Happy St. Patrick’s Day y’all!
I hope that everyone has visions of green beer, shamrocks and pots of gold in their pretty little heads.
But remember, if you’re going out to enjoy a pint of Guiness or your favourite tinted delight, please don’t drive. The R.I.D.E. program will probably be out in full force, and I really don’t want to have a blurb to write about a ton of ppl getting busted or hurt or killed.
I’m getting excited about the NCAA’s, I can’t help it. Even E-ve asked me about it this morning. And then I handed her the bracket and asked her to make her picks. We didn’t have time to go through the whole thing, but she did pick out USC and Illinois. I didn’t. We’ll see what happens. If she picks more winners than I do I may never get excited in March again.
Let’s see, what else is going on?
I saw Cabbie’s man D on the street yesterday. He had his trademark Boston Red Sox cap on and walked with his eyes focused on the sidewalk. I guess he doesn’t want guys like me recognizing him as he walks along Yonge St.
Looks like Apple has an application for iPhone that now can help you with those awkward blind date situations. “Fake Calls” is a 99 cent app that you can program to call you with a false name, picture, wallpaper and ring tone. You can program the time of the call and if you ignore the call, “Fake Call” will ring you again making it sound even more urgent. Just another example of iPhone replacing your best friend.
Rollingstone.com has a link to the Top 500 Songs of All Time. Taking a quick look at the top end of the list it’s hard to argue, but everyone has their preferences. Take a look and see what you think. You can leave a comment here, there or anywhere really.
Yesterday was Monday of course which meant that Chuck was on and I was watching. Special guest appearance by John Larroquette playing the smoothest martini drinking spy since you know who. I enjoyed it, Chuck and Sarah finally got their big huge kiss that’s been building up, although not as planned of course. And huge ending with future ramifications for sure. Sad faces for Chuck.
I also caught How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory which were pretty alright. I did miss House, but I’ll catch it on demand or something later.
Tuesday means new TMN movies on demand and a chance for me to check them tonight and decide if this thing is paying for itself month to month.
I think that’s all for today friends. Good luck with your brackets. First tip off is 7:30pm eastern standard time tonight.
Happy St. Pat’s.
Today’s links:
http://tinyurl.com/cpv32y - How To Be Irish For A Day.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/mayhem/brackets/viewable_men - NCAA Men's Basketball Bracket
http://ca.tech.yahoo.com/experts/ginahughes/article/999 - iPhone "Fake Call"
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/500songs - Rolling Stone's Top 500 Songs
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
March Break Monday Musings
Welcome back to your work week friends, unless you are on March Break. And if that’s the case, I’m sorry, but we can’t be friends.
Fun discussion question to start your Monday: What was the top song of the 80’s? That’s right, the whole decade. The NME blog at Yahoo Music Canada asks the question and gives 4 sample options.
1. Simple Minds: Alive and kicking (1985)
2. Journey: Don’t stop believin’ (1981)
3. Donna Summer: This time I know it’s for real (1989)
4. Pet Shop Boys: It’s a sin (1987)
Discuss amongst yourselves, or sign in to your yahoo ID and discuss on the board. There are lots of good answers thrown out there on the board. Link will be in the section for sure.
Saw Evil Dead: The Musical on Saturday night in Ottawa. And to steal a witty quip from a friend, “Zombies have never been sing-songier”. The production was great. The cast did a great job, the singing was terrific, the dancing better than I honestly expected and the hilarity was top notch.
If you are in Ottawa this Thursday, Friday or Saturday do your best to be there. I’ll link the Sock’n’Buskin (production company) website in the section.
Note: Saw David Shoalts, sports writer for The Globe and Mail at the play as his daughter was in the show.
Quick feature on Yahoo, in the video and photo section there’s a link - Comic geek? which caught my attention. Clicked the link and was treated to 8 photos from the Marvel archive. Nothing life changing, but I linked it anyway.
Race to Witch Mountain has topped the weekend box office bringing in $25 million. Highly touted (and still unseen, I’m going to change that this week) Watchmen dropped significantly to about $18 million and 2nd place, the 67% drop in sales brings the total ticket sales to about $86 million in the first 10 days. Rumour is it cost $150 million to make. I’ll let you do the math.
Today’s big ups go to Kate Todd for being our myspace friend. Kate was in Radio Free Roscoe when I first became addicted to the family channel.
Funny start to my morning as I turned on cp24 for my morning news, the desk kids called a mystery winner for a trip to Greece. However, hilarity ensued as a teen or early 20’s girl answered the phone, was totally unaware of what was going on at 7:22 am and dropped an F-bomb on live morning TV before the call could be disconnected. It was awesome!
