Merry Christmas 2010

A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone who’s visited this blog this year! May the season be spent with those with whom you are close, and may you share laughter, a hot meal or two and each others’ company.

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Seasons’ Bleatings

I am pretty sure the…uh….Maple Leafs Wizard (?) on the right is asking somebody – anybody – to pull his finger.  If I were that…uh…Maple Leafs Penguin Snowman (?), I would take a few steps to the left, lickety split. I have no idea what the hell the significance of the above snowglobe scene is.  [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving

Wendel (well, actually my framed autographed picture of him – that is, the one I keep in my office, not the one I keep at home) wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving. Know what goes great with turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy? Four points in the “W” column, my friends. All of them earned against either [...]

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Welcome, Little One

Last night, my brother Doug and his wife T. welcomed a little girl into their family.  Six pounds, four ounces, everybody healthy, happy…and tired. Welcome, little one:  may you live a long, healthy and happy life.  The odds are stacked in your favour, as far as that stuff goes, because you are surrounded by people [...]

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Keeping Watch on Manitoulin

Yesterday, Spouse and I drove from Sudbury back to the friendly confines of Juniorvania (nigh on to the ‘burg of Brantford) via Espanola and Manitoulin Island.  I’ll have more about our trip, I hope, in a day or two but for now, I am scrambling to get packed because I leave at an ungodly hour [...]

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Sand in My Shoes…

Vacation Day Four. After the Ensleepinating, and a leisurely lunch on a fashionable patio, it was time to go to the beach. Here’s a Panorama photo created by Autostitch, an app on my iPhone. Check out the ghostly looking apparition in the centre of the photo! With all those paranormal phenomena lurking about the public [...]

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Vacation: And a One and a Two…

On Saturday afternoon, Spouse and I attended the Rick Smith Memorial Horse Show at Foothills Farm in Chelmsford, Ontario. I intended to practice a bit at taking pictures of horses jumping over stuff, but I had made the rookie mistake of failing to charge any and all batteries prior to vacation departure on Friday night. [...]

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The G-20 Summit: A Lament for Sanity

A Saturday evening in June; this night, in the City of Toronto, there are black-clad “protesters”, faces obscured by balaclavas and masks, causing damage to the businesses and homes of regular working people.  They are doing sensible, thoughtful and pro-social things like setting fire to police cars, smashing windows and throwing feces into clothing shops. [...]

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Million Dollar Idea Number One

I’m going to invent a new social media site that invites users to post messages of up to 140 characters complaining about the fact that the Twitter API is down.  Based on Twitter’s record over the last couple days, I have reason to believe that my service will be at least as popular as Twitter [...]

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PLEASE STAND BY

VERY busy at work at the moment. Lots of other things going on around the homestead too. No time to spend with my online peeps, at the moment I’m afraid. Here’s a picture of the newest member of the Juniorvanian fleet for you all to see. I hope to have a few moments to do [...]

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