Archive for October, 2006

Saturday Night Live

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I’ve gone back to watching a lot of Saturday Night Live, and I just morning watched last weekend’s episode with Hugh Laurie as the host.
The most disturbing thing about that episode was not hearing Hugh Laurie speak in his natural British accent, or finding out that weird acts like Beck can get on network television.
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Oh Give Me A Home Where The Buffalo Roam

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Saskatchewan has announced it’s cutting it’s sales tax. By TWO PERCENT!
They cite an oil and gas boom as the reason for the decrease, but it got me thinking. What has Dalton McGuinty really done for Ontario? Nothing. It’s been business as usual since the day he was elected. Maybe it [...]

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A Timely Award

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A friend of mine - who shall remain nameless - is in college. He’s studying web design. We were talking on MSN the other day, and the conversation went to a class on design he’d participated in earlier in the day.
They’d split the class into groups. One group was sent off in [...]

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Soon It Will Be Easier To Get Into The United States Than It Will Be To Vote In Canada

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Or at least it will be comparable.
The Canadian government, in an era of record-low voter turnout, has enacted legislation intended to “minimize voter fraud”. You now require photo ID on voting day in addition to your Elections Canada card thingy. Sure… most people carry a driver’s license, but didn’t we just marginalize the [...]

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Firefox 2.0 Final Released

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Firefox 2.0 Final has been released a day ahead of schedule, according to Majorgeeks. I’m using it now, and I don’t see a helluva lot of difference, other than the fact that it just tried telling me that Majorgeeks was spelled wrong. That’s cool. My blog editor now has a spell checker.
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Add ‘78 Chevrolet Chevette And Stir…

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A Chevette in your living room would be just about all you need for a drive-in theatre. Now that Samsung has announced a 70 inch LCD television.

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Before And After

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At the beginning of the year, the bridge at the park across the road looked something like this:

Today they had the ribbon-cutting and it looks something like this:

And the sad thing is… it has grafitti on it already, on the day of the ribbon-cutting.

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