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Archive for April, 2007

Bet She Has Unlimited Text

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

A 13-year-old girl from Pennsylvania won $25,000 (USD) in a text-messaging contest being held by LG Electronics by texting “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” faster than anyone else.
The girl says she estimates she sends over 8,000 text messages a month. Don’t bother reaching for your calculator I’ll save you the bother. That’s more than 250 a day.
Bet […]

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It’s Time For The Nonsense To End

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Those of you outside Ontario might not have heard about this. We have not one - but TWO - land disputes going on in Ontario involving various First Nations tribes. One group, in Caledonia, has essentially taken over a housing development that they claim is being built on land that belongs to them. […]

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And let me tell you… it’s been a LONG journey.
A while ago I ditched my Nokia 2125i because I decided I wanted a flip phone and a camera - even a crappy camera. I own a couple of nice cameras and just wanted something I could take random snapshots with without drawing a lot […]

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The CNN Drinking Game

Monday, April 16th, 2007

I really don’t want to make light of the events at Virginia Tech today. It’s been a horrible series of events and I can’t imagine how the Virginia Tech students, staff and families have been affected by this horrible event.
But if you want to play the CNN drinking game, grab a bottle of your […]

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Even Google Has A Sense of Humour

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Shift-click this link to go to Google Maps. (Shift-clicking should open it in a new window so you can ALT-TAB back and forth to this window to continue reading instructions.)
In the text input box at the top type “New York, New York to Paris, France”. You may omit the commas and capitalization if […]

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OUCH!

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Ok. Who watches House?
Who watched last night?
Who had their eyes closed and was screaming at the top of their lungs (like me) when he did the lumbar puncture with the epi pen?
OUCH!

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Charles Gill Would Roll In His Grave

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

You ‘mericans probably won’t “get” this…
But anybody with more than a passing dislike for the longest-sitting Prime Minister in the last thirty years may need anti-nausea meds when you read the last paragraph of this article.
“God with us”, indeed.

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