Some people just share too much. Meghan and I went to get our phone set up a little while ago after arriving in Vancouver, home of rain, mist and mellow fruitfulness, and the lady at the desk engaged in a major overshare. She asked for my driver’s liscense and the old Nova Scotia driver’s […]
Greetings, Henry here. The Canadian press Jan 23 had a story about Tim Harvey a 27 year old man from Vancouver who has been traveling around the world, primarily through muscle power since 4004.He has biked across the frozen tundra in Siberia, canoed down the Yukon River, cycled across Europe and “rowed for 25 days […]
Acknowledgment
Greetings, Henry here. I’ve been talking about the stages of dealing with a grief or a crisis. The first two stages I talked about were those of Shock (which we perceive as overwhelming), and Denial (where we attempt to avoid reality). Now we come to the third stage: that of acknowledgment.
Grief is one […]
After a few experiences I’ve had of late with gentlemen I could most accurately describe as ‘real men’, I had an inspiration for a possible future business. I’d call it the Real Man Restaurant. Everyone would be welcome at the Real Man Restaurant (as long as they support hopeless and purposeless wars), but the decor, […]
I remember when the hostages were finally allowed to come home from Iran. The media coverage was unbelievable, really overwhelming. Some of the hostages were more than happy to talk to reporters after they arrived home and some of them just wanted to be left alone and refused to talk to anyone. I remember there […]
I think there’s a reason that, unlike portable audio devices, portable video devices have never really taken off outside of science fiction, and that reason is, notice the point…you’ll walk into things. Well maybe, if you’re using your iPod to carry around gigabytes of porn, you do want a big screen t.v. on your face, […]
Greetings all, Steve here. Well, I’ve just sat through the first American Idol show of the season. My girlfriend Meghan will likely watch much of the season, but I’ll only watch the first few shows, mainly to feel better about myself. My lord, the way some people embarass themselves on that show is just awful. […]
Some of you, I”m sure, are walking around thinking that geeks are all bad, that all they do is break into women’s houses, watch them sleep and steal their clothes, but this news reports from China shows the others side of geekery.
Chinese geek Jin Bo was caught after breaking into his female neighbour’s […]
Steve here. Just when I was starting to give up on humanity… If an 89 year old woman can fend off a robber by beating him in the head with a barbell…well, let’s just say it warmed my heart:)