the flying squirrel

And a Happy Boxing Day too.

I got into Belleville Christmas Eve, and I’ve probably been eating ever since. Since my grandmother died, my mom has made it a tradition to have people over to her house for Christmas Eve. This, of course, involves lots of food. Christmas was nice. After presents [...]

I stumbled upon an interesting little factoid from a webcomic today.

It’s generally assumed that the modern Zombie apocalypse trope (disease/radiation/whatever turns people into brain-munching monsters, spreading the infection with each brain that gets munched) was started by George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. Not so!

Yeah, les Schtroumpfs! The Smurfs! [...]

I’m starting to think Canada needs to elect a president.

Don’t get me wrong, I actually like our current system. I think it works reasonably well. But I think there’s a serious and growing problem: people don’t understand it.

In our current system, people vote for a local representative in parliament. And that’s all [...]

AMK introduced me to the Kitchener Christkindl Market a few years ago. It’s neat! It’s a German Christmas festival and sale. There’s some neat stuff there. I’ve got lots of Christmas presents for my mom in past years. There’s also a lot of good food. That’s probably the biggest [...]