Shamelessly pinched from Carey’s blog, I bring to you Rick Mercer’s report on Vancouver being rated the most livable city.

Since I have more readers in Vancouver than Toronto, this might ring true to a few of you.

And while I’m directing you to Carey’s blog, I should add that he’s an extremely talented individual seeking gainful employment in a creative field. (If you know of any vacancies, please let me know and I’ll pass it on!) Read through some of his posts and you’ll see what I mean. He’s been a friend since 2002 (?), and I try and catch up with Carey and Lise when I can while in Vancouver. In fact, I caught up with them over Easter, but I forgot to take photos. Can you believe it?

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Attie Gail Book Club, June 2004

(I love this picture. It’s the third time I’ve used it on this website.)

via Brandon at Java Jive:

16 things it takes most of us 50 years to learn.

I don’t know which one is my favourite, but I quite like 4, 7, 8, 11.

Alternately, a better resolution version at Mojoflix is here.

OK, so I’m nearly a year too late, but hey — I don’t own a TV! Nonetheless, it’s still funny.

Evgeni Plushenko at the Olympics last year in Turino.

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It was a little gusty this afternoon, so out of all the shots I took after work, these were the least blurry. I’d need a tripod for this situation, but I’m not keen to lug a tripod to work and back. So I made do by setting the camera atop a rubbish bin.

Meanwhile, enjoy a little Christmas flashity flash of Santa and Company (thanks Helma!), or make yourself into an elf (thanks Siobhan!), like I did:

Gelf?

There’s also reindeer arm wrestling, and the concept of Yes I’m Working made me laugh.

Technorati tags: Christmas, Toronto, games, elf

My homepage in Safari is set on BBC, and there are occasionally some pretty wacky articles that catch my skimming eye. “The BBC? Wacky?” you say? Oh, yeah! I’ve saved these links in draft for ages — they’ll dry up and disappear if I don’t let them loose asap.

Denmark ‘happiest place on earth’

If it is happiness you are seeking a move to Denmark could be in order, according to the first scientist to make a world map of happiness.

Check this one out:

‘Goat-free roads made me speed’

A Swiss man caught speeding on a Canadian highway has blamed his actions on the absence of goats on the roads.

After driving 2,600 kilometres around Switzerland in a rental car in 2003, I think I missed the goat action when I got home, too. (”I couldn’t help myself, officer! There were no goats!”) And roadside cows, although I see them occasionally along the New York Thruway, too.

Panasonic DMC-FZ1

And one last link, with a photo that instantly reminded me of Mike Meyers’ Saturday Night Live parodies of the Brits:

Plastic pill to fight gum disease

“US scientists have developed a tiny plastic pill that they say can prevent tooth loss by treating gum disease.”

She’s got quite the collection of mugs.

When I was driving out of Scranton on Monday, I passed by one of the many churches and their pithy signs. This one caught my eye:

“Dusty Bibles Lead to Dirty Lives”

I kid you not!

I saw this on Kim’s page and was rendered speechless.

EDIT: And, on a related note, this is what happens when you’re a comedian and you do your own choreography. Or, at least MIMIC it. I’m sure this video’s been seen by 90% of the bandwidth-paying public (via Kottke), but in case you haven’t seen it:

– via The Radblog

Thanks muchly to dear Lana for her buoyant e-mail messages and sending jokes my way.

I thought I’d post ‘em periodically here as an online tickle of sorts…

Cutting a tree down Old Skool Soviet style,
originally uploaded by HyperBob.

There’s a hilarious joke attached to this photo. Click to read.

I’ve got some other Finnish jokes lying around somewhere in my boxes I’ll have to dig out sometime.

Thanks HyperBob!

asleep
Uploaded by mcwont.

This is how I feel at the moment, but I’m at the *pun alert* tail end of a little photo project I embarked upon tonight. We arrived home late from seeing a local production of the ballet Giselle — lovely, by the way — after a scrummy Japanese hibachi dinner.

(This isn’t Hugh, nor is it our iMac. Mcwont was kind enough to share his photo. Click on the pic for more info.)