It is Monday, and you all know what that means… Chuck and Heroes and House and Big Bang Theory and HIMYM are all on prime-time. Good luck catching them all.
I think that’s all for today my fine feathered friends. And remember, if anyone asks you why you’re here; just tell them you carried a watermelon.
Today’s links:
http://tinyurl.com/dcfhc5 - Top Song Of The 80's? You Make The Call.
http://www.carleton.ca/socknbuskin/ - Sock'n'Buskin Theatre Company.
http://tinyurl.com/cgjwm5 - Marvel Screen Shots And Cover Photos.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2563&p=.htm - Box Office Results Show Witch Before Watchmen.
http://www.myspace.com/katetodd - Multi-Talented Kate Todd.
Fun discussion question to start your Monday: What was the top song of the 80’s? That’s right, the whole decade. The NME blog at Yahoo Music Canada asks the question and gives 4 sample options.
1. Simple Minds: Alive and kicking (1985)
2. Journey: Don’t stop believin’ (1981)
3. Donna Summer: This time I know it’s for real (1989)
4. Pet Shop Boys: It’s a sin (1987)
Discuss amongst yourselves, or sign in to your yahoo ID and discuss on the board. There are lots of good answers thrown out there on the board. Link will be in the section for sure.
Saw Evil Dead: The Musical on Saturday night in Ottawa. And to steal a witty quip from a friend, “Zombies have never been sing-songier”. The production was great. The cast did a great job, the singing was terrific, the dancing better than I honestly expected and the hilarity was top notch.
If you are in Ottawa this Thursday, Friday or Saturday do your best to be there. I’ll link the Sock’n’Buskin (production company) website in the section.
Note: Saw David Shoalts, sports writer for The Globe and Mail at the play as his daughter was in the show.
Quick feature on Yahoo, in the video and photo section there’s a link - Comic geek? which caught my attention. Clicked the link and was treated to 8 photos from the Marvel archive. Nothing life changing, but I linked it anyway.
Race to Witch Mountain has topped the weekend box office bringing in $25 million. Highly touted (and still unseen, I’m going to change that this week) Watchmen dropped significantly to about $18 million and 2nd place, the 67% drop in sales brings the total ticket sales to about $86 million in the first 10 days. Rumour is it cost $150 million to make. I’ll let you do the math.
Today’s big ups go to Kate Todd for being our myspace friend. Kate was in Radio Free Roscoe when I first became addicted to the family channel.
Funny start to my morning as I turned on cp24 for my morning news, the desk kids called a mystery winner for a trip to Greece. However, hilarity ensued as a teen or early 20’s girl answered the phone, was totally unaware of what was going on at 7:22 am and dropped an F-bomb on live morning TV before the call could be disconnected. It was awesome!
It is Monday, and you all know what that means… Chuck and Heroes and House and Big Bang Theory and HIMYM are all on prime-time. Good luck catching them all.
I think that’s all for today my fine feathered friends. And remember, if anyone asks you why you’re here; just tell them you carried a watermelon.
Today’s links:
http://tinyurl.com/dcfhc5 - Top Song Of The 80's? You Make The Call.
http://www.carleton.ca/socknbuskin/ - Sock'n'Buskin Theatre Company.
http://tinyurl.com/cgjwm5 - Marvel Screen Shots And Cover Photos.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2563&p=.htm - Box Office Results Show Witch Before Watchmen.
http://www.myspace.com/katetodd - Multi-Talented Kate Todd.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Friday the 13th Musing, March Edition
Good morning fine friends.
As I scan the internet and wonder what is going on I’ve come across a few articles that don’t warrant full nods, but quick mention as they caught my attention. Dress better than Brad Pitt, Why teens share it all online, Lucas casting next Star Wars show, E-ve = tres awesome and, 5 signs the recession is over.
I’d like to admit that I learned something yesterday that many many many people already knew that will make the links sections much cleaner everyday. Tinyurl.com is pretty fantastic. I don’t understand that tech side of things, or how they do the things that they do. But rest assured that I will be using it now for those pesky 3 line long links in the section.
Yesterday I found a list of the top 10 chick flicks. But today I’ve found a list of dude’s 20 favourite chick flicks. The list is pretty good, I agree with films like High Fidelity, Serendipity, Moulin Rouge and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. But I disagree with the likes of Bridget Jones’ Diary and Meet Joe Black. The full list is in the links section. The fun part is looking at the thumbnail screen shots and trying to guess the movies. Good luck!
Note: I now have the urge to buy and watch Prince of Thieves.
