Archive for January, 2009

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

It’s a small world after all…celebrating a (three days late) Mexican El día de Reyes (complete with Baby Jesus baked into sweet bread, courtesy of Adalberto) with an American and a Canadian, plus copious amounts of Swedish vodka and German beer, Romanian pop and Bulgarian chalga. Christ…now I’m gonna have that goddamned Disney song stuck […]

Monday, January 5th, 2009

What I want more than anything right now is to lie in bed in the very early morning, windows open and the air just a little bit cool, looking at a bright blue sky and listening to the birds twittering and singing outside. The holidays are over now, so I’m ready for spring. 🙂

Monday, January 5th, 2009

US cable companies are nothing more than greedy bastards that gouge exhorbitant monthly rates from their subscribers, additionally nickel-and-dimeing them to death for what the corporation refers to as “extra services” but which are, in fact, services that should be included for free because they cost the company little or nothing. They would be included […]

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

I thought this was in my favourites, but when I looked, I couldn’t find it (no surprise), so I had to search for it again. The Trailer Park Boys’ Bubbles (Mike Smith can’t see a goddamned thing through those glasses), Ed Robertson from Barenaked Ladies, and Rush…does it even get any more Canadian?

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

Yes! I found it again. I found this page a very, very long time ago, and though I thought I’d bookmarked it, I either had not, or simply couldn’t find it in the mess that constitutes many years’ worth of largely unsorted bookmarks. I couldn’t remember what it was called (and was too lazy to […]

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Goddammit, there! This image has probably been posted on every forum on the entire internet, but nobody seemed to know its origin. It’s been posted as evidence of inbreeding in many US states (including, but not limited to West Virginia, Alabama and Georgia), it’s been posted as evidence of inbreeding in a polygamous FLDS community […]

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

I finally bit the bullet and upgraded the desktop to Intrepid today. I was going to go to the course with P. but the sun wasn’t out by the time he was ready to leave, so I decided to stay here and tidy up a few things that the upgrade hadn’t got. Considering my system […]