Recent Posts Tagged With the water cooler

• Canada Post - You Suck !

  Posted on Saturday May 30th, 2009 at 12:53 am in the water cooler

  You are the envy or numerous postal systems around the world. Your Letters to Santa campaign have earned you a Guinness World Record as the holder for most letters received and replied to by land mail. I talked about you for days when you successfull...

• I think I coined a new term

  Posted on Monday April 20th, 2009 at 08:08 pm in the water cooler

  You all know of my lust for addiction to Twitter (I just logged my 10 750th tweet as I write this). But I certainly am no big fan of Oprah. Yet, some how: This has all got to do with the recent buzz about Oprah, only recently learning how to use tw...

• These guys will take you out to lunch

  Posted on Thursday April 2nd, 2009 at 01:46 pm in the water cooler

  I found this ad in a mining publication and thought it was hilarious and had to be shared. Well… would you ?...

• Did I Win ?! Did I Win ?!

  Posted on Sunday March 22nd, 2009 at 11:36 am in the water cooler

  No I didn’t. Between every March and May Tim Horton’s holds a contest, where those buying a hot beverage, would un-roll the rim of their cups (after emptying the contents first of course) to find out if they have won anything. This year, ...

• Fric, Frac and Speedy

  Posted on Wednesday February 18th, 2009 at 12:35 am in the water cooler

  It seems that whenever I am logged into Twitter, Drowsey Monkey is logged in as well. Or that we arrive at the same time, and then agree on almost everything and even make an exit at the same time. Heck, we don’t even live too far from one anot...

• “On Air”

  Posted on Friday February 6th, 2009 at 12:18 am in the town and about the water cooler

  and a shout-out to some local podcasters The coolest of things happened a couple of weeks back : my blog… was… mentioned on radio ! It was mentioned on Mohawk College Radio 101.5 FM on January 25th on The Jelly Report. It was my blog post...

• HaeeeeYAA ! (oops !)

  Posted on Thursday January 15th, 2009 at 01:29 pm in the water cooler

  Starring Kathy of the Junk Drawer JD of I do Things Disclaimer Events shown in this post may not have occurred in the sequence shown or may not have occurred at all Later…...

• Twitter and bad weather can make you do (bad) things

  Posted on Saturday January 10th, 2009 at 07:30 pm in the water cooler

  Cyanide and Happiness Comic #1494 The flowers were sent to Shieldmaiden96...

• Quatrains to Sugar Snap Peas

  Posted on Saturday November 15th, 2008 at 05:00 pm in the water cooler

  Sugar Snap Peas Sugar snap peas in sweet spring I seed Aiming for green, aiming anti-weed I digg stumble and crow on Twitter Toiling for a score unguaranteed Crunchy sweet nutritious and filling Topped in salads, steamed or stir-frying She diggs stum...

• Dona Nobis Pacem

  Posted on Wednesday November 5th, 2008 at 10:00 pm in social the water cooler

  Peace Globe #1209 Focusing attention on Mahatma Gandhi today, does not mean I endorse non-violence as a total solution towards peace. Neither is war nor democracy. For a highly respected figure, I believe Gandhi is just as misunderstood. He was inde...

• Blogblast for Peace - Memeing the Movement

  Posted on Saturday October 25th, 2008 at 01:35 pm in social the water cooler

  Her Royal Blogginess, Mimi Queen of the memes, held court here at ManiaRavings earlier this week with a Royal Entreaty for me to participate in Blogblast for Peace on November 6 2008. —— copie below this line —— Blogblast of P...

• My thoughts on bottled-water-containers

  Posted on Friday August 22nd, 2008 at 04:00 pm in the town and about the water cooler

  Last Monday, the council of the city of London, Ontario, voted 15 to 3 to stop selling bottled-water in all city-owned buildings. I agree it’s a step in the right direction to protect the environment from the accumulating plastic in our landfil...

