Joy caught on tape

Via Jezebel
In this video, Canadian supermodel Coco Rocha makes like silly string and rocks out with her dad to the Jungle Book song “I wanna be like you.”  They are so totally adorable together, and are clearly having a blast.  Watching this video was definitely a happy way to end the [...]

Testing the iPhone WordPress app by posting a cute picture of my parents’ dog!

My parents’ dog Bacchus…what a sweetie! I could cuddle that snuggly guy all day.

Change Camp Ottawa 2009 – fertile ground for the imagination

Today I’ve been meeting all kinds of interesting and inspiring folk at Change Camp Ottawa, an “unconference” on reimagining government and citizenship in the age of participation.  It’s been a really neat event – the participants set the agenda collaboratively, people were free to roam between sessions, there were lots of great discussions, and people [...]

Girl with mop, interrupted

Famous last words from my last post re. spring cleaning:
We’re chipping away at it a little every day, and I know that by the end of our holiday we’ll be living in a clean, serene and organized space.
HA!  Well, the universe certainly didn’t have that in store for us.  We did make some great progress [...]

Rich kid paints a 60 foot penis on his parents’ mansion

Saw this on the news today and nearly keeled over laughing.  From BBC News:
An 18-year-old has secretly painted a 60ft drawing of a phallus on the roof of his parents’ £1million mansion in Berkshire. It was there for a year before his parents found out. They say he’ll have to scrub it off when he [...]

Womanizer Parody

I know, another video, but I couldn’t help myself!  This is a really well-done parody of Britney’s “womanizer” vid.  Maybe I’m just biased, hitched as I am to a headset-wearing, WoW playing, chewbacca action figure owning, Star Trek and Star Wars reference spouting, super awesome nerdy man

Know Your Mushrooms

I’m going to see this documentary tomorrow night. It looks pretty interesting – check out this hilarious excerpt. The only thing more entertaining than the space-travel story is that it’s told by a middle-aged guy that looks like a mild-mannered duck conservationist.
This film is on a double-bill with another [...]

Big Oops on the RRSP front

As much as I morbidly doubt that I’ll make it to a ripe old retirement age, I still dutifully contribute to my RRSP.  This year taking a small loan from my line of credit seemed worth it considering that I would get half of it back in my tax return and could pay off [...]

Murse!

Ever since we travelled together to BC last summer, I’ve been nagging my partner to get a murse (for the uninitiated, murse = man purse).  I have a great little rugged purse from Derek Alexander that is perfect for travel – it has all the right pockets to hold maps, camera, phone, passport, etc., and [...]

Brr!

It is -35°C with the wind chill today. What is up with that.
Well, at least this deep freeze will make for some good skating on the canal, that is, once it’s warmed up enough to go skating without getting frostbite.
I just want to cocoon inside the apartment with my huge slippers on, wrap myself in [...]