Posted in Domestic Life, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Rants, Thoughts, babbling, daily life, ramblings, random thoughts, tagged bloggers, blogging, chest, crap, dental floss, Life, looking good, Musings, nylon, teeth, teflon on July 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Don’t put me down for writing this, for if you are reading this, you are counting yourself in the equal company of bloggers who do not have a life. I just want to get this off my chest.
I never thought about being passionate about flossing my teeth, but dog-gone it, there are standards. For one [...]
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Posted in Domestic Life, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Random, Thoughts, babbling, daily life, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, tagged budgeting, supermarket on July 12, 2008 | No Comments »
When I was a student on a limited budget, I had some idea, a hunch, that on average, I spent $2 on an item of food at the supermarket. By counting the number of items I purchased, including more than one of the same item, that I would have a fairly accurate idea of the [...]
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Posted in Christ, Domestic Life, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Random, Rants, Thoughts, articles, babbling, bad luck, christian, christianity, church, consumerism, daily life, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, tagged Australia, capitalism, e-bay, friends, Friendship, Friendships, money, new life, possessions, sales, selling, wealth on July 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Article from Reuters Press.
You know, when you engage in any attempt at putting a price tag on your “life”, you will always disappoint. This dude, an Aussie named Ian Usher decided to put his worldly possessions on E-Bay (his friends also, who I am sure are pleased to know they have a price on their [...]
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Posted in Christ, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Pop Culture, Popular Culture, Random, Rants, Thoughts, babbling, christian, christianity, church, humor, humour, misc, parody, ramblings, random thoughts, religion, theology, video, tagged Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, democrat, Hilary Clinton, jesus, Jesus Christ, John McCain, President, republican on June 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The worst part is, he is soft on crime, with all that clap-trap of “love your enemies”. Watch this incredibly good satire:
video
Thanks to Mark Fiore.
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Posted in Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Random, Rants, Thoughts, babbling, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, tagged Alzheimer's, bus stop, buses, humor, humour, MOTD, News of the weird, QOTD, QOTMFD, Quotations, Quote of the Day, quotes on June 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Faced with its Alzheimer’s residents’ tendency to wander away, the Benrath Senior Centre in Dusseldorf, Germany, came up with a novel approach: a fake bus stop (an exact replica of a real one) out front. Straying residents might be attracted to the familiar colors and design of the kiosk (because long-term memory is [...]
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Posted in Christ, Forgiveness, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Renewal, Sprituality, Thoughts, babbling, christian, christianity, church, god, jesus, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, religion, theology, tagged confession, enemies, guilt, Healing, hurt, Love, mental health, Pain, Psychology on June 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I believe that those who can’t be forgiven are those who are either
not aware they have done something wrong
or, refuse to admit they have done wrong.
In the first case, it is relatively easy to resolve. You make the person aware they have wronged you, and they say they are sorry, and you forgive.
In the second [...]
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Posted in Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Random, Rants, Thoughts, babbling, misc, moped, mopeds, motorcycle, motorcycles, ramblings, tagged alternative-transportation, articles, mileage, scooter, scooters on June 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I refuse to engage in the trend for “hypermiling”. I found a way that beats all of my attempts to squeeze even more mileage out of my BMW: Don’t drive the car. For $1200 I got a used moped, and I expect it to pay for itself within 4 months.
On this moped, I have travelled [...]
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Posted in Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Pop Culture, Popular Culture, Random, Thoughts, babbling, consumerism, electronic gadgets, electronics, gadgets, geekdom, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, tagged internet, cell phone, handhelds, palm pilot, palmtop, mp3 player, digital camera on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s simple.
It remembers my appointments.
It has an address book
It has a “Notes” Section
It has a “To do” list
It does everything I want.
It came with a nifty, full-size keyboard
It doesn’t have any crap I don’t need, which I already have in other devices, such as:
a cell phone
an mp3 player
a digital camera
an internet connection
text messaging (which [...]
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Posted in Creative Writing, Domestic Life, Life, Literary, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Random, Short Story, Thoughts, babbling, daily life, fiction, literature, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, sh-ort stories, toronto, tagged divorce, High Park, house calls, math, toronto, tutoring on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
When the student’s mother called Martin for an appointment for math tutoring for her son, for whatever reason she told Martin she was divorced. Martin was a little confusd as to why she felt the need to volunteer the information, but he ignored it, and asked for her address. She lived on Toronto’s west end, [...]
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Posted in Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Random, Thoughts, babbling, misc, tagged bad luck, Bell, Bell Mobility, Canada, cell phone, crtc, internet, mobile phone, pressure sales, technology, voice recognition on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Cell phone contracts are easy to get. Companies these days make cell phones very affordable. They are eager to sell you value-added services that you never needed to use prior to the purchase, and you are hit with a bill that can go upwards of $45 per month.
But what if you are like me? You [...]
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Posted in Creative Writing, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Pop, Quote of the Day, Random, Rock, Thoughts, alternative music, articles, babbling, media, misc, music, oldies, parody, pop music, quotes, ramblings, random thoughts, satire, usenet, video, tagged 1980s, Cocteau Twins, Indie Rock, Lyrics, Rock Music, usenet on June 22, 2008 | No Comments »
These lyrics to Fotzepolitic (or a close facsimilie) had appeared on a newsgroup some years ago. The approximate lyrics are below. I was convinced that these were the actual lyrics, but recently I have looked at some “lyrics” websites, and they all post more or less the same “approximate” lyrics, but to my knowledge, none [...]