• United Pigeons Toronto Confluence

  Posted on Tuesday August 19th, 2008 at 04:54 pm in the town and about the water cooler

  2008 Session, Union Station, Toronto, Ontario, Canada “Mr. Secretary, scouts have reported of intruders from south of the border. Unconfirmed reports point to a certain Hamiltonian attempting to show them a good time.” “Do you have ...

• iPhone mania ! Really ?

  Posted on Friday July 11th, 2008 at 09:56 am in the town and about the water cooler

  This morning’s news were all over the launching of the iPhone today for the first time in Canada. Representatives from Rogers Communications, who is the official carrier of the iPhone in Canada, were grilled over the prices, while the buyers ...

• قصيدة مليباري

  Posted on Thursday June 19th, 2008 at 11:00 pm in the water cooler

  Today’s post is in Arabic. Let me correct that - broken Arabic. It’s a poetry (I found in my e-mail inbox last week), that is a narration by a Keralite (a person from the state of Kerala in south India), who recounts his miserable life in...

• The Mosaic Picture Meme

  Posted on Saturday June 14th, 2008 at 12:38 pm in the water cooler

  I saw this meme in Kathy’s Junk Drawer and this is the coolest meme I’ve come across thus far. This meme was originally created by Bud, who changed the rules slightly. The Concept This meme is about creating a collage, that is to be buil...

• Football Fever 2008 !

  Posted on Saturday June 7th, 2008 at 01:00 pm in the water cooler

  Being a life long football fan (that’s soccer to you NFL/CFL fans), I get this fever during every World Cup, the Euro Cup and to a lesser extent during the Asian Cup and Copa América. Euro Cup 2008 kicked off today and the first game was playe...

• Checkmate !

  Posted on Saturday March 8th, 2008 at 10:34 am in the water cooler

  A snowy afternoon well spent ! This type of check-mate is called a Smothered Mate and is one of the prettiest in chess. A lone Knight, with help from the enemy forces, checkmates the King. As you can see here, the black King is under attack and canno...

• Oh I’ve got the blues …

  Posted on Monday March 3rd, 2008 at 02:56 pm in the water cooler

  Yep ! I've the writer's block. Again. This was a meme, posted last week by Lee of Tarheel Ramblings - after being tagged by Mimi, the Queen of Memes. Since participation is open, I thought I'd pick it up to fill my quota for this week. If you want to...

• The 123 Book Meme

  Posted on Sunday February 17th, 2008 at 06:28 pm in the water cooler

  I've been tagged by Lee of Tar Heel Ramblings for this meme which requires me to do the following: Open the book that you are currently reading or pick up a nearest book. Open to page 123 Find the fifth sentence Post the next three sentences This m...

• Ask for advice instead

  Posted on Tuesday January 29th, 2008 at 06:57 pm in family and friends the water cooler

  I gave out a lot of advices this month. Perhaps too many for someone like me. But I felt useful. And I was thanked every time. That made me gave out more advices. People love giving out advices even when they are not asked to. Something strange happe...

• Let’s sing with Drew Carey !

  Posted on Wednesday January 23rd, 2008 at 09:27 pm in the water cooler

  Catchy title I should admit ! But its not singing with just Drew Carey, but also Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles and Wayne Brady. Ok Ok .. I was caught up today, watching clips from "Whose Line Is It Anyway ?"; and I'd like to share with you three clips I...

• At the water cooler: January 04, 2008

  Posted on Friday January 4th, 2008 at 08:30 pm in the water cooler

  This time of the year is exciting for everybody in someway or another. This past week my RSS reader brought in some great posts but a few of those in particular really made my week ! And I hope they make your weekend as well if you haven’t read the...

• A summary of terrorism well put

  Posted on Friday December 28th, 2007 at 06:00 am in the water cooler

  There was a jolt when I read about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. But I am deeply saddened because now scores of people will die and they had nothing to do with it. I was reading the Arab News this morning and came accross the statement by ...