My beloved Twitter gets another mention in the news today. This time CNN brings us the story of police using the insta-update service to keep people in the loop. It’s a pretty cool idea really. You would sign on to be a follower of your local PD and always be aware when something significant is happening. As long as the cops don’t start updating things like: “got a dnut and cof, headed to the speed trap.” I think that everyone could win in this situation, except for the bad guys of course.
Chris Bosh did the weather on the CTV evening news last night in Toronto. Not a bad job, but he did take a shot at one of my former towns saying “I don’t know how many people live in Peterborough” as he mentioned that it was -6 degrees at the time. Jerk, I can’t stay mad at him. Even if he does look like an alien.
Today’s big ups go to The Little Millionaires as they are now on the myspace friends list. Thanks guys
And here’s a fun one, a link you’ll want to click if for no other reason that you have a crush on Seth Rogan, Paul Rudd or Busy Phillips. Rollingstone.com has a photo set of actors and actresses that have been made famous by appearing in Judd Apatow movies. It’s quick and fun, and kinda cool to see how much one dude really has done for the comedy genre in the last decade or so.
And finally, in semi-sport related news, a man that most of my generation wouldn’t know without qualification has been arrested in California. Peter Pocklington, the owner of the Edmonton Oilers during the glory days, and the man that traded (read: sold) Wayne Gretzky to the LA Kings has been cuffed and held on Bankruptcy Fraud charges. Somewhere there are old Oiler fans cheering that never forgave him for moving The Great One.
That’s all for today, bon weekend!
Today’s links:
ttp://tinyurl.com/ - tinyurl.com = wow.
http://tinyurl.com/avahb3 - 20 Chick Flicks That Guys Secretly Like.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/13/police.social.networking/index.html - PD Using Twitter.
www.myspace.com/thelittlemillionaires - The Little Millionaires.
http://tinyurl.com/b4re5l - Photos Of Actors That Judd Apatow Made Famous.
http://tinyurl.com/dadvb4 - Peter Pocklington Goes To Jail.
As I scan the internet and wonder what is going on I’ve come across a few articles that don’t warrant full nods, but quick mention as they caught my attention. Dress better than Brad Pitt, Why teens share it all online, Lucas casting next Star Wars show, E-ve = tres awesome and, 5 signs the recession is over.
I’d like to admit that I learned something yesterday that many many many people already knew that will make the links sections much cleaner everyday. Tinyurl.com is pretty fantastic. I don’t understand that tech side of things, or how they do the things that they do. But rest assured that I will be using it now for those pesky 3 line long links in the section.
Yesterday I found a list of the top 10 chick flicks. But today I’ve found a list of dude’s 20 favourite chick flicks. The list is pretty good, I agree with films like High Fidelity, Serendipity, Moulin Rouge and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. But I disagree with the likes of Bridget Jones’ Diary and Meet Joe Black. The full list is in the links section. The fun part is looking at the thumbnail screen shots and trying to guess the movies. Good luck!
Note: I now have the urge to buy and watch Prince of Thieves.
My beloved Twitter gets another mention in the news today. This time CNN brings us the story of police using the insta-update service to keep people in the loop. It’s a pretty cool idea really. You would sign on to be a follower of your local PD and always be aware when something significant is happening. As long as the cops don’t start updating things like: “got a dnut and cof, headed to the speed trap.” I think that everyone could win in this situation, except for the bad guys of course.
Chris Bosh did the weather on the CTV evening news last night in Toronto. Not a bad job, but he did take a shot at one of my former towns saying “I don’t know how many people live in Peterborough” as he mentioned that it was -6 degrees at the time. Jerk, I can’t stay mad at him. Even if he does look like an alien.
Today’s big ups go to The Little Millionaires as they are now on the myspace friends list. Thanks guys
And here’s a fun one, a link you’ll want to click if for no other reason that you have a crush on Seth Rogan, Paul Rudd or Busy Phillips. Rollingstone.com has a photo set of actors and actresses that have been made famous by appearing in Judd Apatow movies. It’s quick and fun, and kinda cool to see how much one dude really has done for the comedy genre in the last decade or so.
And finally, in semi-sport related news, a man that most of my generation wouldn’t know without qualification has been arrested in California. Peter Pocklington, the owner of the Edmonton Oilers during the glory days, and the man that traded (read: sold) Wayne Gretzky to the LA Kings has been cuffed and held on Bankruptcy Fraud charges. Somewhere there are old Oiler fans cheering that never forgave him for moving The Great One.
That’s all for today, bon weekend!
