This one isn't about weird American evangelists.  This is much more mainstream. What the fuck is wrong with these religious yahoos? I really find it hard to believe that in the 21st century, there still exist medieval cement-heads that actually believe that a pregnant 9-year-old who was raped and w...

If you're going to keep cephalopods, you have to have cephalopod proof knobs, buttons, dials, switches and so on.  If you don't, you're courting disaster...  You don't leave your poisons around for kids to find.  You don't leave your water valves around for your octopus to find. (a flail of the t...

Peter pointed this out to me, and it's an excellent counterpoise to that Fred Phelps insanity a couple of posts back.  Some Aussies take the piss out of the Westboro Baptist Loonies.  Watch and enjoy!...

Look, it's a talking dinosaur... but he's not purple, he sure doesn't love you and me, and we're definitely not one big family. The Phelpses and their Westboro Baptist Lunatics are working on picketing the National Day of Mourning for the Australian bush fires.  Fred and the gang think it is God's ...

Sometimes dealing with customers really makes you think of this stuff.  So here's a few links to give you a headache on this fine Tuesday: Time Travel Wormholes The Physics of Time Travel (warning - likely colour-blind web designer, I rate this site about 150 miliTimeCubes ** ) Time Travel and Mode...

If you're like me, you had to work today (16 Feb 2009) because, although today is a provincial holiday in Ontario (and Alberta, and some other places), it is not recognized federally.  Thus, if you work for the federal government (as so many people in Ottawa do), or for a federally regulated compan...

It appears that Dr. Kamelia Elias, of Winnipeg doesn't feel she should have to treat people whose sexual habits go against the dicta of her imaginary friend. Now, Canada is a free country, and this doctor is certainly permitted, by law, to have whatever imaginary friends she chooses.  However, in C...

When I was a lad living east of Vancouver (Port Moody, Port Coquitlam and environs) my friends and I often played in the woods.  It's a bit hard to imagine now since most of the woods where we played are paved and condo'd over, but they were woods in the 70's and 80's. One of the things we had to b...

... so I tend to be writing whatever pops into my head. It occurred to me last night that, it now being 2009, the girls that show up in Playboy, etc. will have been born in 1991.  That's not an especially deep thought, although it does tend to make me feel old.  At some point it dawns on most men ...

This isn't about something new, although it's relatively new to me.  Recently, I "upgraded" from Office 2003 to Office 2007.  If you click that link to Merriam-Webster (yeah, yeah, real English speakers use Oxford, but the OED isn't online anywhere I've noticed), it lists three definitions for "up...