Monthly Archives: October 2004

Hail Satan

Posted on October 29,2004 by Toren

I’ve been neglecting my friends and my blog-readers. And for that I apologize. Stupid work. So here’s not one, not two, but three week’s worth of selected (by me) news snippets courtesy of Harper’s. The Labor Department reported that the … Continue reading →

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Acquaintancester

Posted on October 29,2004 by Toren

Have I mentioned this already? A little while ago I deleted my friendster account. I never liked friendster, really. Sometimes I hated it. It was novel at first. One thing that especially irked me was the people who have over … Continue reading →

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Women and seamen don’t mix

Posted on October 29,2004 by Toren

We played D&D last night and it was fun. The gang is on board a galleon. They’ve had to be hired on as workers, which required a lot of shenanigans, since none of them (except the NPCs) have any sailor … Continue reading →

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Activate Cloaking Device. And by that I mean ‘put on the cloak’

Posted on October 28,2004 by Toren

The nice, velvety cloak I’ve had for years in my tickle trunk belongs to Jon Metzger. I met Jon when I met Nathan and Devin, years ago. When I moved into Vancouver, I didn’t know anybody, so I went to … Continue reading →

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It’s a snap!

Posted on October 27,2004 by Toren

On Tuesday Marlo and I (well, mostly Marlo as I was drawing) made more ginger snaps. Things went slightly awry when Marlo put in 3 times as much molasses. Oh, Marlo. We tried to compensate with my elite math skills, … Continue reading →

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Whoopsie.

Posted on October 27,2004 by Toren

I didn’t pay my phone bills (I was going to, I swear, I just wasn’t ready) so Sprint disconnected my phone. Naturally I got the notice in the mail too late to do anything about it. But I paid with … Continue reading →

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Back to the old drawing board

Posted on October 24,2004 by Toren

I was planning on seeing The Eagles of Death Metal, Helmet, and Metric this month. I also toyed with seeing Goatsblood and some other band I forgot the name of. I didn’t see any of them. I haven’t seen any … Continue reading →

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For Pete’s Sake

Posted on October 22,2004 by Toren

I really should be drawing instead of writing this – but yeah. There’s this guy at work, whose name is Pete, who seems like an okay guy. Most of the people who work there are…I’m sure they’re nice people, but … Continue reading →

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1.24498

Posted on October 21,2004 by Toren

That’s the exchange rate right now. I remember when it used to be about 1.6 In all my time flying in airplanes, I don’t remember ever seeing a commercial pilot who wasn’t white, and over 40. I wonder if they … Continue reading →

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This is for my benefit, not yours

Posted on October 20,2004 by Toren

So everyone knows that Mr. Wendy, the “unofficial” spokesperson for Wendy’s, gets paid by Wendy’s, so he is in fact an official spokesperson. Right? Okay good. Let me recap my weekend for myself: Friday night: I don’t know what happened … Continue reading →

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