Today’s links:
ttp://tinyurl.com/ - tinyurl.com = wow.
http://tinyurl.com/avahb3 - 20 Chick Flicks That Guys Secretly Like.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/13/police.social.networking/index.html - PD Using Twitter.
www.myspace.com/thelittlemillionaires - The Little Millionaires.
http://tinyurl.com/b4re5l - Photos Of Actors That Judd Apatow Made Famous.
http://tinyurl.com/dadvb4 - Peter Pocklington Goes To Jail.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Thursday the 12th Morning Musings
Good morning Thursday readers. There are lots of weird and also relevant things going on so let’s get to it.
Joaquin Pheonix is causing controversy in his new rap career by jumping off of the stage and confronting a heckler. The questions arise because Casey Affleck filmed the entire event. Movie? Maybe Pheonix was lying about the whole ‘never acting again thing’. Or, maybe they’re doing a remake of 8 Mile.
In Ripley’s Believe it or not-ish news: A dude went over Niagara Falls and survived yesterday. No barrel, no safety gear, no will to live apparently. Witnesses say that the guy jumped in the water and swam away from shore. Then when he was at the bottom of the falls he resisted rescue and the helicopter pilot had to tilt the machine and use the wind from the propeller to push the guy towards shore. Another story found reports that the guy swam to shore and held onto the rocks and was calm but a little crazy. He is now in hospital with head injuries and pneumonia. I’m thinking suicide attempt.
MSN Lifestyles has a story titled, Midlife Crisis: My Husband Is Gay. I’m not sure what else I can tell you about it. It is what it is. It’s tragic for both partners, it’s hard on the kids, and the rest of the family as well. In today’s links for sure.
I’ve never linked to Funny or Die before but today I am. All things geeky and the current recession have teamed up to make a great Lex Luthor video. Lex Luthor Needs a Bailout, is pretty funny.
Bill Gates is once again the world’s richest man, passing Warren Buffet on this year’s list. Gates lost $18 billion dollars last year, while Buffet lost $25 billion. Poor guys.
Big ups to the guys of Leaving Beechwood. No reason really other than they are now our friend on myspace.
The sun is shining, the wind has calmed and the snow has stopped. Not a bad morning, I just hope that it warms up soon.
Thoughts with ev-e and her mom today. xoxo
Have a good day y’all.
Today’s links:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090312/entertainment/music_joaquin_phoenix - Mr. Phoenix Is A Gangsta!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031021.wfalls1021/BNStory/National/ - Man Over Falls, No Barrel.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/11/niagara.plunge/index.html - Man Over Falls, No Barrel 2.
http://lifestyle.sympatico.msn.ca/living/NEWContentPosting_CL?newsitemid=20466&feedname=TRANS-MORE&show=False&number=0&showbyline=True&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc&date=False - Midlife Crisis: My Husband Is Gay
http://blogs.forbes.com/digitaldownload/2009/03/lex-luthor-needs-a-bailout.html - Lex Luthor Feels The Pinch.
http://blogs.forbes.com/digitaldownload/2009/03/the-worlds-richest-people-forbes-billionaires-2009.html - Gates Ahead Of Buffet.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=368667967 - Leaving Beechwood.
Joaquin Pheonix is causing controversy in his new rap career by jumping off of the stage and confronting a heckler. The questions arise because Casey Affleck filmed the entire event. Movie? Maybe Pheonix was lying about the whole ‘never acting again thing’. Or, maybe they’re doing a remake of 8 Mile.
In Ripley’s Believe it or not-ish news: A dude went over Niagara Falls and survived yesterday. No barrel, no safety gear, no will to live apparently. Witnesses say that the guy jumped in the water and swam away from shore. Then when he was at the bottom of the falls he resisted rescue and the helicopter pilot had to tilt the machine and use the wind from the propeller to push the guy towards shore. Another story found reports that the guy swam to shore and held onto the rocks and was calm but a little crazy. He is now in hospital with head injuries and pneumonia. I’m thinking suicide attempt.
MSN Lifestyles has a story titled, Midlife Crisis: My Husband Is Gay. I’m not sure what else I can tell you about it. It is what it is. It’s tragic for both partners, it’s hard on the kids, and the rest of the family as well. In today’s links for sure.
I’ve never linked to Funny or Die before but today I am. All things geeky and the current recession have teamed up to make a great Lex Luthor video. Lex Luthor Needs a Bailout, is pretty funny.
Bill Gates is once again the world’s richest man, passing Warren Buffet on this year’s list. Gates lost $18 billion dollars last year, while Buffet lost $25 billion. Poor guys.
Big ups to the guys of Leaving Beechwood. No reason really other than they are now our friend on myspace.
