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A bright idea!

Sometimes I get to work before anyone else, not because I am overly keen, but I live an 8 minute walk away… Pretty hard to blame traffic.

When I do this I do not turn on the 57 fluorescent lights that line our ceiling so I can sit at my desk in the very back [...]

April 7th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: cynical, social commentary, travel | Comments are closed

A View from the Street

As was my view in this entry of my blog, I can now provide even further proof of this ridiculous world we live in.

Google Street View has recently come under fire when trying to photograph a specific town in England.

Now the camera has been used by the public for about 100 years. Over [...]

April 5th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: geek, social commentary | Comments are closed

Stopping abuse 1.5 pints at a time

Yesterday after a meeting in London and a couple of pints I was approached by a 20-something woman who asked if I had a moment. I certainly did have a moment, so here is our (annotated and slightly abridged) conversation:

Woman – “I work for Amnesty International and they are doing a £27,000 ($50,000 CDN) [...]

April 2nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: cynical, social commentary | Comments are closed

140 characters…

I am a bit of a geek. I like technology and I like understanding the various uses of that technology. I have spent the last month or so reading every news article I can about a new (I won’t say newest, because as we all know in this industry “newest” is outdated within minutes) phenomenon: [...]

March 27th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: deep thought, geek, social commentary | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Tazed and Confused

Many of you may have heard about the trial of the mounties in the taser death of some nut at an airport. I don’t want to minimize a death in anyway, and I feel for his family and friends, but many words have been thrown around about these officers: “knee-jerk reaction”, “impulse acting”, “instinctual” etc. [...]

March 25th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: social commentary | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Few see anything wrong

As always I have an opinion: The recent Virginia situation as before when this has occurred is being brought out to be a sign of the decline of society. This is because it is easy to point to a moron with a gun and blame him for all the fear in the world.

What you [...]

April 18th, 2007 | Tags: , , , | Category: social commentary | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Sanity or Sanitization?

As many of you who are faithful readers of my rants know, I have this very unexplainable obsession with hygiene. We humans have this insane fetish with being absolutely sanitized from top to bottom, so much so that we are actually making ourselves susceptible to worse diseases, by killing the very ugly helpers that eat [...]

April 26th, 2006 | Tags: , , | Category: cynical, social commentary | Comments are closed

Social Commentary

I have to comment on this article, because it shows a LOT of what is wrong with society.

I am not sure if you followed this story, basically because I have no idea who “you” are, since you are sitting at a computer looking at this at any time and in any place.. So regardless, [...]

April 2nd, 2006 | Tags: , , , , | Category: social commentary | Comments are closed

Is this It?

So I was thinking, which is scary enough in itself, but regardless. What if human beings are exactly like any other animal, except that we have this highly developed brain which causes morals, emotions, thought etc? Do the popular lions always win Class President? Is there a class system of buzzards flying above us? Do [...]

March 2nd, 2006 | Tags: , , | Category: random, social commentary | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Gay is not Brocolli

When we were kids we had to be forced to eat our brocolli. There was no inherent reason why we didn’t like it, we just refused to eat it based on the principal that it was green and a vegetable.  I find nothing wrong with this, because kids are generally nonsensical and don’t need to [...]

February 14th, 2006 | Tags: , | Category: social commentary | Comments are closed
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