Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Old Kids Trick or Treating.
So it's my first Halloween in a new neighbourhood. A good number of "older" kids (look like they're around 13-18ish) are collecting their annual pixie stick supply in pillow sacks and garbage bags and it occurs to me that these kids are going to remember how generous (or greedy) I am with my candy rations. Sort of reminds me of Jr Mafioso. All these folks trying their best to look scary, knocking at the door, demanding free treats so my house doesn't get egged (or worse).... So the next group of older kids come to my house, bang on the door and I give them a good handful of "the good stuff" (chocolate bars and rockets). They were shocked! First house they'd been to all night that gave them more than a couple things or had shafted them for being "too old".
Now I'm thinking to myself, geeze, I've got it good. A little investment in the candy department goes a LONG way when it comes to staying in the good books of the local troublemakers! I just hope that some of my generosity lands in the bags of the same kids who are
stabbing people on my bus!
I'll give out a couple extra Snickers if it'll save some of my 'hood from a shiv in the back!
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Thursday, October 12, 2006
Dutchtub
This beats all the other outdoor hot tubs I've seen. It's simple, stylish and functional. You fill it with water, start a fire and convection
circulates the water
to heat it. They have a factory 2 hours south of Cornwall & it might make for an interesting road to go and try out one of these
DutchTubs. ($6,000 US)
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Saturday, October 07, 2006
the internet
[via:
boingboing]
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Thursday, October 05, 2006
Skuter (a.k.a. Zdravo)
I like my German Polka Rap just as much as the next guy
* so I'm happy to hear whenever a new song is released on the international market. Lately, however, "being released on the international market" just means "re-doing everything to make it more
sexy". Who's job it is to "prepare" a "musician" for the international market? How do
I get that job? Looking at the
before and
after videos it's easy to follow the thought process of whomever was in charge:
Ok, so vee must take the black shirts off vee vomen, put them in bikini. Zand make the tractors smaller so zey look larger. vee vant the album to zell in americas so let's add a hummer zand big yello house. Zand add vater!
Perfect.
BEFORE
AFTER
* (assuming that the next guy doesn't really like German Polka Rap all that much)
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Yellow Rubber Duck.
I had a eureka moment the other day: Those little yellow rubber ducks are yellow because most baby ducks begin their life as little yellow ducks.
Yup. That's right, you heard it here first.
Wikipedia hasn't even figured it out yet... sheesh.
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bloggery gone awry
