Published: November 4th, 2009

42. Jetpack Discovered in tom gauld's Flickr photostream. Tom Gauld has it right. 100% right, IMHO.

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Shiai '09

By Patrick | Published: October 29th, 2009

…or, Pat wears a suit. We held our annual judo tournament (or shiai, pronounced "shee-eye") on Saturday. We had about 60 competitors show up, in divisions from kids' all the way to seniors (senior being anyone older than 16). There were only nine referees, which meant that if you came to ref, you were working [...]

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