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• Money is meaningless! And other great quotes from a great man.

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 14:32 in news, friends, Canada, friendship, newspaper, death, concordia university, death of a friend, stanstead journal, malcolm stone, peter scowen, stanstead quebec

  Flipping to the preface of Outlaw Journalist, a book about the life and work of Hunter S. Thompson, I read the following quote: Word of his death was a shock to me, but not particularly suprising… More than anything else, it came as a harsh con...

• on not giving a pig’s arse about swine flu

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 10:26 in family, news, health, children, media, traffic, death, cycling, h1n1, swine flu symptoms, schweinegrippe, lion's gate hospital

  The little red-haired girl is getting over swine flu.  Well, I say swine flu because it’s the hysteria du jour, but it could have been anything that lays a kid low for a few days. She is one of 16 from her grade 7 class of 28 at home instead o...

• A gorgeous autumn day in Hamburg

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 16:18 in photos, Germany, hamburg, Autumn, fall colours

  Our trip to Kaiserslautern last weekend to attend a friend’s birthday party turned out to be equally as memorable for the two days of walking through a beech forest in all its autumn brilliance. A Hamburg October can be as dreary as anything Va...

• Search this!

  Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 19:16 in blog, humor, humour, wordpress, sauna, google search, canadian idiot, histrionic personality disorder, getting stupid over search terms, meta madness, psychiatric bull

  Doctor, I said on my last trip to the shrink.  My wife has histrionic personality disorder. What makes you think that? Last night while stoned on camel dung hash she kept repeating, How do you get this damn thing to stop blinking?  She was trying t...

• To the holocaust deniers: come to Buchenwald

  Posted on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 10:58 in travel, politics, photos, war, Germany, history, right wing, holocaust denial, nazi, concentration camp

  It was perhaps fitting that we should come upon Buchenwald through damp drizzle and fog, the autumn cold another burden on the stark emptiness of the place. We’d been in nearby Weimar a week already, but until then had somehow found excuses no...

• Why buy new? How to boost that old ipod mini for under 50 bucks

  Posted on Sunday October 11th, 2009 at 02:50 in technology, how to, video, ipod nano, recycle, Geek Stuff, apple computer, re-use, compact flash, ipod mini upgrade, ipod tweaking

  I hate to give up without a fight.  When something breaks, I do my best to fix it before giving up on it for good.  I also hate losing, especially when losing means having to pay Apple for a new iPod. So when my beloved ipod mini, constant companio...

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