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I’ve (finally) begun my job hunt in preparation for our triumphant return to Canada!  I’m looking for something full-time/permanent, preferably in Toronto or Ottawa.  Please email me if you want to hire me or hear of anything that might interest me.  I’ll be ready to start work August 1, 2008 - but that’s flexible if something good comes along.  What interests me most would be something that combines technology with urban sustainability, public transportation, environmental issues, food security and/or the non-profit sector.

I had a chance to do some baking over the holidays and finally had a chance to try out the famous NY Times No-Knead Recipe that made the rounds a couple of years ago.  I have to say it’s the easiest bread recipe I’ve ever tried and it produces this wonderfully crusty, spongy, soft, yummy bread.  Click through for the recipe and try it for yourself but basically you combine the ingredients, let them sit for 18 hours and bake it off in a pot with the lid on.  The high humidity in the pot helps create the crust and removing the lid for the second half of baking lets it get nice and golden brown.  If baking bread has always intimidated you, this no-fail recipe is for you.

Currently $100 off at Amazon…

Thank god it doesn’t list how many hours I spent reading all those RSS items… jeez…

To be fair a lot of this is scanning for items to list on GreenDeals Daily.

I’m back in Ottawa now, it’s cold and snowy here but I actually enjoy the change.  In Louisiana you don’t feel time passing as well because there aren’t huge differences between the seasons.  Don’t get me wrong though, after a few weeks of this I’ll be all set to head back to the warm south (and Emily of course!).

Merry Christmas from Emily and I down here in Louisiana!

Emily and I went on a lovely canoe trip in the Atchafalaya Basin a couple of days ago. The weather cooperated and it was incredibly beautiful and serene. I still can’t quite figure out why I’m going back up to Canada for the holidays…  Check out my Flickr page for more photos from the trip.

I just finished watching Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky’s documentary Manufactured Landscapes. It depicts the massive scale of industry and resource extraction in places like China. Scary and beautiful.

This would have been handy in school - BibMe lets you type in a bunch of ISBNs and automatically formats a bibliography in any one of several popular styles.  This type of citation management tool has existed for a while but this one is easy and free.  I hate to think of the number of hours this would have saved me if I’d known about it in school.