Gifted Typist

Megan over at Reflections in the Snow Covered Hills has tagged me to take part in this meme. (Can’t imagine why.) Here are the rules: Link to your tagger and post the rules. Share 7 facts about yourself, some random and some weird. Tag 7 people at the end of the post and list their [...]

There is a provocative dance taking place outside my window. The tree that refused to turn colour or shed its leaves has decided that today is the day. It started last night as leaves began to let go and float gently to the ground. When I woke up this morning, the tree was half naked [...]

When this typist first met fellow bloggers Jacy and Tanya Espanya, a little voice whispered in her ear: “Are you nuts?” it said. “You’ve never met these people in person. They could be axe murderers.” That was back in June. As it turned out, the visit was wonderful. No axes appeared. The same was true [...]

And if that’s what getting arrested is like, then GT will be committing more crimes in the future. And so will the 20,000+ Toronto fans who saw them at the Air Canada Centre on Thursday night. The post-punk trio brought the past into the present with the canon of songs that made them one of GT’s faves in the 80s. [...]

Who’s the ugliest one of them all. Do yourself a favour. Don’t ever look at one of these things. Magnified mirrors make your skin look like a battle scene from the Crimean War. Pores look like craters, laugh lines like the Grand Canyon. It’s ugly, people. Don’t do it. Go here for the column on this [...]

There is a maple tree outside my window. It is green and full of leaves. On November 7th. Those green leaves survived a storm the other night. There were gusts of up to 140 kph and many leaves on other trees were taken down by the storm. But not this one. This green tree has [...]

Chapters’ new sticker campaign and one-page newspaper ads are too little too late. Last week, the bookstore responded to consumer anger with a sticker program to reduce book prices. It does not make prices equal. Canadians still pay more because of “shipping and handling.” At noon today the Canadian dollar was trading at $1.08 against [...]

After a couple of reports about weird pop-ups showing up on GT, we began an investigation in conjunction with host Zipium, the folks at Stopbadware.org and Google. Last night we discovered a file called an iframe on this site. An iframe isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It allows you to include another website in your [...]

… until GT hightails ‘er up to Toronto to see The Police live in concert on Thursday. Reviews have been great and a weekend in Toronto is always divine. And almost as exciting as The Police concert is the “Early Typewriters” exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). For any typist, this would be a [...]

This monster is due to hit Saturday. Hurricane Noel has been down graded to a Post-Tropical Storm Noel. It has already killed over 100 people in the Caribbean. Winds of 100-140km per hour are predicted with 50-70mm of rain. The trees are still full of leaves which does not bode will for our power supply. [...]

NOTE GT READERS: for some reason the comments were closed on this post. I have rectified the situation. So you can comment away. In response to a local municipal bylaw that will require cats to be registered and restricted in their movements, the local cats have passed a bylaw that will require politicians to be [...]