Category: humour

Meetings

On By Rick McIn humour, philosophyLeave a comment

One of the many things I’ve “dropped” from my life as much as possible are meetings. More often than not they are an excuse for not doing something.

Great things are more easily accomplished by individuals. Or small, informal collaborations.

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Meetings – despair.com

Mad TV – Feist Apple iPod spoof

On By Rick McIn Apple, humour, musicLeave a comment

Leslie Feist, who grew up in Calgary, is nominated for a Grammy. She’s big time in part because her song was featured in an Apple TV commercial.

With so many considering getting an iPod or iPhone over the holidays, here’s a timely spoof.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

get your Java fix on a bike

On By Rick McIn cycling, humour1 Comment

Just because I broke my hand last year riding a bike, carrying a Slurpee, doesn’t mean drinking hot coffee while riding is a bad idea

mornrushongrv.jpgMorning Rush Coffee Mug & Holder. Take away the spills and thrills of riding with coffee.

  • Stainless steel mug holder ring mounts to mountain bike or road bars.
  • Stainless steel commuter mug holds up to 16 oz. of coffee or tea. Slide button lid means you can open the cap and take a swig with one hand.
  • Mount is from Cat Eye, so in the evening you can replace it with a Cat Eye HL-500II headlight if you so desire.

    • Bike Coffee Holder

    (via Uncooped)

    Smart Cycle from Fisher-Price

    On By Rick McIn cycling, humourLeave a comment

    Engadget humorously sends up a “fitness” Christmas present:

    if you’re going to make children go through all the trouble of freakin’ exercise to obtain your sinister educational wares, we say you’ve gone too far. The new $100 Fisher-Price Smart Cycle … plugs directly into a television and allows its unwitting pupils to hop aboard the bike, fire away at the pedals, and attempt to steer into items on screen such as letters or numbers in an arcade-style racing game. Mattel even trotted out Richard Simmons to show off the wares

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    Smart Cycle from Fisher-Price corrupts our youth, must be stopped – Engadget

    do you have a doppelwanker?

    On By Rick McIn humourLeave a comment

    One of the best posts yet on the Great Kate blog:

    kate.gifI recently deduced that everybody needs a doppelwanker.

    This is not someone who resembles you closely and haunts you like a ghost. That, according to the Germans, is a doppelganger. Rather, a doppelwanker is someone who is as foolish as you are in the exact same ways that you are foolish. Sometimes you get along with this person famously and sometimes you don’t.

    Donald Trump and Rosie O’Donnell are doppelwankers who make a point of clashing. Have you ever noticed that they look exactly the same except that Rosie’s hair is dark and Donald’s is fair? They both have beefy faces and small, mean mouths.

    Just as important to their doppelwankery, however, is the fact that they are equally obnoxious attention hogs, which is most evident when they rip each other apart in public. Will they ever drop the pretext of hatred and become the fast friends they ought to have always been? Probably, and we’ll be asked to watch a reality show about it — they’ll marry and each will attempt to convert the other to his or her peculiar way of thinking. I look forward to reading about vast mutual bloodshed. …

    … read the rest – Kate of Late: Updating the wan and ghostly doppelwanker

    Kate just added a few other of her humour articles.