Category: Personal
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-06
5 Logical Fallacies That Make You Wrong More Than You Think | Cracked http://t.co/H4Uugtin Purolator always manages to hand-delivery me packages, yet Canada Post Xpresspost couldn’t successfully deliver a “Oops! Missed you!” card. Thankfully, Canada Post delivers its emails better than its package notice cards. Bought marshmallow cocoa at Shoppers. Hate mallows, but it was…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-30
My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Three Dog Night (1), Mötley Crüe (1) & Bootsauce (1) #mm http://t.co/DCYjnDnR Musicians shouldn’t write cookbooks. They should market something they’re intimately familiar with, like their own brand of booze. It’s not that I don’t like shaking hands, it’s just that I’ve noticed how often men skip washing. Or rinse…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-23
A great, if underutilized domain: http://t.co/uUfjBOP4 My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Supertramp (1), The Hives (1) & Audioslave (1) #mm http://t.co/DCYjnDnR Kurt would kill himself, if he weren’t already dead. RT @corey_nagle: Nirvana on the classic rock station… “Anger management issues?” Nah. RT @ExploreMusic: Tragic story: “Bassist puts guitarist in coma” -AM http://t.co/KuQ60UyH @nrepin I…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-16
My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Electric Light Orchestra (46), The Beatles (4) & Weezer (3) #mm http://t.co/DCYjnDnR Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh writes of dying on Twitter, two weeks before death – The Washington Post http://t.co/ALWhIo5o What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs http://t.co/BlaQqmoA Kevin James in a talking animal movie? How could…
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Twitter Updates for September 2011
Party at Jamie’s! RT @thejpiga: Another beer is opened? RT @toddrlyons: Every time a door closes… My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: U2 (1), The Beatles (1) & Krokus (1) #mm http://t.co/DCYjnDnR Last 2 weeks: Dad has cancer. Mom has cancer. My dog died. Hoping bad things really do only happen in threes. @LebeauRox @perky_goth_13 @thejpiga Thanks for the well…
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Life’s Wake-Up Call
Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part…
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Life vs. Apps
I sometimes wish that changes in human relationships visually prompted us to re-accept the terms of service before proceeding. I doubt that any of us would bother to read the terms of service anyway, but at least when things went wrong the blame would rest solely on us for not understanding what we’d agreed to.
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Goodnight, Princess
Last June I wrote about Brandy. She’s special in more ways than I could tell you… She’s the first American I ever loved. She’s been my friend and constant companion for nearly 11 years. She was my first pet as an adult. She was my baby before my own children were born. And I have…
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Twitter Updates for August 2011
My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Bob & Tom (5), Foo Fighters (2) & Dio (2) #mm http://t.co/WJWERGr Five Things You Didn’t Know About Mouse Glue Traps – http://toddle.ca/l/kh Youngest of @PrideOf Lyons celebrates her birthday today. Her older two sibs are convinced she grew overnight. Truly saddened to learn that Jack Layton has died of…