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I now work from home. There are so many positives to working from home, but it's not all bread and roses. It's fantastic having no commute and very few interruptions, but there are a few problems when working from home. Here are four: You'll Forget to ShaveIt turns out you
It's roll up the rim time, Canada. Brace yourself.
Damn right I cheer for Milos Raonic. Local boy Raonic captured a second straight SAP Open championship yesterday behind a powerful serve nobody in San Jose could solve, rolling past Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 7-6 (3), 6-2 in the finals. Every time Raonic wins, I think of this line from
As Linsanity cools down, and newspapers struggle to come up with more puns, something like this was bound to happen. ESPN used the headline "Chink In The Armour" for 35 minutes early this morning. Now that's racist!
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews wants to give police agencies too much power to snoop and violate our privacy. But when his privacy is violated, his knickers are immediately knotted. Bill C-30 seem very un-Canadian to me.
We beat up on radio a lot these days, but it's not all terrible. I've caught a lot of the Tim and Sid show afternoons on Sportsnet 590 The FAN lately, and it's good. Tim Micallef and Sid Seixeiro, formerly from The Score, have great chemistry and put on a
Gary Carter was 57. The Kid was an 11-time All-Star catcher for the Montreal Expos and the New York Mets and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2003.
Neil Hope was 35. He played Derek “Wheels” Wheeler on Degrassi: The Next Generation, Degrassi Junior High and The Kids of Degrassi Street. Neil actually passed away on November 25, 2007, but this was only made public today January 12. I was a big Degrassi fan, and just last year
I listen to a lot of CBC Radio One these days, and Jim Curran is the soothing voice I hear delivering traffic reports. I no longer commute to work, but I still enjoy his calm delivery. There's 40 years of experience in that voice of his! Jim Curran is retiring
Yes, the Jeremy Lin story is fascinating, I especially like this Sports Illustrated article about the point guard, but the puns are getting annoying. This tweet of mine was meant to be a send up on the Linsanity we experienced in this city yesterday. Here's a nice montage of Jeremy
I sat down this evening to write about my supreme disappointment with our professional sports franchises. Then I remembered I wrote this entry two years ago. Disappointment with Toronto's teams is par for the course. Last night, I watched the Raptors because of all the Linsanity hype. I was pretty
Happy Valentine's Day. I choo-choo-choose you.
I watched most of the Grammys yesterday, and I was baffled by the Chris Brown love. He kept coming back, and the crowd kept loving it... It was a Chris Brown love-in and I don't get it. Help me understand why everybody loves this guy. Sure, he can dance, but
About four years ago, I had a pretty good idea. I wanted to create Toronto-centric Valentine's Day cards featuring local prominent figures, past and present. Here are the few I threw together. Feel free to take this torch and run with it. We've still got time.
Deadmau5 pranked Skrillex by wearing a t-shirt with Skrillex's personal cellphone number on it. That's right, if you need to get ahold of Skrillex, just call 626-319-1039. Update: Skrillex is now forwarding his calls to Deadmau5' phone. Deadmau5 is forwarding these calls to Markus Persson, creator of Minecraft. My son
Whitney Houston was 48. She reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown. She is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits with "Saving All
I just heard about some flash freeze we'll get tonight. Be careful out there... Use the comments of this entry to discuss anything you want. Seriously... I almost never delete a comment!
The Catholic Church of Montreal has Habs fans praying for a miracle. In an ad run in La Presse and Le Journal de Montreal newspapers, they've printed the hopeful final NHL standings with 8th place occupied by "Pray". With the Montreal Canadiens currently sitting in 14th place, it's going to
For my visually challenged friends, here's the quote from Sam Harris. Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, "Well, that's not how I choose to think about water."? All we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn't share those values,
This is my home entertainment centre in the mid-90s. Judging from the parquet flooring, I'd say this is 1996. Fifteen or so years later, five integral parts of this set-up are dated. There's a VCR on top of the television - the VCR was buried long agoThe stereo has a
This 9-year old kid plays Ralph Stanley's' How Mountain Girls Can Love on a banjo like a mofo. His name is Jonny Mizzone and he and his brothers are the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys. My 9-year old played like this: I might be biased, but I'd say my son did
I've just returned from opening night of In The Heights at the Toronto Centre For The Arts. Excuse me, DanCap Productions has just advised me it's to be written IN THE HEIGHTS. That's not me yelling, just me following orders. I didn't think I liked these musical things, but this
"You'll Never Walk Alone" is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. You might know it best from soccer football matches, particularly when they involve Liverpool, or maybe as the song Jerry Lewis used to sing at the end of his Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon. I've