The sun is shining, the wind has calmed and the snow has stopped. Not a bad morning, I just hope that it warms up soon.
Thoughts with ev-e and her mom today. xoxo
Have a good day y’all.
Today’s links:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090312/entertainment/music_joaquin_phoenix - Mr. Phoenix Is A Gangsta!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031021.wfalls1021/BNStory/National/ - Man Over Falls, No Barrel.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/11/niagara.plunge/index.html - Man Over Falls, No Barrel 2.
http://lifestyle.sympatico.msn.ca/living/NEWContentPosting_CL?newsitemid=20466&feedname=TRANS-MORE&show=False&number=0&showbyline=True&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc&date=False - Midlife Crisis: My Husband Is Gay
http://blogs.forbes.com/digitaldownload/2009/03/lex-luthor-needs-a-bailout.html - Lex Luthor Feels The Pinch.
http://blogs.forbes.com/digitaldownload/2009/03/the-worlds-richest-people-forbes-billionaires-2009.html - Gates Ahead Of Buffet.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=368667967 - Leaving Beechwood.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Mid Week March Morning Musings
Happy Hump Day ladies and gentlemen, we’re half way there, whoa, living on a prayer.
I digress, but speaking of hump day I did finally watch the much hyped Canadian Film, Young People F@#$%&*. (The symbols are there because we are happily an all ages blog) I have nothing poor to say about the movie. What I will say is that it’s very much not a family movie, so kids, you’ll have to wait.
Other than that Tuesday night TV was pretty much a bust. Caught an episode of Scrubs, which made me laugh and also wonder if I might be a little bit like J.D. with the day dreaming and such. I don’t tilt my head to the side and pause my day though, I’m more of a quiet reflection kind of guy. The Batman was a re-run, but I watched most of it anyway. Rick Mercer and the Mercer Report was also a highlight on the tube. Dude always seems to make a half hour worth staying awake. And I’m pretty sure he’d be ok with me calling him dude. It also makes me giggle every time that I hear him end his show with “I’m Rick Mercer, see you next Tuesday”
Note: Myspace blog was updated last night with something I found that shocked me. It doesn’t happen much, check it out.
I want to be cautious and forewarning for a second here friends. If you are making plans for this weekend please be careful. I have no idea what the weather will bring in your particular region. But I do know that Friday is in fact the second Friday the 13th in two months, and Sunday represents the Ides of March a la Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. I’m not trying to scare you or anything, I’m just saying.
Prime Minister Stephan Harper made his first big speech regarding the recession yesterday. He told Canadians that we are in good shape to come out of this thing first because we went into it last. The facts are on our side I suppose for the most part. The banks here aren’t in as much trouble and the housing market seems to be better. But when it comes to the big 3 auto makers Canada, and more specifically Ontario, have a long hard road ahead. I’ll try to stay optimistic.
The talk after the speech on cp24 turned to a question about whether Mr. Harper had hired a new speech writer or strategist. Good question really. Harper isn’t usually a funny guy. But he made a skinny dipping joke yesterday that didn’t flop.
Just as an aside, I’m not sure if I’ve ever put this out there, but any comments or questions can always be sent to wally.z1.0@gmail.com or sent as messages on myspace.com
Stay warm ppl, I know that it’s getting closer to the spring, but it’s not nice out there. Keep your sweaters available for a little while yet and don’t be surprised if you see snow again. I’m sorry. Don’t shoot the messenger.
And to end on a happy note… the countdown is now on for St. Patrick’s Day as we are less than a week away. Find a pub, get there early, and try not to embarrass yourself or your friends. Although, legend has it that Ted (of How I Met Your Mother fame) and his eventual wife were both at the same St. Patrick’s Day party where Ted very much made a fool of himself. Take that however you like.
That’s all for today kids.
Today’s links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubs_(TV_series) - Scrubs.
http://www.cbc.ca/mercerreport/ - Mercer Report On CBC
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090311.wharpereconomy11/BNStory/politics/home - Prime Minister Harper Talks Turn Around.
http://www.buddytv.com/articles/how-i-met-your-mother/how-i-met-your-mother-st-paddy-17712.aspx - HIMYM St. Patrick's Day Episode Rundown
I digress, but speaking of hump day I did finally watch the much hyped Canadian Film, Young People F@#$%&*. (The symbols are there because we are happily an all ages blog) I have nothing poor to say about the movie. What I will say is that it’s very much not a family movie, so kids, you’ll have to wait.
