How many times have you received an email about a dying child wanting to be in the Book of Records for most postcards, or an especially sad story about some missing child? Often, these emails are based on urban legends or just plain phoney stories some prankster starts.
A number of sites can be used [...]
The Apple iPad. We knew it was coming. It was just a question of features and pricing.
Well, the experts think the pricing is aggressive. The jury might be out on features.
Here is Grandpa Richard’s quick view.
pricing = not sure
size = plus
colour = plus
touch keypad = good
no SD card slot = bad (although an optional card [...]
Avatar.
Final Fantasy XIII.
Graphics keep getting better as hardware becomes more powerful.
“Imagine when 3D TV gets good enough, and priced right for common home use”, I stated to a friend.
His response was to bring up the idea of 3D virtual reality, possibly as portrayed on this Wikipedia page. He went further to contemplate the idea of [...]
My younger daughter Kristina gave birth to a boy (Logan) last night at 7 pm. He weighed 3,826 grams. A brother for Jasmine. A grandson for Grandpa Richard.
Congratulations to Les and Kristina.
Interesting item in the Toronto Star about the so-called “Chicago School” of neo-con economists, whose free-market doctrines laid the groundwork for the epic global financial crisis we’ve just endured.
Some of them have been converted to Keynesianism, but there are others still in denial.
The best part of the article was the following comment that a reader [...]
Have you seen the movie “2012″? I would have rather waited and seen it on TV or via a rental. Not worth the big bucks at the theatre. Personal opinion.
Does it surprise me that someone is hawking a product based on the background story? No.
If you are curious, check it out. Is 2012 real? There [...]
Infrastructure. Not a very sexy topic. In fact, a topic that gets ignored, except when that infrastructure breaks.
What do I mean by infrastructure? The best examples are roads, bridges, hydro systems, phone systems, and the most insidious – water and sewer systems.
What is so special about water and sewer? They are out of sight, [...]
Avatar. What a hot topic that movie has become. And I am not talking about it’s race to overtake Titanic as best highest grossing film of all time. I am talking about people on all sides of the political spectrum complaining about what it says.
The Vatican, the military, left wingers, right wingers. It’s racist. It [...]
Hurts the wallet that is.
In Switzerland, speeding fines can be based on your wealth. The country was finding that a lot of rich people were taking their expensive high powered sports cars and flaunting the speeding laws. After all, what’s a $500 fine to a multi-millionaire. A puny cost compared to the thrill of driving [...]
I caught a stomach bug. Spent hours awake last night trying to stop from upchucking my supper. I eventually failed. First time that has happened in possibly 15 years! Yuck.
Now, it’s 5 pm and I do not feel like eating, and have very little energy. Had a banana and 2 cups of peppermint tea (research [...]
