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Suppressing Intelligence since 2004
Suppressing Intelligence since 2004
Aug 27th
I’m a bit out of ideas at the moment. Well, I have lots of ideas, but not the time to do the typing. I’m currently editing some video, which should be up by the time this is posted.
I have one more vid after the Tabbouleh video; Making Peaches.
Ugh.
[updated]
Aug 26th
It’s Linda’s Birthday today. If you know Linda, email her and wish her a Happy Birthday. If you don’t know her email, just leave a comment, and I’ll make sure she gets it.
I won’t post what I got for her, as Linda hates surprises and has already bought presents for herself from me.
What a wonderful wife. She’s so thoughtful. The best part is that I know it’s exactly what she wants.
If you’re curious, this is her multiple 21st birthday.
Aug 25th
Going to a wedding, I was reminded of this little list. Again, this is in no means reflective of the wedding I attended, as it was really well done. The bride and Groom looked amazing, the decor was fantastic, and other things. But this list is more for us, attendees.
Do’s:
Don’ts
Being to many weddings, even partaking in the planning and execution of weddings, I feel that I have some knowledge about these. I’m pretty straight-forward when someone asks about their speech or how they did. I’ve even had people not speak to me because I told them the same thing I said here. If you were not comfortable speaking, saying it at the beginning of your speech doesn’t give you ‘carte Blache’ for your speech.
Bottom line, folks: Normal social rules apply with some added stress. A wedding is happy time, actually for you, not the wedding couple. A wedding is truley for the guests to enjoy themselves. If you don’t believe me, would you ofen invite everyone you know somewhere and feed them out of yoru own pocket? If so, Please invite me!
By the way, I’m available for Weddings and Bar-mitzahs, if you need.
Aug 24th
Steve took me Golfing to a small golf course in Ottawa. Click on the vid page, and see us golf!
Or, you can click this to go!
Aug 24th
I’m always curious to what drives traffic to a website.
Having a website that is about a specific topic is one. But also having certain tag words that drive people to the site to see and read is another way.
Expanding the target audience is very important, so with some of my posts, I try to be as informative as possible, but I am by no means, an expert on any topic.
With some basic research skills, a discerning eye and a curious mind is what drives me.
Watching and observing sites that have lots of hits and are very popular have a formula that they follow. The formula isn’t difficult to understand, but finding your own version is the hard part.
Here are some tips that I have realized that bring Traffic to your site:
So, understanding that, good luck! Link me. And help drive traffic here!
Aug 23rd
Well, not really. It’s more of a blog about what we call the pacifier. Linda and I debated whether to use a pacifier or not with Tiiu. There are as many pros as there are cons, so we’ve decided to use it sparingly. We’ve noticed that on evenings, Tiiu gets cranky which
is pretty normal for babies. Apparently it’s a normal thing, as babies have pent up energy that they need to get out, and this is how they do it.
So, we’ve been given a pacifier that is BPA free, made of 100% medical Grade Silicone, which has many fantastic uses. It is the Gumdrop Pacifier, which is pretty neat. It’s once piece, and comes in many colours. It’s supposed to be the better pacifier for babies, but hey…it works.
So, using the pacifier, we didn’t want to call it the names that most people do. Binky seemed strange to us, so did Sookie and other names. Instead, Linda and I brainstormed a few things that we thought sucked and we came up with some things.
Vampires. They definitely suck. They suck blood, and they suck the life out of people to which they grant eternal life. Calling it a ‘Vampire’ was kinda tough…
“Hey Tiiu, want your vampire?”
“Where’s your Vampy?”
Again, I was getting ideas for Buffy, but she’s a Vampire Slayer, and defiantly does not suck.
The Dyson Vacuum – With Cyclone Technology. It sucks. It sucks large and never stops sucking.
James Dyson worked on many modes to make sure his vacuum doen’t stop sucking. But calling the Pacifier, the Dyson, Linda wasn’t down with it.
“Hey Tiiu, want your Dyson? Where’s your Dyson?”
“Are you cranky? Did you lose your Dyson?”
I liked it, But Linda didn’t. So, we kept looking.
Telemarketers. They defiantly suck. But a name that was appropriate didn’t quite work either.
“Hey Tiiu, where’s your Telemarketer?”
“do you want your Telemarketer? Yes, you do!”
No, didn’t work. On a separate note, if the telemarketer looked that this, I think they would not be as hated. (I’m just saying.
