Topless princesses or spoiled hockey players? The news is full of both stories. It is interesting that the obscene salaries of professional athletes only becomes an issue when there is a strike or a lock out. But as long as the fans have something to watch nobody really talks about salaries. People are always decrying…
Who’s Your Daddy
Who’s your daddy? Or, who isn’t your daddy? A company in New York City, cruising the city streets in a mobile medical clinic, is offering people a chance to find out for just $299.00. DNA testing, once an expensive time-consuming process out of reach of most people, has suddenly become affordable. Sources say over 500,000…
Here Kitty, Kitty
It sounds like something from a science fiction novel, a harbinger of things to come. A computer that has been taught to learn. Can anything good come from this? In June, Google’s secretive X-Labs conducted an experiment involving the networking of 16,000 ultrafast computer processors. Then they loaded 10 billion random images from YouTube videos…
Poor Harry…… part deux.
Poor Harry…… part deux. Alas, it wasn’t enough to have to write about Harry last week after it was reported that he was cavorting with members of the opposite sex by the pool. Then he goes and loses all of his clothes in a strip billiard game and his friends post the pictures they took. …
Remember who you are
Poor Harry. The headline said it all “British royal Prince Harry has put his grandfather's ill health to one side to go on a wild holiday.” But did it really say it all? Granted Harry’s grandfather, Prince Phillip, was in the hospital and Harry was in Las Vegas, but so what? Phillip wasn’t dying, he…
Cheaters never win. . . well maybe sometimes
He cheated! So What? At least that seems to be the consensus. During the Olympics, South African swimmer Cameron van der Burgh, broke the world record on his way to winning Gold in the 100M breaststroke last week. However, video footage shows that van der Burgh took three “dolphin kicks” at the beginning of the…
De-evolving
Sometimes I suspect that if Darwin was alive today he would amend his theory to state that human beings are actually de-evolving. I read an article a while ago about the pitcher on a high school baseball team who was hit in the head by a line drive. Which actually might explain the rest of…
Vindicated
The dingo did eat the baby! Have you ever been vindicated? You know, after someone lied about you & in the end, it came out that you had been right all along.A month ago, an Australian Coroner ruled that at least one dingo was responsible for the death of baby Azaria Chamberlain in 1980. If…
It’s All In A Name
Last week a gentlemen asked me if I knew Denny Guptill. Well before I was Denn Guptill, I was Denny Guptill but I wasn’t the Denny Guptill he was asking about. Instead he was talking about D.P.(Denny) Guptill, who was the chief of Police in Saint John, New Brunswick during the prohibition years. When I…
It’s all about “U”
It is just a “U”, but it is the difference between something being right and something being wrong. Perhaps you know what I’m talking about; It’s the “U” that our neighbours to the south neglect to include in words like harbour, colour and saviour. Which is fine if you live south of the 49th, but…