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The Arab influence

Here is an interesting article about what happened to the influence and power that the Arabs had in the world a thousand years ago and an explanation of some of the causes of the decline of Arab world influence. Link

Toronto Hostage Standoff

This morning at 8:10AM, a gunman had shot a woman in the head across the street from my work. He then took a woman hostage and held a sawed off shot gun to her head. A police sniper working for the Emergency Task Force (ETF), which is basically the equivalent to the SWAT team in ...

Ship my Jeep to Holland #2

As it turns out, the day after I replied to the person requesting to have my Jeep shipped to Holland, he disabled his email address, and I never heard back from him again. My theory is that there’s a possibility that he was attempting to do the deal as a way of laundering money. He ...

Dirtbiking to the Maritimes 1

I’ve finally made up my mind. I was looking to take a trip this fall, and I wanted to do something adventurous, but not too expensive. I decided that I’m going to strap on a backpack with a sleeping bag and a tent, and ride my Dual-purpose dirt bike 1600Km’s across Eastern Canada to explore ...

Ship my Jeep to Holland?

I received a strange request yesterday regarding the purchase of my Jeep. The person emailed me and told me that he wants to buy my Jeep. He said he’s on business in Western Africa, but he wants to get it shipped to his base in Holland. He told me his client in the United States ...

1995 Jeep YJ For Sale

I just finished getting the transmission rebuilt in my Jeep, and now it’s time to sell it. If anyone is interested, let me know. jim_schwartz9@yahoo.com Here are the details: 1995 Jeep YJ 4×4, red with grey interior, 156,000 kms, 2 door, standard transmission, 2.5L 4cyl, new exhaust, new radiator, rebuilt transmission, seat covers, 3 inch ...

Roller Blade Madness

I just returned from quite the roller blading experience. I was roller blading through High Park (West Toronto – about 500 meters from my house), and I bladed down a very steep hill in the middle of the park. I’m pretty sure at the peak of my velocity; I was going approximately 30-40KM per hour. ...

The Native Flower Picker

We have a native lady in our neighborhood that likes to make it a habit to steal flowers from people’s flowerbeds on my street. Today was the third such occasion that I have observed her with the freshly picked flowers. I saw her walking with the freshly stolen flowers in her hand, but I had ...

Algonquin Park canoe/portage trip

I just returned home to Toronto from my very first canoeing/portaging trip. It was quite an experience. There were 8 of us on the 4 day trip to Algonquin Park in Ontario (Near Huntsville), and fortunately, all 8 of us made it home in one piece. My buddy Tim and I totaled 4.76KMs of portaging, ...

Filming of Cinderella Man

As I was leaving work this evening, I was fortunate enough to walk by the filming of the upcoming movie “Cinderella Man”, starring Russell Crowe and Rene Zellweger. They were filming 1 block North of my work in downtown Toronto. It was quite an interesting scene to watch them film this scene. They have the ...