Nuit Blanche

I probably should have gotten around to finishing this post a while ago, but anyway… So Nuit Blanche was this weekend. I don’t think it was as fun this year as the last time. Of course, the cold was not much fun, but the other time was a bit chilly, too. I think the main problem was that we didn’t plan a route and basically went to whatever seemed close to us.
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About power outages, again

So in case you aren’t in Toronto, we had a little bit of a power outage. Downtown, power went out about quarter to 5, though it didn’t affect my work’s building. But then when we got back home and I was watching Jeopardy!, the power went out in our area too. And it was out for about 1.75 hours, which I think is the longest (local) blackout I’ve experienced in Canada (barring the day-long one in 2003).
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Feeling a little unsteady?

That is to say, did you notice the earthquake? I almost didn’t recognize it. Since I’m working from home due to the G20, I don’t have the benefit of a tall building that would react to the movement (if you want to call it that.) Anyway, thanks to Elizabeth’s favourite Web 2.0 app, Twitter, check out this cool USGS site, over here. Realtime data about earthquakes all over the globe. What’s really cool is this Did You Feel It?
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