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I gratefully acknowledge that I live and work on Treaty 1 territory: the traditional lands of the Anishnaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, and Dakota peoples, and the homeland of the Métis

Tuesday, 22 February 2011

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Short posts publish fine. Longer ones, with actual content, not so much.

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Rob Hagiwara: Winnipeg, MB, Canada; This picture is of Blue Teddy, so called because I was just that creative as a child

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Rob on the web

Blue Teddy Blog (this blog)
Monthly Mystery Spectrogram (professional website)
Rob's Wish List (at Amazon.ca)
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Previous Posts

The Idiot Box

Rick Mercer Report, news satire
Food Network Canada, and American counterpart Food Network
Alton Brown, pretty much the only reason I watch Food Network anymore
Castle on ABC
The Big Bang Theory on CBS
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives on Food TV

Toys and Games

NetHack, the world's best computer game, with hints and spoilers
Nothing beats a good Zelda game, which is why I'm basically a Nintendo guy
My latest gaming obsession, The Elder Scrolls series. Cheated my way through Oblivion--resisting going back and trying to do it right
or the post-apocalyptic Elder Scrolls analog, Fallout 3
or the rival RPG in the D&D vein, sort of, the omnimedia franchise Dragon Age
And if you need help with any game, try GameFaqs. They'll know

Literature

Project Gutenberg, plain text editions of out-of-copyright literature
Death in Cold Type, by C. C. Benison
Anthony Bidulka's Russell Quant series
Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series
Marshall Brain's How Stuff Works
Physics of Super-Heroes, by James Kakalios

Theater/Theatre

The Manitoba Theatre Centre, sponsors two complete theatrical seasons as well as
- The Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival, my home for two weeks every summer
- The Master Playwright Festival, which I've missed every winter
Prairie Theatre Exchange, which also runs a full season every year, as well as sponsoring

The Prairie Theatre Exchange School, at which I've taken playwrighting, an acting course, and may do some sketch writing next year

Ambience

The Roches family harmony
Peter Kingsbery and Cock Robin
Jeff Heiskell, formerly of the JudyBats
Canadian superband Barenaked Ladies. Check out their "If I Had a Million Dollars" and then read about when you'd run out of money
P. D. Q. Bach, and modern master Peter Schickele Iwith whom I share a birthday, apparently)
Roch Voisine, bilingual balladeer
Garou, French-Canadian balladeer
Jonny McGovern, comedian/musician, whose Gay Pimp club DJ/rap/electronica persona is hilariously funny

Nosh

The coffee and caffeine FAQ
Bernard Callebaut, a Belgian chocolatier based in Calgary
Recipe Source, formerly the Berkeley Searchable On-line Archive of Recipes (SOAR)
The Regretable Food Gallery, by James Lileks

Physical and Mental Health

Yoga
- Yoga Basics
- Yoga Journal
- Yoga from Maran Illustrated
Diabetes
- The Canadian Diabetes Assocation and the American Diabetes Assocation
- Diabetes information from Bayer (makers of the Ascensia line of glucose meters)
- Diabetes education FAQ from TheraSense (makers of the FreeStyle line of glucose meters)
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Dysthymia factsheet from the National Mental Health Association

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