U.S. pharmaceutical ads be like…
Being in Canada, we get plenty of our entertainment from American sources. Sometimes on TV, that comes via American broadcasters who, of course, run American co...
Category: whatnot
A new look for the joint
Regulars here may notice that I freshened up the site with a new look. What do you think? Gone are the bulky header photo (on every page, which was an… in...
Revisiting old good stuff, looking forward to new good stuff
Back in March of this year, I was bemoaning the fact that our Good Stuff jar was to that point sitting empty. And that was right at the start of what has become...
Photos aplenty
For anyone who hasn’t poked around my site much, please do take the time to check out my Photos page. I add only select stuff to it pretty regularly (and ...
Celebrate progress, not perfection
I heard that phrase recently in regard to a new podcast that’s out. With apologies, I don’t recall which podcast it is, but I loved the phrase becau...
Lego remains awesome, but…
There’s a time in a parent’s life–I’m making a sweeping assumption here based on my own experience, but I’d bet money it’s a...
The rare times the universe talks to me, I listen
I’m not a big believer in capital-s Signs. By which I’m not speaking of Shyamalan’s okay 2002 offering, but rather signs from, if you will, th...
Dictionaries gotta step up their game
I like coming across new words in the material I read. While it can get a bit tiring at times to have to look up, say, a few words a page (*clears throat loudly...
The unexpected benefits of an unexpected walk
When I went to get the snow tires swapped out at the dealership today, I was told that there were already a few people waiting inside, and so for the sixty to n...
I make things that amuse me
I can’t tell you how often I come up with an idea for a visual gag and either take the time to cobble it together on the fly on my phone, or takes a littl...