Something fishy...

so nuts!

Heeheehee! I think we should retaliate by stealing their acorns.

The news story is here.

Yes.

foooooooood!

It's always nice when you cook someone dinner and they reciprocate by cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner for you. I feel spoiled. :o But yum!

I also feel very well fed. I think someone might be trying to fatten me up. I'll battle back by drinking low calorie Fresca (it has 0 calories in a can, woot!) and eating rice crackers for three meals this week. ;)

Hehehe!

Anyone that thinks I'm eating rice crackers for a meal needs their head checked.

King me.

A blast from the past.



Yes. Yes it is.

Mr. Underhill

I'm tres excited! Two weeks from Saturday I'll be in Ottawa for my cousins' wedding. It's my first time getting to be touristy in Ottawa, so I'm going to make the most of my two days there. I get in around 10am, so I'm going to go have lunch with the family, then go walk around the Parliament grounds and see if there's anywhere I can peek my curious head into. It looks like they have daily tours year-round, so I may try to hop on one of those, but I have a particular dislike for tours. I much prefer just exploring on my own and seeing what I see. I'll see what trouble I can get myself into. That's one part of Saturday accounted for, I haven't decided what else I'm going to do yet. There's four or five places I've read about that interest me... I'll have to choose one, maybe two depending on time. Pesky time, why dost though forsake me? The wedding is Sunday afternoon with reception that evening. Saturday night is the family party, so I'm not gonna miss that. We may end up downtown if tradition serves, but one never knows until one gets there. Hehe!

My road trip in August completed the circuit of provincial capital cities for me. I've been to them all and our national capital city, but I haven't gotten to do any touristy stuff in Ottawa, Victoria or Regina. So this will be one more off the list. I hope to do a BC trip in the next two years, so I may try to scratch off Victoria at that time, but we'll see what happens. It may not be my decision to make.

In the meantime, I'll try to plan something for Ottawa that will be memorable, though I won't have to try hard... our family weddings are traditionally unforgettable. (aka. impossible to forget)

'Doing' the pigeon

The National Enquirer thought they had it.



But the New York Times proved them wrong.



Narf.

I don't believe in half empty, it's half full. Even when the gas tank leaks!

It was a year ago this week, that I bought the Talon and my life became very tedious and complicated. Honestly, I believe the damn car was cursed... it seemed like from the day I bought it, many things I touched went to shit... phooey on that :) But, typical of my roller-coaster life, things have balanced themselves out and life is as close to normal as it ever gets for me. I think that's a good thing.

I missed three busses this morning on the way to work. It's the first time I've missed busses in a while and it had to be today when it piss poured rain. I stood at the stop waiting for the first one. It was five minutes past the latest I had ever seen it, so I started walking down to the bus stop two blocks away (it has a bus shelter! yay!). The bus passed me midway. Poop on it. So I hopped on another bus. I got off at a stop into a deluge of rain, so I could transfer to a bus that went down to where I work. Unfortunately, the connecting bus was driving away as I got off. Poop on it too. So I waited in the deluge, my trusty umbrella keeping my head and upper back dry (*mutter*), and jumped on the next bus that came along. Fortunately, it was headed downtown, so I was still on course. Sadly, as we pulled up to the connecting stop, I watched the two busses that would have taken me down to the office pull away and leave me behind. Poop on them all. I hopped on a bus (the wrong bus) and ended up being dropped off about 8 blocks from work (I confused that bus route with another one I rarely take). I was so pissed at this point that I just walked. It poured until I was about 50 yards from the door. I was 15 minutes late and I resembled a drowned rat. The service manager happened to be standing at the door as I drug myself in and he said,

"Well, good afternoon. You must have missed the bus today?" It was 9:15am. The service manager nearly had a very wet umbrella shoved up his arse. Thank fuck for diplomacy.

One of our great customers brought us a treat today. She brought chocolate and beer. I like chocolate and beer. Three of the other staff and I sat down after the shop closed and enjoyed our treat. It was nice to sit down and shoot the shit with the co-workers, they're a really good bunch.

Hmm.

I have an odd problem. I've had a plastic Sun-Maid raisins container on my desk for ages. It's empty and I've told myself on several occasions that I have to throw it away. But every time I clean my room, it seems I somehow miss the bloody thing. I clean the desk and anything I happen to see that's garbage-like, I toss into the bin. There's almost always a wrapper or paper or some junk thing right next to it that goes into the bin, but this damn thing is still here.

I wonder if a grenade would work.

