Category Archives: rant

Best Buy? Not so much.

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

So, three days before Christmas finds us in our friendly neighbourhood Best Buy. We went in looking for… not sure what… but the idea of an iPad was sitting near the front of our mind. Problem is, iPads are stupidly … Continue reading →

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7 Things that Should go Back in the Vault

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

I mock Disney for shoving its films back in the vault to create artificial scarcity but it does have its advantages. Primarily, it allows Disney to create the next big sensation; while it annoys their customers, the practice keeps its … Continue reading →

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Facebook, your days are numbered.

Posted on November 21, 2011 by

Again, I find myself cursing not only the evil, evil ways of Facebook but also myself for still using the service. As I described it earlier today, I feel like Facebook is that chair you keep around that was sooooo … Continue reading →

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About Choice

Posted on November 17, 2011 by

I hesitate to write this but apparently in 2011 the world is not done with the debate over abortion. Yesterday, there was a very obvious protest on campus waged a few metres from the entrance to my workplace. There stood … Continue reading →

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Newsflash: Premier has BOOBS.

Posted on October 7, 2011 by

Apparently, even though the gender of our current Premier has been clear from the beginning, the fact that she has BOOBS was not. Yesterday, the biggest non-news story ever erupted because a leftover from the Mesozoic era of media tweeted: This is … Continue reading →

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People Still Drive Cars

Posted on October 5, 2011 by

… and people need to park them somewhere. The University of Victoria has plans to build a $75M sports centre; Saanich residents are all over the idea and don’t seem to mind that they weren’t consulted on that. They are … Continue reading →

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Tech-tack-toe

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

After much talking about doing a podcast, Mike and I finally sat down on Monday night and recorded our “pilot episode” — of course, I had not counted the two we’d done long ago (including “Weasels,” recorded in 2006) — so … Continue reading →

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Pee Ess Effing Three

Posted on August 9, 2011 by

If I read this in a novel or saw it in a movie I would say, “No way. Forget it. No way did that all happen.” I swear to you, though, that all of this happened. This is how we … Continue reading →

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House fires and blank slates

Posted on August 7, 2011 by

One of my friends likes to say, “Nothing like a house fire to ease into simplifying.” Reading a book about clutter-busting and also finding something I printed about clutter, I find similar ideas but with fewer flames. Basically, there’s something … Continue reading →

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One Local’s Heresy

Posted on August 7, 2011 by

Full disclosure, that local is me. What’s my heresy? That I am not all that sad about the decline in tourism in recent years. I am a little sad that Victoria has yet to figure out it’s next move. I’d argue … Continue reading →

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