Weblog and Playground of Gord Fynes

IT’S TIME AGAIN FOR ANOTHER LIST of cool, humorous and interesting points of interest as of late:

* Leet Translator: Way more fun than spelling out 80085 on your calculator.

* Clever Celebrity Love Advice from Brooklyn-based writer, Michael Barrish.

* Directions from Joe Clark.

* What’s your sign? How will this affect my life insurance premiums?

* Mike Nowland‘s take on the marriage of music and mobile technology, Hip Hop and the mixed tape.

* A Murder of Scarecrows: Just play it.

AFTER DISCUSSING POSSBILE TRAVEL PLANS in the near future with friends, I realized that my passport had expired earlier this year. As I’m not the frequent-flyer type, I usually only have to dig it out once a year when travelling to see friends in NYC. (insert deity or spiritual being of choice) help us all should I need to make a last minute booking to, say, Montreal or Halifax with only a driver’s license on my person. It’s one thing to be influenced by current American financial, cultural and to some degree, political trends. Having an influence on one’s mobility at home is just ridiculous.

WHAT BETTER WAY TO SPEND the last Saturday of summer than to stay indoors doing housework, organizing several small piles of papers, CDs, books and other assorted odds ‘n’ ends cluttering up the place. I’ve been working up a sweat, which is no surprise since the thermo read 82 degrees at one point earlier in the day. It’s time to venture outdoors just to cool down.

I’ve also scanned some older slides and updated the various gallery over in the photo section, since it was looking a wee bit shabby.

There are already enough websites devoted to catching shoddy translations and other (mis)usages of the English language, but I have to share this description from the back of an imported DVD of a children’s movie given to our son:

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The title of this post is also the actual movie rating indicated. What’s even funnier is that reading and making any sense of the above description was a lot easier than watching the flick itself.

I’m sure you’ve figured out which movie by now.

IT’S BEEN QUITE THE BUSY WEEKEND THUS FAR and Sunday’s just starting.

Happy Anniversary, my darling babe. Married six years out of the ten together and getting better all the time.

Happy Birthday Ron! We’re hoping that you don’t get traded in for two seventeen-and-a-half year olds!

Dennis and Leslie: until we meet again. Ride on the lift and drive on the left.