Gifted Typist

Tomorrow tickets go on sale for Sir Paul McCartney’s outdoor concert just down the road from me. I’m debating whether I can be bothered to get the $125 tickets. I love the Beatles and like Macca well enough. His Wings stuff was sort of fun back in the ’70s. I’m not one of those Canadians [...]

I’ve been busily booking the little typists into summer camps these past weeks. Interesting things:  outdoor camp, flash animation, drama. The other day I heard a geriatric psychiatrist on the radio talking about the importance of keeping adult brains exercised. Apparently, it helps avoid cognitive decline. So why don’t they have adult summer camps. Not [...]

And I’m happy to report that the patient has fully recovered and is presently kicking butt on a brand new 1 terabyte hard drive. W00t! You can almost feel the fresh air and the smile coming off my computer. I knew things were getting dicey when the pie for my old 80GB C-drive was almost [...]

Go to my column here I’m still bitter about my boy Adam Lambert not winning American Idol. But here’s a thought: What would AI  hosts Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell have to say about our political leaders Rodney MacDonald, Stephen McNeil and Darrell Dexter? If you’re visiting from elsewhere, there’s an election in [...]

While exfoliating with my Apricot Scrub the other day, I noticed the french word for exfoliant: Desincrustant. I never really thought of exfoliating as disincrusting. But I supposed that’s what you are doing: removing that layer of crust that builds up on your face. That is why the skin on your face seems so soft [...]

Breaking news: the 10-year old typist placed 58th in over 1000 runners most of whom were adults. Usually it rains for the Bluenose Marathon held every year on this weekend. This year we were lucky: it only drizzled. A couple of the typists ran the 5K. I was official photographer. And let me tell you: [...]

Go here to read my column. You’ve heard about the by-law that says don’t feed the ducks. Well, I think there should be a similiar by-law that says don’t feed the politicians. Feeding the ducks just encourages them.  Ditto politicians. Feeding the ducks makes them dependent on you. Ditto the politicians. Feeding the ducks puts [...]

You never realize how dependent you are on bookmarks, till you lose them. Blogs, news, sites I need for my work – poof! All gone. You never think about backing up your bookmarks. IT happened while I was trying to install Google Chrome. It didn’t work and when I tried to revert back to normal, [...]

There’s an election on in our parts. It’s mind-numbingly dull, uninspired and void of any ideas, big or small. As the world rides an economic storm and tries to plot its future, our political class  keeps its eye on the rearview mirror and its fingers stuck in its ears.  They just sing “la-la-la” and all [...]

I love this expression. It applies to so many situations. When I had water in my basement, I called my plumber and he said it was my hotwater heater, which of course is a plumber’s job. I called my  concrete man and he said it was my foundation concrete. I called my furnace man and [...]

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OK, now that I have your attention, let me explain. Wouldn’t a dose of the mild stuff that’s going around now act as a sort of inoculation for the possibility of the more serious mutated virus some are predicting for this autumn. You know, like the Spanish flu in 1917-18. I’m not a virologist or [...]

Here I am doing butterfly sprint training in the pool on Friday. Three years ago, the butterfly was an exercise akin to drowning for me. But with much practice and coaching from my most awesome Olympic medalist coach Gary Mac, I am finally getting it. He was behind the video camera. It was a 25-metre [...]

There’s smoke in the air. The sky is buzzing with the sound of water bombers. Over a thousand people have been evaculated. Homes have been destroyed. Narrow escapes are being reported on radio, people running with kids, pet rats and computers. The fire started as a brush fire yesterday afternoon. Last night the city skyline [...]