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  • Family happenings are amusing.

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    james

    The older Aidan gets, the more hilarious thing end up being. He’s starting to develop a bit of a temper, but he’s at least not taking it too seriously yet. He’s shot up a fair bit since I posted pictures last. There are more coming when I get home.

    There’s almost always something going on at the family household. mockery and other silly shananigans are the norm; they’ve always been so. Lately they’ve been pretty baby centric. Still, they served their purpose. I’m stuffed, we’re slightly less than sober, and there’s a local derry stop in our immediate future. Can’t go wrong with that.

    Things I learned tonight, in non-html list format:
    1: Derry Queen may have nifty commercials, but local, small town places own your soul.
    2: Never do something like this on the first hot day in three weeks. Unless you have a love affair with lineups. They’ll be huge.
    3: Random Jeff Foxworthy quotes while in line? Awesomeness.
    4: Everybody knows everybody else. You will learn this whether you want to or not. And you will be reminded while enjoying your evening out, whether you like it or not.
    5, related to dinner time shananigans: One should probably not be seen to aspire to be just like your grandson. Particularly your 8-month-old grandson. Explanations to come with the pictures.

    Good times were had by all. Now, I go explode.

  • A tiny little note to IE 8.

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    james

    I know when you were released, you were defective as the day is long. I also know after several updates, you haven’t gotten a whole lot better. But could I convince you to, just for half an hour, not crash on every second or third website I attempt to open? Yes, even if the machine you’re on looks like it came from the spare parts from several les fortunate machines. That would be hugely appreciated. Alternatively, I could spend the next hour fighting to uninstall you and risk having the geeky son versus non-geeky parent conversation. However, since I lack the patience for that conversation, please stop screwing me over.

    Die in a fire,
    Me

    PS: Your “website restore error”? Not very helpful. Also, IE 7 handles the exact same websites without problem. Granted, it’s not on a frankenputer, but still. Stop with the ultimate failure. It’s for your own safety.

  • The Bloc Quebecois says what? Again?

    written by

    james

    Uh. What?

    The international community should brace for another referendum on Quebec sovereignty that will finally allow the province to become a country, said Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe in a newly released letter that was distributed around the world.

    Have they forgotten 1995’s affects already? Quebec decided–albeit barely–not to separate during that thing they called a referendum. Meanwhile the rest of Canada was just kind of hoping they’d make up their mind and stick to it. And Gilles Duceppe wants to reopen that can again? Okay, so I wasn’t old enough to care one way or another in 1995. I am now. And for my part, if it’ll shut up the Bloc Quebecois, by all means–have another referendum. And vote yes. I wouldn’t mind it if half the jobs I was trying to get into lost their bilingualism requirement, personally. Then disband the BQ, and let’s get back to something resembling the functioning of an actual, honest to goodness normal country. Since the opposition won’t let us just make it illegal for a party who’s sole purpose is to break up the country exist federally, I suppose that’s the best we can settle for. Hey, I’m not picky. Oh, by the way. A tiny note to the separatist movement. If you go, you get to take your share of the national debt with you. Have fun.

    PS: Really, Gilles? Airing our really, really old, dirty laundry out for all the world to see? Really? I thought you were better than that. Well, okay, I didn’t. But you should be.

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  • Just call him Captain D.

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    james

    The Maple Leafs have had more than their share of missing parts over the past two seasons but they are about to get their first captain since the retired Mats Sundin wore the “C” for the embattled franchise.

    And it couldn’t happen to a more visible defenseman. The Toronto tradition of importing our captains continues. Congrats, Dion. Just pleas god don’t stop being the awesome.

    Also: does this mean Caberle’s days as a Leaf just got a whole lot more numbered? I do recall something about him maybe being the next captain at some point. Guess it’s not now.

  • And folks wonder why people don’t lend a hand anymore.

    written by

    james

    I wrote a couple years ago about a tim Hortons suck in which a server, after having the nerve to give a kid a timbit to shut him up, ended up tossed from her job. That’s minor, but still worthy of the WTF award. Not so minor, and just as worthy of this year’s WTF award, say hello to your local Subway, Nova Scotia.

    Apparently, there was a pretty heavy apartment fire in Dartmouth that resulted in at least one–possibly more than that–homeless couple. A Subway employee, knowing they pretty much didn’t have a whole lot on them except what they were wearing, made them a sub with the intent of charging it to her employee plan. She was promptly tossed.

