Monthly Archives: October 2006

Today on my very first day at EmbroidMe some old lady came into the shop and talked to the boss for…oh…I would say ten minutes maybe? About nothing. About the neighborhood and the laundromat that used to be in the … Continue reading →

I found out…somehow or other…that Chester Brown would be having a couple of talks as part of the Vancouver International Writer’s Festival. Brown wrote a comic strip biography of Louis Riel. He got a government grant to publish the book. … Continue reading →

In the past four days I’ve been offered as many jobs. I took two of them, and I might do the third too if scheduling permits. There’s a place two blocks from here called EmbroidMe, which is a franchise, where … Continue reading →

To, Cc and Bcc (link to original article) First, there are the users who have no idea that the ‘Cc’ exists. Every address is listed in the ‘To’ even if the email is only directed to one person. In cases … Continue reading →

Have you seen The Departed yet? No? Well I’m about to talk about it, particularly the ending. You’ve been warned. Sometimes a film tries so hard to be anti-Hollywood that it becomes Hollywood. Especially when it IS Hollywood. And that’s … Continue reading →

Do not send HTML emails. HTML emails are harder to read, larger, take longer to download, facilitate all kinds of viruses and security risks, are impolite, are mostly spam and deleted by many spam traps and can’t be read by … Continue reading →

I went to an audition today and all I had to do was sit in a chair and rhubarb with two other actresses while the camera focused on another party’s reaction. We were just making dialogue up completely from scratch, … Continue reading →