Gifted Typist

This typist began blogging two years ago this week with this blog.
Hundreds of posts later, a change of address, a busted bandwidth or two and a bunch of new on-line friends and here we are.
To celebrate, I’m posting my blogroll so you can have the points on Technorati:

1, Splotchy
A Box of Nothing
A Cup of Coffey
A [...]

They’re ugly.
Can we say that without being hauled up before a Committee on UnCanadian Activities?
Well, we’re saying it anyway. And others have said it too. Plenty of others.
Were those get-ups Olympic-opening-ceremonies chic? Ah, no.
Try bowling alley chic. Not offense to bowling alley goers. Those shirts would be fine for a bowling alley.
Look, we know you’re [...]

… now let’s talk about my paper cut.
Friday the 13th was not just bad luck for my sister and the 5000 others who were evacuated from their houses to escape a raging wildfire. It was also a day of calamity for me. I got a paper cut under the fingernail on my left index [...]

A couple of weeks ago, GT went through a bit of a make-over. Some might have said an identity crisis.
At the end of the day, I installed a theme-switcher to allow you to choose which look you like. The themes appear at the top of the page in the sidebar, either on the left or [...]

They all live under the roof of this typist.
They graded (and double graded!) the other day in Shotokan Karate.
So anyone who even thinks about breaking into our house should be on notice. Unless it’s that cute Aussie in American Idol – he has special dispensation to break and enter at his leisure.
This typist started training [...]

This important article was sent awhile back by GT commentator Dick.
Research on bread indicates that:
1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.
2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the [...]

Well, you convert it into a bar and grill, of course. Or at least that’s what they do here at Flippers..I’d heard of this place but didn’t really believe until I spotted it with my own eyes one day. It is located about an hour and a half’s drive from my house. Luckily I had [...]

Red, wherever it appears, jumps out and grabs you. That’s why it is the colour of emergency and caution. And that’s why it’s a photographer’s dream. These are some reds picked out from this typist’s collection.
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Are you choking on a diet of force-fed Valentines Day sentimentality?
Are you drowning in a tsunami of witless schmaltz that crashes over you every February 14th?
Are your teeth hurting from saccharine commercial pitches that fail to tug your heart strings?
Are you having disturbingly vivid fantasies about bludgeoning Hallmark cupids?
Do you scan dictionaries searching for a [...]

I’ve been tagged by musicologist Beth of Atlanta for this 7-things-you-didn’t-know meme. I’m usually hesitant about revealing too much personal information. These 7 facts will explain why:
1. I had a stalker for 3 years.
2. He had a mental illness and became delusional about moi.
3. Two years ago, he came to my neighbourhood looking for me. [...]

Where I live, city politicians organize big rock concerts. (I know. I know.)
Last year we had the Rolling Stones play in an outdoor venue. It was raining cats and dogs, but devoted fans were defiant and stood in the mucky trenches for hours, wringing every drop out of the show. It was fantastic.
This year [...]

It’s time we chucked the chunky two thousand and seven syntax for the year 2007 and adopted twenty-o-seven.
That was the syntax in the last century. It wasn’t one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine. It was nineteen ninety nine. And in the first decade, it was nineteen-0-seven or nineteen seven.
In the year 2000 we called [...]

My cat Cheddar (see sidebar) has a personal hygiene problem.
She also has a weight problem.
So when clumps of undetermined substance accumulated in the fur in her rump area, she needed the cat equivalent of a Brazillian.
Go here to read more about Cheddar’s Buttzillian.

By the look of this blog, you could be forgiven for thinking this typist is one of those crazy cat people.
There have been Flickr slide shows, flickr badges in the sidebar, weekly columns – all about the cat.
While it is true that the cat in question (see sidebar) plays a big role in the life [...]

You know that 38.0 second time I set in the pool last week?
That was a world record for the 50-metre freestyle.
Not only did I set a record that day, I murdered the old world record for 50-metre freestyle.
Yup, the old record is 41.07 seconds. And do you know the category of people who held that [...]