March 2012

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-26

Anthony on , 26 Mar 2012 08:15 am
  • We have $100B! How should we change the world? I know! Dividends and stock buy-backs! #thinkdifferent #uninspired #
  • Trying to establish a salary recommendation for a *junior* programmer position at our company. Any suggestions? #
  • Ugh. Been losing my voice all day. Feel it slipping away tonight. Gonna be sexy voice at all my meetings tomorrow. #
  • Yikes. USGS reporting 7.9M earthquake outside of Acapulco http://t.co/wGALQgj0 #
  • Wear your helmets, kids: http://t.co/eGCBvtQ9 #bikeyvr #
  • Math is hard. Particularly because of how it's being taught now? http://t.co/TrTsUgc1 cc: @_Cuddlefish_ (via @Jen_Watkiss) #
  • Sometimes we watch US politics w/ unmasked disdain. Sometimes we watch in awe: http://t.co/UuHUzvUI Such a profound effect on this young man #
  • Not 1st time that Nazism has been brought into discussions of #bctf dispute. Using rhetoric like that drops your credibility to nil. #bced #
  • OMG. Ocean-going muskrats? #marmotgate #otc #
  • Cue the marmot expert interview. #marmotgate #otc #
  • I can't believe there hasn't been a reference to Rodents of Unusual Size @Lazin_Ryder #otc #marmotgate #
  • I refuse to believe in ocean-going muskrats. #marmotgate #
  • I'll be keeping an eye out on my ride home tonight. Wouldn't want to have marmot problems. #marmotgate #
  • Our school's PAC is offering a new lunchtime program targeting, I kid you not: "junior jeniuses". :facepalm: #fail #
  • Argh. App Store is broken on my phone. Can't upgrade or install anything, stuck in perpetual "Waiting…". Common problem, no solution. #
  • That is, no good consistent solution. Have tried all the easy ones, next is "Backup and Restore". That's not a solution, that's a hammer. #
  • While I'm upstairs trying to "think different", I'm hearing guitar sounds from downstairs. We don't own a guitar. #
  • So the backup/restore worked. Putting the mallet away now. Silly iOS. #
  • Threenager. That's *so* fitting. RT @Nicole013: I think the poptart has turned into a threenager. Oy vey. #
  • Dear Apple: If intuitive interfaces are your thing, why on Earth are iPhone and iPad keyboards arranged differently!? Apostrophe madness! #
  • "That Raisin Bran was so good! It makes me want to _dance_!" Uh, ok, kid. #
  • Harper axes http://t.co/hUonzF3F naval facility in Arctic. Too bad; I agreed w/ CPC that an Arctic presence is necessary. (via @gregeh) #
  • Now we have nothing in common! #
  • Because what today was missing was sleet. #yvrwx #
  • Wow, this is mountain-weather at ground level. Another thick cloud blows in and suddenly there's a snow/hail/sleet squall. #yvrwx #
  • Now it's sunny again. My sinuses are about to balloon out through my nose and eyes. #aaaaargh #humanbarometer #
  • Heading off to #otctu Putting the social in social media. Also, preparing for marmot onslaught. #
  • Happily listening to @Lazin_Ryder and @LisachristCBC at the #otctu #
  • Heading home after a fun #otctu with a surprisingly young and good looking crowd of radio listeners. #
  • Hmmm, beerz, transit, and Vancouver's predilection for no public washrooms at transit hubs is causing problems. #
  • #ff @lazin_ryder @LisachristCBC @604heather @BigPileofSalt @torturedpotato @cogno @DanielOong @vancitychic @stepc #otctu #
  • .@glasneronfilm just did a good job on selling me on The Hunger Games … books. Ha! "Hunger Lames" movie… @cbcearlyedition #
  • Missing both front teeth is kind of freaky, but the resulting lisp in mega cute. #kids #
  • Yay for the Relephants for Exquisite Hour, but boo that The Cat Came Back was cancelled. #theatre #yvr #carnage #
