Well damn it all. Even though I had a feeling this would happen sooner than later, when it does happen, it sucks. Steve Jobs has died. He was only 56. Whatever has been beating him about for the last while finally got him. Although I don’t own an iDevice right now, the very first computer …
Author Archives: Carin Headrick
Elections Ontario: We Make Voting Easy, But Giving Feedback Hard
We said yesterday that voting with the Assistive Voting Tech went relatively smoothly, aside from the machine inexplicably telling Steve he had selected the sip and puff device when he had decidedly not sipped and/or puffed into anything. So, I thought it would be nice to give them a little feedback, most of which was …
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He Called Dispatch, The police Dispatched Him To Jail
If you’ve had a bad morning, one way to make it worse would be to not stop for the cops when you happen to be a little over the speed limit and they notice. Sure it sucks to get a speeding ticket, but it sucks more to get arrested for leading them on a merry …
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She Needs Some Kind Of Therapy, Just Not Chemotherapy
There isn’t much to this story, but now that we have a tag, we might as well add Michelle Meller to the cancer faker pile. Same old thing, said she had cancer, didn’t, took a whole heap of dough from a family. I don’t really know what else to say except I hope she never …
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A Closed, And Empty, Case
Poor Juan Aguirre. He just can’t get satisfied. I guess he really needed a porn fix, so broke into an adult video store and stole six DVD’s…well, the cases for them, anyway. Seeing the cases on display, I guess he thought those videos would look like good choices. Too bad those were the cases there …
Not A Very Inspiring Self-Defence Lesson
Wow. In real life, someone brought a knife to a gunfight. Since it’s up here, you know it didn’t end well. I guess technically the gunfight hadn’t started yet. Alvin Merriwell Lewis Jr. was talking about how he would defend himself with his pocketknife. Thomas Larry Bolds decided to put him to the test, and …
I Hope She Gets Chewed Up By The Legal System
When I read this story about a woman suing Stride Gum because some got stuck in her dentures and got her depressed, I was sure it was a joke. But it doesn’t look that way. Seriously. Elsie Pawlow says that a piece of Stride gum got stuck in her dentures and she had to pick …
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I Found The Mean Machines! And Many More Cool Things
Remember back when I casually mentioned looking for a play safe ad about being careful around “the mean machines” because “they can hurt you”? Well, I found it! And I also found the coolest channel ever. If you’re looking for old station ID’s, themesongs and commercials that ran in Ontario, check out the YouTube channel …
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Show And Tell Indeed!
Here’s a new one for ya. Do you remember being in kindergarten, and having Show and Tell? You brought in something from home, held it up to the class, and talked about what it was. Well, one kindergartener brought some things in for Show and Tell that were not your average items. They were a …
Another Edition Of Web Comic Masterpiece Theatre!
Sean Yo saw another awesome comic from the Oatmeal, How A Web Design Goes Straight To Hell, and did it again in audio. Sean, we’re gonna make ya famous! Here’s the awesome audio. I laughed so hard that Steve said “You must retweet this.” I thought I’d do one better and blog it. Enjoy.