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  • 2008
    • October
      • Post 0019 -- Sarah Palin - The Death Knell of SNL
        10/22/08


        Sarah Palin puttin' her hayands in da ayair.

        Sarah Palin appeared on SNL last night. The skits were funny without her really doing anything to help them along. She rode the wave of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey (genius - despite the fact that Alec Baldwin couldn't even

    • September
      • Post 0018 -- Twinkle Twinkle Toronto Star
        09/16/08


        Twinkle Twinkle Toronto Star; How I wonder when you are

        Lately we've been intermittently receiving the Toronto Star. What's particularly odd about this random delivery is that we never actually subscribed to the ruddy thing.

        Some Kind of Mistake?
        S

      • Post 0017 -- Unidentified Object Discovered in Space - A Transient of a New Class
        09/15/08


        A photo taken from the Hubble Telescope of a strange object that appeared, brightened for 21 days, dimmed for the same time frame and then disappeared. The photo was taken from a paper accepted to the "Astrophysical Journal"

        A Transietn of a New Class
        OK. Thi

      • Post 0016 -- Canadian Federal Election on October 14, 2008
        09/08/08


        I must say, when it comes to calling an election, the Canadian political system has its head up its arse.

        The rules for calling a Federal Election in Canada are a joke. The ruling party can call an election pretty much any time the urge strikes them. They dissolve parliamen

      • Post 0015 -- Reporting and Analysis from the Most Mediocre Hiker on the Internet
        09/03/08





        I think it's great that CNN claims it has the Best Political Team on television. They always say "Reporting and Analysis from the Best Political Team on Television." Cool. They haven't really won an award or been assigned that title by any indepen

  • 2007
  • 2006
    • November
      • Post 0012 -- Generalized Anxiety
        11/17/06
        Posted by: Tom


        Oshawa Generals

        I went with the guys from work to see the Oshawa Generals game tonight. It was exciting for two reasons: first, it was cool to see such a revered hockey team - the very team that started such greats as Bobby Orr! Second, it was the first l

      • Post 0011 -- Christine Lomas Photography
        11/17/06
        Posted by: Tom



        Christine Lomas Photography


        On November 1st, a friend and colleague of mine, Christine Lomas launched her new Web site and it coincided with her photography show in Picton. She fared very well at the show and was featured in an article in the l

    • September
      • Post 0010 -- Huzzah!
        09/23/06
        Posted by: Tom





        Your writing covers issues such as globalisation, media saturation, fast food, human trafficking, food genetics and drug culture. Would you describe yourself as a political writer?

        Yesterday I was speaking with a friend of mine who’s a p

      • Post 0009 -- No Badge, No Dog Tag, No Gun - It's Simple
        09/18/06
        Posted by: Tom



        The Simple Reason for Simple Gun Control

        There are many arguments for and against gun control, but I put together the graphic above to make what I believe to be the simple case for simple gun control ... No Badge, No Dog Tag, No Gun.

        In oth

      • Post 0008 -- Mother Nature's Man-Made Hot Flashes
        09/18/06
        Posted by: Tom

        NASA Photo

        These NASA images show show the disappearance of Arctic ice over one year from Dec. 21, 2004 to Dec. 21, 2005. The perennial ice (in white) is melting faster than ever.

        As cited in a recent article in the Hamilton Spectator:

        Two

      • Post 0007 -- Coffee and a Condie to Go
        09/17/06
        Posted by: Tom

        OK - So I don't really have anything substantive to say about this other than I think it's hilarious. Condoleeza Rice picking up a cup of Tim Hortons coffee in Pictou, Nova Scotia. Doesn't that really say it all? I mean look at that smile? As the slogan

      • Post 0006 -- My Kingdom for a 3.5 Inch USB External Hard Drive Enclosure
        09/04/06
        Posted by: Tom



        Has this ever happened to you?

        It's been a while since I've posted. Mostly because we had some computer woes just as Ang was preparing her lesson plans for the little guys in the fall. Our computer blew up ... actually ... it didn't q

    • August
      • Post 0005 -- I Like Like You
        08/12/06
        Posted by: Dara

        If someone asked you if you knew the difference between "like" and "like like" would you know what they were talking about? Tonight my cousin explained to me that when someone says they "like like you" it means that they REALLY like you. Isn

      • Post 0004 -- Live in the Now, Man!
        08/11/06
        Posted by: Tom

        As I think about writing, I think about how people write. One of my favourite authors is Tom Robbins. In most fiction, one follows a fairly clear and defined narrative path. There are the odd stops and starts, but generally it's a gratifying, fairly straight forward

    • July
      • Post 0003 -- Rendered Senseless
        07/24/06
        Posted by: Tom


        Dead animals being taken to the rendering plant.

        I was recently reading a post to a blog by bandmember of Ozma. In the post, they describe how they were searching for a diesel van so that they could convert it to a bio-fuel vehicle. The sad part was that t

      • Post 0002 -- He Read. She Read.
        07/22/06

        Albert Camus and Charlotte Bronte

        Posted by: Tom

        I recently read an article that outlined a study conducted on the reading preferences of men and women. In the study, 500 men and women were interviewed about their reading habits and about the most important pieces of fic

      • Post 0001 -- Welcome to XOUNZ!
        07/21/06
        Posted by: Tom and Ang

        Welcome to XOUNZ (pronounced "zounz"). XOUNZ is a Blog for Tom and Ang (a.k.a. 'Angela') Gale. Tom prefers the term Web Journal over "Blog", but we'll not get into that. Regardless of what term you use, it is a place for us to po