Archive for July, 2006

Sleeman Goes on the Block

This sucks. Sleeman brewries, the third largest in Canada, is looking for a buyer. I don’t drink Sleeman’s regularly (and hence, I am the problem), but this is one more independent brewry down the tubes. You just know Molsen or Sapporo will buy them out and pirate the company for their lucrative distributorships; (Guinness, Sam [...]

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Why a flag burning amendment is a stupid idea

Go read Doonsbury from this Sunday. If you don’t understand it, please stop voting.

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Cheap Wine Blog

Someone I know and love just started blogging! Go check out J–’s very first foray into the blogging world at Cheap Wine Blog.
If you like wine but hate the attitude you have to endure to get a great glass, then CWB is for you. Looking at wines from $5-20, CWB is going to be all [...]

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I’m guessing you play WoW

Kotaku posted an interesting chart today:

LFM…
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Please No! - Nicolas Cage As Liberace

Please, don’t let this be the opening salvo in a barrage of B-list actors trying to make it huge ala Brokeback Mountain.
Liberace? Seriously? Of all the worthy people you could make a movie that about; they could have picked Matthew Shepard, Ian McKellen, or anyone who published a gay magazine prior to 1970 come to [...]

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My favorite quotes…

…in no particular order.
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
-George Bernard Shaw
Only two things are certain: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
-Albert Einstein
“You can sugar-coat a poison pill, but it’ll still kill you. By the way, let me know if [...]

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Five People I Couldn’t Care Less About

5. Neil Young. Not for his latest album (which actually sounded good until he started singing), but because he’s Neil Bloody Young. Seriously, could anyone be more overrated? (save the flames; you’re not going to change my mind.)
4. Uber-Web-Design Guy. You know what, this site doesn’t validate. Neither does the web app I work on. [...]

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