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Well, we here in Ottawa have all survived another week of work, no buses and winter’s wrath. I think you deserve some light reading. I give you this week’s FS&O. Lake Superior State University 2009 List of Banished Words These … Continue reading →

Gordon Ramsay would not want me to call him a celebrety chef. Yet that is what he is, a chef who is a celebrety. He has three tv shows in production, Kitchen Nightmares, Hell’s Kitchen and The F Word. He … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Amused ][  Currently: Listening to CBC Radio ] Turbo Man is an action figure, who with his faithful sidekick, Scrubbing Brush, have many adventures while playing with the boy. That is, until the day Scrubbing Brush gets too dirty and … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Amused ][  Currently: Watching My son go after anything out of his reach ]Happy New Year!!! Well since the last installment of wacky links, my Geeklet has had his first tooth errupt. It is still a little tiny bud on … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Happy ][  Currently: Watching From the Ground Up ]Gregory Maguire is a current literary celebrity, with one of his novels being turned into a hit Broadway musical. An expert in children’s literature, Maguire takes classic children’s tales and fables and … Continue reading →

I was actually going to post this Friday, but a computer crash took these away. I have rebuilt as much as possible. X-Factor X-Rays of bizarre things inserted into the human body, mostly the head, where the patient survived. Not … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Amused ][ Currently: Listening to Canada Eh! ]The third installment of author Angie Sage’s Septimus Heap saga finds Septimus finds himself thrust back in time and apprenticed to an Alchemist. Meanwhile, the ghost of Jenna’s great (several times over) grandmother … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Silly ][  Currently: Listening to CBC Radio ]At this time of year CBC Radio starts playing a lot of repeats and "special programming". The special programming is produced by the junior producers who are really auditioning for bigger and better … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Confused ]So Husband Unit and I took Geeklet to Taffy Lane tonight. Taffy Lane is small street in Ottawa that seems to get into the Christmas spirit in a big way. Every year they have a huge display where … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Amused ]So I have one question about the Iraqi reporter who threw a shoe at Bush. How did he get the second shoe thrown? Isn’t that why the Americans pay the Secret Service? To ensure that the second shoe, … Continue reading →