Gifted Typist

You’ve heard all the excuses: – Busy as a bee – Life gets in the way – Twitter’s taken over – Computer problems – sore neck and shoulders – dead tired This isn’t an “excuse” post, just a touch-down to say I haven’t gone away. And I haven’t lost interest, although the old drive-2-post ain’t [...]

Read my Herald column here Canadian designer Mark Fast has made quite a kerfuffle with his decision to put his designs on the back of models Sizes 12-14. The nerve of the man! So outraged was one of his own stylists, that she walked off in the middle of the London Fashion Week show. Doesn’t [...]

It began innocently enough as a crumbling concrete front step and now it’s become a sort of Paschendale in my front yard. The front step might have been done on it own, but there was also the driveway, so poorly engineered that people have actually slipped under their parked car in the winter due to [...]

See my Herald column here. I keep three stacks of one-litre yogourt containers under my kitchen sink. They are there because I don’t know what else to do with them. The plastic is No.5 and that is not recyclable in my city, but I can’t bring myself to throw them out. All I can see [...]

I suppose it’s the dumbing down of American (Canadian) culture. Politicians wish to be amongst us,  the mere lumpen proletariat. They flip burgers and nuzzle babies to make us think they are one of us. The idea is that this will win them votes. Sweet huh? Of course it’s just cliche and most of us [...]

In my neck of the woods, summer is defined as July/August. That’s when the kids are off and people take their holidays. But the weather patterns are a changing. These days August/September are the nice months and July is generally rainy and foggy, unpleasant at best. When we lived in an agricultural economy, July/August were the months [...]

See my column here If you want your accounting done, you ask an accountant. If you want your liver done, you ask a liver surgeon And if you want to bring up your kid, you ask a parenting expert Huh? That seems to be the way it is these days. Experts rule the parenting game. [...]

You have to love the poetry of this. The ninth day, of the ninth month, of the ninth year. In about a half hour from this moment, the time will be: 09:09:09 am So that means it will be” 09:09:09 09/09/09 Trippy.

So it turns out that my new 1 terabyte-hard drive bit the dust. Great. I had it installed a couple of months ago because my old hard drive was getting tired and I was trying to be proactive. And I end up with a flakey new hard drive. So all my data is gone. I’ve [...]

See my Friday Herald column here. According to a recent article in the New York Times, the popular social networking site is suffering from a wave of apathy as people quit or turn into zombies. Quitters deactivate their accounts. Zombies just stop going to Facebook so their profiles remain unused. People are getting tired of [...]

To paraphrase Mr. Cooper. Today is the last day of summah. Tomorrow is the first day of school. Of course it’s sad to see the end of summer. But man it’s good to see the beginning of routine again. My life is about to get easier. Now, for that melted-down hard drive on my main [...]