Other than that Tuesday night TV was pretty much a bust. Caught an episode of Scrubs, which made me laugh and also wonder if I might be a little bit like J.D. with the day dreaming and such. I don’t tilt my head to the side and pause my day though, I’m more of a quiet reflection kind of guy. The Batman was a re-run, but I watched most of it anyway. Rick Mercer and the Mercer Report was also a highlight on the tube. Dude always seems to make a half hour worth staying awake. And I’m pretty sure he’d be ok with me calling him dude. It also makes me giggle every time that I hear him end his show with “I’m Rick Mercer, see you next Tuesday”
Note: Myspace blog was updated last night with something I found that shocked me. It doesn’t happen much, check it out.
I want to be cautious and forewarning for a second here friends. If you are making plans for this weekend please be careful. I have no idea what the weather will bring in your particular region. But I do know that Friday is in fact the second Friday the 13th in two months, and Sunday represents the Ides of March a la Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. I’m not trying to scare you or anything, I’m just saying.
Prime Minister Stephan Harper made his first big speech regarding the recession yesterday. He told Canadians that we are in good shape to come out of this thing first because we went into it last. The facts are on our side I suppose for the most part. The banks here aren’t in as much trouble and the housing market seems to be better. But when it comes to the big 3 auto makers Canada, and more specifically Ontario, have a long hard road ahead. I’ll try to stay optimistic.
The talk after the speech on cp24 turned to a question about whether Mr. Harper had hired a new speech writer or strategist. Good question really. Harper isn’t usually a funny guy. But he made a skinny dipping joke yesterday that didn’t flop.
Just as an aside, I’m not sure if I’ve ever put this out there, but any comments or questions can always be sent to wally.z1.0@gmail.com or sent as messages on myspace.com
Stay warm ppl, I know that it’s getting closer to the spring, but it’s not nice out there. Keep your sweaters available for a little while yet and don’t be surprised if you see snow again. I’m sorry. Don’t shoot the messenger.
And to end on a happy note… the countdown is now on for St. Patrick’s Day as we are less than a week away. Find a pub, get there early, and try not to embarrass yourself or your friends. Although, legend has it that Ted (of How I Met Your Mother fame) and his eventual wife were both at the same St. Patrick’s Day party where Ted very much made a fool of himself. Take that however you like.
That’s all for today kids.
Today’s links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubs_(TV_series) - Scrubs.
http://www.cbc.ca/mercerreport/ - Mercer Report On CBC
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090311.wharpereconomy11/BNStory/politics/home - Prime Minister Harper Talks Turn Around.
http://www.buddytv.com/articles/how-i-met-your-mother/how-i-met-your-mother-st-paddy-17712.aspx - HIMYM St. Patrick's Day Episode Rundown
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Tuesday Morning Reviews and Musings
Welcome to your Tuesday readers.
Last night was of course Monday, and that meant my favourite TV night of the week. House was decent.
I really like the way that they are working in the stories of Wilson and Cuddy this season. Good times for sure.
Heroes was next and it’s drama, drama, drama as to be expected. Claire took a job at the comic book store which is fantastic as far as I’m concerned. There’s a theory that any girl automatically becomes more attractive when she walks into a comic book shop. My favourite part may have been when the manager told her that she had the job because ever since she walked in the door every guy had been staring at her, she’d sell comics. It’s also geeky pleasure that she is being given homework to learn more about the ways of the comic book kid.
Note: during Heroes NBC showed a trailer for the new Star Trek movie. Looks like it could be good for the Star Trek crowd and maybe even worth watching for the rest of us as well.
Last on the list for the night was time-shifted Chuck. Chuck is again the coolest nerd/ underdog on Prime Time. He had a gun, a broken foot and the girl of his dreams sleeping next to him. In that short summary it sounds like a pretty good episode for the Chuckster, but it’s never that simple. Supper smooth British spy dude was back and is a pretty good guy even though he’s trying to steal Sarah.
In heartbreaking, tear welling, sad faces news, Team Canada was upset by Team Italy in the World Baseball Classic and has now been eliminated. The pitching wasn’t good, which is what everybody was afraid of going in to the tournament. And to make matters worse, the hitting wasn’t very good as Canada left 11 men on base in the 9 inning game. I’m not impressed. But at least the MLB regular season is just around the corner.
Also in the sporting world, the Montreal Canadiens fired coach Guy Carbonneau. The team is currently sitting in 5th place in the Eastern Conference right now but is only 2 points away from slipping to 9th place and missing the play-offs. General Manager Bob Gainey will take over the coaching duties for the rest of the season. I’m shocked, but we’ll have to see how it goes I guess.
