These are the days which try men’s souls. Maybe that is slightly too dramatic, but it is fair to say it was a difficult day for me. I learned that I had not gotten the job that I had interviewed for a few days prior. I had been reluctant to apply for the job out [...]
That is the question that may haunt my dreams for years to come. Taco Bell is running a new advertisement promoting a limited-edition taco called the blackjack taco. Why is it called the blackjack taco? It is a secret shrouded in as much mystery as how the beef they use in Taco Bell tacos is [...]
At my niece’s wedding I may have stumbled upon a mythological creature so rare that it has never been documented or thought up before. I looked back to see who was entering the doors at the back of the church when I noticed something just below the balcony. It appeared to be a stuffed and [...]
Much to my great surprise I am now on twitter. My twitter handle is @dickness. I resisted Twitter because I thought it was basically like the update feature on Facebook, but it turns out there is much more creativity on Twitter than I had anticipated. I am not actively trying to recruit followers for Twitter. [...]
Michael Jackson, one of the most talented and enigmatic performers in recent memory, has died of cardiac arrest today at the age of 50 as first reported by the tabloid TMZ.
As a young boy I was a huge fan of Michael Jackson around the time the Thriller album came out in 1984. The album and [...]
This thought came into my head strangely enough while watching the preview for the movie Notorious coming out on DVD Tuesday. I am not saying that Notorious B.I.G’s death served the death blow for the music industry in the same way it was told the deaths of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Bopper’s Death [...]
It is time once again for a miscellanea post. These posts usually consist of a few unrelated quick thoughts which do not really warrant their own full post.
I watched the Watchmen last night and I was impressed. I am not going to post a review at the moment, but I do plan to post a [...]
A report was released today establishing a link between drinking black tea at temperatures above 70C and oesophageal cancer (I thought the spelling was wrong for oesophageal as did my spell check, but the BBC begs to differ see the article here)
The difficulty with this story is that no one knows what the C stands [...]
An Intro to Miscellanea
Occasionally on my old blog I would post a column with a few topics which I had thoughts I wanted to write about, but in a short format instead of a whole post so I decided to combine them in a post called Miscellanea. This is the first of the Miscellanea columns [...]
We have all just witnessed the celebration of the dawning of a great new era. I know some of you are not crazy about this man, but it is time to get used to him being around. This is the week that we should all celebrate this man and the fact that his success and [...]
