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Joe Perry Lake, Bon Echo Provincial Park

cmkl — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:11:00 +0000

It was our family’s first attempt to stuff all our stuff into a canoe and camp. Irene and I used to do this sort of thing all the time. But it’s different now with a four year old.

The return of pinworms

cmkl — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:03:48 +0000

Both readers of this blog may recall my older item about Mallory having pinworms. They’re back.

Irene and Mallory at Bon Echo

cmkl — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:16:57 +0000

A bike ride

cmkl — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:57:59 +0000

Not much of one, to be fair. Blackburn Hamlet and back - 53km all in. But considering I had to brush the cobwebs off the spokes of my road bike, I think it was a reasonable one. Yes, it's been a long time since I got on my bike and rode, sans child.

Diversity of tactics = rubbish

cmkl — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:18:54 +0000

I'm trying to make sense of this whole diversity of tactics business. And I can't. I'm going to earn the enmity of a lot of folks who might normally consider me an ally, but what the hell. I understand the phrase to mean: deliberate property damage as a protest tactic is okay.

Leader summits: older and stupider

cmkl — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:22:40 +0000

Though you’d scarcely think that possible given where we’ve been.

Rogers, let me add my iPad to my data plan

cmkl — Sun, 23 May 2010 19:25:35 +0000

Sometime soon my iPad is going to be arriving. I ordered it first thing first morning it was available. I’m not normally an early adopter, but this thing has me excited. I ordered the 3G one, with all the RAM. And for $0.20 I ordered a Rogers SIM card for it.

Labo(u)r’s Media Strategy

cmkl — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:46:20 +0000

I was on this panel at Labornotes 2010 on what the trade union movement’s media strategy should be. And Steve Zeltzer, the moderator, suggested that we write something about what were going to say and post it on the internet. I thought I’d oblige.

Two wheels and pedals

cmkl — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:02:34 +0000

So Mallory did it today. She's riding her bicycle with pedals and no training wheels.

Race and reporting: are we backsliding?

cmkl — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:26:25 +0000

UPDATE: The Citizen has edited the online version of this story (haven't seen a print copy) to just use 'black' and 'white'. CBC has removed all references to race but notes that the victim shouted racial epithets at his killer. Two media outlets reporting a verdict in a trial. Some guys get drunk and pick a fight with some other guys, complete with baseball bats. There's a tussle and one of the picked-on guys grabs a bat from his tormentors.