Archive for April, 2008

strike the (un)happy medium

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

We have to fight it. If not, we will go back to the Dark Ages, where we will be persecuted and prosecuted.

– a UK spiritualist, complaining that psychic services now fall under consumer protection legislation. Emphasis mine.

definitely spring

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Two groundhogs at warden!

it doesn’t mean to me what it means to them

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Oh dear, tee hee: The Way of The Tosser.

shock! this just in …

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Research by the National House Building Council foundation (who represent more than 90% of plain ordinary non-ecohome McMansions built in the UK, unlike these guys) shows that buyers are not interested in ecohomes. Well I never!

Air Canada: we only want your money

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

You know how much Air Canada wanted for changing a short flight from Fort St John to Vancouver to an earlier one?

$500.

Yeah, that’s more than the entire YXJ to YYZ trip cost. Smooth one, AC.

make that six

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Catherine and I have been in Canada for six years now.

owl

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

You can tell I’m a towny when I get all excited about a blurry picture of a Hawk Owl:

hawkowl.jpg

It was kinda windy, and it was taken at maximum digital zoom. The Wikipedia link has a much better picture.