I cement my yuppie status several times each week by spending $7 on Starbucks coffee that I'd be embarrassed to drink in front of my friends. It may be extravagant but it beats the hell out of waiting 20 minutes in line at Tim Horton's.
The particular Starbucks that I frequent either has a very [...]
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I haven't really formed an opinion on lolcatz, mostly because I haven't given the phenomenon a great deal of thought (though others have examined it in far greater detail than I would have thought possible). Let's put it this way -- they aren't something I spend much time sifting through.
However, there are those rare [...]
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Earlier in January we spent an afternoon at St. Raphael's Ruins in South Glengarry near Cornwall, Ontario.
The church was built in 1786 and was destroyed by fire in 1970, leaving the outer stonework shell.
There's something a little strange about standing inside a giant building with no roof. I did manage to catch a few [...]