We in Raging Storm held our first practice of the season tonight.  We're breaking in a few newbies so we wanted to hook up and shake some of the rust off. After the game, Rich asked a few of us who lingered to shoot the shite if we wanted a

A couple of months ago I wrote about a business proposal I got from a Taiwan Business Bank.  Apparently there's $44.5m USD sitting in a dormant account and the account holder is dead. They can't find a living relative, so Mr. Hsu is willing to let me pose as

"Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes". ~ Benny Franklin For years I kicked it old school with my taxes.  I filled in the forms by hand and mailed them to Revenue Canada.  At some point I discovered that after I filled in the forms by hand

Today, after a long, harsh winter, the sun came out and it practically felt like spring.  I spent the first half of the day helping my brother move, then I watched the Jays game and got a little work done, but after dinner I was put to real work. My

I just know this is going to be one of those entries I regret writing, but what the heck.  I am a good mover. First and foremost, I'm dependable.  If you say Saturday morning at 8am, I'm there.  Dependability is key. I'm also efficient.  I don't need breaks, I aim

This tickled my funny bone.  Enjoy a little Friday funny.

I shared an experience I had with my Prima television back on January 14, 2007 @ 13:26.  I felt better just writing that entry, and a regular reader of this blog even gave me a TV he had collecting dust after I shared my pain.  Little did I know at

I was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal today.  Reporter Matt Phillips was collecting info for a story he's doing on cassette tapes and how mix tapes compare to today's MP3 playlist.  He came across this picture of my old tapes and asked me if I would talk to him

As Marge Simpson would say, now I've seen everything! And before you call bullshit, this is the real deal.  Aristotle once said that elephants were "The beast which passeth all others in wit and mind".

This weekend I caught an old episode of Family Guy.  Peter saw the rabbit from those old Trix commercials and said, "Noooo, silly rabbit, Trix are for kids. Damn long-ears trying to steal Easter from Jesus." This day is either all about Jesus or all about that damn long-ears.  For

This quiz is kind of interesting, as it sort of gauges your familiarity with web memes and such, like the flying spaghetti monster and lonelygirl15. I'm pretty tapped into this world, but not nearly as tapped in as I thought.  There were a few questions I was totally clueless about.

The number of unique visitors to this site spiked today.  When that happens, a quick glance at the referral links reveals the reason.  Today's spike in traffic to TorontoMike.com has everything to do with the vernal equinox. If your Latin skills are rusty, today is the first day of

I've been slapping pages on the web for a decade now.  A long time ago, after a great deal of experimentation, I concluded that Verdana was your best bet when designing a commercial site, particularly if that site was for a software vendor. Before we all had to have blogs,

A few weeks ago, I started hearing "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" on television again, but it wasn't before an episode of Cheers.  The song had been licensed for use in commercials for Kelsey's restaurants. This was the first time I remember hearing this song promoting something other than Cheers

The conclusion of the Santa Claus Parade is always the big Santa float. Naturally, the conclusion of the St. Patrick's Day Parade is the arrival of St. Patrick himself. He rolls by in the back of a pick up truck in some Popemobile phone booth thing and waves. Hastily pasted

I just got an email from a loyal reader who enjoys "all entries except the ones about sports."  She thinks I've had way too many sports-related entries lately and she'd like me to write less about sports and more about "other stuff". Here are the last 40 entries I've posted

I forgot to share this when it first went viral over a month ago, but better late than never.  This is a wicked stunt at Grand Central Station in New York where hundreds of people freeze at the same time. I'm sharing this because we had better be planning something

There are some things I just don't get. I don't get curling.  It's shuffleboard on ice, right?  I hate the way I feel un-Canadian in my disinterest, but I just don't care about this sport. I don't get Justin Timberlake.  I guess he's a handsome guy, but is he that

This awesome video is 500 years of female portraits in western art. After you watch, go here for the complete list of artists and paintings.

It's 9:17pm, do you know where your wife is?  Check the computer.  If your wife is anything like my wife, she's attending the church of Oprah. That's right, Taryn has registered on Oprah.com for a 10-week Web seminar with Winfrey and Eckhart Tolle, author of A New Earth,

After a few years with little snowfall, my shovel got used to one, maybe two big snowstorms a winter.  This winter, however, there have been several days of heavy duty shovelling. My shovel got one hell of a workout, and earlier today, as I was shovelling the walk, it gave

I was just reading that Mike Smith of the Dave Clark 5 had passed away from pneumonia.  Earlier this week, goaltender Mike Smith was traded by Dallas to Tampa Bay.  That Mike Smith once wore a Tragically Hip mask I wrote about here. As a Mike, I probably take better

In response to Sarah Silverman f**king Matt Damon, Jimmy Kimmel retorted with a star-studded cast.  He's f**king Ben Affleck. And yes, I wrote "retorted".

On my Contact Me page I've got a Meebo widget that actually provides visitors to that page with an instant messenger connection with me.  I use Meebo throughout the day so I know when somebody loads that page. Today I saw somebody sitting on that page for a while, so

It's time to re-purpose some content...  Four years ago today, when there were approximately 40 unique visitors to this site each day, I wrote a little tribute to a man who helped provide the soundtrack to my early years of life.  Kenny Rogers still does it for me, as I