  • I can't get over how gorgeous @flipboard is on the new iPad. #
  • RT @PopSci: It's so hot out that climate experts are calling it "almost like science fiction." Crazy weather facts http://t.co/bDmB5YCE #
  • RT @500px_choice: Snow hunter by Jules Cox http://t.co/kosNWqnN on http://t.co/UxWjml4h cc: @eastcoastgranpa #
  • Second night in a row proving the beerz and transit problem in Vancouver. I'm too old for this. #
  • Found out tonight that a couple we know quite well, together 7+ years is not a couple anymore. It startles me how few relationships "last". #
  • OK, off to bed since a child will be up and insistent on parental company in… god, 5 hours. #
  • Aw, geez. Seriously Vancouver. Rain? What rain? @ Vancouver Maritime Museum http://t.co/hMoLwDQ2 #
  • A gorgeous day in the West End #yvr @ Vanier Park http://t.co/jW252HqI #
  • Family bike outing FTW! *Both* boys now down for an afternoon nap. #
  • Out for a ride on the seawall! #latergram #bikeyvr http://t.co/9wEZFg9K #
  • That was @aidanfloyd's first "long" (4 km) ride on his own bike, and @quinlanfloyd's first ride on the Trailabike! Good times! #bikeyvr #
  • Oops, forgot about the Night Quest guided hike through Pacific Spirit Park. Quick supper then race out to Pt Grey! 7pm meeting time. #
  • Great time at the Night Quest tonight, including getting up close and personal with @titanoboa and @mondospider. Google them. Trust me. #
  • Nice to see a well endowed Canadian politician. #mulcair #ndpldr #beardcore #
  • .@aidanfloyd turns 7 today! Happy birthday kiddo! #
  • Wow, huge line for snowshoe rentals at @mt_seymour this morning! A gorgeous day to be in the mountain, though. #
  • T-Shirt weather on @mt_seymour but lots of snow; we had an awesome time snowshoeing! Plus free hotdogs and juice from the supercool @thepeak #
  • The @titanoboa! #latergram @ Pacific Spirit Regional Park http://t.co/PX2zGYkB #
  • The @mondospider! @ Pacific Spirit Regional Park http://t.co/TOTxDcCn #
  • It's @aidanfloyd's birthday and he's enjoying it! @ Seymour Provincial Park http://t.co/xOVFSTp8 #
  • Vancouver, Richmond, Delta, Tsawassen, and Vancouver Island! #beautifulbc #bestpl @ Seymour Provincial Park http://t.co/JUJXT5bJ #
  • A superb day for snowshoeing! http://t.co/ZA2mbbku #
  • Apparently today is Tolkien Reading Day. I guess it's time to dust off my copy of The Silmarillion and sit the boys down… #
  • Quoth the 3 yr old: I'd like to have more cake. And more, and more, and more. #
  • While trying to deal with a possible sprain and bleeding nose (7 yr old) I actually said "I'm on fire!" and meant it literally. #
  • A & G now off to Children's. :( Busy day. #
  • Don't carry batteries in your pocket with loose change, kids. #smoke #fire #ouch #
  • G & A home. No resolution to A's pain issue, ER docs stumped. Grumble, grumble. Clinics to follow. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-19

Anthony on , 19 Mar 2012 08:15 am
  • According to @van_twop_1000 I've been 4 years on Twitter, today. Huh. So many tweets, so little content. #
  • There's an absolutely fascinating piece about Stuxnet on CBC's The Current right now. Listen to the whole thing here: http://t.co/F2WXNXHz #
  • Taking the kids out parasailing … uh, I mean geocaching. Must remember to tie the ropes to them tightly. #windomg #
  • Just confirmed that after 5 yrs, one of our caches was muggled. Disappointing. #geocaching #
  • Also, it seems our trusty Garmin Vista CX will no longer acquire any satellites. #geocaching #
  • Off to find the next #geocache http://t.co/1a17lAYi #
  • It's the last dinner of #dadcamp and we're having leftovers. Or, as I like to call it, "hide the evidence". #
