Monthly Archives: May 2009

How odd is it, that our Governor General has sparked controversy by eating some raw meat.  Oh but wait, wasn’t just any old meat, it was seal meat.  To me, this isn’t even news.  It’s the GG doing the whole … Continue reading →

that car isn’t going to stop. the clock is running.  i have around one second to come up with a solution.  otherwise my van is going to collide with a car that has just run through the stop sign right … Continue reading →

I’m in the shop but the door is closed and the front lights are off.  I do this sometimes when I have important telephone calls to make and don’t want to be disturbed. I get off the phone and hear … Continue reading →

I find this story funny.  I guess after doing this massive hack on the Hubble, the Shuttle astronauts found themselves with time to kill.  So they decided to watch movies on their laptops.  Only they couldn’t get them to work.  … Continue reading →

The CBC has a fascinating interview with economist Dambisa Moyo. Native to Africa herself, she argues in her new book that foreign aid is actually hurting Africa and rich Western nations should stop it.  For decades, she says, we’ve pumped … Continue reading →

Jamie Oliver gets labelled brilliant and awful all at the same time.  I’ve never quite understood how a guy who attracts so many accolades for his work catches so much hate, too.  No matter what you think of him, one … Continue reading →

So there’s this half metre pothole behind the shop where I park my van.  “You should get this fixed,” says the nice lady who often walks through the building to get coffee, “Someone might trip on it.”  Yeah… she’s a … Continue reading →

Sorry everyone, it was my bad. It was the busted FTL booster from my spaceship. I had to jettison it to land in what was left of the ship without totally crashing it. There, I’ve admitted it. Sorry about the … Continue reading →

This is my kind of burger joint.  I need to go to this place once before I die. We don’t do Diet Coke.  We don’t do light beers.  We don’t even provide lettuce on our burgers. Such is the philosophy … Continue reading →

I was reorganizing my bookmarks and was trying to come up with the ones I find most useful.  Not useful as in fun, more like getting the information I want, when I want it, which is important to me.  These … Continue reading →