In the world of the internet, Wally Z is expanding. That’s right ppl, we’re on myspace now. www.myspace.com/wallyzblogger there will be mobile blog updates on the go, photos to go along with Flickr and other such internet nonsense.
The next step is to get on the Twitter train harder and get you following every where.
Just found a story on thestar.com about businesses looking at 4 day work weeks as a way to save jobs in the current economic climate. It’s an interesting theory for sure. With lots of people losing jobs outright and bringing their income to $0, are there enough people out there that would take 1 days less pay per week to keep some others working? That’s the big question. When it comes down to it, are we prepared to act when we can to help others, or just talk amongst ourselves and say how sad it is?
That’s all for today good people of cyberspace. Hope to see you soon here or at the new digs on myspace.
Today’s links:
http://www.fox.com/house/ - House
http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/ - Heroes
https://www.nbc.com/Chuck/ - Chuck
http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/2009/03/09/wbc_italy_eliminates_canada/ - Team Canada Upset By Italia
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=3965471 - Les Canadiens Fire Coach
www.myspace.com/wallyzblogger - Our Myspace Page
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/599293 - 4 Day Work Week?
Last night was of course Monday, and that meant my favourite TV night of the week. House was decent.
I really like the way that they are working in the stories of Wilson and Cuddy this season. Good times for sure.
Heroes was next and it’s drama, drama, drama as to be expected. Claire took a job at the comic book store which is fantastic as far as I’m concerned. There’s a theory that any girl automatically becomes more attractive when she walks into a comic book shop. My favourite part may have been when the manager told her that she had the job because ever since she walked in the door every guy had been staring at her, she’d sell comics. It’s also geeky pleasure that she is being given homework to learn more about the ways of the comic book kid.
Note: during Heroes NBC showed a trailer for the new Star Trek movie. Looks like it could be good for the Star Trek crowd and maybe even worth watching for the rest of us as well.
Last on the list for the night was time-shifted Chuck. Chuck is again the coolest nerd/ underdog on Prime Time. He had a gun, a broken foot and the girl of his dreams sleeping next to him. In that short summary it sounds like a pretty good episode for the Chuckster, but it’s never that simple. Supper smooth British spy dude was back and is a pretty good guy even though he’s trying to steal Sarah.
In heartbreaking, tear welling, sad faces news, Team Canada was upset by Team Italy in the World Baseball Classic and has now been eliminated. The pitching wasn’t good, which is what everybody was afraid of going in to the tournament. And to make matters worse, the hitting wasn’t very good as Canada left 11 men on base in the 9 inning game. I’m not impressed. But at least the MLB regular season is just around the corner.
Also in the sporting world, the Montreal Canadiens fired coach Guy Carbonneau. The team is currently sitting in 5th place in the Eastern Conference right now but is only 2 points away from slipping to 9th place and missing the play-offs. General Manager Bob Gainey will take over the coaching duties for the rest of the season. I’m shocked, but we’ll have to see how it goes I guess.
In the world of the internet, Wally Z is expanding. That’s right ppl, we’re on myspace now. www.myspace.com/wallyzblogger there will be mobile blog updates on the go, photos to go along with Flickr and other such internet nonsense.
The next step is to get on the Twitter train harder and get you following every where.
Just found a story on thestar.com about businesses looking at 4 day work weeks as a way to save jobs in the current economic climate. It’s an interesting theory for sure. With lots of people losing jobs outright and bringing their income to $0, are there enough people out there that would take 1 days less pay per week to keep some others working? That’s the big question. When it comes down to it, are we prepared to act when we can to help others, or just talk amongst ourselves and say how sad it is?
That’s all for today good people of cyberspace. Hope to see you soon here or at the new digs on myspace.
Today’s links:
http://www.fox.com/house/ - House
http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/ - Heroes
https://www.nbc.com/Chuck/ - Chuck
http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/2009/03/09/wbc_italy_eliminates_canada/ - Team Canada Upset By Italia
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=3965471 - Les Canadiens Fire Coach
www.myspace.com/wallyzblogger - Our Myspace Page
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/599293 - 4 Day Work Week?
Monday, March 9, 2009
Monday, Monday Morning Musings
Good morning, happy Monday, all that that jazz.
The weather is grey, windy and all around gloomy. They are calling for rain and I can already feel the cold drops on my head and neck as I make my way home later. *Shutter*
This weekend was a great preview for summer though. Friday we hit highs of 18 degrees Celsius in Toronto setting a new record for March 6th and all weekend there was baseball on TV. In 2 days I was able to watch part of or all 5 World Baseball Classic games. There were upsets with the Netherlands beating the Dominican Republic and Australia beating Mexico. Both were special events for the winning teams. The Australians played in the inaugural WBC in 2006 and in 3 games had a total of 9 hits and scored 4 runs. On Sunday night in Mexico City they had 22 base hits and scored 17 runs. As for the Dutch, they won a 3-2 thriller and shocked the baseball world with their win on Saturday. I loved them both. Canada plays Italia today at 6:30 at the Rogers Centre and need to win against the heavy underdog or they will be eliminated right away.
