In the good old days, when I didn't give a hot damn about nutrition labels, I'd likely gravitate towards the Presidents Choice Gigantico burgers. Don't they look good?

Each Gigantico hamburger contains 34 grams of fat. 34!

This weekend, I'll enjoy Presidents Choice Blue Menu Sirloin lean beef burgers. These, I must admit, are also very, very good.

Oh... and each Blue Menu hamburger only contains 8 grams of fat.

Ignorance is bliss, but awareness is essential. And that's one to grow on.

I'll bet you know where this story's going... "Who's that?", was her reply.

Who's Beaver Cleaver? Really? This 23-year old Canadian-born English-speaking woman had never heard of Beaver Cleaver.

I was floored. Leave it to Beaver aired well before my time, but it's forever available in syndication. Furthermore, as a pop culture reference it should even be known by those who have never seen an episode.

I'm going to assume every person who will ever read this entry has heard of Beaver Cleaver, am I right?

Incredibly, from 1949 to 2010, the name Michael has ranked in the top four. Even more incredibly, from 1953 to 2010, it ranked in the top three, usually finishing first.

Growing up, there were always at least three Mikes or Michaels in my class. That's 10% of us with the same first name.

I played a couple of slo-pitch games last night with two other Mikes, and the three of us have been on this team for a decade. There are literally thousands and thousands of Toronto Mikes...

I'm willing to bet a bunch of you are named Michael or Mike. Chime in if that's you.

Through the years I've shared a number of CFNY lists, all of which can be found at http://www.torontomike.com/cfny_edge_102/, but this 1993 list caught my eye for a few reasons:

1. In 1993 I was almost never without a radio and listened to a shitload of CFNY
2. Most of this list are albums I owned and loved
3. Terrestrial radio in this city used to play some pretty sweet stuff, aforementioned bias aside

Here's the list:

1. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
2. Nirvana - In Utero
3. Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion
4. Pearl Jam - Vs.
5. New Order - Republic
6. Radiohead - Pablo Honey
7. Breeders - Last Splash
8. Catherine Wheel - Chrome
9. U2 - Zooropa
10. Porno For Pyros - Porno For Pyros
11. James - Laid
12. Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstacy
13. Bjork - Debut
14. Pet Shop Boys - Very
15. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
16. Suede - Suede
17. The The - Dusk
18. Juliana Hatfield Three - Become What You Are
19. The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can't I?
20. Lemonheads - Come On Feel The Lemonheads
21. P.J. Harvey - Rid Of Me
22. Stone Temple Pilots - Core
23. Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
24. Doughboys - Crush
25. Adorable - Against Perfection
26. Belly - Star
27. Tea Party - Splendor Solis
28. Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way?
29. hHead - Fireman
30. Tool - Undertow
31. Kate Bush - The Red Shoes
32. I Mother Earth - Dig
33. Dinosaur Jr- Where You Been
34. Jane Siberry - When I Was A Boy
35. Various - 1993 CFNY New Music Search
36. Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
37. Blind Lemon - Blind Lemon
38. Verve - A Storm In Heaven
39. Frank Black - Frank Black
40. Trash Can Sinatras - I've Seen Everything
41. Midnight Oil - Earth And Sun And Moon
42. 13 Engines - Perpetual Motion Machine
43. Dead Can Dance - Into The Labyrinth
44. Curve - Cuckoo
45. Revolting Cocks - Linger Ficken' Good & Other...
46. Swervedriver - Mescalhead
47. Eric's Trip - Love Tara
48. Wonder Stuff - Construction For The Modern Idiot
49. Primus - Pork Soda
50. R.E.M - Automatic For The People
51. Concrete Blonde - Mexican Moon
52. Front 242 - :06:21:03:11 Up Evil
53. Matthew Sweet - Altered Beast
54. Urge Overkill - Saturation
55. Cocteau Twins - Four Calendar Cafe
56. Soul Asylum - Grave Dancer's Union
57. Spirit Of The West - Faithlift
58. World Party - Bang!
59. Cracker - Kerosene Hat
60. New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Body Exit Mind
61. Odds - Bedbugs
62. (missing)
63. Jesus Jones - Perverse
64. Beloved - Conscience
65. Cranes - Jewel
66. The Watchmen - McLaren Furnace Room
67. The Fall - Infotainment Scan
68. Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - Sport Fishin'
69. Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Are You Normal?
70. Hothouse Flowers - Songs From The Rain
71. Mystery Machine - Glazed
72. INXS - Full Moon Dirty Heart
73. Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Don't Know How To Party
74. Hunters & Collectors - Cut
75. House Of Love - Audience With The Mind
76. Daniel Lanois - For The Love Of Wynona
77. Tears For Fears - Elemental
78. Acid Test - Drop
79. Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
80. Paul Weller - Wildwood
81. Stereo MCs - Connected
82. Ocean Blue - Beneath The Rhythm And Sound
83. Revolver - Cold Water Flat
84. Rose Chronicles - Dead And Gone To Heaven
85. Waterboys - Dream Harder
86. Machines Of Loving Grace - Concentration
87. Bad Religion - Recipe For Hate
88. Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet
89. Peter Gabriel - Us
90. Cowboy Junkies - Pale Sun, Crescent Moon
91. UB40 - Promises & Lies
92. Crash Vegas - Stone
93. Dada - Puzzle
94. Teenage Fanclub - Thirteen
95. Moxy Fruvous - Bargainville
96. Mae Moore - Bohemia
97. Various - Stone Free
98. Buffalo Tom - Big Red Letter Day
99. Various - Sweet Relief
100. Rymes With Orange - Peel
101. Redd Kross - Phaseshifter
102. Pursuit Of Happiness - The Downward Road

