Did you play that game when you were young? I sure did, and I should have kept practicing. Sean Sears, 23, threw a winning rock to conquer his opponent’s scissors to win the 2008 Bud Light/USA Rock Paper Scissors League Championship. Sean beat out over 300 of the nation’s finest “Rock Paper Scissors” players to [...]
What is so hard about putting the most important things all in one box (or series of them), and marking them with a marker or that special “Open First” tape from U-Haul? Grandpa Richard was sure he had done that, but, could not find my good computer mouse, or the power supply for my external [...]
Here is an interesting comment on modern life. A pact made by a group of teens to get pregnant and raise their babies together is at least partly behind a sudden spike in pregnancies at Gloucester High School, in GLOUCESTER, Mass, school officials said. Read more in this article from the Associated Press.
Two infants starve to death in an ordinary suburb in Australia. A man in Austria locks his daughter in a basement and rapes her for 24 years, fathering seven children with her. Also in Austria, a 10 year old girl is abducted 1998, escaping 8 years later. In February 2006, Sydney police made a succession [...]
The Canadian Government has finally tabled proposed changes to copyright law. As expected, some groups are saying “good”, and some are saying “bad”. One line of discussion that I followed was this … One group on the “we need it” side said that they are only interested in being able to stop those who try [...]
The new Adam Sandler movie, You Don’t Mess With The Zohan, came out this weekend. I may wait for the DVD but I am actually interested in seeing this one. To understand the significance of this, you have to know that Adam Sandler is NOT Grandpa Richard’s favourite actor. Far from it. I normally avoid [...]
Headline story in today’s Globe and Mail is that the price of gas seems to finally be having an impact on driver’s. Transit use is up noticeably and stories of how people are cutting back on the amount of driving that they do abound. And what, you ask, is Grandpa Richard doing about it? I [...]
