So last week I got a new TV. It’s about time, as the set we had was almost beyond shame.
What the thing is is irrelevant to wha I want to say, but safe to say it’s a flat panel LCD with several HDMI inputs on the back.
We had the cable people come out and give us a new HD cable box. It’s got all manner of outputs on the back of it - cable, composite, s-video, component and HDMI. I elected to go HDMI because I know it’s the only digital signal of the bunch and I thought it surely must allow the best picture quality. Read the rest of this entry »
mildewd (alt. mildude) [mil-dyüd] noun, informal: 1. a man, formerly fastidious in dress and/or manner, who has now allowed himself to deteriorate with advancing age. 2. clothing that would only be worn by such an individual. (plural: mildewds)
Some examples:
“Man, get a haircut. You’re such a mildewd.”
“That shirt was mildewd 20 years ago.”
“I don’t want to go to Shifty McNasty’s, it’s a bar for mildewds.”
“The mildewd, no longer fashionably late, received a scowl from the prestigious crowd.”
I hereby submit this word to the English language. If you have other, more interesting uses, of the word - please feel free to leave them in a comment.
Special thanks to SarZ for causing me to think of this.
Yesterday a reprehensible piece of legislation was introduced in the Canadian House of Commons that stands to make millions of otherwise law-abiding Canadians criminals. It also stands to expose those same millions to lawsuits that could ruin lives, careers and families for the simple crime of shifting songs from a lawfully purchased CD to a lawfully purchased iPod or other device or storage format. Welcome to the 21st Century, bitches.
The Federal Minister of Industry, Jim Prentice, says “This bill reflects a win-win approach.”
Just who will be doing all the winning with this is pretty clear. And it’s not me and you.
Okay, now it’s all gone too far. I call shenanigans on this sorry damn excuse of a Federal Government, and I especially call out Stockwell “Doris” Day for delaying a report so that he might put some of his own spin on it before it gets released.
I don’t think there could be one single, solitary, non-bullshit reason given by any sane person to justify delaying such an anticipated report for any period of time at all…let alone for SIX DAYS.
Obviously, there’s something in there that very much concerns our Mr. Day.
I call upon anyone in possession of a copy of this report to leak it to the media immediately. Do your own conscience a favour and do your country a service by releasing this report before Doris puts his stamp on it. Please.
Western law is entirely based on the premise that you may do whatever you wish, as long as it hurts no one else.
For all the volumes of laws and charters and everything else we have that defines what we are and are not allowed to do, that basic tenet rings true.
I love Canada. We don’t have the economic or industrial power of many countries, and we certainly don’t have the largest population or even the largest land mass. Canada doesn’t come first on very many lists of any consequence…though I’m not sure how many of those lists would be written by Canadians. Read the rest of this entry »
I’d just like to thank you for running such a good campaign for the Democratic Nomination, at least up until a while back when you started talking about white people liking you more and blowing Iran off the map. Not that I necessarily disagree that there will come a time when Iran needs the rubber-hose treatment, but this isn’t the sort of thing a potential President should be saying.
So the USA is up to $1.6 TRILLION dollars for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And that’s just the dollars that have been spent, to say nothing of the human toll that these wars have exacted - on all sides. And though we may mourn more deeply for those we have lost to this fight, we cannot forget the innocent lives that have needlessly been lost.
The object of fighting any War is to gain security. In this regard, I did and still do believe that we have done the right thing in Afghanistan. The right thing is not always the easy thing, but to deprive Al-Qaeda of their Taliban protectors and to attempt to return Afghanistan to the community of nations is a noble effort. We harbour no doubts that Afghanistan was the staging ground for numerous attacks, including those of September 11, 2001.
I also believe that the USA had to hit back after those attacks. To sit idle or to engage in protracted diplomacy would have sent the wrong message to those who would wish harm to the USA and its allies.
This sketch is from “The Ronnie Johns Half-Hour”, a show on Australia’s Ten Network. They’ve done a lot of really funny stuff, but this sketch is perhaps one of the funniest I’ve ever seen.
Warning: Coarse language and hilarious sexual references.
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