It’s that time of the decade again. My father went on a new computer buying spree. His old Pentium III wouldn’t run Windows XP and it was time to finally bite the bullet. And as my father always does, he bit the biggest bullet he could find although I’m happy to see [...]

Most of you will remember my rant last week about poppies. It turns out I’m not the only one who is a little upset about the crapmanship craftsmanship of these tokens of remembrance.
The Toronto Star has a great article today on the very subject, where a spokesman for the Legion basically says that there [...]

I have an antique mousepad. One year many moons ago when I worked a seasonal job for Rogers, I scored a quantity of mousepads that the supervisor told us to “take a handful of” since we had more than we would ever need over the course of the Christmas season.  They even had a matching [...]

Since we can predict with a fair degree of accuracy that Chris won’t moderate the comment I posted on his Blaugh website today, I am posting the screenshot for you all to enjoy. If you don’t get the Gnomedex reference, don’t worry. The slapshot has a limited audience.

I bought it this summer. It has what appears to be duct tape across the front of it with the following message:
Duct tape is like the force.
It has a light side.
It has a dark side.
And it holds the universe together.
Apparently someone took this message too seriously.

Could you please get that disturbing picture of Michael Jackson Tom Cruise off the front page of your site?
It’s giving me nightmares.
Thanks.

Those of you who have been here “since the beginning” will know I have never been one to shy away from an unpopular opinion.  To an extent, I think it’s what brings the traffic here.  You truly never know what is going to come out of my mouth.
This is going to be one of those [...]