  • Racing The Train #latergram #dadcamp http://t.co/mDdp0djA #
  • While @gwenfloyd is flying across the continent, I'm watching Mayday on Discovery. One of my favourite shows, it's all about air accidents! #
  • I've been known to watch it *while flying*. I'm mildly surprised that they don't censor it from the in-flight entertainment systems. #
  • RT @bobsandlolo: ShamROCK – March 17!! Tickets available online @RaspberryKids! Pls join us! #
  • Pro tip: When sending a cover letter for a job application, please ensure the company you're applying to matches the one in the letter #fail #
  • 5 minutes of awesome: @NathanFillion, @thesamdaly, @timmydaly, and Lex Luthor with hair. http://t.co/jttGKJot #
  • Aw man, @thekerplunks are playing tomorrow's CBC Radio Toque Session, sold out. How did we miss that? #inmylegounderwear @CBCEarlyEdition #
  • On the plus side, the showers quickly turned into flurries on my ride to work today. Brrrr. #bikeyvr #
  • I refuse to acknowledge meaningless coincidences of improper date formatting. #14032012 #
  • Book Warehouse in Vancouver confirms it's shuttering the rest of its stores: http://t.co/ADlTbkCx #yvr #
  • RT @smuttysteff: @IanAMartin @AnthonyFloyd Officially announced on Facebook now: http://t.co/OkTYxQjG #bookwarehouse #yvr #
  • We're having an #awkwardpause on this telecon. #
  • Holy crap, copying a lot of people in a Tweet doesn't leave much (any) room for content. #OTCTU #
  • Someone should set up a http://t.co/c9xT3eiI page for this thing. #OTCTU #
  • You guys are killing me here. #OTCTU #
  • Some really smart, practical re-use ideas http://t.co/KnnKoHug (via @_CanadianBacon_) #
  • Pro-tip: If you're going to shave yourself a soul-patch, make sure it's centred. #hipsterfail #
  • Vancouver's microclimates always astound me. Pouring rain downtown? Blue-sky and sun here in Pt. Grey,10 km away. #otc #
  • We kissed him as we put him on the train, & we sang him a song of times long gone, though we knew we'd be seeing him again. #poguesFTW #otc #
  • Maybe I'm being picky, but the province we live in is "British Columbia", not "British Colombia" #ResumeFail #
  • .@aidanfloyd's video review of @carouseltheatre's "A Year With Frog and Toad" is now up on Youtube! http://t.co/9XEuqmol #
  • The kids' video review of @carouseltheatre's "A Year With Frog and Toad" is now up http://t.co/9XEuqmol #
  • Um, yeah. Late to the game on this one, but it astonishes me how intuitively kids can use an iPad. Astonishing. #
  • I've been told I'm not getting it back. Ever. #ikids http://t.co/wfQdvDul #
  • Here's a new one for me: Q somehow removed the roll from the middle of a paper towel roll, without messing up the roll. Now what? #
  • "It’s upsetting … that I like a lot of the people [on] Twitter … more than ppl I’ve known for yrs" http://t.co/Xffl82tw (via @findchico) #
  • Registration for the Pacific Populaire is open now! http://t.co/1shCaESg #bikeyvr #
  • Jeez, the geese are noisy and aggressive today. That time of year, huh? #granvilleisland #
  • The goose mob @ Granville Island http://t.co/fXXo0Q2t #
  • So one of my unable-to-remember-his-own-email-address internet doppelgängers is now unintentionally sending nude pics to me. #ThisMustStop #
  • Catching up on Survivor. What. The. Hell. !? The whole tribe of men are clueless. Seriously? Choosing to go to Tribal? Dumb, dumb, dumb. #
  • OMG. This just gets worse. Is there a more repulsive person than Coulton? OMFG. #survivor #classless #asshat #
  • Sigh. Another 3 hr preschooler nap "ruins" a weekend afternoon. #dadcamp #
  • A little teeter-totter after the theatre showcase! @ Granville Island http://t.co/JVH76vGD #
  • Teeter-totter partner @ Granville Island http://t.co/K0unfw7i #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-12