Almost twenty years later, the station continues to play tunes from a few of these albums, mainly those from Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Radiohead and STP, but they haven't played New Order in quite some time...

These settings are currently applied to my Samsung GALAXY S II, but it was pretty much the same when I had a BlackBerry. I'm going to ignore settings for Twitter, Facebook and other apps and stick with the big 3.

Phone Calls: Frequent callers have a custom ringtone. Non-frequent callers get the default ringtone (currently grabbed from a Beastie Boys tune), and everybody vibrates.

Text Messages: Both sound and vibration.

Email: Nothing. I get far too many emails to be bothered with an audio or vibration alert, although I'm not yet at 1000 emails a day.

Ok, your turn. How are you notified of phone calls, text messages and emails?

And here's the car stereo I actually have today. Please suppress your laughter.

The CD player hasn't worked since 2006... My kingdom for an Aux-in!

The Lamster Line will remain in tact as my Palma Pasta buddy tied it with 22. But who of the 14 poolies will be taking home cold hard cash? There are three with a shot at winning, and each is relying on a different team.

Bob could win with his Kings. Bob's an awesome guy and I'm sure he'll tip the Commish if he wins.

Pats could win with his Coyotes. Pats is a better guy than he is a right fielder, but he won in 2009 and I doubt he'll tip the Commish if he wins.

My brother Steve could win with his Rangers. Although Steve won last year and there's no way he'll tip the Commish if he wins.

It's going to be a fun finish.

For the current standings go here.

It was a quieter week in the city. Our mayor didn't mug a single reporter, the 2nd round of the NHL playoffs is winding down and men all across the GTA are wondering what to get their mothers for Mother's Day. You're welcome for the reminder.

Discuss anything you want. And if you have a question, I'll drop by throughout the day to answer them.

Out of curiosity, I wanted to find out when I embedded a YouTube video on this blog for the first time. It was February 4, 2006 when I shared Brokeback to the Future.

Less than a year later, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion. Coincidence? I think not.

I borrow that sentiment from Clint Eastwood, who says it better than I ever could.

Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want...

I only know his name because of ads like this and couldn't be escaped in the 80s.

I can dig it.

That of course is Tank Man, he of the iconic photo below.

I've always just known this second photo. I didn't realize there were other angles and additional footage, like this:

Nobody knows what happened to Tank Man. What's tragic is that youth in China aren't aware of Tank Man and many have never seen these images as they're censored by the Communist Party of China.

Here's hoping the very courageous Tank Man escaped the CPC and went into hiding where he remains safe to this day.

I saw she recently posted a promotion from one of those star naming companies. Basically, you adopt a star and give it any name you want. It sounds like a pretty cool gift, doesn't it?

The thing is, it's a scam. You can't buy star naming rights.

As an international scientific organization, the IAU dissociates itself entirely from the commercial practice of "selling" fictitious star names or "real estate" on other planets or moons in the Solar System. Accordingly, the IAU maintains no list of the (several competing) enterprises in this business in individual countries of the world.  Readers wanting to contact such enterprises despite the explanations given below should search commercial directories in their country of origin.

Go ahead and name that star, but don't give these companies a penny. Your certificate won't be worth the paper it's printed on.