Posts tagged: rants

Not All Things Handmade Are The Best

Fanboy is a term used to describe a male who is highly devoted and biased in opinion towards a single subject or hobby within a given field. Fanboy-ism is often prevalent in a field of products, brands or universe of characters where very few competitors (or enemies in fiction, such as comics) exist. I’ll admit it: I used [...]

Sunday December 18th, 2011 in , | Comments Off

Pursue Excellence ‘Til It Hurts – Because That’s What It Always Takes

Excellence – and the pursuit of it – truly grab me emotionally. It’s why I like what I like. It’s why I’ve been interested in the hobbies and pursuits that I’ve done. It’s what I have sought in my professional life, and what I am now trying to build. It’s how I gauge cars, knives, guns, [...]

Sunday November 27th, 2011 in , , , , , | Comments Off

Did The Gig Match the Job Posting? Hmm….

I have been doing some pretty intensive cleaning around my home, and I came upon some old job postings. These are postings for jobs that I applied for, interviewed for, and got. It’s interesting now to look back on the postings to see just how the gigs matched the postings… or not. I’ve got two [...]

Sunday November 13th, 2011 in , | Comments Off

Peace Takes More Than a Slogan on a T-Shirt

Peace is not something you can capture on a t-shirt and it isn’t something anyone can decree – not unless they impose themselves on others by force, and imposed peace is not peace in the truest sense. I passed by a young man on the street todaywith a t-shirt saying “No War. Peace.” It reminded [...]

Friday July 22nd, 2011 in , , , | Comments Off

Toronto Takes a Step Backwards by Removing Bike Lanes for the 1st Time

“Javis lanes, as well as Pharmacy and Birchmount officially dead. Separated network will be built.” “Toronto City Council voted just before its lunch break Wednesday to spend more than $400,000 removing about eight kilometres of bike lanes that had been installed during the previous term of City Council.” The City of Toronto today took a [...]

Wednesday July 13th, 2011 in , , , , , | Comments Off