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Reading Toronto holds up Timothy Findley’s Headhunter as an example of what the city might be like if there’s an avian flu crisis. Hopefully, though, without the insane librarians loosing characters from books into the real world.

Speaking of Headhunter, I know I lent my copy to someone years ago, but I can’t remember who.

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The Onion takes a swing at Canada’s recent terror suspect arrests.

“See, when folks aren’t all consumed by how they’re going to pay for their operations and stuff, they start getting notions about blowing up landmarks.”

Beautiful.

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I seem to be developing a cold at the worst possible time: crunch time, two days before the exam. On the plus side, we have a little more time to prepare our paper(s) than I expected, so I’m not worried about time. For once.

[tags]reading toronto, timothy findley, avian flu, onion, toronto terrorism, mba[/tags]

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It’s back to the boardroom for me. One of the guys in my class works in the building we spend the week in, and he can get one of the nice boardrooms upstairs for us to work in. Much better than a cramped little breakout room. Anyway, it’s fixin’ to be a long night.

By the way, one of the guys in the class keeps breaking into a really bad Indian accent. There’s also sexual innuendo flying left and right, and other generally unacceptable behaviour…some from the prof, some from the class. I’m not a prude, and it’s pretty much impossible to shock me, but somewhere our VP of HR is getting a shiver down her spine.

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Good morning, Google Spreadsheet.

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I just finished eating breakfast, and I was glad to have some real maple syrup on hand. I had my family send some up for my classmates and I so none of us had to suffer through that nasty-ass table syrup they serve here. I suspect this connection to a maple syrup production had something to do with me being labelled “farm boy” (though that seems to be over now).

[tags]google spreadsheet, maple syrup[/tags]

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Managed to squeeze in a little basketball after dinner. Just shooting around, all alone in the gym. No better way to relax.

Now, to do some work before heading over to the bar for the 3rd period of the hockey game. Go Oilers!!

[tags]mba, basketball, stanley cup finals, oilers, hurricanes[/tags]

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Today’s lunch menu including beef goulash, the main ingredient of which was almost certainly the uneaten remainder of last night’s kebabs. Yum.

[tags]mba, goulash, recycled food[/tags]

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The first day of marketing is done. This prof is somewhat more engaging than the last one, so there should be no trouble staying awake. No presentation on Thursday, which makes me happy.

Oh, and I somehow acquired the moniker “farm boy” in class today. Hurrah.
[tags]mba, marketing[/tags]

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Kinsey (imdb | rotten tomatoes) was yet another “biopic”, that semi-dreaded genre which has been getting a lot of critical acclaim the past few years, but this one was a little better than most in that they focused on Kinsey’s passion — the questioning of convention and preconception through science — rather than on the intricate details of his life. Instead of swelling on childhood torment and drawing ham-handed parallels to later triumphs over adversity, the movie touched only briefly on Kinsey’s childhood sickness; his troubled relationship with his father actually became an important plot point as opposed to a clumsy emotional suckerpunch.

Given that slightly differentiated approach, the interesting subject matter (you’re tempted to think that we’ve come a long way in how we deal with human sexuality, but a quick glance through the news shows otherwise) and how well Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and Peter Saarsgard performed, I enjoyed it. Recommended.

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Last night T-Bone had us (and half a dozen other folks) over for a barbecue and some poker. Since neither Nellie or I had played before we got our asses handed to us, but it was all good fun. Perfect weather for a barbecue too…finally. In fact…we’re heading over to CBGB’s in a little while for some more! GB’s celebrating his birthday by, uh…cooking. Annd I say, all the power to him.

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The marketing textbook is dead. Long live the marketing textbook. Granted, I still have some additional readings to do, but I’m glad to be rid of that monstrosity. If I had to read one more time about what a “hip website” some company had created, I was gonna heave it into the construction site across the street.

[tags]kinsey, barbecue, poker, marketing[/tags]