I know I'm an idiot, but I love this commercial, and hopefully it's stuck in your head like mine. Follow the link:
Mini-Wheats
Monday, February 19, 2007
Friday, February 09, 2007
Seriously! Is winter almost done?
This winter has been a typical Saskatchewan winter; lots of snow and frigid cold. People always take winter here with a grain of salt and try to not let it get the best of them. When the first few snowfalls happen everyone eagerly goes out and shovels up the snow in an effort to have it not pile up on them. The first frigid days everyone goes out bundled up trying to say, "It ain't that cold". But as the winter goes on, the song and dance changes. People, like me, are sick of the snow. It snowed just a little bit this week, and usually my neighborhood would be buzzing with snowblowers, but everyone must have been like me. I just stepped outside, looked around and thought, "What's the point?"
And I am particularly bitter towards the cold. I am sure my bitterness is due to the fact that I have walked around town most of this winter, and drove my heatless car around with the window open, so it won't fog up.
I heard that all the usual groundhogs predicted an early spring; that was music to my ears, but like most people in Saskatchewan I remain in doubt until I see it with my onw eyes.
And I am particularly bitter towards the cold. I am sure my bitterness is due to the fact that I have walked around town most of this winter, and drove my heatless car around with the window open, so it won't fog up.
I heard that all the usual groundhogs predicted an early spring; that was music to my ears, but like most people in Saskatchewan I remain in doubt until I see it with my onw eyes.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
When's it going to be too late?
It's been really weird, but lately I've been becoming more and more earth conscious. When I was a teenager I had a bad attitude like, "It's too late." or "What can I do?" The result was I was lazy about the little things to help the environment and I could care less about politcal issues and the environment. The truth is I never thought that the drastic effects of abusing the earth would be seen in my lifetime. The truth is the earth is hurting.
First of all, if you haven't seen "Inconvenient Truth" you need to, the evidence is undeniable. There are also several other documentaries or studies on animals that show global warming's results. I saw a documentary on penguins in Antartica and the sad thing was at the end a whole batch of young died because their home on the ice melted away before they developed swimming feathers; the surviving older penguins then had to find a new nesting ground next year.
The interesting thing is that there is all this evidence and people, especially governments say it's not a problem. One thing that is driving me nuts in Canadian politics is that the PC government is taking good environmental initiatives, especially to clean up the crap from many years of liberal laziness, but they are being criticized for not doing enough. They could do more, but it takes time.
The question I have for other governments especially our neighbors to the south is when is it going to be late?
First of all, if you haven't seen "Inconvenient Truth" you need to, the evidence is undeniable. There are also several other documentaries or studies on animals that show global warming's results. I saw a documentary on penguins in Antartica and the sad thing was at the end a whole batch of young died because their home on the ice melted away before they developed swimming feathers; the surviving older penguins then had to find a new nesting ground next year.
The interesting thing is that there is all this evidence and people, especially governments say it's not a problem. One thing that is driving me nuts in Canadian politics is that the PC government is taking good environmental initiatives, especially to clean up the crap from many years of liberal laziness, but they are being criticized for not doing enough. They could do more, but it takes time.
The question I have for other governments especially our neighbors to the south is when is it going to be late?
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Basketball: The Underappreciated Younger Brother
Sorry I haven't updated my blog in awhile. Here's a rant on TV:
This week is a good week to be a basketball fan and have a satellite dish. Unfortunately, this has also shown the bias of Canadian sports broadcasters to hockey over basketball. You see, this week the NHL is on all-star break, and without games to broadcast Sportsnet and TSN suddenly are friends again with Basketball; broadcasting several games this week as opposed to maybe the one on average that they do broadcast. Don't get me wrong I like hockey, I watched the All-Star skills competition tonight, but it would be nice to see half the coverage of hockey for basketball. I guess I got my hopes up when the NHL lock-out was on; there was a basketball game on everynight, often several games. I loved it, but deep down inside I knew it couldn't last. Well, the lockout ended and it happened; hockey came back on TV with a vengence. Now all the Canadian Sportsnetworks hump hockey oozing it every second they can, and basketball has taken the backseat. I don't know if organizations like TSN know this, but basketball is booming, hockey is in decline. The NBA's current 2 time MVP is a Canadian!! The winner is TheScore sportsnetwork, they have picked up alot of the basketball slack broadcasting lots of games and showing basketball themed shows.
I just wish I had something like NBA Courtside pass, featuring all broadcasted NBA games, but that is only available from Direct TV, which is only available in the States. I really shouldn't complain I still get to see a lot of games.
This week is a good week to be a basketball fan and have a satellite dish. Unfortunately, this has also shown the bias of Canadian sports broadcasters to hockey over basketball. You see, this week the NHL is on all-star break, and without games to broadcast Sportsnet and TSN suddenly are friends again with Basketball; broadcasting several games this week as opposed to maybe the one on average that they do broadcast. Don't get me wrong I like hockey, I watched the All-Star skills competition tonight, but it would be nice to see half the coverage of hockey for basketball. I guess I got my hopes up when the NHL lock-out was on; there was a basketball game on everynight, often several games. I loved it, but deep down inside I knew it couldn't last. Well, the lockout ended and it happened; hockey came back on TV with a vengence. Now all the Canadian Sportsnetworks hump hockey oozing it every second they can, and basketball has taken the backseat. I don't know if organizations like TSN know this, but basketball is booming, hockey is in decline. The NBA's current 2 time MVP is a Canadian!! The winner is TheScore sportsnetwork, they have picked up alot of the basketball slack broadcasting lots of games and showing basketball themed shows.
I just wish I had something like NBA Courtside pass, featuring all broadcasted NBA games, but that is only available from Direct TV, which is only available in the States. I really shouldn't complain I still get to see a lot of games.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
You're my hero....
Hey sports fans! I found some wonderful pictures of star athletes at a website called "Drunk Athletes". Don't these millionaires have bars in their mansions? Are they stupid enough to get wasted at a public bar and then let someone take their picture? Yep, they sure are.
New York Giants Quaterback Eli Manning
Dallas Mavericks Forward Dirk Nowitzki (Cute Dirk)
Coming Soon Drunken TV Chefs
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