Bell doesn't have control over CTVglobemedia anymore. They sold off huge chunks of it a few years back, and retain only 15%.

Woodbridge owns the largest share now, 40%.

I'm not interested in an ebook reader until they have ones with two "pages", and folds closed like an actual book.

Reading a book on only one "page" just doesn't seem right for me. Plus, it sucks for comics, which quite often spread over the two pages.

It's about 1,000,000 times larger than the collection at your local radio station.

All this goes through my mind each time I walk into the local PC component warehouse...

I wish it were possible to ban 3D Studio or Maya in Taiwan.

I really, really like those movies of Françoise Hardy...

France had a certain, irreplaceable aesthetic back then.

Great. I'd managed to completely flush the unfunny horror that is UserFriendly out of my brain. Now I'm aware of it again. Thanks.

That's a pretty big entourage... but how many of those people are COOL?

He could just be hangin' with a gaggle of dorks.

Buckley's is, indeed, vile. I dreaded my mother giving it to me as a child.

But it's a part of our culture. And it works.

Last winter they had a stand setup at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto doing video auditions for their national television ad campaign. The one that scares my cat under the bed.

Last week I got lectured for taking a cellphone photo out of the the window of a museum...

Apparently, the space is copyrighted. At least that's what the guard implied.

According to my dad, who is dutch, the only people who really used shrooms in Amsterdam were the foreigners.

So, this rule doesn't really affect the Dutch, and there's not much opposition to it.

To me the elephant has a crazed look, like a circus elephant that's finally snapped and is ready to rampage.

You all know what happens next in that situation.

I had to deal with a bat in our townhouse a few years ago. Here's documentation of removal attempt 2/3:

http://www.lunarworks.ca/pics/bat-jar.jpg

It's a LONG story, so I'll cut the many details:

This was its second appearance. (We'd ejected it the day before.) This time I had opened the door to my room, and it flew down the hallway at me, causing me to fall backwards back into my room, shutting the door. There was a long standoff until I left my room again, subdued it with a flying pillow, and it crawled under my door at which point I caught it with a blanket.

It came back the next day. We had a professional come. He took it out of town so it couldn't find its way back.

Man, one of the more pleasant memories of the '80s, all that proto computer animation and synth for little things like that. The CBS Special Presentation one is a classic beyond classics.

Here's one that should be familliar to those from Toronto:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_kREsS3aEa0