Gifted Typist

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First Barack Obama had his BlackBerry.
Then they said they would take it away.
Then they came up with a new presidential BlackBerry.
I call it the BarackBerry.

Ugly, ugly storm last night.
Snow, blizzard, freezing rain, slush, rain.
Later it will turn cold again, and the slush will turn to concrete.
So think of me out there moving that heavy, water-soaked slush.
While it’s still movable.
Better to shovel slush than to chisel ice, I always say.
Remind me, because I’m having trouble remembering: why do I live [...]

You have to feel for the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Dubya Harper.*
Here we have a true Canadian NeoCon ready to join the big NeoCon revolution when all of a sudden. Whoosh! The NeoCon rug gets yanked out from under him. Sorry, but the party was over before you arrived, Stevo.
Now the poor guy has to [...]

A married person  must do something to relieve the monogamy.
~Anon

… “I got a bad case of ….” well …. groin injury?
Robert Palmer’s original lyrics “…of lovin’ you” sound so much better. And it probably feels better too.
And “groin injury” really doesn’t describe the 20,000 volt shots of pain going through me every time I move.
It all started yesterday afternoon after work. I felt a [...]

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There was a time when the blackberry lived in the shadow of it’s diva-like cousin, the raspberry.
Remember those days?
Didn’t your mother usually chose raspberries over blackberries for her jams and jellies. Kids blew raspberries to get attention. And there was a pop band called The Raspberries. Not The Blackberries. The Raspberries.
No [...]

The choices are at the top of the right sidebar – 04 Fresh Apple, K2, McMac, Working Girl, Flush etc. Just click one and the whole look (CSS) of the GT blog changes.
I tend to use McMac with the Mac keyboard and red rose on the top. I like the typography and the graphics. The [...]

Not to take any of the shine off the thing, but does anyone else find the spelling of this word a little – oh, I don’t know – dysfunctional?
I mean, inaugural? Inauguration?
I had to look it up in a dictionary with real paper in real time. And I’m still not satisfied.
Shouldn’t it be inaugiril or [...]

Work is the curse of the drinking classes
- Oscar Wilde

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It’s funny how words rile. I had a lot of feedback on my “words that make me gag” column last week.
People wrote in with way more than I had room to mention.
And they weren’t all just words. Excessive use of exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Admittedly, it bugs me too. IT’S LIKE [...]

The Inuit people are said to have many words for snow. But how many words do they have for shovelling?
In a winter like this, a shoveller is not just shoveller. A shoveller is a many-splendored thing.
So in this spirit, I offer you a few archetypes of the winter shoveller.
The civil engineer shoveller. Approaches a snow-filled [...]

I’m having a little issue with crows.
They seem to be following me, watching me, cawing my name.
As I type, there are three of them in a tree outside my window and I swear they are staring at me.
Aren’t crows – cloaked in shining black – some sort of portent of doom or death?
In school we [...]

Let him who is stoned cast the first sin
Anon

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In short, these awards are called the GagMe’s. They represent the jargon and buzzwords words that made us gag in 2008.
They include:
1. Going forward or moving forward: words politicians use to make us think they are doing something when in fact they have no idea.
2. Made-in-Canada solution – a pat-you-on-the-head [...]

This meme is going around on blogs and Facebook so I thought I’d have a go. It’s a no-tag meme but anyone can feel free hop on.
1. I’m fascinated – no, really! -by heating systems in buildings. The poor furnace maintenance guys have no idea what they’re in for when they come to my house.
2. [...]