I was out for a drive with my daughter on Saturday, enjoying the ridiculously beautiful (and unseasonable) day. We decided to drive down the South Shore, along the coast. As we passed one of the beaches, there was a lot of cars there, and a lot of people out on the beach. Now, it was unseasonable warm for early December,… Read more →
Author: Mr. McLaren
I would like some obscure information
I know that somewhere out there, someone has this information, but I can’t seem to find it. Imagine you have ten empty shelves. You’re going to fill these shelves with books, and assume that you want to shelve the books alphabetically by author. Further assume that the books you want to shelve are more-or-less randomly distributed by author’s names. Now,… Read more →
Dion, huh? Interesting.
Look, I didn’t want Ignatieff. He pissed me off. I was interested in seeing how Bob Rae would have played out. I think that would have been fun to watch either way–if he transcended his baggage in Ontario, or if it was a glorious disaster. (Certainly, as an NDP, it would have been interesting to see a former NDP Premier… Read more →
Forthcoming books…
Pal Gwenda points out the online version of Locus’ Forthcoming Books list through next September and asks what we’re lusting after. I’ve gone through the list and tried to pick out the top three each month, where “top three” is defined as “three I am most excited about reading”, which is not necessarily the same thing as “three I am… Read more →
British troops beating children
I have nothing to add to what I said before. Read more →
Been wanting something from Amazon.co.uk…
…but you didn’t want to pay the shipping? Well, have I got a tip for you. 1) Order this book. (Don’t worry if you don’t want it, it’s going to be free.) 2) Order whatever other things you want from Amazon.co.uk 3) At checkout enter the promotional code “HELLMANAMZN2” and suddenly the initial book is free, and you get free… Read more →
Drakemas: Worth several thousand words
For those of you wondering about the cast of reprobates that might have shown up for Drakemas last week, I have some mug shots after the jump. While I survived the night without significant hangover, despite some truly heroic interactions with the Master Of The Hunt, not everyone was so lucky: Birthday Boy appears to have lost several hours of… Read more →
Lithuanians are indestructible…
From PopBitch, quite a while back: Vidmantas Sungalai. Sungalai, a 41-year-old Lithuanian truck driver, was pulled over by police while driving his truck down the centre of a highway near Vilnius. He had 7.27 grams per litre of alcohol in his body – 18 times the legal driving limit. (3.5g/l is usually lethal). The police said Vidmantas “was of high… Read more →
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Why haven’t I heard of this movie before? What appears to be a blue collar revenge noir, with both Milla and Aisha Tyler? I should have known about this. The only trailer I can find is at Yahoo! Taiwan, but it works fine: Trailer. I am quite pleased to see the return of Hot Milla to the movies. Read more →
I could be rescued by my Best Man!
My pal Ralph is now part of the Coast Guard’s volunteer Search and Rescue team. If I were in a boating incident in his territory, he might have to find and rescue me. However, since the only reason I would be on a boat in his territory is if I were on his boat, the chances of that don’t seem… Read more →
Yes, I can be in two places at once. Can’t you?
One reason posting frequency has dropped off is that for some reason I am tremendously over-scheduled at work. Not that I have a ton of actual work to do, just that I am constantly scheduled into meetings. I thought a completely full calendar was a pain in the ass, but it’s nothing compared to being double-booked. Here’s one morning this… Read more →
Acronym awareness
Note: Reading this post in Firefox or any other browser that supports the abbr tag will be a much more rewarding experience than reading it in IE. Working in the computer industry you develop a habit of talking in acronyms. I’ve often found it amusing how the acronym over time becomes the proper name for the thing it identifies–that there… Read more →
You’re in the movie now
Naomi Wolf, she of The Beauty Myth, etc, has written a piece, “The Porn Myth“, for New York that sets out her position that the rise of pornography has essentially resulted in a devaluation of sexual experience. For two decades, I have watched young women experience the continual “mission creep” of how pornography—and now Internet pornography—has lowered their sense of… Read more →
Hmmm. I would not have guessed this.
You are The Devil Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition. Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really "Satan" at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, of wild behavior… Read more →
What Will They Be Thankful For?
The biggest risk we now face is that, if the United States withdraws from Iraq, the withdrawal will trigger a regional collapse. Iran will be sucked in from the east, as Iraq succumbs to a Sunni on Shi’ite civil war that threatens Iran’s own western population. Sunni insurgents trained in Iraq will flood the region as a whole, threatening to… Read more →
