Thursday, May 29, 2008
Today I stayed home because I had my laptop with me, and the task for the day was to finish making the filler items for what is hopefully the final experiment of my dissertation (God, I hope it works out!)
Well, I finished creating the filler items with time to spare in the afternoon, but I was feeling pretty spry, so I decided to tackle some projects. Project 1: put some holes in the ground for 2x2 posts that will be used to support the walls of a 2-tiered raised garden bed in the back yard. Excavating a hole for a 2x2 without making it far too large is one challenge; digging in our rocky soil is another. My solution: I bought a 1" diameter masonry bit just over a foot long for my hammer drill, and basically used my drill as an auger (that's auger pronounced ogg-er, not Auger, pronounced Oh-zhay, though it might be kind of funny to imagine how to use a drill as one of those...). It wasn't quite as smooth sailing as I hoped it might be because the rocks still posed a problem, but I prevailed and suffered only a blister on my palm (I was afraid of blowing out my drill on a couple occasions). After that was done, I dug out around the boulder in the front yard to put in the edging, completing project 2, and when that was done, I attached the baby carrier seat we purchased last summer to Rebecca's bike (project 3). For my encore, I made dinner: bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin medallions (yes, that's pork-wrapped pork), BBQ roasted potato slices and steamed brussels sprouts.
Sorry, ladies, I'm taken. But feel free to try out my dinner menu, because it was tasty.
Now I take this post on a 90-degree turn and talk about the CBC Radio One programs that I like and dislike. In the like column, we have Ideas, Age of Persuasion, Quirks and Quarks, And Sometimes Y (no longer running), Spark, and Search Engine. In the dislike column, we have DNTO, Q (can't stand the hosts) and Out Front (tonight's episode was literally 20 minutes of random, unrelated sound-effects, demonstrating that the general public is not qualified to produce radio programming). I like listening to the voices of Paul Kennedy, Michael Enright, Stuart McLean, and Kate MacNamara who does the business news every odd day with an accent that I just can't place and impeccable diction. The nameless woman who reads the weather forecast after 7pm, however, speaks with the most bizarre inflection, as though she's maybe an alien infiltrator.
8 comments:
Pardon the delay, I was busy enjoying Japan.
I agree with your likes, and would add to the list WireTap and Tapestry from the Sunday schedule, and GO on Saturday morning - and its summer replacement of the last few years Simply Sean. I also have a fondness for the fine radio comedies of Matt Watts.
DNTO used to be good... but has been going downhill of late. I had enjoyed Jian when he summer hosted SLC, but that was a limited run... now he seems like an arrogant prick (or a douchebag, as my ladyfriend refers to him) with horrid interview skills and inability to not break into a breathy giggle after everything he says.
GO is usually okay, though sometimes the show's theme falls flat for me. Douchebag is very apt.
what IS kate macnamara's accent?
Re: Kate MacNamara - to me, it's an affectation of speech, not an accent at all. Her pronunciation of vowels is never consistent - even in the same sentence,it's all over the place. She is not English, but did live in the UK for awhile. I've learned to turn the radio off when I hear her voice - yes,it irritates me that much. :)
Her faux accent is utterly inconsistent and completely annoying. Heard it for the first time today and will turn the radio off if I ever hear it again.
I'm glad I'm not the only one! I suspected that she had spent some time in the UK and came home with vocal souvenir. I have a colleague that puts the same accent when he wants to be heard. Annoying.
Yes, I agree with the last comment. She's trying to impress someone...but who?
I found her accent delightful. But then I've traveleld alot and like things to differ
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