When we moved into our rural home over 5 years ago, there wasn’t much choice concerning the Internet. It was either slow dial up over bad quality country phone lines or expensive line-of-sight wireless (microwave) Internet by either Storm or RipNet (out of Brockville, ON).

We got both Storm and RipNet in to do a sight survey, and Storm wanted $1200 to put up a tower, while Ripnet wanted just some $200 for a small tripod to put on top of the roof. Naturally, we went with Ripnet in August 2005. In order to minizime the cost to us, we signed up on a three year contract so we would not have to pay any installation charges. The fee for Internet read more

If anyone recognizes the idiot morons in the following video, please contact your local authorities. This video is believed to have been shot in Southern Alberta or Saskatchewan:

Apparently, brain and dick sizes are related.

UPDATE: Three suspects have been picked up in Saskatchewan and are due in court shortly. Link.

Mr. Carr, an inmate in Millhaven, had his award upheld by the Federal Court Justice James Russell on June 2. Mr. Carr was stabbed in the bum with a plastic device in 2005 and has since been suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

The taxpayers of Canada eased his suffering to the tune of $12,000.

Mr. Carr, who was serving a three-year term for robbery-related offences when he was attacked, is now living in the Hamilton, Ont.-area, awaiting his money.

You’re welcome.

Does anybody know how to spell anymore? Does anybody care? I know several people, grown-up people, with degrees, and double degrees, and high paying jobs, who don’t know the difference between “their”, “there” or “they’re”.

The worst cases can be observed on Facebook: I’m board (or better yet: bord), could of (as in: I could of passed this test if only my brain was functioning) and the one I saw this evening that put the icing on the cake: I am happy because my friends graced me with there presents. Instead of playing Facebook games all day long, maybe you should invest a couple of minutes brushing up on your spelling?

Look, I can understand young people: they’re trying to save their read more

So we headed down the Queensway late Sunday night to drop off our daughter and her boyfriend at the (depressing) downtown Greyhound bus station. They are headed back to Vancouver (where they study at Emily Carr University on Granville Island) via bus: you just can’t beat $240 for two people to travel across the country. However, for your $240 you can count on losing at least one bag along the way. It’s just that kind of a gong-show.

What I want to talk about is the new “security measures” implemented since the unfortunate incident in Manitoba last summer. These “security measures” are supposed to protect the travelling public from crazies with knives. As you may have seen, I put “security measures” in read more

The once-a-year, feel-fuzzy-in-your-tummy Happy Hour is coming up again. Yes, let everyone in the world join hands and do our part in saving the world in this annual, all-out love-fest: Earth Hour is here! Turning off some lights for 60 minutes once a year is going to save our planet. Mayors of major cities across the world are happily jumping onto the bandwagon and turning off all city lights for an hour on March 28 (and leave all the lights on all night for the other 364.96 days a year).

So what are “we” doing all this for? “To Save The Earth”. To save the Earth? From what? Too much light? Turning off your lights for one hour really doesn’t do anything, read more