Kent Fackenthall

  • thebuKitzone: now iPhone friendly.

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    Hey kids. I don’t have one, but the buKitzone is now available to all you iPhone owners in a badass iPhone friendly format, thanks to Dale, Duane and crew at BraveNewCode and the WPtouch plugin. It’s awesome. At some point, when providers in Canada get their heads out of their asses, I will probably get…

  • I don’t want your Helvetica lamp.

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    I just got a stupid-huge 12 square-foot self-promo poster from veer in the mail. Other items they’ve sent include an ‘activity book for creatives’, and a 500 (I think it was) piece jigsaw puzzle. None of which I’ve used/kept and none have induced me to either spontaneously or pre-meditatively run over and buy fonts or…

  • I miss you, my friends.

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    I miss you, my friends. All those incredibly personal moments we shared. Many of the pieces that make us who we are. I wonder where you are now? Are you still playing hockey? Do you still collect those same stuffed animals? Does that spot still tickle? Did you ever finish that song? Did you ever…

  • Leave aprehensions.

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    So I’ve put in for my parental leave at work. I’ll be taking from when the baby’s born until Jan 5th. For you ‘Mericans, up here in Canada the Federal Gov’t mandates that employees must be granted paternal leave if requested and get their jobs back on their return. There’s various stipulations on the time…

  • I finished it.

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    Back in October of 2005 – the 31st to be exact, I still have the email – my unbeknownst-to-me new lifetime friend, Jason A. posted an ad on Craigslist to sell his brand new Surly Cross Check frame. I was short on cash but had been jonesing for one for years – he let me…

  • Tips for idiot drivers.

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    #437 in a seemingly never-ending series Here’s one. If I’m waiting in a line of stop-and-go traffic and you’re waiting to merge in, and instead of waiting your turn, you barge in and almost cause an accident, don’t wave to me with the ‘Thanks for letting me in’ wave – cause I didn’t. You just…