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Passport Madness

Since January of this year, passport offices in Canada have been in turmoil from opening to closing each day. Since the US requires a passport for air travel as of 2007, Canadians have been scurrying like rabid wolverines to get their travel documents in order before leaving for destinations in our neighbor trading partner. […]

Traffic Woes

Major metropolitan areas are always devising ways of limiting traffic congestion. City council and other bureaucratic levels of government have spent countless hours and tax payers’ money towards planning, developing, and initiating construction to at least subside the increasing level of traffic and commuter frustration. Even New York City is thinking of implementing […]

FYI, 13yo skool grl is nu US txt mssg chmpN. It was bound to happen. There are spelling bees and cup building competitions for kids so why not have a text messaging championship for kids as well, right? At least text messaging is useful compared to cup building and spelling. […]

Blogging is fun

This is my first month of blogging and there haven’t been too many posts. It’s taken a while for me to set-up everything and even though it’s not hard, I’ve been lazy and distracted with a new day job. Everything is still not to my liking but it’s enough to start and I […]

I’m sure everyone has heard about the team of scientists that have been developing an invisibility cloak like the one used by Harry Potter. This is pretty amazing that they are undertaking such a seemingly impossible task. What I don’t understand is shouldn’t this be a top secret and highly classified […]

BJ Shea Morning Experience

There’s not much of a radio scene in Vancouver. If you are a fan of talk radio for men in the 18-44 age demographic then there aren’t many choices. Most people use their radio to listen to music as background noise anyways. It’s to drown out the misery of rush-hour traffic. Luckily I was able […]

Miniature Coffin for Wedding Rings?!

 
In last weekend’s Vancouver Sun paper, there was an article about a New York-based company that is offering a tiny coffin for wedding rings to mark the end of a marriage. “Give a dead marriage its proper, final resting place” is the sales pitch of the company.
“The Wedding Ring Coffin is the […]

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