This is my personal blog. Opinions and thoughts are my own.
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Celestial events in Spring 2024
Spring 2024 was an amazing time for celestial events in eastern Canada. First was the total solar eclipse, which tore a path right across the continent. Starting in Mexico, earth’s satellite cast its shadow north, across the land of the Free, escaped deadly violence and then entered Canada. Once there, it slunk across the country…
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Dora the Exorcist
In the 1973 film The Exorcist, a certain scene rose to prominence. The possessed girl lays prone on her bed and the demon, in a show of strength, makes her body levitate. The camera angle is from above, looking down, as the poor girl resembles Christ on the cross, arms spread helplessly to her sides.…
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I hate driving
I hate driving. I hate the act of driving, I hate the thought of driving, I hate everything around driving a motor vehicle on the road for any length of time. What annoys me is other road users, other human beings, also engaged in the act of guiding a few metric tonnes of metal, plastic…
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Fountain Pens – a love reinked
School systems back in the day recommended a transition of writing implements, from pencils to fountain pens. “Ink pens” was the name in the Indian school system and this sounds odd in hindsight. Ink as opposed to what, given that all pens use ink in some form. My childhood experience with fountain pens was horrible.…
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Nanoblock “Space Invaders”, Character Collection Series – Review. Also, rant on the pains of recording videos
I love building blocks and I purchased a discount (50%) set from Kinokuniya in New Jersey, Estados Unidos de América earlier this year. This was a four-character set from the space invaders video game. Space Invaders is a 1978 arcade video game developed in Japan and was quite popular in les États-Unis d’Amérique. This is…