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Archive for the 'quotes' Category


Why I still use my own Gallery…

Monday, September 10th, 2007

A couple people asked why I don’t upload more photos to Facebook, rather than making people click over to my gallery site. Here are my reasons, and I don’t think I need to justify any further than that:
1. Users. Facebook needs a password. My gallery is open. As much as I’d find [...]

An Ugly Twist

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

I kid you not. I found this article posted on Digg this afternoon. It caught me off guard and I got a little chuckle.
Title: Why Doesn’t Evolution Get Rid of Ugly People?
Quote: (about half way down the page) “…scientists studied red deer…”
Link: Click here.
Check. It’s in there. I’m just saying…. [...]

out of my mind… mish mash…

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

Mazda called. Mein Auto ist hier! It not only exists, but it’s sitting in a lot about a kilometer away from where I’m writing these words.
Now, too bad we can’t pick it up for a few more days.
The truck is going back to Red Deer for a while. Anyone interested [...]

bacon bits

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
- Sir Francis Bacon

If I were certain about anything, I’d be boring, I suppose. I imagine it has something to do with the argument that suggests we [...]

raising a hypochondriac

Tuesday, September 16th, 2003

The B-Line transit route that I normally take to work has made some minor improvements to it’s route as of late:
a) They now have a bus route specifically for UBC students, just as frequent and expressly for those going to the campus — which I am not — meaning that all those students aren’t riding [...]

guy

Thursday, May 29th, 2003

Some guy hunched on the corner of Granville and Broadway — as I go for a short breath of fresh sunny Vancouver air this lunch break — has a sign limply propped up that reads:
“WHY DO YOU HAVE SO MUCH CONTEMPT FOR ME. YOU JUDGE ME BEFORE YOU KNOW ME. SOMEONE STOLE MY [...]

revenge.of.the.nerds

Tuesday, February 18th, 2003

Everyone’s favorite self-referencing news source, Slashdot, posted a link to this article about the life of the high-school nerd, and it’s root cause. It caught my attention on this slow-trickle of a Tuesday afternoon, and so I skimmed through it in search of some uplifting inspiration for the state of my past lives. A summary [...]

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