Anthony on , 12 Mar 2012 08:15 am
  • It's @yoyomamadotca talking about child swapping on @CBCEarlyEdition. It's not quite what you might expect. #bcedstrike #
  • .@LeftCoastBlog Strange. Teachers are prohibited by the LRB from picketing… #bced #
  • .@IanAMartin My point was that if the BCTF is going to play the "not-a-picket-line" game, it's clear that those involved see it differently. #
  • RT @kitsilano: Making the call: Bike bell vs. bike horn http://t.co/pvaPN6Lj #bikeyvr #
  • I don't have a problem if the BCTF pickets. But playing games by calling it "not a picket"? Silliness. #bced #
  • .@LeftCoastBlog I didn't mean to pick on you Stacey, but in all the rhetoric flying around, I wanted to highlight the confusion. #bced #
  • PSA: Uptalk while trying to prove a point rather diminishes the effectiveness of your point? #
  • Bike horns: Love them or leave them? http://t.co/9soJwqv9 #bikeyvr #
  • Yay! The wind is blowing stuff fr the construction site behind us. I wonder which lucky resident will end up w/ construction debris tonight? #
  • Why yes, I did just follow @alan_thicke. #
  • "The Power of Love" by Celine Dion? Somewhere, a vein is popping in Jennifer Rush's head. #thevoice #
  • A gorgeous ride into work today. The sun had the snow-topped mountains all lit up. #bikeyvr #
  • Of *course* the BCTF says they may strike illegally on Thursday. Forces the gov't's hand. It's *all* about the politics. #bced #
  • And, screw the parents. Why let them know in advance if they need to plan for childcare on Thursday (and Friday?) #bced #
  • *This* is a great way to get parental support for your strike. #
  • #truth RT @wilw: Never, ever, pick up a duck in a dungeon. #
  • Carefully crafting emails sucks, but gets me into less trouble. #lessonslearned #
  • They were two close friends sitting alone together. #lastlinebeforebed #
  • Weird. Had two tweets get lost in the ether. #blackhole #
  • I loathe iTunes even more than IE. Worst software ever. Ever. #
  • Kobo eReader completely unresponsive. Plugged in overnight, no change. She's dead, Jim. My dead tree books don't die. Well, again at least. #
  • Ditto RT @penguinstorm: I see this EVERYDAY on my bike. RT @CBCEarlyEdition: RCMP handed out 4500 tickets for distracted driving last month. #
  • That is, I see motorists (and cyclists!) on handheld cell phones while driving, multiple times, daily. @penguinstorm @CBCEarlyEdition #
  • The oldest kid has another loose tooth. Teeth falling out, naturally or not, wigs me out. #
  • Argh. Just extracted 10 cheezie penguins from a toy car. It was like crispy orange clowns stuffed into a VW bug. #
  • Best Buy's web site says "The new Apple iPad 2 is here". Really? Is that the "new iPad" or the *old* iPad 2? #youdontreallycare #
  • Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oooh Barbra Streisand #DamnYouR3 #earworm #
  • Just dropped @gwenfloyd off at the airport. 5 days of solo-parenting begins … now! #dadcamp #
  • So, who's getting rid of their 1st gen iPad? #
  • We've found a 3 hour documentary on steam trains in PBS. Brought the boys to an abrupt and fixated halt. #dadcamp #
  • MT @alexishinde: My commute is mostly off- street, except for 8 blocks. In 8 blocks, SIX of you were texting. #bikeyvr cc: @CBCEarlyEdition #
  • MT @alexishinde: One of you blew a stop sign. You never looked up at all. If you did, you'd've seen you were about to hit me. #bikeyvr #
  • Abandoned kids at their respective school-like appointments roughly at their scheduled times. Now to remember when to get them back #dadcamp #
  • Every teacher I've seen today at A's school is wearing a T-Shirt with a BCTF slogan. Way to keep it out of the classroom. Grrrr, argh. #
