The Lawyers Win
There are no winners in the upcoming legal battle between tobacco companies that hid the dangers of smoking, and the governments who regulated and once encouraged the use of the…
life
The Duration of Life
Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like. ~Author Unknown By the Brother's Grimm When God created the world…
My Cat Book
cat is available as a free PDF download Filed under: art, book, digital, drawing, drawings, illustration, painting Tagged: art, book. pdf, Cat, cats, humor, humour, illustration, iPad, life, painting
The schizoid nature of the Western world: Overcoming the root paradox of Western civilization – and our own minds
The Western world is still trapped in a paradox and a self-contradiction of our own making: we are schizoid with regards to the body, the material world and to our…
Golfy is at the car doctor and she’ll be fine
So will I. I rear-ended someone on Highway 410 on my way to my dad's place. There were no injuries but I'm pretty shaken up about it. And because I…
Tough acts to follow
This week has marked the untimely departure of two charismatic leaders from the helm of two very different organizations. Canada’s New Democratic Party Jack Layton succumbed to cancer, shortly after…
Eat less, exercise more… or, less ?
Like many adults in my age range (late 40s), I have observed over the past decade my weight progressively creep up, much to my great joy and satisfaction (tongue firmly…
Time for a change ?
It is a warm mid-Summer weekend. Instead of relaxing and enjoying the outdoors, the fresh air, the company of friends, the ferocious northern mosquitoes and all the joys that the…
Montreal
April and I showed up in Montreal yesterday afternoon, after a few nights in Ottawa. While in the capital, we toured Parliament, and I saw Elizabeth May’s desk, tucked away…
On being anal
It took me a while to come to the realization that I need to vent over this subject right here, on my blog, no matter how petty, ridiculous and irrelevant…
Ontario
Flew to Toronto on Monday morning, and slept along the way, still only giving me a few hours of sleep, as I was wound up and doing chores I hadn’t…
Wedding
Note the Saskatchewan and Roughtider flags over the wedding? The Imperial March was my entrance music. No, I forgot to do Live Long and Prosper in my vows.
Wedding and Honeymoon
The weather was perfect on July 2nd, just like I told people it would be. It was less perfect today, but still awesome. The hail stones that were half the…
Party Hardly
I hardly did any partying this weekend, fewer than 10 hours were devoted to such an activity. -We actually get along quite well, this is staged for the camera. Really!…
Hi, I am Jack, and I am a recovering socialist
Canadian New Democratic Party (NDP) held in Vancouver its fiftieth national congress since its foundation. It is presently Canada’s official opposition in the House of Commons, and arguably one of…
Does not get much sillier than this…
… aka, the xkcd wikipedia meme All right, it has been a while since last time I did this kind of stuff. I saw it at VWXYNOT? (where else, eh…
Free agent professor
If you’re a college or university teacher, whom do you work for ?” Thus begins Stanley Fish‘s latest New York Times editorial on the subject of academia. Here are a…
Story of Stuff
Live blog from Education Auditorium Starting with a prayer song from a Cree elder, singer and pipe keeper and cleaner. Drum and singing is very impressive in here. The introduction…
Mosaic 2011 in Regina
I only attended some of Mosaic in 2011, which let me keep my spending on it to under $50 this year. I made it to the Korean and Brazilian pavilions…
Is there interest in a cat book?
At a recent prompting, that being an inquiry about sales, I fell into the book making portion of iPhoto. As such, I put together a few books of things. One…