NYC to London in 30 minutes?
NASA has set a new record in flight speed, reaching close to 7000MPH in an unmanned 12 foot long X-43A supersonic combustion ramjet. Could you imagine flying from New York City to London in 30 minutes? Link to the article: Link
Winston Churchill quotes of the week
This week’s quotes of the week come from Winston Churchill and they illustrate the mood I’m in this evening. “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it”. “Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides ...
Cell phone pain
My cell phone hates me. Every week or so the battery starts dying and I always like to fully drain the battery before recharging. It always seems that by the time the battery is fully dead, it’s either a Friday night or a Saturday night; the worst time for a cell phone to die. I ...
Cycling home from work
My bicycle was locked up outside of my work for a week or so, so I decided to ride it home today since I was running late for hockey tonight. (It’s faster to get home on my bicycle than taking a streetcar or driving). It was an interesting ride home. The first incident was with ...
Rednecks in Toronto
It’s not too often I come across rednecks in Toronto, but today was a prime example. I took the last 2 days off work to do construction on my house. (We dug out a separate basement entrance, and a new room in the basement, and we built a new washroom upstairs). Well the contractor we’re ...
Canada profits from Bush victory
CNN has featured a story on their main page advertising Canada as a haven for fed-up Democrats in the United States. The amount of press Canada has received from the United States news agencies is extremely valuable for tourism in Canada. Here’s the article: Link The CNN article states that the UN has named Toronto ...
Toilet humour
Just some random toilet thoughts that came to mind: 1) Why is it that you are more of a man if your urination takes longer than another man? Is the man with the shorter urination any less of a man? I see guys competing with each other all the time. 2) At work last week ...
Mini-Me is coming to Puerto Rico
Due to very short deadlines to obtain the Airline tickets in time, I had to make a quick decision on whom to bring with me on my trip to Puerto Rico in January. After a week of contemplation, my 19 year-old brother Tom (AKA Mini-Me) is the lucky (or unlucky depending on how you view ...
How well can you bluff?
Last night I was at a buddy’s apartment playing a board game called “Balderdash”. The way the game works is that one person reads out a name, or an acronym, or a word, etc, and you are to write either the real meaning or you make something up. It’s quite fun. Here are a couple ...
Wipe out!
I was having lunch with a friend from work today, and she was telling me about how she tripped and fell today in the printer room at the office, so that was quite a shocker for her colleagues on her floor. She informed me that this tripping and falling happens frequently, at least once a ...