Monthly Archives: December 2010

It’s not a Holiday Unless Tech Support is Involved

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I’m lucky enough to be home for the holidays, where I’m spending the week setting up my dad’s new webcam so he can Skype with his grandkids (and earning another Nerd Merit Badge in the process). For those of you who are fielding calls from parents dealing with tech issues, I recommend Teach Parents Tech, where you can send a video showing exactly what you mean:

Blessed Solstice!

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Hail to you the longest night of all the turning year!
Awake the resurrecting light that banishes despair.
For now the tide will start to turn and night will yield to day
And the waning year will shed its skin and cast the dark away.  
Yule is come now beat the drum and light the Solstice flame 

Tonight we’ll sing a hymn of praise for the Sun returns again.


– Jaiya, Yule is Come

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(Also, check out this awesome photo of the lunar eclipse taken by Mark Zaugg. Xander and I went out to witness the event – what a magical night for creating the world as we want it to be!)

Proud to Be Pink

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I confess, I’m a buton-a-holic – but that’s the topic for another blog post.

On today’s to-do list: order a button from Spacing Toronto.
If you missed it, here’s Don Cherry’s speech (at the Torontoist) that he delivered at Toronto City Council’s recent swearing-in, which explains why several people on my social media feed are also ordering buttons.
Oh, and insert celebratory “Our Mayor/Council Rocks” post here: they lowered the cost of low income transit passes! 
(Cross-posted at Zero-Fare Canada who kindly invited me to post with them. Go check them out!)