Say what you want about cassettes. They’re easy to destroy. They don’t sound so hot once they start to wear. But for my money, there has never been a format that made audio more universally accessible. You could take your music anywhere, and you could capture anything you wanted quickly and with ease just by …
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Looks Like I’m An NDP Voter Again
Not because of any idea they have in particular although they generally have some pretty good ones. My choice is based on a really, really bad idea the Liberals had. I will absolutely not be rewarding this kind of selfish, irresponsible behaviour with my vote in September. Saying that, by the way, makes me a …
Rudolph The Red Paint Reindeer
I get what they’re going for here, but wouldn’t spraying them with bright paint make them more visible to the bears and such that prey on them? It seems to me like modifying the roads in high deer areas might be a better, not to mention more efficient, way to go. Who wants to be …
Can I Get Me A Beer?
99 Bottles Of Beer On The Touch Screen: The Spread Of Self-Serve Taps As a blind person, I really hate this idea and hope it doesn’t find its way to Canada assuming it hasn’t already. Touchscreens are pretty much the bane of my existence. The damn things keep popping up in more and more places …
Let’s All Dance The Three-Step
Because apparently we have no use for the two-step around here. Waterloo Region’s top public health doctor says the area is on track to move into Step 3 of Ontario’s reopening framework along with the rest of the province next Friday. “That’s the plan,” medical officer of health Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang said during a weekly …
Mmmm…Crookies!
Today’s lesson: Never rob a bakery. If their security cameras get a clear shot of your face, it might just wind up baked onto cookies that are then sold to the public. Soon enough, you will be recognized, arrested and eaten. A Milwaukee man faces charges for allegedly burglarizing a bakery on the city’s south …
Can You Help Me With My Bone? Uh…I Mean Can I Help You With Your Phone?
I’m not excusing anything that Juan Esteban Ramirez may have done and I don’t want to go full victim blamer (it’s your right to have naked photos of yourself in your own possession without fear of some creep pilfering them for personal gratification), but why are we handing over our phones to some fella at …
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Yes. Please Don’t Do That
I think anyone who pays attention knew this was coming, but in the last couple days it was made official that when the rest of Ontario goes into the next step of the Ford government’s we’re getting back to normal really for real this time swear to god plan next week, Waterloo Region isn’t coming …
Old Person Does Sad, Old Person Thing
Fully immunized woman dies from COVID-19 in Kitchener long-term care home This headline, as well as some of the handling of the story itself, are kind of garbage. I’ll explain why in a second, but before I say anything else I want to make it clear that every COVID linked death matters and I’m in …
Good Morning, Class. Welcome To Today’s Lesson, Entitled Please Don’t Murder The Vulnerable
Unvaccinated Ontario long-term care workers will have to participate in educational program I have mixed feelings about this. Surely it’s going to convince some of the people on the fence to climb over to the right side of it, but there’s just as much chance of it being resented by those whose minds are already …