Archive for July, 2006

Quite Sporting, I Say.

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

I do enjoy a satisfying round of good physical activity.  While in University short years ago, I was into weightlifting, biking, and running, but that mostly reduced in quantity upon completing my degree and returning home.  Since that time, I would sometimes pump iron with a rickety set of weights I had bought off a [...]

Drawing Ridicule

Monday, July 24th, 2006

For the last couple of months, my brother and I have been replying back-and-forth to the same e-mail.  Generally, these messages will consist of a single link to a particular Wikipedia page, with snide remarks to accompany the previous e-mail response.  The websites we have been exchanging almost all refer to video games, movies, television [...]

Tim Hortons vs Country-Style: The Age-Old Debate

Friday, July 21st, 2006

Where do you like to go for coffee?
Here in the Sudbury area, outside of tasteful, trendy cafés like The Parker House, William’s Coffee Pub, and Books and Beans, there are two more prevalent mass-market destinations: Tim Hortons, and Country Style.
While these two coffee shops do share a lot in common with food (donuts, soups, sandwiches, [...]

Perhaps a Little TOO Inconvenient…

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

I recently saw the environmental documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth”, which is narrated by Al Gore.  Quite the film.  It looks like the world will have a major problem with climate change if some political will isn’t effectively mustered worldwide to do something about it.  The movie was quite balanced, with plenty of numbers, fascinating graphs, [...]

Firlapalooza’s Host

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

What can I say about myself?  For now, I will post the text from one of those tell-all e-mail forwards that goes around from time to time.  More to come soon.  By the way, you can e-mail me via “mefirlapalzacom“, though if you have my more regularly-checked Hotmail account address (which I am avoiding posting on-line to minimize spam), send your [...]

Presenting!

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

It’s me.  You know who I am.  This is my first real post, after an extended delay in getting it underway. Much recent protest was filed after the only post visible for about two weeks was my terse initial test message (in which I did give props to the man who set this website all [...]

Test – o – rama…

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

Props.