An Exercise in Avoiding Boredom

By chance, ran into this Japanese Bento box look-alike when browsing Flickr. Yummy!

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Below, you can see how things looked like last Sunday for brunch.

Krista, click on the photo to get a higher-resolution version to browse and zoom.

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Seen today on my way to work, on a car’s bumper, a sticker with the following message:
My car cost more than the education of your honor student.
(In the U.S. cars frequently have stickers on their bumpers saying “my child is an honor student at Podunk elementary school”).

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No doubt about it, this spam email (forwarded to me by a friend) has literary ambitions:

Subject: jackal in uk
From: noreply@antisigma.classics.utoronto.ca
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:07:52 +0200
To: v.wohl@utoronto.ca
bug,
safe and ez trip. ok room. poor sleep. very poor.
i’ll try to find a real terminal soon. this is send-only (museum). hope you and dude abide.
luff,
e

I’m pretty sure that [...]

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Courtesy of Martin Stein, shot at Fortress Königstein in June 2008.

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Sent to me by a friend, presumably a photo of a German residential high-rise. I guess the Euro soccer championship brought this out.

This could, of course, also be an old photo. In this Internet day and age you never know when someone decided to recirculate old stuff for whatever purpose.

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The fumigation of that house in my neighborhood took only a day before it got untented.

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The hoopla around same-sex marriage on the radio today is deafening. The more amused I was when a friend sent me a link to this photo, courtesy of one “joestump” on Flickr.

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You may have seen it on American TV and not believed it. But it is true. Seen in my neighborhood, fortunately not too close to where I live.

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Now I know the real reasons behind the demise of my Roomba.

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