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Posted in Christ, Community, Famous Quotes, Fortune Cookies, Hope, Life, Love, Loving, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, QOTD, QOTMFD, Quotations, Quote of the Day, Random, Renewal, Sprituality, Thoughts, babbling, church, daily life, god, idealism, inspiration, jesus, misc, quotes, ramblings, random thoughts, religion, religiousness, theology, tagged catholicism, christian, christianity, freedom, liberation, Nelson Mandela on June 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Our deepest fear is not that we’re inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking [...]
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Posted in Academe, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Pop Culture, Popular Culture, Thoughts, babbling, daily life, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, tagged careers, debt, graduation, starbucks, stevie ray vaughan, student life, toronto, university, University Of Toronto, willie nelson on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
I drove my moped to what I thought was a meeting at the University of Toronto, downtown. I find on arrival that I have the wrong date, and after parking and locking my moped, I decided to walk around a bit.
I walk by a Starbucks on College and St. George, and decided to stop there. [...]
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Posted in Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Random, Thoughts, alternative lifestyles, alternative-transportation, babbling, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, tagged energy, fuel prices, gas prices, gasoline, mopeds, motorcycles, petrol prices, scooters on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
I drive a BMW to work every day, and with a 70 litre tank and gas in Toronto being $1.33 per litre, I decided to invest in a moped. I got a used one for $1200. It is a Tomos LX, and is rather small, cobalt-blue moped. Filling the tank costs $5.00. After going around [...]
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Posted in Forgiveness, Healing, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Pain, QOTD, QOTMFD, Random, Thoughts, babbling, daily life, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, truth-seeking, tagged abuse, gay, gay bashing, gay lifestyle, harrassment, homosexuality, lesbian on June 19, 2008 | No Comments »
If a person is gay-bashed, is it enough on the part of some people to merely think you are gay? It happened to me in Grade 7 and 8, and by Grade 10 it became obvious that they got the wrong guy. Then, after a while, no one approached me in any hostile manner (they [...]
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Posted in Aphorisms, Community, Creative Writing, Domestic Life, Friendship, Friendships, Hope, Life, Literary, Longing, Musings, Opinion, Psychology, QOTD, QOTMFD, Random, Renewal, Sprituality, Thoughts, articles, babbling, bad luck, daily life, friends, idealism, inspiration, liberation, ramblings, random thoughts, truth-seeking, tagged horatio alger, self-made man, success, counsel, fools paradise, hard work, nowhere to go but up on June 16, 2008 | No Comments »
There are the Horatio Algers of this world, who have built for themselves a high degree of success by hard work. Such examples are rare. There are others, however, who have no choice, and have to build their lives up from scratch. They just come from negativity and have nowhere to go but in the [...]
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Posted in Linux, QOTMFD, babbling, computers, geekdom, geeks, hardware, internet, media, ramblings, usenet, tagged liberation, computers, usenet, nntp, freedom, taxpayers, corporate welfare, war-on-terror, neocons, newsgroups on June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Usenet has been, and continues to be, a great source of information, where technologies that push product can easily be pushed aside using filters. There are more than 10,000 newsgroups on nearly every topic that delienates our human existence, all hierarchically arranged. The major hierarchies are known as “The Big 8″: comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, [...]
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Posted in Domestic Life, Life, Literary, Longing, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Psychology, QOTD, QOTMFD, Random, Renewal, Temptation, Thoughts, amusement, articles, babbling, daily life, inspiration, liberation, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, tagged Banks, debt, finance, financing, money, credit, capital, lending, economy, economics, debt-free, pressure sales, advertising, recession, cell phones, payphones on June 12, 2008 | No Comments »
A while ago, I posted that I finally saw, for the first time in 5 years, $0 owing on both my credit card and my line of credit. The battle is never over, however. Unless I want to completely free myself of the luxury of a credit card and line of credit, there will always [...]
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Posted in Life, Miscellaneous, QOTD, QOTMFD, Quotations, Quote of the Day, Random, Thoughts, babbling, daily life, humor, humour, misc, quotes, ramblings, random thoughts, tagged signs, funny pictures, the pope, catholicism, family planning, contraception, sex on June 10, 2008 | No Comments »
This was originally discovered at Patti’s Random Noise. A Google search shows that this one is all over the ‘net, with a complete history behind the sign and everything. I laughed so hard, I could barely breathe; I was even in pain. And, yes, I suppose that particular clinic doesn’t see many clients, having already [...]
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Posted in Celebrity, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Pop, Pop Culture, Popular Culture, Popular Music, Random, Rants, Thoughts, amusement, articles, babbling, hip-hop, humor, humour, media, misc, music, pop music, ramblings, random thoughts, rap, tagged Rock, william shatner, henry rollins, punk, Has Been, leaf-blower, futile, hawaii 5-0 on June 10, 2008 | No Comments »
I Can’t Get Behind That — William Shatner and Henry Rollins
Never charted anywhere
From the album “Has Been” (2004)
See/Hear it here, if you dare. You hear it, but you only can view muppets lip-syncing to the song. You can also get the mp3 and the rest of the album from EMusic. My understanding is that no [...]
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