Forget for a moment the debate on the relative benefits of income tax cuts vs. consumption tax cuts. Just thinking about the upcoming 1% reduction in the GST, there’s lots of little cases where the consumer is sure to be screwed by vendors not passing along the savings. Last Wednesday & Thursday provided [...]
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If it weren’t for the violence, the Muslim protests over ‘caricatures’ would just be hilarious. Talk about your bad, stereo-type affirming PR. Someone outta be fired. ‘Cause you know, none of the protesters would ever insult another religion. And I guess Lego won’t be producing that Prophet Muhammad set anytime soon. I love how that Iranian [...] Spammers, you can fuck off and die. Of course, you’re not likely to be reading this since it’s your automated scripts that are doing the dirty work, but the point stands. I got sick and tired of the comment spam over the past few weeks. I guess once you’ve been identified as using open [...] A bit of a timeout here before I get on with more FilmFest posts about actual movies. For the most part, the audiences have been stellar … well behaved, polite, enthusiastic in showing their support, etc. Of course, that doesn’t mean I don’t have a second installment of Things That Annoy Steve: When people, [...] I think I might start a new category for posts, simply listing little things that annoy me. Often just dumb little things that wouldn’t bother a “normal” person all that much. Today’s entry: People who repeatedly try to double-click hyperlinks. Thoughts of a Rogers-free existence proved to be premature. A couple of days ago a charge for July services was posted to my credit card, despite the fact that it was all cancelled at the end of June. It took me almost 25 minutes to get the rep on the phone to understand the situation. [...] It was déjà vu all over again for Rob & Kennah’s wedding a couple of weekends ago: pick up Kyle at GO station on Friday afternoon, go eat (added twist: went to see a movie – an Imax-size Batman Begins … great movie by the way … tangents to tangents …), drop him off with [...] I’ve got a backlog of posts to put up here, but I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the whole Live 8 thing. It’s a nice idea that with a concerted effort and focus from the world’s well-off that we could actually do something to “eliminate” poverty. But after the warm-fuzziness of such [...] I’m taking a few minutes out of my lunch break to curse Kyle and Dean. For some reason, the banana phone song featured prominently in a dream I had last night. Now ever since I woke up, I can’t get the damn thing out of my head! I just finished watching Far From Heaven, starring the divine Julianne Moore. A period piece set in the late fifties, it’s a methodic, character driven movie involving an idealistic family (well-respected father, devoted wife, two kids, nice house, etc, etc). The movie deals with such issues as homosexuality (& phobia), racism, and domestic abuse. Just [...] Fuck. I’ve gotta stop watching Raptors games. Their inconsistency drives me crazy and I get so frustrated watching them blow it like this afternoon. The worst part is that I don’t understand why I get so worked up about it, or think that there’s any meaning to stuff like this (or any [...] I got back yesterday morning from a four-day trip to Ottawa. I traveled there overnight Wednesday and then took the 12:30 am bus out of there Sunday night/Monday morning. But before I get into that, the previous week was full of fun stuff. On the Wednesday I made a trip to London where Patti [...] I boot up my computer this morning, and I’m greeted with a notice about a critical update for Windows. The culprit? This item updates the Bookshelf Symbol 7 font included in some Microsoft products. The font has been found to contain unacceptable symbols. After you install this item, you may have to restart [...] Oh man, I go crazy trying to understand what the hell goes on in the mind of my roommate Dan. Example from this morning, not five minutes ago: We pass each other in the hallway, as I go into the bathroom to brush my teeth. Clearly he knows I’m in the house. As [...] I’m such a slacker. That doesn’t quite describe it. I have zero motivation for the material I have due next week. I finished off one report on Thursday, and did a good chunk of the group one (I’m fairly certain it hasn’t been touched by my group members since e-mailing it to them Tuesday night) [...] |
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