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Overheard

"He doesn't go to the AIDS conference. He doesn't go to the out games. What does he do all day?"

Overheard

"The GST cut is such a waste of time. Why couldn't they take that money and spend on something good like bicycle paths?"

For all you foodies out there...

A recipe I'm sure you'll want to try at your earliest possible convenience.

Oh me oh my

Oh me oh my

And the following comments!!

It was fun while it lasted

A few days ago, I was the number 2 hit if you googled for idiot strings.

Now I'm nowhere to be found.

Bummer.

Not that I should expect more. Hardly anyone knows I'm here.

Diversity and Terrorism in Canada

Somebody says something stupid.

Somebody says something smart.

Life is SOO Good!

There are no contact lenses stuck in my eyeball.

Could life get any better?

I think not!

An oddly coincidental numerical correspondence

Here

Happiest day of my life!

So, after only two weeks of running a blog, I'm already the number 2 hit on google if you search for idiot strings.

Not bad eh?

Though I'm not sure what would inspire someone to search for idiot strings on the 'net, unless they're trying to find my blog. And I'm not really sure what would inspire someone to try to find my blog either.

Stuff on Sale

Have you ever wondered why stuff goes on sale?

I never gave it too much thought, except that sometimes things go on sale when they've been sitting on the shelf too long. Or, perhaps, the store that we're shopping at wants to be nice to us (to entice us to come back of course).

I recently made a couple of purchases of items that were on sale. Neither of these items would spend too much time on the shelf, so that is not why they were on sale.

Not too far back I bought a whole bunch of soap on sale. When I used it, I noticed that it didn't lather up quite as well. I blamed it on the wash cloth, which was wearing out. But the soap ran out eventually, and I had to buy new soap. When I started using the new stuff, I noticed that it lathered up better than the previous four bars.

More recently, strawberry jam was on sale, so I bought two jars instead of just one. I noticed that the jam seemed runnier and had less fruit than before. I chalked it up to the fact that, around the same time as the jam purchase, I decided to store my jam in the cupboard rather than the fridge and that the change was due to the warmer temperature of the jam. As with the soap, that jam got used up, and I purchased some jam that was regular priced. Sure enough, as I'm sure you've guessed by now, the jam was not as runny and had more fruit.

So in two cases, I bought something on sale, and in both cases what I bought on sale was of lower quality than the same regular priced items before and after they were on sale.

Coincidence?

More Crunchy than Soggy

Over at PomoChristian admin lists ten features of so called crunchy conservatives from an endorsement by Adam Daifallah of Rod Dreher's book Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, Gun-Loving Organic Gardeners, Evangelical Free-Range Farmers, Hip Homeschooling Mamas, Right-Wing Nature Lovers, and Their Diverse Tribe of Countercultural Conservatives Plan to Save America (Or At Least the Republican Party.)

I'm not as crunchy as he is. But I'm pretty crunchy.

Geez. Why didn't I just link to Dreher's blog to begin with, and hat tip to PomoChristian.

Neat!

Check this out!

A character study of 22 past and present cartoon characters

[ hat tip: Bound by Gravity]

Happy New Month Day!!

What did you do to ring in the new month?

New month resolutions?

I hope you're not too hung over from the new month eve celebrations!

World Cup Merchandise

I want to get some Dutch soccer merchandise--t-shirts etc.--, so I went to sportcheck.ca to see what they had to offer. They only had stuff from five teams, Germany, Italy, England, Ireland, and one more that I can't remember at the moment.

Do you know if the actual stores are better stocked than the online store? Do you know of any Canadian stores, especially in Southern Ontario, that would carry stuff from all teams?

Am I the only one who thinks it's lame that, as the world's biggest soccer event approaches, the biggest Canadian sports store that I can think of doesn't sell related products? Yeah, I know. Professional soccer's not that big in Canada (on the other hand, soccer is the most popular little league sport--even more popular than Hockey!). But it's the WORLD CUP! Get a clue folks.

Hockey

If you're Canadian, even from Calgary, you'd better be cheering for the Oilers!

Blogging Blogging in my Blogging pool...

I started a blog.

I don't know why.

Most of the blogs I read are political blogs. But I don't think I want to write a political blog. I hardly like talking politics with people I know and who I agree with. Why, then, would I put my thoughts out there for people I don't know and probably disagree with?

Blog about my life? I barely find it interesting. I pity the one who does and comes here to find out about it.

I'll figure something out.

Ontario Spring

It's springtime in Ontario, and I don't know what to wear.

This has nothing to do with fashion.

It has to do with temperature.

It seems I'm either wearing too much, or not enough.

Hello World

Hey Everyone!

I'll have more to say later.