I’ll stick with Canadian food, thanks

So when I was in the U.S. a couple of weeks ago, I had a chance to taste a bunch of their cuisine I’ve always wanted to try, but never could.
There were a few items that were high on my list. One of the big things is anything to do with sugar. From what I [...]

United Airlines leaves a lot to be desired

Last year, a guy named Dave Carroll flew United Airlines.
They broke his guitar, and wouldn’t pay for it. So, he wrote a song about it, posted it on YouTube and it became a sensation. Because of all the negative publicity, United ended up paying for a new guitar. (You can see the original video here, and [...]

$2 gambling experiment

I’m not a big gambler.
I don’t like going to the casinos, and I don’t like roulette, blackjack or most other card games.
Poker is good, but I don’t think I’ve ever played for more than a $10 entry fee.
And then there are hockey pools, but I don’t consider them gambling, because I usually win them.
Anyways, I [...]

Celebrate DQ day today

Today is probably my favourite non-holiday day of the year.
Dairy Queen’s Miracle Treat Day.
Money sold from every Blizzard goes to children’s hospitals, and money raised also stays in the community. So if $200,000 is raised in Ottawa, it goes to the children’s hospital in Ottawa.
I believe in supporting good causes like this. So I plan [...]

70 dates in 70 days

So this girl is going across Canada in an attempt to find Mr. Right.
To do so, she’s going to be spending a week in each Canadian province. In each province, she will have dates with different people (there’s an estimate she’ll have about 70 dates when it’s done).
She blogs (through the Lavalife web site) about [...]

New blogs to follow

I’ve recently updated some of the blogs I follow on the right side of this page.
They’re funny, well-written, and keep me coming back for more.
So I thought I would introduce them, and let you know more about them so you can follow them as well, and they’re best line of the past week or so.
Magerly [...]

Dealing with a weighty issue

It seems in life that things happen in bunches.
Right around the time you get married, it seems all your friends are getting married.
Right around the time you start having kids, everyone else is having kids.
And right around the time you start losing weight, everyone else wants to lose a few pounds as well.
A month and [...]

Saving local television is overrated

Not sure if this is going on across the country (and I sure hope it’s not, because it’s way too foolish), but the television stations here in Ottawa have gone on a whole “save local” kick.
And it’s driving me crazy.
Basically, they believe local television stations need saving, because they’re the source for local events and [...]

Don’t read Andre the Giant’s biography

I love reading, and I love wrestling wrestling books.
Some of them are the best you’ll ever read amongst any type of book.
And then you have books like Andre the Giant’s biography.
Released around the Christmas season, the book focuses on Andre the Giant’s life in the wrestling ring, but specifically with the WWF/WWE. I thought it [...]

Maxim magazine on the way down

I have a subscription to Maxim magazine.
I used to enjoy the issues from front to back.
Every story was well-written, every joke was funny and you felt like you had to read every article. It was the must-read magazine, and really made the men’s magazine genre take off (at least, the men’s magazine genre that didn’t [...]