“Such is human psychology that if we don’t express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.” – Lin Yutang I’m in Seattle and for a few brief days do not have to wade through snowdrifts or slush puddles. Toronto’s winter weather is one of the things Torontonians pretend to ignore. We conveniently forget about […]
The Usual Suspects gathered for dinner tonight, and we went to see “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” at the Paramount afterwards. We ended up watching it on the IMAX screen, although the film got a bit grainy on such a big canvas. Anyway, I was quite suprised to be disappointed by the movie. It was ok, […]
Web site for the day: www.inpassing.org. Absolutely hilarious. Here’s a sample:‘”You totally could, though. I talked to my roommate’s boyfriend on icq for like half an hour once, and he totally thought I was her.” “And to think 5 minutes ago I wasn’t terrified of you.” –A girl and a guy outside Ben & Jerry’s […]
Happy New Millennium! If you know about this page, then you probably also know about my new email addresses. Here they are: work@tomleslie.ca goes to my work account. Which officially belongs to my employer, so they can read my emails, although there’s no particular reason they should.home@tomleslie.ca goes to my desktop at home. At the […]
I’m back from England after a mostly restful but all good holiday. I stayed with my grandmother (near Gatwick in a little village called Cuckfield), my grandfather (Chandler’s Ford, outside Southampton), my uncle and aunt (Michenhampton, near Bristol), and my old friends Anne Dutton and Andrew Sedman (and their almost-three-year-old Owen). I went to Winchester […]