Category Archives: Ponders

The Curious Case of ‘Where the Hell has Roach Been’?

1st off, I’ve got to laugh. I’m sure the new Brad Pitt extravaganza is an excellent movie and perhaps Academy Award worthy (which means blah to me). But correct me if I’m wrong: Didn’t Mork & Mindy introduce this whole ‘born old, die young’ notion with the character Mearth? And please, Brad Pitt can’t possibly… Read More »

Our God is a Vengeful God

On the coldest day of the year, the heater in the car doesn’t work. Oh Lord, why hast thou forsaken me? Life revolves around the delicate balance of if and when to renew the vehicles in the household. In a duo-car home, the situation you want to have is to have one car that is… Read More »

Privatizing Roads

I read an article in Time that talks about how several states are starting to lease their road infrastructure to private companies, some of which are not even U.S. owned (e.g. Cintras, a company from Spain is gobbling up contracts at a gluttonous rate).  The states are turning towards this strategy as a way to… Read More »

Eating while Walking

I am sort of an odd duck I will admit. But I thought I was maybe a little over the edge when I came to the realization of arguablly one of my biggest peeves: People who eat while walking. This peeve had lingered underneath the surface for years. Something just out of reach that was… Read More »

The Frustration of an Ex-leader of a Huge Rock-n-Roll Band

My brother gave me a DVD of the Roger Hodgson concert in Montreal (June 6, 2006). It is very good. Sound and vision wise. He is a superb entertainer and has had a storied career as frontman and creative talent behind the 70’s superband Supertramp. The elephant in the room on this DVD is the… Read More »

New Car Stereo

To celebrate (or mourn) the sale of the Jetta, I installed a new Sony head unit into the CRV.  The old Alpine 3 pack player was showing its age:  wouldn’t play writeable CDs, couldn’t play MP3s, the display was in Klingon.  It was and still is a great player though.  Very powerful especially when I… Read More »

Music invokes memories (redux)

In my profession, I have a lot of time to listen to music.  I have a large collection and varied mix of music that I have stored on my drive.  I’ve decided that I like pretty much any kind of music as long as it has that extra something.  It’s hard to define that extra… Read More »

Society as demonstrated by the Bicycle Rider

Living and working here (in a village just outside of a hi-tech city riddled with universities) I get to see a LOT of bikers moving in and around the city. After some time I’ve noticed that it is possible to determine the type of person by the outfit/bike/demeanor package presented by the rider. In fact,… Read More »

A plea to MTO – there’s gotta be a better way!

On Mother’s Day this year, the three of us were heading down to the Jays game to celebrate the motherhood of Sonia.  We left at 11:00.  At 10:45 that morning, a truck exploded on the 401 just shy of the Milton/Hwy25 cutoff.  Total and complete shutdown.   Without the radio on we had no idea something was wrong until… Read More »