Category: random crap
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Don’t Say Gif.
This only maybe matters to 1.25 of you, but I found it vaguely amusing. Since the day of its creation, no one could decide whether the .gif file format should actually be pronounced as it’s spelled, or as JIF instead. For whatever reason, the guy what invented it was remarkably … Read the rest
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Dear Amy. It was a wrong number. Signed, God.
Most of you have probably already seen some variation of this. The owner of Amy’s Baking Company, in arizona, figures cooking is what she was born to do. She remains so convinced of this that she started, with help from her husband, a restaurant. Just one problem. Pretty much … Read the rest
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Brought to you by a long weekend with time on my hands.
So, I’m sitting here nomming on supper, and a thought sort of pokes me in the eye. Well, okay, there’s also that one that says I’ve done this whole neglect the blog thing again, but that one’s always there. Especially when I find things to mock, put them aside, even … Read the rest
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This post brought to you by fill in the blank.
I swear one of these days these’ll get old. That day is not today. From the land of the Google, we get a partial statement. And it even has a degree of truth to it. Nov 14 11:05am: welfare and odsp create jobs … For any aspiring social worker, whether … Read the rest
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Because Ottawa doesn’t have enough of that small town feeling.
One of the things that keeps me close to Ottawa is that it’s got all of the convenience of a major city, but the atmosphere of a small town. More often than not, that’s a thing that kind of comes out when you least expect it. Like on the first … Read the rest
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Search query, or dating ad?
And sometimes, I keep things around simply because somewhere out there, there probably is someone desperate enough to have tossed this into a legitimate dating site’s search system. With, er, probably about equal results, now that I think of it. Nov 5 10:52am: hot ass pembroke ont Somehow, pal, I’m … Read the rest
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A thing. Because Friday, and my brain’s still sleeping.
Besides. I’m pretty sure someone’s trying ti impress me. Well, finding a way to do this and not get caught would accomplish it. Oct 30 4:50pm: how to get everything you can from odsp Let me know how that goes, why don’t ya. In the meantime, I’ll be over here … Read the rest
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Add this to the ODSP wish list of things that ain’t happenin’.
From the way back department, a thing that would be useful. Very useful, actually. Which makes it all the more likely it’s just not about to happen. Considering the love (*) we’ve been getting from the government of late, I’d be inclined to think useful things for ODSP folks take … Read the rest
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Happy April fools day. Please bring coffee.
It’s amazing how involved folks get with the whole april fools day idea, even right down to doing things that honestly wouldn’t be surprising–hey, Google killed their Reader platform, so it’s not completely beyond the realm of possibility for them to off Youtube. And with the day being 3 hours … Read the rest
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The first honest cable company. Or, hey–this sounds familiar.
I’m a bit of a sucker for snark. Okay, more than a bit. I’m especially a sucker for snark in the form of a Youtube video that just comes right out and, well, says what the folks I deal with on a somewhat regular basis don’t say (I’m looking at … Read the rest