https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc_BFM_wJMU This story, although kind of sad, makes me laugh. It’s definitely odd. It seems this fellow who just moved to a new apartment discovered that someone in his midst has a hate on for trombones. Sam and a lady friend had been living in Dixon. But this summer she got a job offer in …
Monthly Archives: October 2017
This Boils My Potatoes
Gill has a question. I’m not going to answer it myself since complaining about shit is one of the reasons this place exists and anything that’s already happened has likely been covered, but the rest of you can feel free to have at it. Do you have pet peeves, or things that make you just …
Come On, Man! You Lied About Everything Else!
I don’t wanna be that guy, but fuck it, I’m gonna be that guy. Now where’d I put my tiny violin? A Mexican man who spent almost two decades living in the United States was deported back to his home country late Tuesday, separating him from his US-born wife, who voted for President Donald Trump. …
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Keister Surprise
I know in the grand scheme of things Kinder Surprise eggs are pretty small, but you know what’s even smaller? Your exit hatch. So the fact that now current Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre resident Damian O’Reilly seems to have set an unofficial record by managing to fit eight of them into his is, in its own …
My Love For This Team Is A Burning Love. To The Second And Third Degree, To Be Specific
There’s nothing wrong with making a friendly wager on a sporting event. I’ve been known to bet a few bucks or a dinner here and there. And if fire didn’t scare the living shit out of me and if the things weren’t so god damned expensive, I could maaaaaaaaaaybe see myself making a loser burns …
The Site Was Hacked, But You’re Probably Ok
Never have the words the system is down been more appropriate. Ug. If you happened to stop around these parts yesterday, you’re probably wondering where the hell we went. The short answer is offline, because we got hacked. Twice. The first one happened on Sunday. I learned of it while I was on a train …
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The Only Cranberry Sauce Recipe You Will Ever Need
From wherever we are, Carin and I would like to wish all of you a happy Thanksgiving. Seriously, we don’t know where we are right now. If all has gone according to plan we’re at home, resting off the weekend trip we took in order to play with babies and eat turkey with her family …
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Take WebAIM’s 2017 Screen Reader User Survey
Update: If you’re interested in the results, they’re here. Original post: If you use screen reading software for any reason, you might want to take this survey and have your say about the directions that accessible technologies may head in the future. It’s 30 questions long and should take you 10 to 15 minutes to …
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Extra! Extra! Read All About It…In The Papers We Don’t Pay People Fairly For Delivering
I know times are hard in the newspaper business, but have things really gotten so bad that a company the size of Metroland has to resort to ripping off a couple of 10-year-olds? Looking to make some money over their summer holiday, the boys took on a paper route with the Beaches Mirror, delivering newspapers …
Does This Qualify As Backing Down?
I don’t know if this is weird or not, but even though Tom Petty is one of my favourite recording artists of all time and is at least partially responsible for the creation of literally dozens of songs that I will love forever, I have no idea what my favourite Tom Petty song is. Since …
