mike the mountain

“If you were shopping for a TV or a car, the first thing you’d do is watch the Sony/Panasonic debate on CBC. Then you’d go down to the local Denny’s where the head of Sony’s Canadian office was serving up pancakes and delivering a stump speech where she trashed Panasonic and accused them of shipping [...]

The first person to tell me who all the people in my haiku are wins a copy of the work they are best know for. Or a cookie. Depending on how I feel.

Mifune, MiikeIshido, KurosawaSakaguchi… Dave
Yeah baby, that’s me getting my haiku on…
My best friend Dave is in the Land of the Rising Sun right now (Nagoya I believe), and I want to visit him. Some time over the next year. However, I currently, and for the forseeable future, suffer from the twin blades of [...]

You just don’t see stuff like this here…
Calgary gets this crazy weather phenomena called a chinook, where in the dead of winter they can get a day of +20 degrees (Celsius) and some of the most breathtaking cloud effects.
Last night we had our first real snowstorm of the season here in Toronto. Not much [...]

Can’t think of anything interesting to say… I’m in one of those moods where it’s a struggle just to motivate myself to wear pants. But I have been finding a ton of cool links lately, and I hate to let stuff pile up, so yeah. Here you go.
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OK, it’s been KILLING me to know that my little slice of heaven has been open for like a week now, and had it’s best opening in years with a base of over 80cm, and it’s STILL snowing as I write this… and I’m sitting in a freakin’ cubicle in Toronto!!!
However, yesterday did bring the [...]

OK, blog template redesign is ALMOST done… just need to get a few of my links back up and mess around with every freakin brower I can find until I know that it will at least be readable in all of them!!
I swear, if this happens again, I’m going plain text all the way. [...]

This post is just so I can get my graphics hosted on Blogger.

CC: Blog virgin
As I slowly introduce this angelic woman to the depths of my geekitude, I’m even, dare I say, corrupting her a little. She now has her very own blog, where surely it will be soon full of wonderous lamentations of romance and passion, stories of adventure, and challenges of both the mind [...]