Update to last year’s misguided concept of Canadian-American Dual Citizen’s Day, via Facebook: Dan is celebrating Northern North American Dual Citizen’s Day http://danspira.wordpress.com/2008/07/02 Aliza at 8:59pm July 2: Wouldn’t 11:52:30 tonight until 00:07:30 July 3 be the North American Dual Citizen’s minutes of celebration? That’s equidistant from July 1 and July 4. And, everyone deserves their [...]
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Here’s a follow-on to last year’s little video tribute to Canada Day: Living in the U.S. can be a challenge for Canucks. As a literature professor once explained to me, in the American story, a hero’s rite of passage consists of a road trip across the United States and/or losing his/her virginity. The Canadian hero, on the other hand, either battles [...]
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The EU Agriculture Commission has announced that, in light of the dismal economy and high food prices, it proposes to slightly relax its onerous rules and regulations on fruits and vegetables in retail markets. Pages and pages of standards and specifications on things like onions and carrots will be tossed out into the compost heap. Or, as [...]
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1voa_international-conference-calls
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Once all the humans have been killed off by The Machine, this is all that there will be left: Of course, once we’re on the subject of end-of-the-world scenarios, gotta give a hat tip to the Flying Conchords…
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I work half the time you do I know you must hate this Hold up, I’m about to put you In a two-by-two matrix vs I got a house in the Hamptons And a penthouse loft But you’ve got intangibles Is that why your skills are so soft? Reminds me of a conversation I once had [...]
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The only thing worse than managementspeak is managementspeak with embarassing typos: ” ..operating at all levels of business from facilitating strategic development within the C sweet to designing and implementing…” ” ..achieving these results can be a challenging and illusive quest…”
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A funny thing happened to me on the way to Norman, Oklahoma. My so-called smartphone, a Samsung SCH-i760 which runs Windows (@%$&) Mobile 6-point-something, has a funny way of handling time zones. It’s a bit too smart for its own good. Oklahoma is officially in U.S. Central time, with a small portion of the state unofficially [...]
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