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  • 14 years 5 months ago

Musical revolution in a slim white box

It seems that everywhere you go these days, you can’t help but see them—white earbuds tucked into the ears of their glaze-eyed owners. You see them in the grocery store, jogging down the street, and even in class. If you haven’t guessed by now, this new sweeping technological trend is known as an iPod (or any of its variations, including nano iPod, iPod Shuffle and iPod Pictures).Continue...

  • 14 years 5 months ago

Issue in photos

View all images from vol. 133, issue 9.Continue...

CAPTION IF YOU CAN: Send captions to journal_postscript@ams.queensu.ca with “caption” in the subject line.
  • 14 years 5 months ago

Postscript rocks out to hair metal

Is the most demonized music of the ’80s finally poised for a comeback?Continue...

  • 14 years 5 months ago

Issue in photos

View all images from vol. 133, issue 7.Continue...
  • 14 years 5 months ago

Caption if you can ...

Intrigued and fascinated by a vast collection of archival photos, the Journal has decided to show them the light and give them the publicity they rightly deserve by launching a caption contest. Postscript wants to know what you think of each picture. So get your creative groove on and make our strange pictures even crazier!Continue...

1. Make a U shape with the peel.
  • 14 years 5 months ago

Postscript presents: domestic how-to’s

As university students, many learning opportunities are available to us—vector calculus, Latin grammar, double integration, you name it. Unfortunately, when the conversation turns to household duties, no courses seem to provide the right kind of information we need. So I’ve compiled a few tips on the subject of fruits—everything from peeling an apple to making origami with orange peels.Continue...

  • 14 years 5 months ago

Issue in photos

View all images from vol. 133, issue 6.Continue...

If the screen looks more familiar than your own face, it might be addiction.
  • 14 years 5 months ago

The woes of the Internet

Do you laugh when friends tell you a funny joke? Or do you “LOL” or “ROFL”?

During summer, I LOL’ed so much, I often felt like I was going to crash headlong into my computer screen.Continue...

How good-looking does garbage have to be to attract the garbage man?
  • 14 years 5 months ago

The hidden woes of everyday life: taking out the trash

There’s an aesthetic problem in the middle of my lawn. A mop, a decapitated vacuum, and a mysterious white pole have decorated my small patch of grass for about a week ...Continue...

  • 14 years 5 months ago

Issue in photos

View all images from vol. 133, issue 5.Continue...

  • 14 years 5 months ago

Bits and pieces: Kingston

The ubiquitous Dan Aykroyd, of Coneheads movie fame, now calls Kingston his home, and can be spotted lurking at downtown locales, including the A&P.Continue...

The grand tour route–from one end of the country to another.
  • 14 years 5 months ago

Coast to coast: the end of a Canadian epic

A quick stop at Winnipeg (and a cup of organic coffee) made me become fond of that city, with its sturdy trees and aged houses. Winnipeg also offered us many variations of bear statues, part of CancerCare Manitoba Foundation’s Bears on Broadway project. “Bling Bling Bear” with many chains and sluggish pose, and “Biker Bear” with cool shades and its uni-wheel bike were especially memorable.Continue...

  • 14 years 5 months ago

Issue in photos

View all images from vol. 133, issue 4.Continue...

Carcinogens like gentian are good for your skin. No, really.
  • 14 years 5 months ago

Orientation Week demystified

With a view to all our edification, here’s a tongue-in-cheek guide to a few common Orientation Week terms.Continue...

Queen’s engineers, meanwhile, make their frosh “sizzle like bacon.”
  • 14 years 5 months ago

A Bnad, a Beetle and a pink tie

The Skule, UofT’s Engineering Society, holds a host of events during Frosh Week. Like Queen’s, the engineers dye themselves purple and sing the Lady Godiva hymn (“We are, we are, we are, we are, we are the engineers,” and so on).Continue...
  • 14 years 5 months ago

From cow heads to shaving cream

In the late 1980s, a tradition included in the ASUS Orientation Week was the “Hallway of Hell.” Gaels made frosh crawl across a floor smeared with cat food and scattered with pig ears and dead fish. Now, Gaels surround Nicholls and voluntarily roll through the mud before their frosh, who wear their stiff new coveralls. On the seat of the coveralls reads the ArtSci Class of 2009 slogan: “2009: ASUS so fine.”Continue...

  • 14 years 5 months ago

...and makes New Year’s resolutions

This is it. Fourth year, and my last first week of school at Queen's has officially come to an end.

Before the pressures of student life take hold, I’d like to take a moment to appreciate the freshness of the new school year lying ahead. I don’t know about you, but I’ve always felt that a new school year brings more change and excitement than a new calendar year.Continue...

In the Canadian Rockies, the spectacular vistas and wild small town dancers captured the heart of “city girl” Rosel.
  • 14 years 5 months ago

Postscript explores Canada

When Aaron and Julia, my two good friends from high school, excitedly told me that we had a car to drive across Canada, my first reaction was (shamefully, I admit) reluctance. Driving in cramped space? For how long? Were they deluded?

Thankfully, my mom turned out to have a more refreshing take on life than I did.Continue...

  • 14 years 7 months ago

Issue in photos

View all images from vol. 133, issue 3.Continue...

Rosel thinks underage frosh should pay a visit to the smoky, crowded and sweaty dance floor at Stages all-ages nights.
  • 14 years 7 months ago

Fun and games without a fake ID

Dear Incoming Frosh: yes, your first year of university is stretching before you. And heck yes, it is going to be an adventure and three-quarters you will never forget. Freedom! Academia! Romance! It’ll all be there for you to enjoy and breathe in.Continue...

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