The Dashing Fellows

RIP iPOD

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:08:00 EDT

There isn’t another company on Earth quite like Apple. How absurd is it that every time Steve Jobs steps on stage, news outlets from the New York Times to CNN cover the event live! Imagine what Toyota, General Electric, or Sony would pay for that kind of press. Of course, you could argue that Apple has been so innovative and ahead of the curve that they’ve earned that kind of adoration. In the mid-90s, when PCs were the only game in town, and Macs were a niche ...

I Watched This: The American

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:59:00 EDT

In the American, professional-killer-in-hiding Jack sort of hits it off with a local Italian priest named Benedetto. It’s not friendship, really. The time they spend sipping bourbon and eating goat stew is virtually silent. It’s more that they have some deep commonness. Both their callings necessitate a certain level of professional isolation. Priests are councillors; they give advice and hear confession. There’s not a lot of room for friends. And of course, in theory, even less room for romantic companionship. For Jack, it’s ...

Do it your damn self - I QUIT

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:27:00 EDT

So I love my job. It was everything I was looking for – the right field, interesting industry, conveniently downtown and good pay. But even with all these positives, there are still time where I want to just walk out and not come back. Not just because it’s stressful or my boss is annoying at times, but because I’m tired of working for someone else – I want to be my own boss.

The idea of not ...

Chewing Out the Fat - seeing the person before the problem

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:34:00 EDT

I only recently got around to seeing Moran Spurlock's Super Size Me. I'm not going to add to the comments around the film, except to say that it was obviously polemical, and of course with regular exercise and restricted consumption there would be different results. Heck, Michael Phelps consumed twice as much as Spurlock and remained a lean swimming if occasional bong smoking machine.

Rather I want to focus on a comment made in the film by Jacob Sullum, from ...

The CNE douchebag

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT

I was at the Canadian National Exhibition earlier this week and there was one thing more noticeable to me than the Curious George stuffed animals or the lineup for fried butter. The most visible thing at the CNE this year was the douchebag. You know the type that I am talking about. This guy is really good at being obnoxious, usually travels in a pack with other douches, pushes through crowds, scopes out any girl over 14-years-old, swears up a storm, talks really loud and walks with an overinflated sense of self worth. As the day became warmer and the dudes became douchier, the crowd at the CNE almost looked like it was entirely made up with guys wearing A-shirts (otherwise known as muscle ...

How to Survive a 500ft Free Fall

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:05:00 EDT

One of the more interesting stories making the rounds on news and blog websites today was that of Thomas Magill. On Tuesday the 22-year-old New Yorker jumped from the 39^th floor of a high-rise apartment building and miraculously survived the fall by crashing through the windshield of a parked car. Generally speaking, any fall from 100ft or higher is considered ...

Glenn Beck is the next MLK

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:25:00 EDT

Coincidently (or maybe not so coincidently), this past weekend, on the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a Dream’ speech, Glen Beck, Sarah Palin, and their cadre of followers marched on Washington. Why were they there? Umm, I’m not so sure, and apparently no one ...