I’ve talked about the Saguaro song here and when I actually bought the album. But as I said when I described the song, words alone do not do it justice. So…Lizards, I hope you don’t mind, but here’s the song. People, after you listen to it, you need to immediately zoom over to their site …
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Oh The Things That Enter My Head
That old “Tie a Yellow Ribbon” song came on the radio, and I got to thinking. Wouldn’t things have turned out badly if his letter got lost in the mail? That could have ruined the whole relationship. She wouldn’t have tied the ribbon, and he would have thought it was over. In the worst possible …
Hockey, Wrestling And Food
This probably won’t be much of a post, but here goes. I didn’t get a chance to comment on the big Leafs trades that went down over the weekend, so I’ll do that now. We gave up quite a bit to get what we got and I’m not totally sold on losing Hagman and White …
A Little Further In The Journey to New Phone Land
Well, I’m one step closer to having my Nokia N86! I’m such a silly. Every day this month, I’ve been thinking I should order the phone, I should order the phone. But you’ve heard all too often about my fears of making a bad technology decision. Yesterday, after a lot of hesitation, I picked up …
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More Proof That English Is A Ghotiy Language
I forgot to put this in my last post. I can’t even remember who told me this, or in what class it happened. But I remember someone telling me this story. They said their teacher walked up to the front of the room, and wrote “ghoti” up on the board. People guessed that it might …
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Rules of English: That’s An Impossibility
You know, I’ve been doing some work with a guy at the literacy centre. When I started, I was brought in to teach him JAWS. Within a couple of minutes, I realized that he didn’t know how to type! So we started typing drills…and learned that he had a lot of issues with spelling. And …
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DVD Confession-Extractor
I just bought a copy of DVD Audio Extractor, a program that lets you take the audio out of a DVD and put it in mp3. It’s a pretty cool, easy to use program. The only thing that’s annoying about it is it’s so demanding on the processor that any audio that comes out of …
It All Started With A Little Search
You never know what will start a cascade of thoughts. It can be as simple as something I saw in our tracker. Something like this: 16 Jan, Sat, 04:19:33Google:dog wearing gloves Gloves? Like boots? Did they mean boots? I guess boots kind of look like mitts, mitts with soles on them. But do they really …
Does The B In Your Name Stand For Bubble?
I got an email from the CNIB begging me to join their “Right to Read” campaign. But they really need to change the campaign’s name to be more honest. It’s the “Save the CNIB library” campaign. That’s what it is, and all it is. First, let me say that I do appreciate the CNIB library. …
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Sleep Talkin’ Man
I know I have said quite a few strange things in my sleep, as documented by this here comment thread, but I think Adam the Sleep Talkin’ Man has me totally beat. I hope Steve doesn’t get any crazy ideas about recording my snippets, although I don’t think I’ve had nearly as many good ones …