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Just another blog to share some thoughts with the world. Want to comment? If you know how to contact me, I can manually set up a commenting account for you. Sorry, commenting is not open to the general public at this time.

One of the better rants on the state of the music “business”

Posted on Sunday, 2007-Oct-28th by ralph

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 … Continue reading →

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The headline for the Calgary Election should be “Dollars don’t buy you Votes”

Posted on Tuesday, 2007-Oct-16th by ralph

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 … Continue reading →

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Review: Paddy O’Leary’s Irish Pub and Grille

Posted on Tuesday, 2007-Oct-9th by ralph

Suburban Pub Tries to be all things to all people Address: 8294 Centre Street NE Calgary (403) 275-6601 A pub located outside of the normal inner city circle, Paddy O’Leary’s is a growing trend in the last few years for … Continue reading →

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Alnoor Kassam just lost any chance of getting my vote

Posted on Thursday, 2007-Sep-27th by ralph

Occasionally, a politician does something so monumentally stupid that with a single act, they kill any hope of their being elected. Sometimes they just do something to honk me off and permanently loose any chance of getting my vote. I … Continue reading →

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Review: The Dog & Duck Public House & Restaurant

Posted on Saturday, 2007-Sep-22nd by ralph

Interesting House converted into a Pub – Ruined by bad Service Address: 5340 2nd St. SW Calgary Edit: You may want to check out my newer review, which comes on a re-visit with much better service A bit tricky to … Continue reading →

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What are they smoking over at Future Shop?

Posted on Thursday, 2007-Sep-20th by ralph

I’m browsing my way through the B5 stuff at Future Shop when I run across this little gem: ” In 1994 Star Trek had to take a backseat to this science fiction series, created by Michael…” Uhhh, I don’t know … Continue reading →

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Shake that C Train

Posted on Monday, 2007-Sep-17th by ralph

Yet another post on the C Trains. Here I am yet again on a packed train and lo, what happens as we hit the zoo stop – another train problem. This is like the third time – I’m beginning to … Continue reading →

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Trains may break, but people can’t be put back together so easily

Posted on Tuesday, 2007-Aug-28th by ralph

Last post here, I was witness to a C-train malfunction causing mayhem with the system. This time it was people breaking that leads to posting. Perhaps this will be a trend – every time I have a C-train story I … Continue reading →

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Glenmore Construction goodness

Posted on Saturday, 2007-Jun-23rd by ralph

I’ve been watching on the web cam at Glenmore and 14th on and off today as they build the last bit of road to switch the traffic over to the new lanes: Should’ve taken more captures. Oh well. It is … Continue reading →

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My Train Broke

Posted on Thursday, 2007-Jun-7th by ralph

So there I was on the 5ish pm train going “WTF? why are there so many people on this train?” We were packed in like sardines, which doesn’t tend to happen so much in the summer. Thinking on it, I … Continue reading →

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