Don’t Ever Change

| September 24, 2008

About 15 years ago, one of my medical alarm clients dropped her panic button in her toilet. She fished it out right away, but in trying to wash it off, water penetrated the casing and caused an alarm. After the dust settled, and she told me what had happened, I went to her residence to […]

Strange Lyrics From Rural Nova Scotia

| September 9, 2008

Rural Nova Scotia has spawned some strange ditties. One of the summer jobs I had while attending university was as night watchman at what was then called the “Adult Residential Centre” at Dayspring, Lunenburg County. A vast and rambling structure known locally as “the poor farm”, the ARC dated from darker times when the mentally […]

It’s Pissing Me Off

| September 4, 2008

Eats, Shoots & Leaves, The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss should be required reading in every school system that claims to teach English. Words can be misspelled in a sentence without losing your meaning. The ability to read “typo” is a vital skill, and we all forgive it when we encounter it. […]

This Website: Underlying Causes and Symptoms

| September 2, 2008

This website is an outlet for a man, blessed by The Gods and disdainful of the clods. It’s the lectern of one who, like some hoary old primate in a tree, has finally reached that level of enlightenment from which he feels unapologetically compelled to fling turds of wisdom upon all who pass by. Each […]