    Now, I get it–every company’s gotta make top dollar or hell’s gonna freeze or something like that. But, come the hell on. Do a nice thing for someone who just got the royal crap kicked out of them by something beyond their control, why in hell should it cost you your job? I don’t think it would have killed the local Subway to eat the cost of those two things, even if she hadn’t meant to buy it for them. Apparently, they disagreed.

    She did get hired somewhere else, fortunately–unlike my Tim Hortons story, not within the same franchise but rather the local Quiznos, so at least the fire victims’ suck didn’t entirely become her suck. But still, you gotta wonder if part of this is why people are more hesitant to help each other out now than they would have been, we’ll say, 30 years ago. If doing a favour for someone who needed it was gonna end up losing me my job, I might be inclined to think twice, personally. Particularly in an economy where jobs are kind of at a premium right now. Whole new meaning to the expression “don’t do me any favours”.

  • Patriotism only counts if it’s US patriotism.

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    james

    A couple Canadian residents living in the US, upon Canada’s winning of the gold metal against the US during the olympics, took it upon themselves to replace a US flag with a Canadian one in response to a bet they’d entered into in a bar. In response to that, they were promptly arrested and charged. The excuse? The US flag was apparently damaged. So apparently, accidentally banging the flag up a little–if it was even these two who did it at all–is an offense worthy of being taken to court over. And all because of a little olympic fun. Sounds like someone doesn’t take too kindly to losing. Clearly, if you’re proud of your country, you’re not allowed to show it–unless your country is the US. Now that’s patriotism. And folks wonder why it is I shake my head at what goes on down there sometimes.

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  • And in testing out email posting…

    written by

    james

    I learn either Outlook, or WordPress, does not like certain HTML structures. Probably should have known that already, but this is me we’re talking about–I have a nasty habbit of becoming clueless. Therefore, have another test of the email posting system. Why? Because I’m kind of praying a plain text email does a little bit better than its HTML counterpart. I could also just restrict my email posting to the blog to not using Outlook, but… No. Hell, I live there anyway.

  • Have a test post. By email.

    written by

    james

    I have this thing against trying to maneuver the blog’s administrative backend via my phone, what with Rogers having apparently decided doing so on their wireless network just isn’t going to happen. So, assuming lack of breakage on the part of various things just implemented, email posting is now an option on this site. It means absolutely nothing to anyone reading it, but it means more on demand mocking from the guy writing it. Okay, so maybe that means something to everyone else, too. I’ve mailed entries in before in other reincarnations of the blog. Now, I’ll be able to do it less… well, complicatedly. Unless it breaks–then things get downright messy. But I’ll deal with that later. Tonight, lazyness takes priority.

  • Chicago wins the cup, we win the longest current cupless stretch. I approve of this.

    written by

    james

    The blackhawks hadn’t won the Stanley cup since 1961. My Leafs haven’t won the cup since 1967. Near the end of the playoffs, chants of “1967! 1967!” sounded off amongst blackhawks fans. For that, I offer a hearty thank you. The cup was won in 6, by the Hawks, apparently fairly easily. This gives us the longest current running stretch wherein we haven’t had our hands on the cup. And one more very good reason to turn this thing around. Now, if we can just get our hands on decent players without costing us draft picks. Hey, anyone want Caberle? I hear he’s going cheap. Congratulations, Chicago. Get a move on, Toronto.

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  • I’ve just been educated by a geek blog. On smarties.

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    james

    I only a couple years ago learned the American version of smarties is completely different, including made by a different company, from those sold in the rest of the world. for the curious and the lazy, what the Americans call smarties, apparently we up here call rockets. They’re made by Ce De Candy, and are the stuff that’d make most healthy-minded parents have a small heart attack. The real version of smarties, made by Nestle and sold everywhere that isn’t the US, are more similar to M&Ms. If you’re curious on trying the version everyone else knows and loves and are living in the US, you can apparently buy them from Amazon–so says a lawsuit by Ce De Candy for trademark infringement that’s currently attempting to prevent the sale. See? Geek blogs can be educational for non-techy purposes. Now I know why I get strange looks from people south of the border when I tell them those aren’t real smarties.

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