Archive for February, 2007
“It makes no difference
If it’s sweet or hot
Just give that rhythm
Everything you’ve got
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing
It don’t mean a thing all you got to do is sing” – Ella Fitzgerald and/or Duke Ellington (sorry not sure who wrote it, possibly the duke for the music and [...]
Filed under: Soul, Soundtrack | 5 Comments
We are often quick to complain about shoddy service and treatment. If a bad experience happens we tell everyone we know and we tell it loud, often with embellishments. Just view my post on a recent Air Canada experience for proof of that. Duane’s had one too, but he seems to have removed it for [...]
Filed under: Soul, World | 3 Comments
The Super Duper Death Flu…
…is working it’s way around the office. So far 6 or 8 people have had it. One guy’s got it today and sitting behind me…yikes. This is a wierd asskicker of a flu and seems to really be taking people out hard. I’m hoping i’ve missed it…it’s been a long year [...]
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Is it just a blip, or am I noticing the Mac starting to become the “i want” of next computers for more people than ever before? I know my next computer will be a Macbook, and I seem to hear the same thing from more and more people all the time. Matter of [...]
Filed under: Brain, World | 4 Comments
“Demagogue:
Noun: 1: A person, esp, an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people. 2: (in ancient times) a leader of the people”
Yes, I made the above word up by taking demagog and turning it into a verb [...]
Filed under: Mr. Crankypants, World | 3 Comments
A very cool post…
Wil Wheaton linked to a cool post on John Scalzi’s blog today, and while I was surfing around Scalzi’s site I found this awesome bit of writing on Being Poor. Worth a view, I’d say. Having my share of uhhh…struggles recently I found this post hit some points i could really relate to, [...]
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People tend to be split about Valentines day; they either love it as it is or hate it as a corporate “hallmark” holiday. Myself, I love it as a corporate “hallmark” holiday . I disagree with the need to pay twice as much for half as much choice at dinner, I [...]
Filed under: Heart, Soul | 4 Comments
Random Acts of Kindness Week
I’ve long been of the belief that altruism is the purest and noblest form of self indulgence. This is not a bad thing. Basically, we do a nice thing for someone because of the feeling it gives us to see someone smile or perk up someone’s day. The added benefit of knowing that you got [...]
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Bad commercial of the day…
It’s just like…just like…just like…a mini mall… Thanks (or…maybe not) to Mark Evans for pointing me at this bit of the muse…
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Thematically challenged
It came to my attention today that my sexy Andreas 4 canned wordpress theme doesn’t work worth a damn on IE. I checked, and it’s true. So I’ve been noodling around trying to find a better one. I kinda like this one, but some people don’t necessarily like white text on black [...]
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Ohhhh The Destruction…
I didn’t post this in my vacation post cuz it wasn’t really a happy thing, but on Thursday I took a drive thru Stanley Park. If you live in Vancouver specifically or Canada in general you probably already know about the hurricane force storm we had in the start of december and how it knocked [...]
Filed under: Soul | 3 Comments
Cuz wordpress.com is broken…
Kasia: Seriously, how does anyone get so nice? You are one of those rare few reasons for people to look forward to coming to work every morning.
Duane: Memories of Sodomy huh? Uh…right then…ok now I gotta move on.
Shannon: Well, none of the work was essentially hard, except maybe the cleanup aftewards and [...]
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This better work or blogger’s gonna start looking attractive…
So Anyways…Jeff Pulver wrote this on my CFL Challenge post:
well I would play along if I wasn’t the one who started this version of the game back on Dec 10th…hope all is well…jeff Comment by Jeff Pulver | February 12, 2007
Well Jeff, the thing is, if you’d [...]
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OK WordPress people, NOW wtf???
I can’t comment on my own blog? Since when does this make sense to anyone with a brain?? Seriously…what the hell? And now it gets even worse! I’m trying to post some comments, and it’s editing it something fierce on the page. When I come into the edit page here it shows [...]
Filed under: Mr. Crankypants | 2 Comments
And so it ends…
…my holidays are on their last legs. It’s been WAY too short of a week, but it was a week and I had some fun and relaxation. It may take me a few days to get back into blogging mode, which would be unfortunate as there are some other writing bits I [...]
Filed under: Soul | 5 Comments
I’m so far behind in blog-o-rama…oh well; the joys of holidays (more on the funny road names outside of chilliwack in a later post…)
Anyways, a few days ago Duane decided to start up the CFL challenge. As we’ve recently been informed, it appears there’s an 85% possibility that global warming has [...]
Filed under: Brain, Chains and Wires and Wireless too, World | 7 Comments
WTF…WordPress = SpamBait?
I’m a big fan of my blog hosting site. WordPress has been great and very intuitive about crushing spammers to date. So after the better part of a year using wordpress and having no problems, today I wake up to find like 120 spam comments on my page. What happened to the awesome filters on [...]
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Hymns, Habits and Hutterites
So it was my Grampa’s funeral on Monday. I flew to Calgary on Saturday evening on my Aeroplan points (and holy surprise of surprises they didn’t give me grief for using points!). My parents picked me up at the airport around 8 and we drove to their house in Red Deer which is [...]
Filed under: Heart, Soul | 1 Comment
Removed the Meebo
Cuz it was dumb. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but cuz i’m never on it, it’s just a waste of space. Plus it sat overtop other sidebar widgets on some screens; at home I use the exact same browser and resolution but have a slightly smaller monitor than at work…meebo doesn’t [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 3 Comments
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