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Save the moraine nature walk — Sat 3 Sep

Wellhauser sent out this invitation to the Save don't Pave the Waterloo Moraine - Nature Walk this Saturday and asked that I pass it on.

Trip to the Atlantic

Last week I went to Atlantic Canada, primarily Prince Edward Island. Adam and Bethany were getting married.

It would be my first visit to the bright red mud, the garden in the gulf, the million-acre farm, the little cradle of a big big country. Some of us were driving out and more of us would drive back. I set out on Thursday (18 August) to meet 'ger at the airport.

Irresponsible headline in Imprint

The deck, bank, or kicker (or sub-head) on a front page story of the last Imprint issue of the spring term is inappropriate. The story is about a UW student who died in a car crash. The deck states that the student was "killed instantly by" another driver and identifies the place of origin of the person charged with ciminal negligence and dangerous driving.

List of heteronyms - same spelling different meaning, pronunciation

Heteronyms are words with the same spelling, but different meanings adn pronunciations. They are interesting, because when written, context is required when identifying the word.

Don mentioned them to me a while ago and gave the example unionized. I came up wtih entrance and we discussed a few other simpler ones. Below is a longer list.

Public nuisance bylaw restricts "fouling"

A City of Waterloo bylaw passed last winter outlaws urinating, dumping garbage, and blocking sidewalks among other things.

I heard that 14 people have been charged under the bylaw since March. The bylaw came into effect on 21 February 2005.

Urinating is included under the definition of "fouling" on city or private property which, "[...] means and includes spitting, urinating, defecating or other act of defacing property."

The bylaw also prohibits: Continue reading "Public nuisance bylaw restricts "fouling""

Armoury Wed 24 Aug 2005

Wednesday 24 August 2005 12:45 — 19 people
Wednesday 24 August 2005 12:58 — 12 people

Armoury Wed 3 Aug 2005

Pipe broken while drilling for Nano-Quant building

While drilling for soil samples at the Nano-Quant building site at Monday around noon workmen hit a pipe and water spewed out of the ground and flowed out onto Ring Road. Water welled up out of several holes within about three metres of the actual drill hole.

Feds budget problem referred back to committee

Feds Students' Council referred the service-side operating budget back to the budget committee after some discussion of what to do about the general office split and service salaries.

I had asked why the general-office split remained as it was if salaries that were said to be all service expense had been removed. If the split were accurate and you removed expenses only on one side, then reasonably the split should change.

I m n BC

This is a picture of where I was two weeks ago.

Armoury Wed 3 Aug 2005

Wednesday 3 August 2005 08:52 — 10 people
Wednesday 3 August 2005 09:08 — 8 people
Wednesday 3 August 2005 09:14 — 7 people

Armoury Tuesday 19 July 2005

Done exams

I am done exams for the term. Both my exams were in consecutive blocks on the first day (Tuesday 2 August). They were over with quickly.

BC Day

Today is British Columbia Day.

Upon my return to W I put up a flag in my window.