Christmas, Part II
In an hour or two, I’ll be heading off to my parents’ place for Christmas. I’ll likely spend the rest of the long weekend there. I assume that most of my readers will be doing something similar–spending Christmas with whomever you call “family.”
For those of you who don’t celebrate Christmas (or if you just need [...]
Double Plus Christmas
I will be celebrating two Christmases this year. If you don’t know me, you might assume that, in addition to “regular” Christmas, I’m also celebrating Ukrainian Christmas (aka: Orthodox Christmas). Given that I live in Edmonchuk, this would be a reasonable assumption. It would not, however, be correct. In case my surname wasn’t an indication, [...]
I am Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” (And you are too!)
Every year, Time picks someone to be “Person of the Year.” Normally, this person would be someone famous–a politician, celebrity, or religious leader. This year, however, the honour has been given to me. And you. And probably most of the people you know. According to a preview of the December 25, 2006 issue, Time’s Person [...]
Wine Trivia
I don’t drink a lot of wine, but I do enjoy it. I also enjoy learning about wine–mostly because it makes me appear to be more sophisticated than I actually am. Here are a few bits of wine related trivia I’ve picked up recently. Perhaps these tidbits of information will help you to appear more [...]
Giving the Gift of (Local) Words
Each Christmas, I buy at least one book for at least one person. There are some people for whom I have rarely bought any other than books. This year, I’m trying to buy books by local authors for people on my gift list. I’m not buying books for everyone–I’ve got at least one person on [...]
Random Musings
Once, long ago, someone thought to themselves, “You know what’s funny? Fake dog poop.” And they built a factory to mass produce the stuff.
Years later, after much success, they decided that fake barf was also funny.
To this day, Carrot Top wannabes keep the fake dog poop and fake vomit manufacturers in business.
Sometimes, I hate capitalism.
Psiphon Knocks Down Virtual Berlin Wall
On Friday, researchers at the University of Toronto launched Psiphon, a web application that allows people in internet-censored countries to bypass the censors and gain safe access to information that their governments don’t want them to see.
According to the CBC, “Psiphon works by letting people in uncensored countries download the free software to run a [...]