Gifted Typist

So I’m outside tonight admiring the Blue Moon, when something strange catches my eye. It’s in the garden. It’s, it’s flowers! A profusion of them. In MY garden. Huh? How could this be? Flowers in my garden? Lots of them? Tulips and begonias and other flowers I can’t name because I don’t know enough about [...]

Hooray to CBC for it’s excellent segments on the Great Canadian Mullet. The pieces aired on radio yesterday and today on Sounds like Canada. This content is perfect for radio. It’s funny, self-deprecating and wry. And it’s so very Canadian. You can listen here  and here. CBC needs more Great Canadian Mullet celebrations and less [...]

Blue Moon! It’s today, May 31. There are a number of definitions for the Blue Moon. Tonight’s falls under the two-full-moons-in-one-month definition. The first full moon was on May 2. In this stenopool, the Blue Moon is special because one of the little typists was born on a Blue Moon, Jan. 31, 1999. Here is [...]

It’s been jumped, walked over, dripped on with bright blue paint, built on and picked into submission, a yet, that little rhubarb patch refuses to quit. Not even the weeds can grow in that spot, but year after year without fail that thing sprouts as if to spite. It should not be alive, but it [...]

I am so glad that CBC radio took a good 2 or 3 minutes of its World at Six newscast to bring us the Canadian perspective on the product launch of the year. I mean, let’s face it, there really wasn’t much news coverage of the iPhone launch, was there? The CBC is doing Canadians [...]

A Scots friend who has clocked many miles on many different airlines has an interesting theory on Air Canada, which he rates the bottom for service and attitude. He points out that Air Canada uses a political symbol – Canadian maple leaf flag – in its brand identity. As a result, Air Canada becomes a [...]

Every morning this week the CBC radio broadcast has lead with hockey. Hockey this and hockey that. Hockey here, hockey there. Hockey up to the eyebrows. People, hockey is over for the season. It’s summer now. Get out. Enjoy the fog and rain, if you’re in Nova Scotia. But you have to move on. There [...]

Click on any one of the photos on the left sidebar and see some shots of last week’s Costa Rican adventure. Or view as slideshow here. No time for Photoshop corrections on this run.Will tweak later.

In this 21st-century post-modern era, we do things because we can. Watching a movie on an iPod, for example. I CAN do this on my iPod, but why would I want to see Pirates III on a 2 by 2 inch screen when I can watch it on a 42 inch screen, for example? Ditto [...]

What happens when you break the Commandents of Neighbourly Gardening Etiquette? You know the rules Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s tulip bulbs Thou shalt not copy thy neighbour’s garden plan Thou shalt not wish evil upon thy neighbour’s tulips What happens if you break them is that you get punished. And your punishment? Planting [...]

Lately, GT has been receiving forty to fifty comments per day, virtually all of them complimentary. Here’s a taste: From Ralph: I am very impressed how you can build webpages! Please also visit my site: From Franklin: Great looking site so far!! I’m just starting to look around it but I love the title page! [...]

Ahhhhh, you know you’re back in Canadian territory when 1. you board Air Canada and dare to ask the air hostess for a newspaper and she sneers back at you and says “See all the happy-faced people up there (in first class)? They got the papers. I have no more left.” 2. When you ask [...]

OK, so I’m in Photoshop bootcamp this morning when I notice a faint tinny sound. It was coming from the little white buds of the iPod which accompanied me on my walk to bootcamp. I unwrapped the iPod in a hurry, hoping that the Photoshop sergeant major wouldn’t see. But somehow the cord got stuck. [...]

Of course, the stick insects are altered, painted and brushed by the Photoshop editors. But this particular stick insect lost a navel when Playboy Photoshoppers were altering her curves. (Perhaps angles and bones would be a better choice of words.) One can only wonder how such a mistake was not noticed but it wasn’t, and [...]

Woke this morning to the unmistakable laughter of the howler monkey, mono conga in espanol. Ooh! Ooh! OOOOOOHHHHH!!! Their howls can be heard up to a thousand metres away in the jungle. Saw and heard many of these large prehensile-tailed creatures in the jungle two days ago, but their laughing cries pierced the highly humanized environs of our [...]