The Watchmen opened this weekend and won the box office (as if there was any doubt) with $55.7 million in sales. Reports are also out that Dr. Manhattan is not all Billy Crudup, if you know what I mean.
Find me at www.myspace.com/wallyzblogger there isn’t a whole lot of info there yet, but we’ll change that soon enough. Be one of the first to add as a friend and I’ll love you forever.
Barbie is turning 50! That’s right my friends, the Matel Blonde Bombshell has hit the big 5-0 and now she has tattoos. There’s a bunch of public outcry about it, and I can see why. Barbie is a little girl’s toy, little girls aren’t supposed to have tattoos or want tattoos, and if they do well Angelina Jolie can be the reason.
This is me asking everyone to commit to a Spring Cleaning act of green. If you’re out walking around your town or city and you see trash that has thawed out of a sow bank, pick a piece up and throw it out. It’s cheap, easy and can make a noticeable difference. I’ll admit that I’m stealing the idea from David Suzuki and his Act of Green while he was on The Hour with Strombo.
Speaking of Strombo, I’ve added The Hour blog and Rick Mercer’s blog to the links there on the left. Both are pretty good reads.
Not much else rattling around in my brain today. I hope that everyone enjoys their start to the week.
Today’s links:
http://web.worldbaseballclassic.com/index.jsp - World Baseball Classic.
http://ca.movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808406490/video/12282377 - Watchmen Clips and Trailers.
http://www.imdb.com/news/ns0000002/#ni0702583 - Watchmen Tops Box Office.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/03/05/Tattoo_Barbie_raises_concerns/UPI-48891236288047/ - Tattoo Barbie.
The weather is grey, windy and all around gloomy. They are calling for rain and I can already feel the cold drops on my head and neck as I make my way home later. *Shutter*
This weekend was a great preview for summer though. Friday we hit highs of 18 degrees Celsius in Toronto setting a new record for March 6th and all weekend there was baseball on TV. In 2 days I was able to watch part of or all 5 World Baseball Classic games. There were upsets with the Netherlands beating the Dominican Republic and Australia beating Mexico. Both were special events for the winning teams. The Australians played in the inaugural WBC in 2006 and in 3 games had a total of 9 hits and scored 4 runs. On Sunday night in Mexico City they had 22 base hits and scored 17 runs. As for the Dutch, they won a 3-2 thriller and shocked the baseball world with their win on Saturday. I loved them both. Canada plays Italia today at 6:30 at the Rogers Centre and need to win against the heavy underdog or they will be eliminated right away.
The Watchmen opened this weekend and won the box office (as if there was any doubt) with $55.7 million in sales. Reports are also out that Dr. Manhattan is not all Billy Crudup, if you know what I mean.
Find me at www.myspace.com/wallyzblogger there isn’t a whole lot of info there yet, but we’ll change that soon enough. Be one of the first to add as a friend and I’ll love you forever.
Barbie is turning 50! That’s right my friends, the Matel Blonde Bombshell has hit the big 5-0 and now she has tattoos. There’s a bunch of public outcry about it, and I can see why. Barbie is a little girl’s toy, little girls aren’t supposed to have tattoos or want tattoos, and if they do well Angelina Jolie can be the reason.
This is me asking everyone to commit to a Spring Cleaning act of green. If you’re out walking around your town or city and you see trash that has thawed out of a sow bank, pick a piece up and throw it out. It’s cheap, easy and can make a noticeable difference. I’ll admit that I’m stealing the idea from David Suzuki and his Act of Green while he was on The Hour with Strombo.
Speaking of Strombo, I’ve added The Hour blog and Rick Mercer’s blog to the links there on the left. Both are pretty good reads.
Not much else rattling around in my brain today. I hope that everyone enjoys their start to the week.
Today’s links:
http://web.worldbaseballclassic.com/index.jsp - World Baseball Classic.
http://ca.movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808406490/video/12282377 - Watchmen Clips and Trailers.
http://www.imdb.com/news/ns0000002/#ni0702583 - Watchmen Tops Box Office.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/03/05/Tattoo_Barbie_raises_concerns/UPI-48891236288047/ - Tattoo Barbie.
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