Monthly Archives: June 2016
Christian Mingle
They make movies with the flimsiest of premises these days. There are films based on books, on comics (excuse me, I mean graphic novels), on true stories, on news events, and on video games. So I guess a film based on a dating website was inevitable. If I had seen Christian Mingle in the theatre […]
Unanswered Questions
The posts in this blog normally go up at 2 a.m. my time while I am fast asleep. I initially wrote this a year ago, and it never seemed like the right time to post it. Mixed feelings I guess. I am still having mixed feelings, but given that today is Father’s Day (in North […]
Cuban Baseball
Suppose you had to choose between the dream of a lifetime and ever seeing you family again. How would you choose? What if the choice was between riches and poverty? That’s an easy one. Except with the money you lose your family and your home. Does that change the equation? There are a group of […]
Keep Calm and Drive Over
For some reason the City of Ottawa installed traffic calming devices on my street a couple of weeks ago. There was no warning, no consultation with the community, just the installation of black and yellow dividers in the middle of the street. I’m assuming the intent is to slow traffic, though I’ve never noticed speed […]
The Warning
I take computer security pretty seriously. I have anti-virus software and do regular scans and backups. I try to avoid questionable websites. Over the years I have picked up the occasional virus from mis-typing (amazing how creative the crooks are; misspelling “Google” caused me problems once). But I’ve come across nothing I haven’t been able […]
Techological Failure
I had what I thought was a pretty good post for today. Mind you, my opinion n these things can be suspect. I wrote it on the bus yesterday coming home from work. The words flowed effortlessly. They were both amusing and thought provoking as I expounded on a rather curious experience I had with […]
Middle Eastern Conflict
I was at a briefing recently on Parliament Hill about the situation in Northern Iraq. I can’t tell you about it. One of the reasons I attended was to get an update on what is happening in the region. I was there twice last year and do feel I have a bit of connection to […]
Nahum’s Tomb
Anyplace else they would make this into a major tourist attraction. In Alqosh I didn’t see any signs to indicate what was there. In a ruined synagogue, open to the elements, is the tomb of the Old Testament prophet Nahum. The stone tomb is covered by a tarpaulin of sorts. This is not on the […]
They Called Him Mr. Hockey
He was 47 years old and the best player on the ice I grew up watching Gordie Howe on television, though by that point, the early 1960s, his star was somewhat dimmed. He’d been in the NHL since 1946 – a league where the average player career is about six seasons. At that point he […]
Northern Ramadan
The sun rose yesterday at eleven minutes before one a.m. in Pangnirtung in northern Canada. It set at 11:55 p.m. No, that is not a misprint. They had less than an hour of darkness. Looking at the Environment Canada website it seems to me that further north there is no sunrise or sunset, that […]
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