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This shit is bananas (May 2005
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Yelled across the street at me, as I step out of the car to pay for parking and Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" spills out of the speakers: "Hey! How's Sweet Valley High?!"...
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Edmonton Splendour: All in the family (April 2005
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People will sell anything at a garage sale, it appears.
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It's our fault (March 2005
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We put out the patio furniture last night, because we were reorganizing our basement and wanted to get them the hell out of there. Of course, that means that today, it started snowing. I told a coworker about this coincidence, and he replied, "There's a special place in hell for people like you."...
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Overheard... (December 2004
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"Social issues... pfft. We're in business."...
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Hang 'em all. (December 2004
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Hang 'em high, and hang 'em low.
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Made in Japan (December 2004
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It was made in Japan.
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How to tell you're in Edmonton (October 2004
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Is it possible for us to be more Albertan?
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The end is nigh (October 2004
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The end is near; and it brings accompaniment.
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Edmonton Splendour (September 2004
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It's another day commuting in Edmonton...
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Edmonton Splendour (August 2004
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"You're lying to me!"
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"They're just the same to me" (July 2004
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Overheard on "Trading Spouses" last night: "I'd just as likely talk to the president as I would the garbage man... there's no difference between them to me." I wonder if her interpretation of that statement is the same as mine?...
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Edmonton Splendour (July 2004
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Weird and weirder.
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Edmonton Splendour (July 2004
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Digital storytelling.
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Overheard (June 2004
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Overheard.
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Random utterance (June 2004
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mm.
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Overseen (June 2004
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Riding into work this morning, I watched a car run over a biker's front tire. He finished pulling around the corner, and got out of the car to check on her. As I pedalled past (the biker wasn't hurt) I heard him say, "Are you alright? I was watching you for a long time, and nothing was happening, so..." Update: Pam writes: "I can't imagine the exact geometry involved in this collision. Was the bike in motion with rider in the saddle, or had the cyclist dismounted to cross the street? "Run over the front tire" sounds like a bad collision--I just can't picture where the cyclist is at this point. This would also shed light on the comments of the motorist. More description plz? :D" Using the power of ASCII graphics (cue 1950s science narrative music), I will illustrate: Here's the position of the bike (8) and the car ( [=] ) The motion lines (---) show the direction of the car's travel | |_(sidewalk)__ \ 8 ---[=] Basically, the driver moved forward at the same time as the biker, and caught the front of her front tire under his wheels (she was on her bike). The bike's front tire was bent pretty far out of shape....
Darren James Harkness is a freelance web developer, technical writer, and graduate student at the University of Alberta. He has written several articles on web development, including a book on Apache and a book-chapter on Intranet Development. His current studies are on personal documentary on the Internet, looking at the textual production of bloggers, journallers, and writers online in order to discover why they do it and how.
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