Monthly Archives: May 2010

A handyman I am

D is installing some shelves in a small room where he’s going to keep his tools. heavy stuff, mind you, like a tonne of screws and nails and a billion screwdrivers and other stuffs I don’t know the name of. I’m just hanging around, watching and every once in a while sharing bits of my...

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Television induced nausea

We don’t own a TV and somehow this always spawns a superiority feeling in me, an I’m-too-good-for-TV-crap-and-choose-to-spend-my-time-with-more-intellectual-activities kind of feeling. Our TV-less existence is either a reason for perpetual wonder from the part of some of our acquaintances, or seen as an explanation for our lack of knowledge on matters such as Canadian hockey players...

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Tracy Jordan’s scary childhood

Tracy: It’s all coming back to me. Oh my God! I slept on an old dog bed stuffed with wigs! I watched a prostitute stab a clown! Our basketball hoop was a rib cage – a rib cage! Why did you bring me here? I blocked all this stuff out for a reason! Oh, Lord,...

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Judging songs by their covers

I’ve been compiling this little list of good covers after famous songs. I still think that the best cover ever is Milow’s Ayo Technology which is one gazillion times better than the 50 Cent version. And here are other covers that I really enjoyed and that you might want to check out.   1. Milow...

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When robots rise up against us, do you know whose side you’ll be on?

  It’s really very simple: you’ll want to be on the winning side. With that in mind we should look at a few notable factors and choose wisely. First, let’s think about sheer numbers. There are “robots” everywhere. But when the time comes, only anthropomorphic robots will give us any trouble. What’s a sentient printer...

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