OK, this is just horrible: the Fish & Flush toilet.

But my daughter loves it … and you have to admit, it is completely cool in a horrible, nasty, kitschy way.
Tags: fish, toilet, kitsch, fun, john koetsier

In case you didn’t realize it, having to work two jobs in order to pay the rent is now referred to as “portfolio diversification:”

Firefighters who want to live in high-priced cities can work two jobs, said W. Michael Cox, chief economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. “I think it’s great,” he said. “It […]

There’s an important story on the Huffington Post about a Ted Koppel article in the NY Times:

Koppel goes on to note that “over the past couple of months alone, he told me, Hamas has received more than $300 million in cash, provided by Iran and funneled through Syria” and “the more than 12,000 missiles and […]

Tonight Teresa and I took the boys to the local park. Gabrielle’s in Tswassen at my sister’s.
Ethan and I played some baseball and then joined up with a couple of neighborhood kids for more baseball and an soccer game - with Aidan joining in for the soccer.
The interesting thing is that it felt like when […]

Blasted

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I had to take a shot of this … it’s one of the hundreds of trees on East Badger Road, on the route I drive on most days on my way to my Bellingham, WA office.
I hate hate hate to see trees […]

Ummm … if you want to know why NOT to go see Pirates of the Carribean, go ask a ninja
You’ll be glad you did.

OK, so this is seriously cool: one man basically inventing a new kind of telescope virtually by himself.
One quote I particularly like:

I didn’t want to be influenced by what others had done, so I purposefully didn’t look for other designs until I had come up with one on my own.

Unity in diversity

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Teresa and I took the kids to the Sunshine Coast for the Canada Day weekend. What a great couple of days!
I snapped this picture on Sechelt beach, but we stayed most of the time at Teresa’s aunt’s home in Robert’s […]