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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Westjet vs Air Canada small screen smackdown
So last week I flew Westjet east to Ottawa and returned west on Air Canada. That sounds like it’s backwards, but hey, it’s the way it worked out. The situation being such that Westjet didn’t have a flight at a time I wanted, it’s been a while since I’ve flown with the airline. I hadn’t […]
1 Comment » - Posted in rant, review by ralph
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Monty Python-esk parody “Adolf Ballmer”
One thing you have to say about Steve Ballmer is that he ain’t boring to watch on stage. But when you combine him with some goofy special effects to give him a Hitler hairstyle (Hair and moustache) and throw in some loose Nazi era speech synchs you get me LMAO. Sad to say it’s funnier […]
No Comments » - Posted in WhoKnows? by ralph
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Mikey 19?? - 2008 (He Lived Long and Prospered)
This was Mikey (or Michael, for formal occasions)
He passed away this last weekend, having spent the last few years in a good home where he had all the care and attention he every wanted or needed.
Mikey, in his working days, was in charge of patrolling the warehouse, making sure everyone knew he was […]
No Comments » - Posted in WhoKnows? by ralph
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
They’ve given up on forecasts in Calgary
Calgary has the distinction of being one of the few places in the world where you can go “WTF?” when reading a weather forecast. I give you tonight’s forecast:
It would seem that from the -18 C we are right now, it is going to rise to +2 C by midnight, with a wind chill of […]
No Comments » - Posted in WhoKnows?, rant by ralph
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
TakeTV, Something I want for a change
Okay, it is a rare day that a new tech toy comes out and I go “I want one, now”. It is a rare thing because most of these things do not satisfy my criteria of:
-It must do something I want to do, or it does something I want to do, easier than what I […]
No Comments » - Posted in Computers, internet by ralph
Monday, November 5th, 2007
Review part Deux: The Dog & Duck Public House & Restaurant
Pub Makes Amends and Proves the Personal Touch can Still be Found in Calgary
Address: 5340 2nd St. SW Calgary
I love management that actually cares about what people think of their establishment. They know that word of mouth can be the kiss of death or the hot inside tip that spreads like wild fire. In these […]
No Comments » - Posted in Food, review, beer by ralph
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Top Gear does again - Why can’t we get funny stuff like this here?
Still recovering from laughing. Too bad I can’t buy one.
Tiny Car Review
Need more Top Gear!
Still can’t embed videos worth shit!
1 Comment » - Posted in WhoKnows? by ralph
Monday, October 29th, 2007
30 Years of Atari, 30 ads
If you are of a certain age and have any love of computer games, “Atari” is not a company or a maker of video games, but a former way of life. I never owned an Atari system, but so many people I knew did that I might as well have. Many fond memories. Here is […]
No Comments » - Posted in Computers by ralph
Sunday, October 28th, 2007
One of the better rants on the state of the music “business”
Highly recommended reading:
When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide.
I am not a huge music fan. I used to buy the occasional CD, occasional becoming even less so due to my frustration with a)Finding any music I liked b)Price of […]
No Comments » - Posted in The system, internet, Podium by ralph
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
The headline for the Calgary Election should be “Dollars don’t buy you Votes”
Another predicable boring election is over in Calgary - other than Helene Larocque being voted out of my former Ward, the rest of the results I mostly don’t care about. But there were some good signs - voter turnout up to 33%, still dismal but not the pathetic last election turnout of 20%.
The story of […]
