31st March 2011

The box makes the meal

Add this to the list of things we don’t learn in grade school. Foods can be improved by packaging. Let me tell you a little story about that.

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30th March 2011

Mixed nuts

Nuts! Cashews, actually, and they are so tasty, it’s nuts! Hey, maybe I can get a job in advertising.

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29th March 2011

Discrimination on our behalf? I don’t think so

For a sense of déjà vu, look no further than the announcement earlier today about the “leader debate”. Once again, the big kids have told the little kid (in this case, the leader of the Green Party) that she is not welcome when they dress up and play important games on TV. It has nothing to do with “she”, I hope, and everything to do with a bad dose of self-importance.

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28th March 2011

Pole posters

Still early, but there might be one visually exciting development in the way electoral campaigns are run. Fewer pole posters.

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27th March 2011

From my front row seat

Let’s get this party started! I’m sitting, front row no less, at the Juno Award show. Bit crowded; there are several million of us. If the TV feed fails, I’ll be back to imagining.

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26th March 2011

Hectic shoppers from aisle to aisle

Yesterday, the opposition formed a coalition and “broke” the government. Today, in true phoenix fashion, the parties arose and began the marathon of hyperbole. Another election campaign is underway. Hold onto your hats and hide the young children.

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25th March 2011

Finding a seed of knowledge in the apple barrel

At the risk of offending a certain sector of the population, I’m going to vent. We’re home from a three hour shopping trip, that took us across the city in a snowstorm. After dealing with the staff of three different stores, I am sure of only one thing. Apple specialists are full of hubris and not much real knowledge.

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24th March 2011

Picturing the additional hardware

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, because if it is then maybe you can’t. There: a one sentence explanation of Acrobat.

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23rd March 2011

Keeping the old dudes in the game

The Idol competition is one of attrition. Start with a huge mass, scrape away the peeling, remove the sections, one by one until all that remains is a single (hopefully full of talent) core. The process is slow, so I took a few weeks off, but I came back to my seat in the audience this evening.

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22nd March 2011

Is zip lining legal?

In the news: Castro quit. Five years ago. And nobody around here even noticed. Talk about “flying under the radar”.

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