  • Wow. The number of BCTF "defenders" that have brought up Hitler in responding to me is staggering. I've blocked every single one. #
  • Yes, I know, Godwin's Law but seriously? Seriously!? #
  • Rewarding toilet training with chocolate sure comes back to bite you in the ass when bed time rolls around #dadcamp #
  • We meet again, my nemesis. And … yup, it crashes on the very first. So. Many. Crashes. #avidstudio #
  • And that would be crash number 2. #
  • Seriously @Twitter? A http://t.co/1IOeocg5 link turned into a twitter:// link on my phone. 3rd party app went "Huh?" #
  • Vancouver Playhouse Theatre shutting down after current production. I wonder what will happen to @fredpenner's The Cat Came Back? #
  • Kids' request for supper tonight: Apple-cinnamon Cheerios with sliced banana. I'm inclined to allow this. #dadcamp #
  • Probably deemed inappropriate, but instead of "You Really Got Me" how great would have been "Hot For Teacher"? @CBCStephenQuinn #otc #
  • Q decided he wanted to wait for A's piano lesson on a mat in the dance studio. @ Dunbar Community Centre http://t.co/d4mposFC #
  • Apparently unsatisfied with Cheerios and bananas 2 hrs ago, the children are now demanding "real" supper. WHERE DOES IT ALL GO!? #dadcamp #
  • Daisy, the harbour porpoise is *extremely* social and interactive! * @ Vancouver Aquarium http://t.co/OAqwWqvZ #
  • Apparently Q's idea of sleeping in is getting up at 5:40. His brother "slept in" until 6:30. Can't wait for the time change tonight. #
  • Today's forecast: "Rain ending early this morning then cloudy. Rain beginning this afternoon." Uh, so … "Rain" then. #yvrwx #
  • From A's otherwise-glowing piano report card: "His interest in words + stories has the potential to take over sometimes…" Yup, that's him. #
  • In other news, at least he's getting a piano report card. I wonder what his Grade 1 teacher thinks. #noidea #teachersstrike #
  • .@_Cuddlefish_ Did you get a 6-page union "info" pkg from Jr Fish's teacher on Friday? We did. Yay. Good supplement to Thur's 3 pages. #
  • Transit adventure this morning to try to lift the overtired boys' moods. Lonsdale Quay look out! #
  • On the ferry to North Van. Q shrieked as we walked by someone who looks suspiciously like @julesjulesjules #
  • So the ball pit is turning moods around but I fear I'll never get them decontaminated. #dadcamp http://t.co/wPfBfsDq #
  • There is ANOTHER kid named Quinlan in this ball pit. Seriously!? cc: @GwenFloyd #
  • Typical West-Coast kids: demanded maki, spring rolls, + edemame for lunch. My 6 yr old self didn't know the meaning of those words. #dadcamp #
  • And the best part of transit adventures to Lonsdale Quay? Beavertails. #nomnomnom #
  • Friendly deranged/scuffy guy tried to engage my kids in conversation heading to Seabus. He slinked away after A yammered at him for 5 mins. #
  • Out-talking the mentally disturbed: Another Vancouver skill my 6 yr old has that I've yet to develop. #
  • Hard to believe, but this is straight out of the camera #nofilter #grey #vancouver @ Lonsdale Quay http://t.co/4a9rAb4k #
  • Love is … using a hex editor to edit a running process's memory space to give your kid unlimited funds in SimCity. #dadcamp #
  • Apparently a 3 hr nap didn't chase away the crankiness. Growth spurt? Seasonal affective disorder? Just Being Three? Who knows? #dadcamp #
  • Score! "A Gift of Munsch" on Netflix. #LittleThingsCount #
  • Turned on the Brier since it seemed to be a good game, but just watched Manitoba give up 4. Oy-vey #
  • I hope that's not a police car John Mann is standing on RT @jcritty: Save This House http://t.co/Q3HPpMVk #ilovetheplayhouse #
