Lizzie Miller (yeah I have no idea who she is either), recently appeared in Glamour magazine in an unairbrushed photo showing a bit of belly flab. Possibly because an unairbrushed photo is so rare these days, or the fact that so is printed belly flab nonetheless the magazine was inundated with messages of support. I [...]

Yesterday after my trial run of shopping by bicycle at Costco I decided to take the scenic route home. The sun was shining, the wind after being against me the entire trip down was now blowing against my back propelling me forward and the Trucker was handling the Costco load beautifully. It was a marvellous [...]

I’ve been to Costco a few times now and for the most part parking hasn’t bothered me. On opening day they were swamped and parking was free, which was great. The second time I went there I was slugged with the $5 Harbourtown carpark which was marginally annoying but acceptable. After having finished my larger [...]

It’s been a nervous month here in my Walstad aquarium. Last month I decided to pull the plug on the filter and run my goldfish tank filterless. I’m happy to report that thus far this has been a success. I had a mild ammonia blip but that settled down pretty fast. Currently the tank has [...]

Everyone has those traumatising moments in life. You know, those moments where you think to yourself “I’m going to remember this for the rest of my life” and it’s not for a good reason. When I was little our house house burnt down and we nearly lost everything. When I was eighteen I had my [...]

The idea behind the suspended sentence seems to be ripped straight out of the bleeding hearts handbook. The basic premise is that you impose some weightless prison sentence on a criminal but then ‘suspend’ it for a period of time. If the criminal commits a crime during this period of time then the original jail [...]

When I was in high school back in the 90′s the biggest confrontation I remember witnessing was between the largest guy in our class and a temp teacher. It was rollcall first thing in the morning and the temp, a big man himself, was near the blackboard at the front of the class and most [...]