Category: WTF
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No, Simon doesn’t live here. Yes, even if you ask twice.
I just got off the phone with a nice young lady who apparently was under the mistaken impression this was not actually my apartment. The conversation went something like this. Lady: I need to speak to Simon, please. Me: I’m sorry, who? Lady: Simon. Me: I’m sorry, you’ve got the … Read the rest
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Please tell me Facebook doesn’t want to play fortune teller.
Excluding the hundred billion privacy issues they’re dealing with, now Facebook takes interpersonal guessing games to a whole new level. Apparently, its CEO has decided to perform his own little experiments and see if he can predict who folks would end up in a relationship with based on their Facebook … Read the rest
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Happy birthday, PAC-MAN. Now get off my Google.
So apparently today’s the thirtieth anniversary of the PAC-MAN game for arcade. And apparently Google’s taken to cellebrating it with an annoying recreation. For the next two days, a trip to Google’s homepage will reveal a very playable, and very irritating–when you’re not in the mood for playable–recreation of … Read the rest
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Officially screwed… by an ISP I’m not actually with.
I promise, there’s an actual update about, well, me coming eventually. But in the meantime, have a techy rant. I’ve never really been an overly huge fan of Bell Canada. Usually, I’d default to them only because the alternative–which, at the time, was Rogers–isn’t exactly a whole lot better. I’d … Read the rest
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The Ontario government has just ruined grade 3.
How old were you when you first got the talk, from either parents or teachers, about the tiny little details of the typical sex act? Bet you anything you weren’t this old. Sex education belongs in the province’s schools despite criticism from some people who oppose exposing students as … Read the rest
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Just another statistic, right? Or not.
Scary, but not the slightest bit surprising. Approximately 2000000 Canadians personally know someone–a family member, friend, co-worker–who’s been sexually abused by a catholic priest. That’s way too freaking many. I don’t even consider myself catholic and I feel dirty right now.
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Someone really aught to tell this guy he ran to the wrong prison.
All over a trafic violation in Cleveland, Ohio, two guys decide they’re going to make a chase of it. It started out as a high-speed car chase, only for them to realize they probably weren’t going to outrun the cops. Then they thought it might be fun to make a … Read the rest
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Got some spare change? There’s a tax for that!
This is clearly the year of the overtaxed Canadian, nevermind what the Chinese say it is. And as always, it starts from the top down. first off, Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) wants to tax any and all new MP3 player purchases. Or purchases of iPods, possibly external hard … Read the rest
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Be a good catholic–don’t use a condom.
I’m not by any means a religious person. My parents say I’m Christian, but I haven’t practiced since I was much too young to do so willingly. Ironically enough, it’s been about that long since they’ve entered a church for anything other than a wedding or funeral too. Sadly, this … Read the rest
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Latest casualty of political correctness: our national anthem?
Admittedly, my ability to be politically correct is practically nonexistent. No, I don’t go around dropping n-bombs every 20 seconds, but I haven’t rewritten a large part of my vocabulary to take into account some tiny fraction of the town I live in–who’s population isn’t all that large anyway–might be … Read the rest