  • Huzzah! The time change worked! The kids got up at 7am instead of 6am. _yawn_ #
  • Sunday morning routine @ Granville Island Public Market http://t.co/N9dnJzwU #
  • This is the stupidest playground water feature, ever. Dump it into sand!? @ False Creek Community Centre http://t.co/Wv6OLme7 #
  • Watching Phantom of the Opera (Royal Albert Hall production) with the boys. A new generation of #PTO geeks? #
  • Just sat the kids down for a review of the Childhood Agreement. There have been numerous violations today. #dadcamp #
  • .@gwenfloyd says that in trying to live in two time zones, she's successfully living in neither. Will check for second heart on return. #dw #
  • Sometime in the last hour, the hold-out clocks finally switched to DST. Thanks, Shaw #betterlatethannever #
  • The big, bright, busy, quiet city. #lastlinebeforebed #
  • I gave @604Heather +K about Artichoke on @klout http://t.co/6b84bAy7 #
  • Oh, Klout is silly sometimes. One of my "influential topics" is, apparently, Conservative Politics. Tee-hee. #
  • DST, you can #suckit I hope the kids' epic struggle to get to sleep pays off with sleeping in tomorrow morning. #asif #gtfts #
  • Omg the kids did not handle transition to DST well at all. On my way to bed, checked boys. 6yr old still awake. #gtfts #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-05

Anthony on , 05 Mar 2012 08:15 am
  • This CPC election manipulation story is beginning to fail the duck test. Starting to walk, talk, and look like a duck. #cdnpoli #
  • Seriously? Teaching is an "essential service" but they can still seek leave to strike from the LRB? So it's only "kinda essential"!? #bcpoli #
  • Teacher on radio: "Students are getting a good deal". Something about this bugs me. Students should be getting an education, not a deal #otc #
  • Vancouver tonight. http://t.co/9maH4buu #
  • We, too, avoid AC if at all possible RT @buzzbishop: the policy of overselling airlines is terrible http://t.co/g11YhlDD #
  • Someone's Skype is going nuts on the radio. I keep checking my phone… @CBCEarlyEdition #
  • Ooops. Ran out of bread. Plan B on lunches today… #
  • I thought this post wasn't going to see much traffic, but the trolls are emerging: Burrard Bridge NB http://t.co/ehyBmS1B #bikeyvr #
  • Anti-science crusade? RT @chriswalts: Canadian High Arctic research station forced to close due to lack of funding – http://t.co/hvVKQlVf #
  • Dear mathematicians: Wha? Huh? Sincerely, an engineer. #computationalgeometryisgreektome #
  • Pink Project 2012 http://t.co/xk4qkiQa #pinkshirtday #antibullyingday #needlesscontroversy #suckitburnabyparentsvoice #
  • The over-the-top rhetoric of Ms. Lambert (BCTF) does not make me want to even consider what she's saying as plausible. #bced #otc #
  • That was a seriously miserable ride tonight. 3C and mixed rain/sleet. #bikeyvr I'm chilled to the bone. #
  • Who said #cdnpoli was boring? RT @natnewswatch: The guy the Tory bus ran over apparently survived and he ain't taking the fall #
  • In which I leave a 950 word comment on one of my own posts. I'm not sure they deserved it. http://t.co/pppv7ib6 @kitsilano #bikeyvr #
  • It's amazing that my kids rediscover, every night, that it's easier to go to sleep if they just stop talking for just one minute. #gtfts #
  • And now to carve some slopes. #ssx #
  • Trying to decide how safe it will be to cycle into work this morning, given the #chubbyrain cc: @CBCEarlyEdition #snomg #
  • Might have to take transit today, but I'm worried about being propositioned. #leapday #
  • Oooh. Microsoft's "free-to-play" Flight is available today https://t.co/bbfmAoTh #flightsim #avgeek #
