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Archive for May, 2005

Darts and Laurels

Posted by Jordan on May 26th, 2005

A certain local newspaper by the name of the Florida Agitator has an op-ed piece where they give out darts and laurels for notable (one way or the other) people, companies, events, etc.
Here, if anyone cares are this week’s dart’s and laurels (sorry, the Darts ran a little long, going to extend this one).

On Writing

Posted by Jordan on May 11th, 2005

I’ve heard it said from by different authors that the key to becoming a good writer is simple: write. Write frequently and write a lot. Unfortunately, while I’ve lived that out, I think I missed a critical component. I think you’re supposed to try to improve along the way. You’re [...]

Oh Canada

Posted by Jordan on May 8th, 2005

So here’s my official list of pros and cons of Canada so far:

Pros
Cons

Exchange Rate
Exchange Rate (not
always so good)

Prices (Gameboy DS:
$180)
Prices (CDs are mostly
cheaper)

Loonies and Twonies!
($1 and $2 coins)
Easier to spend coins.
 ;-)

Food (great food in
Vancouver)
Prices of food (probably
just bigcity prices)

International Flavor
(LOTS of Mandarin!)
Much like Asia, LOTS of
smoking.  Blegh.

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