Just so you people (well, if anyone reads this blog at all) can't say that all I do is bitch here, here's a happy thought: I was walking Daisy today at Crawford Lake (which is a nice big park) and I saw so many beautiful trees I wanted to hug them all. It was the first snowfall of the year, it was quiet, bright, cold and just beautiful. And to make things even better I read a few nice native Indian thanksgving prayers posted along the paths. The sign described that for the Iroquis Indians Thanksgiving wasn't an annual event, rather it was a way of everyday life. Enough said I think.

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November 16, 2008

GO tickets

GO transit wants you to have a good time on their trains. They do everything they can to ensure that the ride on the GO train will be unforgettable and pleasant. That's why they installed on board TVs where the same bloody set of shit keeps repeating for about 6 months now. Same government funded commercials, same sports clips (they always either snowboard or mountain bike) and some City TV news highlights that only make sense with sound, which is of course, available on AM 120 for everyone who carries a radio with them in the morning commute. They also make sure to announce how you can't cross the tracks and what's where at Union Station and this is Mike your customer service ambassador speaking from coach 1456 an on behalf of GO transit - shut the fuck up Mike, just let us have a quiet fucking commute on your miserable overcrowded overpriced trains where nazi ticket coll

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October 27, 2008

October status report

Alrighty, here's another blog - the first one since January! OK, I was busy doing other stuff. I installed a new HTML editor, which I use for blogging and this makes life a lot easier - it is a true HTML editor with image uploading built in so I no longer have to piss around with uploading images first through FTP, which also means that I can blog from anywhere, not just from computers where an FTP session to the server is set up.

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January 26, 2008

Lights: Do as I say not as I do

Message from the government: "Everybody please change to fluorescent light bulbs and stop using incandescent light bulbs now. We say NOW. You heard it NOW. Otherwise we'll throw a fit."I have been using fluorescent bulbs for a long time and I am saving energy whereever I can by using recycled materials, recycling my garbage, using a time thermostat, not iding the car engine, commuting by train, using canvas shopping bags, yada yada yada. So my problem is obviously not with being energy efficient. My problem is with the vast amounts of energy wasted by the government and large corporations (and certain households) in front of our very eyes.Oh, before I continue, why can't we call them curly light bulbs and old school bulbls instead of fluorescent and incandescent - they are not only near impossible to spell it hurts my ears to say them too.Where do I think energy could be saved?Highway li

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January 09, 2008

How to give a cat a pill

Pick up cat and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand. As cat opens mouth pop pill into mouth. Allow cat to close mouth and swallow.Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa. Cradle cat in left arm and repeat process.Retrieve cat from bedroom, and throw soggy pill away.Take new pill from foil wrap, cradle cat in left arm holding rear paws tightly with left hand. Force jaws open and push pill to back of mouth with right fore-finger. Hold mouth shut for a count of ten.Retrieve pill from goldfish bowl and cat from top of wardrobe. Call spouse in from garden.Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, hold front and rear paws. Ignore low growls emitted by cat. Get spouse to hold head firmly with

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January 08, 2008

Beatles On Drugs

We all live in a yellow submarine Lucy in the sky with diamonds Strawberry fields Octupus' garden Sergeant pepper They were on drugs!!! ;)

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January 07, 2008

1963

National Geographic, December 1963My brother is on holiday with his wife and I am watering their plants every weekend. He told me that there were hundreds of copies of National Geographics in a box that the previous owner of his house had left there and I could take them if I am interested. Just what I needed: something to read on the GO train.The copies are from the ninties but there is one from 1963. Today I took it with me in the morning.Wow, is it ever different from today's edition. Here are the differences:Layout of the ads: There are 20 pages of ads in the beginning and 10 pages of ads at the end. There are no ads whatsoever in between. I could have opened the magazine on page 21 and read all the articles without ever encoutering ads. I thought they had invented a more agressive ad campaign by 1963 but I guess not.Pricing: it cost $1 / copy and $8 / annual subscription or $6.5 for

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