13th
January
2013
When parents go out to buy cookies for their kids, how do they pick the flavour? When I was a kid, exotic meant those round ones with red jam inside. Nowadays, the flavour of the week is more apt to be “Irish cream”. Which one is (or should be) an acquired taste for the four year old in the house? And don’t give me the line that these are adult cookies…
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posted in food, media |
11th
January
2013
When I was younger, I didn’t even know where the Rock was. Now I watch their weather stories. And boy, ob boy, do they get weather! Summer, fall, winter with a vengeance. Blizzard today with half a metre of snow moving at speeds not legal on the highway. I’m glad we dodged that bullet, although the freezing rain warning we’ve received as a compromise gives pause.
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posted in history, media |
9th
January
2013
I have an idea for a great movie. A blockbuster. The CBC is reporting that a pod of killer whales is trapped in the ice of Hudson’s Bay. Imagine going up there with chainsaws and cutting a series of holes in the ice, leading the whales toward open water. For a climax, we could get an icebreaker…
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posted in media |
5th
January
2013
Fifteen years ago, the world froze. Not here, but down in the Montreal area, time halted (and they still haven’t recovered, I suspect). Ice, everywhere. It could happen again…
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posted in health, media |
16th
December
2012
Call me a traditionalist. I am, after all, a child of the ’60s (among other decades). I’m not given to change for the sake thereof. This weekend, the latest Batman movie was running on DVD here, and I was not impressed. That’s not the real caped crusader. Sure, some of the names were familiar, but I didn’t find myself engrossed in the story. If there was one… nice heliwhatever, though.
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7th
December
2012
The ebook reader is here to stay. Proof? Well, how about two top-selling authors that are both writing serialized e-fiction? Atwood and Stephenson. There. Proof.
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posted in media, pets |
22nd
November
2012
I’ve been taking the time to listen to others in the workplace. Although all claim to look forward to retiring, some seem reticent to give up the social comfort of the workplace. I have heard similar echos in my inner circle. So here’s the question? Should I be less keen on the idea of a week that fits my interests? Is working really the summum of civilized life?
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16th
October
2012
Among the things I learned today: one of the money guys from “Dragons’s Den” used to be a Mountie. And a wrestler. Funny how we move from job to job, eh what? That eh is Canadian (eh).
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13th
September
2012
The city of New York has a new regulation pending. No selling glasses of soft drink that exceed an arbitrary limit of 16 ounces. No mention if the measure limits the ice cube filler. Anyhow, there will be no limit imposed on those patrons that wish to purchase more than two 8 ounce portions at a time. Do the math, if you can. The city obviously can’t.
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posted in computing, media |
25th
August
2012
Quiet time. The kind of day where I made one quick taxi run for son #3 and then spent the rest of the day avoiding effort. Good weather (the arrival of hurricane season down south seems to push fine times this way). OK, I admit it. Today was “find the apps” day for the new phone, and I really wasn’t interested in pulling weeds or chasing bugs or anything else.
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