To A Woman In A Public Place

Yes, I know I look like something the cat left on the stoop. I am in sweats and a loose-fitting blouse and flip flops. It’s summer, I’m recovering from some painful surgery and pick another excuse.
You, on the other hand took the time to dress yourself in nice hiphugger jeans and a [...]

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Sounds Like…

I collect acoustic anomalies. I think they happen to be one of the coolest things ever discovered by man.
I fell enthralled with the idea when we went to the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C. There are two specific spots under the rotunda where a whisper on one [...]

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Dryer Lint: When Size Really Doesn’t Matter

Boy, that last post was a whole lot of stuff that didn’t say anything, huh?
I did want to have something “on record” about the difference between TiVo and OnDemand. And there you have it. But the dirty secret was also that I was really ticked off about something else and [...]

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OnDemand Vs. TiVo: The Great War Rages

I’ve been a TiVo junkie for awhile now. TiVo’s been the best thing to happen to television since colour.
But I must say that Comcast OnDemand has lately been giving my TiVo a run for its money.
Let us analyse both services by their various aspects.
1. Interface
TiVo has a [...]

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Meme me me

Connie, the blogosphere’s own Mary Tyler Moore–she lives in Minnesota–has tagged me for a meme. I haven’t done a meme in ages! I love memes. And this one promises to be a good one. Here goes the Geneology Meme.
1. Which famous person would you most like to learn that you [...]

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Silver Lining Part II

I think these posts are my equivalent of those classified ads in honour of various saints. Do people still do those? I don’t read the classifieds anymore, but I used to love those tidbits. “In honour of St. Jude. Found Wedding Ring.” Those saint messages are often the [...]

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Don’t Look At The Water

Saturday I ate lunch with some very nice people in a semi-spontaneous gathering. One part of the lunch was spent on me complaining (non redhat readers substitute more appropriate “b” word here…) about the general unfairness of life. How it always seems like those who work hard get stuck digging for change [...]

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Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Empathising With Brooke Shields

The Daily Mail tells a new side to the story of Tom Cruise’s tumble from Paramount.
Paula Fortunato, 43, the wife of 83-year-old Sumner Redstone, the Viacom chairman who sacked Cruise, took a dislike to the actor after he publicly criticised the actress Brooke Shields for using post-natal anti-depressants.
You and me both, Paula. You and [...]

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Me And The Red Hat Ladies

My mom is a Red Hat Lady. Kind of. Typical of my always-practical mother, she takes the good and leaves the bad. So she hangs with this group of kindred over-sixties, but they don’t wear red hats. Which is, to my mind, the ultimate irony. The hats are [...]

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It’s This Kind Of Thing That Makes Me Question Global Warming, Evolution And All That Other Science Stuff

I learned things in elementary school. The alphabet. My times tables. The Solar System. I accepted it all without question.
Now they tell us that Pluto is not a planet.
Okay, fine. We’ve kicked poor little glasses-wearing, highwater-pants Pluto out of the Solar System club.
Science is full of accepted thoughts, [...]

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