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  Jiggity-jig-jig. I like home. Lots of crap to post here. But look! I made something for you when I was bored in a hotel without any connection. Have you ever thought: "I need a way to see all the frames of an animation at once, but still have it animated! And I need it like, yesterday!" Well, now you can. And, best of all, for an unlimited time, it's FREE. Click now here for top modern multiview animations!

Then, when you're done with that, 0sil8 like this.




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  Oh London, of course I don't really hate you. I was just a little cranky and I'd forgotten how dirty and inconvenient you are. The fact that you didn't label that railing with a "wet paint" sign in those first few mintues, your lack of consideration in forcing me to spend so much time in finding a hotel (you can't blame it all on Sabre/Amadeus/Pegasus, etc.), your unbelievable pay phones which only work one time out of five, the fact that it costs the same as my monthly long distance bill to call a London-based mobile phone for three minutes, your crappy food and crappy weather, the sausage grease which seems to have coated every surface in the city and permeated the water supply, the throngs of glum-faced people, the 20 minute wait for the tube, the broken elevators and escalators, the incredible heat and humidity inside every building — I can forgive you for all this. There are a lot of interesting people and I had a wonderful weekend, but I am glad to go home and I am not all that sorry to say that I can't live with you.

Keep up the good work with the Museums, the Galleries, and so on (I'm sorry that I was here a week too early for the new Great Court opening at the British Museum) and I'll see you again soon enough. We have our differences, but I remain
      your loyal ally and,
           humble friend;
                devotedly,
                    Stewart

Here are some of the other things on this site:

The 5k contest
Someday to get its own home.

Stephen Toulmin's 1979 Ryerson Lecture at the University of Chicago, The Inwardness of Mental Life, reprinted with the kind permission of the Author & the University.

An excerpt from an interview with philosopher Donald Davidson, which I find complements the former.

Some pictures of Illuminares, Vancouver's annual latern festival.

Some pictures of The Symphony of Fire, Vancouver's annual fireworks competition.

A video from my second trip to Vegas in the year 2000. Sad, that.

And more, to be dusted off.