How to clean off the crap from your non-bio food!

I got pretty huffed up last night when Greg came home with bags of food, where only 2 or 3 of the items were organic. I've not really been militant about eating organic, but I've changed my ways since a very close and dear friend was diagnosed with Stage 3 cancer. I know that cancer is mostly genetic, but I'm sure that pesticides, toxic home cleaners, pollution etc all increase our chances of getting nailed by cancer.

Greg insisted that Farm Boy just didn't have much organice produce to sell. I was sure he was wrong, so I headed right back out and came home with organic apples, but not much else.

Then we discussed whether or not it would be worthy to wash them.

Voila ! I found a site that says how to wash them. It's a funny read too.

Enjoy :
http://www.doctoryourself.com/pesticides.html

Samba how-to that actually makes sense!

After fighting with Samba for too bloody long, I finally found a decent site that got it up and running for me!

http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-samba-configuring.html

SSH Logins without Password

I just found this link and it makes my life just that bit better..

http://www.linuxproblem.org/art_9.html

The only thing I had to change was to use "ssh b@B" instead of "ssh b@B hostname" .

Cloaca

We all went to see this at UQAM on Berri for Valentine's day. http://www.cloaca.be/

Aside from the long drive from Ottawa and the odour on arrival the outing was romantic.

The best part of the trip was spending time with my beloved friends Pierre and Isa who took us to UQAM on the metro.

The metro made my heartache... especially after having spent about 3h a day in traffic in the interminable OC transpo strike

Kiki was pretty impressed with the metro and with the poop the machine had freshly popped out. Isa gave her a good play-by-play of all the processes involved in making it. I sat with her , about 1 m away from the freshly baked loaf, until she decided to look at other things.

Montreal was at its most charming, when there is still enough snow to cover the debris and yet enough sun to lure us out on the streets. I love it and am not-so-secretly plotting to move us back.

Cours Sagueneen 101

I heard this on the radio on my way to the Lycee today.

It ressembles the francais I learned in la belle ville.

http://www.lebonheurdepierre.com/SAG/index.html

GEESE!!

Mark the day ....

I saw
TWO GEESE
yesterday
in the fields by Fallowfield and Greenbank.


Spring is coming.

THANK YOU!

I need a Thank You card from Lisa's collection for the ducks I saw in the fields at Fallowfield and Greenbank on my home from work today.

It would say ..

THANK YOU
FOR
THE VERY FIRST
SIGN
OF
SPRING

And it would accompany lots of warm wet mud and all the things those beloved ducks like.

There were hundreds of those lovely ducks swooping up to the bright blue sky. It was too pretty : a wave of small brown ducks,rising and sinking , wings spread, out of deep horizon of golden yellow corn stalks against a huge bright blue sky.

I had all sorts of emotions then. Of course, I felt like I had just witnessed a miracle or one of the great mysteries of the world, but I also felt like I was finally hitting the last run on a long brick workout, or like I had just finished scrubbing the last of the sticky vegetable skins from the vegetable crisper or maybe even the end of a horrible a novel that I couldn't stop reading because there was still some small part of it that was interesting or because it wasn't nearly as bad some other novel that I had thrown out. It was definitely a sense of relief.

So... spread the good news : Spring is on its way!!!