Ikea. Boo.

I actually hate IKEA.  Is it an acronym?  Is it a name?  The all-caps leaves too much to the imagination.  I’m old fashioned.  I’ll treat it like an acronym. One reason I hate IKEA is because nothing in reality could truly look as good as it looks in IKEA.  Okay, I’m going to stop acronymising it now.  It just looks like I’m screaming the name IKEA! at you. I would hate to do that and never would in person even if I was really mad… Continue reading

TED Talks & ADD

Ah, crap.  It happened again. Does anyone else feel like they’ve been Rick-rolled when someone sends them a link to a TED Talk? I just can’t commit 10 minutes at a time to anything these days.  They’re such good segments, very informative, thought-provoking and usually quite fresh.  So why doesn’t my body want to sit in one spot and listen to these delectable spiels whenever a friend (or foe) informs me that I must watch this video?  I can’t do it!  I can’t.  In the… Continue reading

Car Shopping

Hello.  I’m looking for a car.  Preferably an un-robbable one, but I’m not too picky.  I do know that I want a cute hatchback and I do not want it to be silver or grey, and I am even a bit biased against black cars.  Sorry, it’s just how I was raised.  I want something in either a nice colour or pure white so that I can carry around a Coach purse and wear diamond-studded sunglasses without feeling out of place.  I want at least… Continue reading

Things That Make Me LOL

Tonight’s Twitter topic is #ThingsThatMakeMeLOL.  I know, I know.  You are all businessmen and time is most definitely money.  I will try to make this short and sweet. When people accidentally speak to me in their first language, and it isn’t English.  This happened in a McDonalds in Budapest a couple of years ago.  Knowing just the swears in a language is funny only when you’re not visiting the country the language originated from.  Miklos was my translator, and there were four of us (half… Continue reading

So it Goes.

From the article, 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better than Anyone Else Ever Has or Will: 13. “So it goes.” Unlike many of these quotes, the repeated refrain from Vonnegut’s classic Slaughterhouse-Five isn’t notable for its unique wording so much as for how much emotion—and dismissal of emotion—it packs into three simple, world-weary words that simultaneously accept and dismiss everything. There’s a reason this quote graced practically every elegy written for Vonnegut over the past two weeks (yes, including ours): It neatly encompasses a whole way of life.… Continue reading

First 20 Songs on Shuffle

Not sure if this is some kind of exercise in others evaluating my coolness, but I saw a hashtag on Twitter, and who can ignore those? My #First20SongsonShuffle: 1. Weezer – Say it Ain’t So If you don’t like this song, you are crazy. 2. Thrush Hermit – Skip the Life We’re doing great so far – indie kid cred up the wazoo, at least for the late ’90s. 3. Metric – On the Sly I like Metric but I can’t say I’ve listened to… Continue reading

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