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Le Trottoir Imbecile: February 2009
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Sunday, February 22, 2009. Cheaper by the dozen. My mother loves a sale. Her most recent purchase was a new furnace and I know that if she was given the option of buying one and getting one free, ours is now the only house on the block with surround heating. Besides, my point today (and I do have one, don't be fooled by the cleverness with which I've so far hidden it) is that I have inherited my mother's love of a deal. I can no longer pay full price for anything without cringing - often visibly....And w...
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Le Trottoir Imbecile: August 2009
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Monday, August 24, 2009. The perils of a canadian summer. My sister found an article in a Canadian Living. Magazine (tucked between a pemmican recipe and a feature on resoling skidoo boots) offering health and safety tips for the Canadian summer. Canada did, however, have 58,945 acres of sod in need of mowing in 2006, so it's not hard to imagine some portion of that acreage littered with severed feet. Thank you, Canadian Living. Friday, August 21, 2009. I waited months for season three of Mad Men. Long, ...
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Le Trottoir Imbecile: troubleshooting
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Thursday, January 14, 2010. This morning I've arrived at work only to discover we have a client-facing pivot table issue! It's like reporting for duty on the deck of the enterprise just in time for a Klingon attack. I'm psyched. I've been training for years for this moment. Bring on the client-facing pivot tables, I say! AND LET THEM PREPARE TO DIE! And if you're wondering why I've been left to command the Enterprise, it's because Captain Kirk is busy these days making goo-goo eyes at Gene Simmons.
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Le Trottoir Imbecile: movin' on up
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010. I've decided to pack my bags and move to . Word Press. The decision was made rather suddenly. I was telling someone about my blog (i.e. shamelessly promoting myself), and when this person asked 'What's it called? So onward, ever onward! You'll find me here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This ain't so no front hug zone! Gimme that Christian side hug! Did anyone explain to these kids what "i'm a rough rider" means? Coz i think it means something different to what they ar.
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Le Trottoir Imbecile: January 2009
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Friday, January 23, 2009. The ghost of employment past. The company that employed me when I first came to Prague has long been a source of comedic gold for those of us (and we were legion) who worked there. I left many years ago, after I'd been rudely deprived of the opportunity to quit, but my understanding is that subsequently, wearied by the demands of dealing with adult employees, they switched first to part-time students, then later to one of the less-uppity breeds of monkey to staff their enterprise.
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Le Trottoir Imbecile: taking stock
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Monday, December 14, 2009. This decade and I have never been close (10 years in and I still don't know what to call it) but I'm not going to let that stop me from saying something potentially definitive about it. I've chosen to concentrate on those features of the '00s (the decade we were all licensed to kill) with which I will no longer put up:. It's probably time for a new story line. D) think my inability to solve my own problem makes me a Nazi. 5 "Green" Products. You want to save the earth? I know t...
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Le Trottoir Imbecile: December 2008
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008. Other voices, other rooms. I'm really liking my new apartment, even as its less attractive aspects become apparent - the neighbors across the hall, for example, whose stereo sounds like it's in my bedroom and whose musical taste runs, sadly, to Ricky Martin and Christina Aguilera. Mostly, though, I find I like the mental image of them - I've decided they're some sort of recorder-based, slow-clogging, Czech version of the von Trapp family, and that, somehow, makes it all okay.
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Le Trottoir Imbecile: November 2008
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Saturday, November 15, 2008. Guess who got a digital camera with a fisheye lens? This is just a hint of the fun that's in store for all of us! Friday, November 14, 2008. What wine goes best with crow? For the eight years of the Bush presidency (those dark days before Obama won the election and appointed a unicorn secretary of state and a leprechaun secretary of defense and everyone in Washington started pooping rainbows) I've wondered HOW people could believe the lies spread by the right-wing media.
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Le Trottoir Imbecile: learning english?
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Friday, December 11, 2009. I happened to hear Radio Ceska's English lesson this morning and I may never be the same. I stopped what I was doing to write it down, dictation-style, and I present it here to see if you find it equally disturbing. It's a conversation between an unidentified man and woman (the point, apparently, is to teach the phrase "to look at"). You hear the sound of babies cooing throughout:. Man: Look at the twins. Woman: I can’t tell them apart. M: Which one do you like better? Coz i th...
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Le Trottoir Imbecile: May 2009
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Thursday, May 7, 2009. I've been having so many great ideas lately, I feel it's time to get a few down on paper so that, in about 10 minutes, when someone else has the same idea and actually finds a way to make money from it, I will be able to look smug and say, "I could have done that.". GREAT IDEA NUMBER 1. GREAT IDEA NUMBER 2. GREAT IDEA NUMBER 3. Someone (don't look at me) should design a "smart fridge" that determines when food is past its best-before date and pelts you with it when you open the doo...
