If time has taught us one thing around here it’s that every single visitor that has accused me of being a lazy blogger over my 13 years of doing this has, invariably, launched their own blog and probably lasted an average of 30-60 days of regular updates before growing bored. Blogging is, in itself, not as easy as it seems. Which may be why Australian Tourism is offering $122,000 to a lucky blogger to laze around the Great Barrier Reef for six months typing up their experience live-to-web. Unfortunately, the website www.islandreefjob.com was hit with more than 200,000 applications within their first viral 24 hours and is down as I type this. Will I be entering? Hey, you don’t earn the pedigree of “Canada’s first blogger” and not try to capitalize on it somewhere. In the absence of the official site this Globe & Mail article will fill in the blanks.
One wonders which evil was better for House last night: Sens win, but beat Paul Maurice in doing so?
I have not yet complained about the cold check here. I tend to wait for -40 to whine a lot, and the most we got to this morning was -35 in the Northern areas of the GTA. As one who has experienced -60 in Geraldton, -45 in Stockholm, and the harrowing wind tunnel that connects York University to the parking there I’ve experienced much colder than this. That said, I did pass the Pape stop by this morning, determining that the Starbucks couldn’t warm me up effectively, and making the detour illogical. And I’m nothing if not logical.
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Bruce Springsteen — Nebraska
Today’s Random Links
The “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks.
Secrets of super-healthy people.
Drink coffee, see dead people.
If movie posters were honest.