IF YOU LIVE in Canada, or northern USA, you know how nasty Winter can be. Also, if you live on the moon or in interstellar space, where I hear it gets almost as cold as Winnipeg. Like me, every Winter… Read More ›
Humour
Make anything funny with this one simple trick
LAST MONTH my family went on a mission. It was my son’s idea, and it went like this: from a hat each one of us picked the name of a family member and went to the local department store with… Read More ›
My Grade 11 English Teacher, Mrs. Joyce, Marks Christmas Carols
Jingle Bells Obviously the bells jingle: that’s what they are made to do. Try “bells, bells all the way.” (See Strunk and White, “Omit needless words.”) Also, does the protagonist have some sort of objection to a multi-horse and/or closed… Read More ›
I Paid $7 for a Powerful Secret and This is What Happened
TODAY ON MY WALK I saw not one, but four dogs wearing boots. That’s when I started doing something I do a lot, which I call logicalling. Obviously the dogs did not ask for boots, or pick them out, or… Read More ›
I’m Not So Sure About this Whole Follow Your Dreams Thing
ONCE AGAIN, I am rocking the achy, fevery, too-tired-to-move-around thing. I should probably cook some real food, but meh. The good news is that, if a bag of Moritz Icy Squares and two teaspoons of horseradish can cure an infection,… Read More ›
Let’s Put On Our Science Hats
THE OTHER DAY the United Nations released a report on global climate change, whose title I don’t recall but I’ll guess is something like OMG We Are So Screwed People, and it concludes that: – the Earth’s climate has warmed… Read More ›
How Hard Could It Be to Have a Billion Twitter Followers?
OKAY, first of all. So I joined the Twitter around February, nine months ago. That means I’ve been on it long enough to make a baby. Which I guess means that I have made a tweets baby, or maybe it’s… Read More ›
Let’s Make This a Potluck-Free Century
HAVING TAKEN ROOT, bad ideas are near impossible to eradicate. You can chop away at the spreading menace, and you may even effect some evident gains. But in short time, the bad ideas pop up again. The potluck, for example.
That Month I Decided to Respond To All My Spam
It’s Friday and sunny out, so here is a welcome-to-the-weekend post. Hope you enjoy it. A FEW YEARS BACK I got tired of getting spam email. For some reason, there was a month when I suddenly got a huge surge… Read More ›
And Now For Something Completely Different
I am most at home among those who’ve an appreciation of the absurd. To detractors this would perhaps be characterized as the silly or, at further depths of condescension, the juvenile. I don’t much mind either characterization and will plead… Read More ›
Facebook, Narcissism, And A Sociologist For Hire
Soraya Mehdizadeh’s study, “Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking,” was cast into the cybersea earlier this month, and media bit the hook. How could they not, baited as it was with the suggestion that Facebook is “a particularly fertile ground for… Read More ›