  • Ok, this pic seals it. No riding today #bikeyvr MT @_Cuddlefish_: @AnthonyFloyd awful. Walking is tough. http://t.co/vO053z9v #
  • Twitter is not the right forum for a wide-audience chat. It's like 100 people shouting all at once: there's no conversation flow. #
  • For an example, look at #bced right now. @georgeabbottbc is "hosting" a "twitter chat" that is … failing miserably to make any sense. #
  • It's essentially 90% hecklers, 10% questions, and the occasional response from the minister. How can that have any chance of succeeding? #
  • .@lazinryder It's noise, characterized by a loud annoying whine and the occasional blip of spin. #
  • Saw a demand from someone in the #bced chat that teachers be allowed to claim UI during the summer months. That's insulting. #
  • Today I learned the intricacies of bivariate spline fitting and manipulation in Python. #
  • There was *another* explosion at 686 West Broadway? Same bldg exploded in 2008! I don't think I'd be too thrilled about working there. #yvr #
  • Lots of geo-Tweeps tonight at the Flashlight Flash Mob tonight. #geocaching @_Cuddlefish_ @hollyburn Thanks for organizing @KathyKatcogo! #
  • US seizes a .com account of a Canadian company, registered with a Canadian registrar, based on allegations it violated Maryland state law #
  • Link associated with previous tweet: http://t.co/u5y4LFfi #
  • Vancouver-South MP equates #robocall scam w/ "being smeared" in campaign. She doesn't seem to get it. #robocall is about cowardly cheating. #
  • It's about immoral lying to suppress votes. It's one of the biggest affronts to democracy Canada's ever seen. It's utter outrageous.#cdnpoli #
  • So, Vancouver students will have no teachers next Monday thru Wed, 2 days of school, then 2 wks March Break. /shakes head. #yvr #
  • If the BCTF is still on strike at the end of March and takes its additional 1-day strike, VSB kids will have had *8* school days in March. #
  • Sporadic phone and internet connectivity issues all morning long. It's been as fun as it sounds. #MustBePluggedInToWork #
  • The UK's Guardian covers the Three Little Pigs saga http://t.co/iUS96Za8 (via @CBCStephenQuinn) #badwolf #
  • Thursdays always knock me six ways from Sunday. #
  • So, the upcoming school strike raises an interesting question: How old should a kid be before being left at home all day long? #
  • The consensus seems to be the minimum age for leaving home along during the day is 10 yrs old. #
  • This strikes me as odd for some reason: Iceland to adopt the Loonie as its official currency? http://t.co/yPVWIWye #
  • This #robocall scandal has just reinforced my habit of not answering any phone calls at home from unrecognized phone numbers. #cdnpoli #
  • Picking up @aidanfloyd in the liquid sunshine. He's going to be thrilled with the 16 block walk home. http://t.co/iJFXBRC4 #
  • Finally got something home with A with regards to the upcoming teacher's walk-out: two pages of BCTF propaganda. >:( #
  • Mind you we did get something from the VSB via the school secretary by email. #
  • This is what we got from A's teacher today wrt upcoming walk-out 1/2 http://t.co/XaFdwVCY #
  • This is what we got from A's teacher today wrt upcoming walk-out 2/2 http://t.co/uOnoCNCp #
  • I know I'm prone to saying good things about @CarouselTheatre but today's performance of Frog and Toad was spectacular. #
  • I mean, I don't like the Frog and Toad stories but thoroughly enjoyed the show at @CarouselTheatre #
  • That geocache that shut down Disneyland recently? Wasn't a geocache: http://t.co/VVAY9TyW Damned "spiritualists" #geocaching #
  • Bubble bath + jacuzzi = lots and lots of bubbles http://t.co/1kPd6uUB #

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