Finally, we came up with a name: Linda holds this opinion, but I don’t.
Doogie Howser – Neil Patrick Harris. Linda hated the show Doogie Hoswer. She thought Doogie Howser sucked so much, she still remembers it. She thought it was one of the worst ideas for a show ever. She wanted to call it the Doogie, but I suggested that Doogie Hoswer was really Neil Patrick Harris. There was a movie (Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle) where they refer to him as NPH. She was quite happy with that, so we’ve been calling the Pacifier, the NPH or The Neil Patrick.
“Where’s your NPH? oh, did it fall on the ground?”
“is Neil Patrick Dirty? we can get the Pink NPH for you?”
For some reason, it works for us, and we now call it the NPH.
I like Neil Patrick, so my apologies to You, Neil…if you do read this. Take it as an honour that you are pacifying our daughter.
Other names that didn’t make it was the Alex Trebek. All because Linda wasn’t a fan of the SNL episodes where Sean Connery would yell out “Suck It, Trebek“….
Again, I like Alex Trebek too. You too, Kebert Xela!
Aug 22nd
I have a counter, and Apparently I’ve had 1000 hits….
Look at me! I’m popular!
Aug 22nd
Again, am I just old or just out of touch? Is my lack of a facebook account caused me to not be aware of this the term “hipster?” I came across an article, which is based from this article about how the New York Times has realized that it has overused this term.
I have to admit, I’ve never really noticed that this word has been overused in the papers or the news I’ve read.
So, consulting [the] Wikipedia, they have an entry about the Hipster. So, their definition is from the Times, which goes as such:
“Hipsters are the friends who sneer when you cop to liking Coldplay. They’re the people who wear t-shirts silk-screened with quotes from movies you’ve never heard of and the only ones in America who still think Pabst Blue Ribbon is a good beer. They sport cowboy hats and berets and think Kanye West stole their sunglasses. Everything about them is exactingly constructed to give off the vibe that they just don’t care.”-Times, 2009
Aug 21st
By this, I mean: Do I take the lazy way out of most things in life?
I know of people who seem to choose to do things, but in the most difficult way. I’ve chosen a path that did have a few bumps along the way, but for the most part, I’m quite happy. I
Growing up, I wanted to have a family, and a decent job that I enjoyed. With hard work, I got a job that I love and then I met a wonderful person who I can share a life with. Through that, we’ve obtained a house, and ‘stuff’ that most people collect. We’ve travelled, we’ve experienced different things, good and bad; we’ve grown and we’ve even added, by bringing Tiiu into the world.
But I think this path was generally easy. I mean, i followed the directions and for the most part I got what I wanted.
Now, reflecting upon what I have, I see people who have the same thing, but have worked really hard. Again, that’s good. But some of the paths they have taken seemed to be more difficult.
Is it that I’m lazy or I have Linda to help? Or, maybe Linda is doing all the work, and I think it’s easy.
I dunno.
Y’know, I don’t know where this entry is going.
Aug 20th
According to Sean, the study wasn’t exactly forthcoming with the results of a brief exposure of food to the ground. According to Wikipedia,
In 2003, intern Jillian Clarke of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign found in a survey that 56% of the men and 70% of the women surveyed were familiar with the five-second rule. She also determined that a variety of foods were significantly contaminated by even brief exposure to a tile inoculated with E.coli.
The Article is here, if you’re curious. But with the further inquiry, the Wikipedia article goes on to say,
A team from Clemson University conducted a study measuring the bacteria levels on classic 5 second rule locations such as outdoor soil, the sidewalk, kitchen counters (especially porous counters – this doesn’t include granite), and kitchen floors. It may shock you to find out that it might be MORE dangerous to eat food that you just dropped on your floor in the kitchen than on a sidewalk.
Also, a similar explanation can be found on the Snopes website, but it’s suspiciously similar to the Wikipedia page.
Hmm…which came first, Snopes or Wiki?
and from a link from the Wiki Page, here are some facts:
Here are some figures from the report:
100 billion: The number of bacteria in our mouths.
100 trillion: The number of bacteria in our gastrointestinal tracts.
2.5 billion: The number of bacteria found in one gram of garden soil.
7.2 billion: The number of germs in the average kitchen sponge.
25,000: The number of germs, per square inch, on an office telephone.
49: The number of germs, per square inch, on a toilet seat
You’re safer eating food off of your Toilet Seat.
Yikes.