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2009 annual report: steady

December 31, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

Let’s see, what happened in 2009? Well, we took a big trip to France, a relaxing trip to Nova Scotia and a weekend trip to Ottawa for my brother’s birthday. […]

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Annual report, Daily life, Me

On the first four days of Christmas…

December 29, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

Here’s what we’ve been up to in the four days since we left you: On boxing day we enjoyed the main part of Nellie’s gift to me: gold seats at […]

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Daily life, Food / drink, Friends, Movies, Sports, Toronto

Hopefully it will be less successful than Operation Eat Chocolate Until Even My Puke Smells Sweet

December 25, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

My my, what a Christmas morning. The crazy wind outside woke us up at 4AM, and we never really got back to sleep. We chatted with my brother and his […]

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Daily life, Family

"Jesus Christ, Powell, he could be a f*cking bartender for all we know!"

December 24, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

Chrtistmas feels different this year. Maybe it’s because there’s not been any snow in Toronto (until today, but apparently it’ll be gone by tomorrow afternoon), or maybe it’s because all […]

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Family, Me, Movies

TED

December 22, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

I don’t normally just re-post video, but I found these two TED talks particularly enjoyable and thought I’d share. Sean Gourley: the mathematics of war Clay Shirky: How social media […]

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Politics, Technology

"I think that the closer you are to a flame and the more you see people getting burned, the funnier you get, if you’re at all human."

December 19, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

If you were a fan of The Wire — and if you weren’t, you should probably just stop talking to me now — Vice Magazine has a very long, very […]

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TV

Best songs of 2009

December 18, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

Lo and behold, my twenty favourite songs of 2009, listed according to artist: and you will know us by the trail of dead . “fields of coal” the antlers . […]

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Music

Somebody's got to lose

December 13, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

All week Maclean’s has been issuing ‘best-of-decade’ lists, focusing only on Canadian content. Best Canadian TV shows, best Canadian movies, and so on. Today was the one I was really […]

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Music

Gone quiet

December 7, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

You might have noticed that I’m hardly blogging these days. I’m also not reading most of my news feeds, and I don’t even turn on my Twitter client anymore most […]

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Blogging, Daily life, Me, Work

"The dragon is hungry."

December 6, 2009by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

In an attempt to relax yesterday (after a bunch of Christmas shopping, and before I go back to work for the rest of today) we watched two movies: Doubt (imdb […]

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