Posts Tagged: Me and Mine
The Total Uselessness Of Blogging Strikes Home
Posted by on Sunday, May 31, 2009 in - leave a comment
Apparently I have commented on the blog at ruk.ca 1,160 times. Given that I haven't really commented there much in yoinks, it is even the more staggering. Especially when you realize I average 17 seconds of consideration when making any comment. That means I have spent 5.47 hours of my life making …
It's Like That Bugs Bunny Incidential Music
Posted by on Thursday, May 28, 2009 in - 7 comments
I now have a whack of Doctor Who on DVD now. One of my favorite bits of these sets is the addition of BBC continuity clips. The best one is on Genesis of the Daleks which includes clips from these intros for repeats of the shows in later years including the "two" shaped Daleks of the 1990s when it …
Holding A Proper Who-la-thon
Posted by on Saturday, April 18, 2009 in - 2 comments
Tired of the pap that has passed for children's TV since the advent of "My Little Pony" and that damned purple dinosaur Barney? Needing an opportunity to introduce fear and other lessons into the lives of your kiddies in a controlled yet, err, meaningful way? Hold a Who-la-thon! And if you are …
Headline: "Signs Of Earliest Scots Unearthed"
Posted by on Monday, April 13, 2009 in - 2 comments
There has to be a joke in there about an early morning line-up for Glasgow folk festival tickets but it's not coming to me. • These are my peeps, no doubt as a branch of our particular tribe were Lanarkshire coal miners, not exactly the sort of trade that was populated by auslanders. Mind you, I …
Friday Bullets For My Day Off In The USA
Posted by on Friday, April 3, 2009 in - 4 comments
My three hours at the NCPR phone farm starts at noon so I should get my butt out the door about nine thirty. I wonder of they will let me play with the Twitter controls. Things I do in the states: eat jerky (I have a rule - no jerky in the homeland); buy a local weekly newspaper (they still report …
Great Moments In Sports 2009: Morton Break Through
Posted by on Monday, March 9, 2009 in - 5 comments
Being a fan of a former great team in a far off country can be difficult. Difficult to get the information, difficult to explain to yourself why this is necessary. But once in a while there are little glimmers of hope that persuade you that there is a point. Today was one such moment as I checked …
Adam Dunn Apparently Does Not Suck So Much
Posted by on Sunday, March 8, 2009 in - 1 comment
It was one of the best games I have ever attended in any sport. Bizarrely, this morning Canadian sports media are not covering it as their lead story. Had Bay hit the run and Canada gone on to win, the nation would have gloated for years. But the outcome was immaterial to the quality of the game …
Dislocated Thoughts That Arose On Family Day
Posted by on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 in - 2 comments
Thank God for Family Day. It was great. As we sat around in our pajamas, dilly dallying with unconsciousness, trying to kill of the last of our colds until mid-afternoon when we got to watch the mailman deliver the mail. How delicious to have a holiday that is not applicable to the Federal civil …
Surviving The Hill From Hell
Posted by on Monday, January 26, 2009 in - 3 comments
That is what the boy called it. The Hill From Hell. 1500 feet long with about a 150 foot drop. Some days when the snow blows children play there, tumbling in the billowy fluffy. Other days when the fields are green, rabbits gambol. But when it is a sheet of crusted and lumpy ice, morons from … read more »
Seven Things For Happy Confusing-To-Canadians Day!
Posted by on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 in - 22 comments
OK, this is when it gets a bit embarrassing to be a Canuck. Things like knowing your own history, celebrating your own country and its traditions or celebrating what you have in common is all so, you know, blurry around the edges for us. We need to have a sit down on a day like this. Heck, we get …
