Remember back in October when I wrote about the mysterious disappearance of my driver’s license? I had hoped at the time that it would turn up on its own (even as I continued to drive without one), but about a month afterwards, I ended up going to the Ministry of Transportation and obtaining a new [...]
I am headed down south to Florida today for a week’s vacation. The Sudbury area experienced unseasonably balmy weather for the start of the winter (until around early-mid-January), but at last, ruthless freezing temperatures have arrived. Take a quick look at the image here. Today is unquestionably the coldest day of the year so far, particularly [...]
One of the common compact-sized cars seen throughout North America is the Ford Focus. It is a quaint-looking, highly-maneuverable little automobile, which I’m sure is purchased by the average consumer for a number of reasons, particularly its great fuel economy. I also drive one, which is a silver, four-door model, similar to the one pictured below:
Well, as I walked in my neighbourhood, I was surprised to see a very overdone [...]
Well, I wished a fond farewell to a good friend of mine today, as tonight he will be returning back to South Korea to continue teaching English as a second language, after having visited his home in Canada for about a month. It got me thinking about some of the details of my own tremendous holiday visit to that country last March.
As [...]
To many, thinking of playwright William Shakespeare brings to mind drab high school English classes, where interminable cassette tapes provided the overacted narration of his lengthy plays. While some of us may have never gotten a taste for the archaic linguistic terms of 16th-century Britain, there are still some plays that make for very interesting reading nonetheless, particularly upon [...]
A long-undetected problem has come to my attention. Namely, the address I provided (on the now-corrected About Me page) when I originally started does not work, which has likely resulted in countless yottabytes of unresponded fan letters to disappear into the digital ether. So, to correct this oversight, if you would like to write something outside of the comments boxes below each article, please message [...]
Some of you have probably already wondered: forget critical reviews, what was the worst Hollywood feature this past year in terms of its profitability? Well, if your efforts earned back one dollar for every $67,000 you put into making it (or a percentage return of 0.0015%), than you probably worked on the movie Zyzzyx Road. As I learned [...]
Despite the unsavoury title, I am actually posting something of a positive nature here. I’ve spoken previously upon environmental issues at this website before, such as climate change (both here and here). This is an issue that has the potential to affect all of us (whether human-induced or not). For all practical purposes, an individual’s actions to try to reduce their carbon [...]
Ah, we are finally beginning a new year afresh, again. Though we have been entertained with just slow news days since midnight of three days ago, certainly there will be many heights and troughs awaiting us this coming year. As usual, each event will be rapidly forgotten, to be replaced in our minds with the next breaking item, and presented with enough flashy [...]