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Gone Fishin’

This is spouse writing for Junior who has gone fishing. Junior will be back on Saturday.

Happy Canada Day!

Signs I Have Comically Misread (Part I)

The other day, as Spouse and I were returning home from work, we were driving along a portion of the Steel City roadways that consisted of a fairly abrupt and steep descent. The road was dipping in this extreme fashion to permit passage beneath a rail bridge. There was a diamond shaped sign showing a […]

Flashes of Inspiration

A new experience: Spouse and I finished watching Spiderman for the umpteenth time earlier tonight. I got up to let Popeye in the house; more accurately, I got up to persuade Popeye to please vacate his now habitual spot in the garden just outside the back door and to come at least temporarily into the […]

Mission Accomplished. No, Still Not THAT One.

I learned a new word today: “mendicant.”

Apparently, there is a seventeenth century English criminal case called Wright’s Case. In this case, it was held (according to the Supreme Court of Canada) that a man would:

be punished at law for procuring another to sever his hand – to assist his career as a mendicant […]

Positive about Negative Tripods.

I came across this idea, believe it or not, while at work. I had to take a moment to post about it; neat idea and possibly just the thing to save the day in the right situation, such as where it is inconvenient or impossible to bring a real tripod in to an event.

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RUNTIME error.

Anger. Frustration. Despair.

These are the emotions experienced by an otherwise rational person trying to decipher the apocryphal meaning concealed deep beneath the outer veneer of something disguised as language and otherwise known as a “simple” introduction to any programming language. Don’t get me wrong, I am very grateful that my fellow netizens – some […]

Things I’m Doing Other Than This

You should pardon me over the next few days if this blog doesn’t get a lot of attention. I will try to sit down and tippy-tap out a few things here and there, but I am currently in one of my frequent “juggling many projects” modes.

I’m working on a site for a charitable event […]

A Place Of Its Own

Mike posted this in my little article about Gord Kirke’s busy, busy schedule:

Hello Mr.B.Burke.

Am Mr.G.Kirke, I work with a HOCKEY TEAM here in CANADA as an SEARCHING officer. I have just found out that a foreign customer with us WAS FIRED last year without leaving a next of kin to his PLAYERS and […]

Let the Pimping Begin.

A while back, you may remember that I posted about a project that peach was putting together. It’s a book called “You’re Not the Only One“, and it was put together for a UK – based charity called War Child (though there is also a Canadian arm of the organization). War Child is a charity […]

Fiddling While Rome Burns?

CTV announced today that it had acquired the rights to the iconic “Hockey Night in Canada” song. Most people ’round these parts seem to want to talk about how CBC was wrong-footed on this one; the conventional wisdom is that CBC looks foolish in failing to re-acquire a license for the tune. That may be […]