God had her way with men.

A Tale Of Two Cities. No wait, that makes no bloody sense at all...

While most people don't know it, music is the very core of my existence. I thought I'd show what it is I listen to. My iTunes/iPod favorites list is currently at 542 songs of the 3052 I have in my library. That's the playlist I listen to about 80% of the time. That's too many songs to list on a blog, but the 100 most played from that list are linked below.

You wouldn't believe the hoops I had to jump through to get that list up. I ended up linking it to a separate page, because Blogger likes to chew up embedded tables like yesterday's leftovers. Yeesh.

10 WOOF! 20 goto 10 30 end RUN

I surfed into a wave of information that took me back a few years :)



Before the web ever became popular, I was a BBS surfer. In the early 90s, the early days of BBS in my hometown, my favorite hangout was COMPULINK 2000... a little BBS run by a cool guy and his girlfriend. I spent many an evening chatting with several online friends and playing some of the super neat BBS games like OPERATION OVERKILL or TRADE WARS 2002. Modems were huge and measured speed in BAUD. The main form of electronic mail on those systems was FIDONET and messages were basically loaded to the BBS and then batch transmitted to other BBS systems globally. Fun stuff.

Of course I went to University in the fall of 1993 and shortly thereafter, MOSAIC came along and knocked the socks of my tech geek computer friends and myself. A world wide web of what? We found out very quickly what it could do... and what we could make it do.

I talk with people of every so often about their initial introduction to different technologies. I wear my BBS and MOSAIC badges with honour, though most people don't have a blessed clue what I'm talking about. Someone once said to me, "Yeah! I remember way back to Windows 95!" Geez, F U N00B! Heehee! I worked with 3.1 and DOS for years and remember the release of Windows95 quite clearly. My friend bought a brand new computer with it installed just after release. We sat and played with it for days, finding all the neat new little things it could do to make our life at the office easier. It was no Mac, but it was good.

Of course, I talk like a sage but every so often someone comes along and trumps me... I'm not that much of a tech geek that it's *terribly* difficult to do. One day, I actually met someone who used the old punch card data entry systems on computers back in the dark ages. Heehee! Who's the N00B now MOFO!

But my march with computers has been a lifelong thing. At age 7, our family got a VIC 20. We soon upgraded to a COMMODORE 64 which I used for years and years. Later on I stepped up to the AMIGA platform from COMMODORE, though the company was in its final death throes... I then entered the world of IBM and of course Apple and after getting my first Mac in 1995, I never looked back. I have a Mac and a PC sitting side by each on my desk, I'm not predjudiced, but while I use them both regularly, the Mac has my heart. The PC is just a PC. The Mac holds my life in a pretty little white enclosure.

/End brief sojourn into my twisted techie timeline.

Oh, and just because it made me laugh, a little tidbit about the VIC 20 from Wikipedia:

The VIC-20 was originally meant to be called Vixen, but this name was inappropriate in Germany, Commodore's second most important market, because it sounds like wichsen, the German language word for "masturbate". VIC, which was subsequently chosen, has a similar problem—it can be pronounced like fick[en], the German word for "fuck". Therefore the VIC-20 was finally marketed as the VC-20 "Volkscomputer" in German-language countries—an obvious play on "Volkswagen".

I'm sorry kid, you're not fooling anyone. You don't know what a keyboard is and the printer is scaring you shitless.

Those fucking Canadians!

I've mentioned them before, but I really do love The Perry Bible Fellowship cartoons. Man, such fantastic stuff!

Here's a few new samples since I lasted posted about it.

handcuffs, whoopee!

I went to see Bon Cop, Bad Cop the other day. It's a totally Canadian film, and is slightly sub-titled. Well, I had seen previews and thought it might be funny, but shit... it was hilarious. I'm not a fan of sub-titles either, but they did it really well in this movie. And I'm a fan of Colm Feore, who stars in it. I like his acting style and he's not hard on the eyes for an old guy. ;) I can see why he does so many Shakespeare parts. He reminds me of a roman general when I see him. Also, I have to admit, his co-star Patrick Huard is absolutely doable. If you have the chance, it's worth seeing.

:o [aka] Make The Bad Man/Men Stop

This contains mucho full frontal nudity, so you've been warned. Aside from that, it's bloody hilarious.

Yay for 1985! One more reason why the 80's sucked. :)

PS. I wanted to smack the blonde guy up side the head... Soap stars give more convincing performances.

And if that doesn't quite make you feel ill, try this. (No nudity here, hehe)