On Healthcare in America

To our American friends: please, please watch SiCKO. I know its by Michael Moore, and if you can’t put up with the anti-Republican rhetoric, you can skip the section from 33:00 minutes in until 42:00 minutes in, and still get the point of the movie.
Someone recently suggested that the fact that Canadian health care was [...]

Posted on November 17th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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A miserable night’s sleep

We’re all sick. Well actually, Nic is a lot better, but Benjamin and I are still being big babies.
Yesterday Nic called me, pretty upset, because he had a wicked cough and was breathing weird. She took him into the doctor — after his nap she checked and he had a temperature of 102.5. Surprisingly the [...]

Posted on November 14th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Babylon 5 is amazing

I just finished watching Season 2 of a 13 year-old sci-fi series called Babylon 5. I don’t think I’d be exaggerating if I called it the best sci-fi ever shown on TV.

It doesn’t look that great, at first blush. The acting is pretty cheesy, and the actors all C or D-list people you’ve never heard [...]

Posted on November 13th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Music makes the people come together

So I saw this on dooce once, quite awhile ago, and I’ve been meaning to plagiarize the idea. It seemed like a great way to stretch the memory, and keep the creative writing juices flowing. How it works is, you put your iPod (or iTunes, or whatever) on shuffle, and start blogging about whatever the [...]

Posted on November 12th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Baby Steps

Benjamin is 10 months old, and still growing like a weed. He is quite comfortable walking now, in most situations — wearing socks on a slippery floor is still challenging for him. He toddles around the house, crawling only to get into more tricky spots. Turning is by far the most amusing.
Next time you turn [...]

Posted on November 11th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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What is the Web?

The world is changing. It moved slowly at first, in a way only those of us constantly plugged into the machine could really see. But that change is approaching terminal velocity, and what was once a digital dot on the horizon, now surrounds us in our every day lives.

A 3D model of the Internet
Where 5 [...]

Posted on November 8th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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PSA: The Following Gadgets Have Jumped the Shark

In my recent travels I’ve seen a number of gadget faux pas. People walking around with out-of-date tech, that they think makes them look cool, but actually makes them look really backward and uninformed. Here’s a helpful list of gadgets you should not own/use if you have any designs on looking like a trendy geek.
The [...]

Posted on November 6th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Worst. Vacation. Ever… but still totally worth it.

Let me tell you a story about a vacation… not just any vacation, but possibly the most ill-fated vacation ever…
As most of you know, we’ve never been on a vacation before. We did go on a honeymoon, which my parents paid for as a wedding present, and it was very nice, but we’ve never said [...]

Posted on November 3rd, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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The US dollar is now worth 93 cents Canadian, lowest since the Civil War

Canadian Dollar sets new record above $1.07 US as unemployment rate drops to 5.8 per cent…
Man it sucks being a Canadian in the States right now!

Posted on November 3rd, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Where We Are

Rather than try to fill in all the details of the past week or so right now — which I may do via posts and pictures later — I think I’ll just report on where we’re at right now. Its just easier.
Nicole is on her way to Canada, having dodged the cops twice now with [...]

Posted on November 1st, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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