mike the mountain

Did you know today (or I guess yesterday by now… April 30) was tax day? BOHICA baby… good luck!
On a much happier note, today was also Oatmeal Cookie Day! Now that’s something worth celebrating. This is also one of my favourite shots: Oatmeal Cookie, 1/2oz Goldschlager, 1/2oz Irish Cream (Bailey’s), shake over [...]

My friend Steve is a genius. Great guy, and his latest idea is, IMHO, one of his best, and deserves recognition.
iTunes. The Apple music store that’s kicking all sorts of tushy in the States, offering a decent selection of music and audible books with non-draconian rights management. Canada? Nah, we don’t [...]

Falling behind in these posts… funny how having a girlfriend back in the house leaves less time for being a computer geek!
So, SUNDAY (April 25) was ANZAC Day (Australia-New Zealand Army Corps) for our friends and family “down under”. Kind of like our Rememberance Day, only they actually seem to care. They do [...]

Starship Troopers baby. The movie: one of the best. Definitely in my top 10. Got me in a lot of trouble opening night, but that’s a story for another time… The book: equally fantastic. The book, for those of you who haven’t had the pleasure, is far more deep socio-political [...]

Shakespeare’s birthday. I can’t believe I couldn’t find any cocktails to suit! None of the books I have had anything remotely Shakespearean of name, or renaissance-ian, or even theatrical…-ian? So I had to invent my own. Fortunately, I’m getting pretty good at it (IMHO). I needed something dignified, European… and [...]

And that’s as close as you’ll ever get to me referencing hip hop on this site… blah, I feel dirty.
You’ve heard of Google? They’re doing web-based e-mail now. Well, not quite now, it’s only in beta (ie: testing phase, ya newbie). Gmail. Look it up if you want info, or to [...]

Twist your brain around this thing. I have no idea… It kind of makes me think about how wild freaky futuristic VR computer interfaces might look like one day. The site/thing itself seems to contain an endless supply of cross-referenced and indexed information; I think the idea is taking information to the next [...]

OK, here I am watching CSI: Miami, and I realized that the name of one of the murder victims is the same as one of my friends from University. Creepy.
Still getting all your news from TV, newspapers, and radio? Are you really so naive as to believe that what you see/hear is in [...]

Prove it to me. Prove that you are more than just an elaborately designed simulation meant only to fulfill your role as outside stimulus testing my reactions and providing just enough believable environmental companionship to prevent me from questioning my basic reality. Just try and logic it out… anything you say to me [...]

Ron, Vanessa, Karen (hope I got your names right)… and to Ted and Scotty, some classic troublemakers from way back (we’ve known each other for like 5 years now, kinda scary eh?). Anyways, as soon as I get those pictures loaded up I’ll put a link on the side of the page here.
So today [...]