Mar 29 2009
A few days ago I was in a St. Hubert chicken rotisserie restaurant (don’t ask). I spotted this highly ambiguous pictogram on the wall:
Here’s my explication:
PLEASE WAVE AT THE HANDICAPPED.
Or, if you prefer, how about this dramatic interpretation:
FEMALE: “It’s over! I’m leaving you for the guy in the wheelchair.”
MALE: “No! I’m leaving you for the [...]
Mar 23 2009
A few weeks ago a reporter from the Montreal Gazette contacted me. She was doing a story about how layoffs affect men, which she theorized was different that how they affect women. Someone had told her about me and my sudden job loss last May, and she thought I might have something useful to add [...]
Mar 18 2009
Spring is teasing us this week. The weather has been warm and sunny (although it’s a bit rainy today), and I saw my first robin of 2009 this morning.
To put things in perspective with regard to last year’s overly snowy winter and late arriving spring, here’s a photo I took of the street in front [...]
Mar 14 2009
Next week is going to be Hell week at work. My team will be rushing to make an important deliverable by Friday, so it’s going to be a heads-down crunch every day.
Too bad, because look at the heavenly weather forcast for next week:
And yes, I’ve noticed how the decline coincides with the end of my [...]
Mar 11 2009
Freaky weather today. First it was rainy, then sunny, then cloudy, then cold, and the whole time there was a fierce wind blowing. I went for a walk around 2:30 and saw these freaky clouds blowing over at a really high speed. I felt like I was in one of those overwrought graphic novel adaptations.
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Mar 10 2009
I‘m on my second netbook. In May 2008, when they first came out, I acquired an ASUS eee 900. I ordered it from Amazon.com and had to drive to the U.S. to pick it up (Amazon.com doesn’t deliver to Canada, and Amazon.ca was not offering it). It was a sweet little machine, running an odd [...]
Mar 09 2009
The rare Black Snowy Burb Panther spends most of the winter climbing in trees.
With the onset of daylight savings time, the Black Snowy Burb Panther descends from the trees and seeks meltwater with which to slake his enormous thirst.
For more information on the Black Snowy Burb Panther, contact the Canadian Mildlife Society.
