Category Archives: Saint John NB

911 and Fall

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Arthur

Exactly a week ago, it was the 10th anniversary of 9-11: it looks like the (re)construction at the former Ground Zero has made substantial progress. To be honest, I’ve never followed the progress on the 9/11 memorial (official site) but … Continue reading →

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Irene

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Arthur

By now you have read about hurricane Irene: For a change it made landfall in the US and it’s expected to hit mainland Canada (via Quebec) later this night. Canada’s Weatheroffice has it’s expected path plotted on this page, where … Continue reading →

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Hibuscus and other tales

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Arthur

We bought a hibiscus (Wikipedia) the other day at the local Sobeys. They had them in assorted colours, but we opted to go for red. Again. We used to have one before when we were living in Nova Scotia and … Continue reading →

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Flora and fauna

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Arthur

If I eliminated statistical weather data, I would say that this year’s weather is going to beat all records. First we had too much snow. When March came, we slowly went to wet weather. Which is about the same weather … Continue reading →

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Predictions

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Arthur

Now that we know the Rapture has been delayed to September (previously at xsamplex), we nw have a couple of months to make sure that things are running as smooth as they used to be. Like make US Politics the … Continue reading →

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SJ, Internet

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Arthur

I think we just survived the worst two weeks of May, ever: it had been raining for so long, that everybody and their cats were either longing for sun or snow. It’s bad when you get hit with a lot … Continue reading →

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March. Break.

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Arthur

Today, we finally hit +7 degrees Celsius temperatures and, with that, obviously, rain. I happened to look outside a couple of times and I noticed that the ground is finally getting bare, that is at spots were we shoveled. This … Continue reading →

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Old. Very old.

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Arthur

A couple of years ago, we were staying right in town for a couple of months: For our groceries we drove to the Sobey’s at McAllister’s. We always took our dog with us, which meant that one of us went … Continue reading →

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SAW

Posted on December 18, 2010 by Arthur

I‘ve played a bunch of on-line games, and while I was impressed with all of them, they always end up tiring out because the maps are too limited, your fellow players are too retarded, the enemies are too predictable or … Continue reading →

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Data.

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Arthur

I woke up early with the thought of cleaning up and organizing this bunch of backup-CDs I’ve never touched since years. While I was tagging them one by one, I remembered this tool someone wrote for the MSX computer to … Continue reading →

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From bridge to evolution

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Arthur

A bunch of links, collected from the Internet: The prime-minister was in Saint John last Friday and gave away a freebie for the people of Saint John: The toll booths on the Saint John Harbour bridge will disappear. I’m not … Continue reading →

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Fall. This.

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Arthur

We’ve finally had a 2 day nice weather stretch: Last week, we had so much rain (and for 5 days straight) that it didn’t surprise me that roads downtown flooded. I have no idea if this was a tropical storm … Continue reading →

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It’s a plane…

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Arthur

It’s a plane, it’s a bird, no, it’s a new Canadian citizen. So on October 20th of 2010 (20-10-2010, which is a highly remarkable set of numbers if I might say so), I became a Canadian citizen after having been … Continue reading →

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