Category: Uncategorized

Some random trivia I stumbled upon last night while updating my MP3s.

I came across the song ‘Sugar Sugar’ a hit from 1969 – Billboard Chart #1 with a bullet.

So…the song is by The Archies. No problem, I just need the album artwork for my list and I’m on my way.

What’s this? I find out that The Archies are in fact a fictional band made up of the Archie characters we all love – Betty, Veronica, Archie, Jughead and Reggie! What the heck?! I never knew this! I mean, they appear in the comics all the time, but I thought it was just part of the story!

Turns out that the fictional band made some musical numbers for their animated series (which is stellar by the way. Go watch it!) and Sugar Sugar made it to the top of the Billboard – a first for a fictional band!

Mike’s MP3 player is on the fritz. The headphones don’t really work on it. So he’s been looking at getting an iPod.

So, me in my wisdom say “Pass that thing to me, I’ll fix it!” and apply some pressure to the headphone jack. After some wiggling the thing works! Yay!

Then after trying to reposition it, I hear a snap, and the thing goes into the player. Surprisingly, the thing is still working, but my genius self decides to pull out the headphones to see if I can fix it and the piece falls into the void which is the MP3 player.

I feel stupid. I feel bad. I know that he was going to get rid of it anyway in a few weeks, but now he’s out of music for a weeks until he gets an iPod.

Lesson Learned: Don’t let me mess with your stuff.

update: I am loaning him the money to buy an iPod. It’s the least I can do.

Congrats go out to Vero who got a role in the play she auditioned for! In other words, she came in FIRST. Yeah! She’s like Rocky!

I have no real idea what this play is about but I have found out that she plays an imaginary friend of someone. Ha! I sometimes wonder if I’m imagining her myself!

I will let you all know when she is performing, although the play is most likely in French. As she reads this I am sure that she will be calling me saying “Whoa, whoa whoa…no one should be invited to this thing!”

My only response is this…public play baby.

Maren just brought up the fact that she loves the Internet.

I wonder how it was back in the day of office work without the Internet? I thought that maybe people just chatted a lot more.

Then she wondered if they would spend a lot of their time smoking.

Wait a second…is there a correlation between the decline in smokers and the advent of the Internet in ’95? Whoa…the Internet has been around for 11 years (yeah yeah, we all know it’s from the 60s, but this guy didn’t have it until ’95.)

I was in the washroom this morning at another Gov’t building and noticed that they really lacked sufficient toilets for all of us.

That got me wondering who determines how many urinals and toilets are to be placed into a public washroom?

There must be some scientific stat like x amount of people = y amount of toilets.

Who has this information? I want to request more toilets and I need formulas to demonstrate!

The Scene: I enter the house and Mike says “Man, I heard some crazy news from back home about you. People are saying you are engaged!”

Wha?

Dana calls Mike asking if I’m engaged. Turns out Dana saw Jen in town and she said I was engaged. Jen said she heard from her mom. Jen’s mom works at the optometrist that my mom goes to.

Boom. Somehow Mom has been saying I am engaged.

I decide to phone her.

After much laughter we realize that either Jen’s mom, or Jen TOTALLY mixed up the fact that I have a girlfriend.

MEN, heed my warning! Don’t even say you have a girlfriend! People may think you’re engaged!

The funniest part of this story is when Mom says “Congrats on your engagement!” over the phone and I hear Dad in the background saying “What? Ryan’s engaged?”. HA!

This weekend starts off what is more commonly known as the Month of Partying.

Ottawa is home to Winterlude which usually has visitors every weekend…I don’t mind at all, but I always remember by the end of the month I do enjoy a nice relaxing weekend!

We are starting February off with a bang with Carrie, Vero and I heading to Toronto this weekend for Katie’s birthday and the return of Crystal from Bermuda. It will be good times and I predict a viewing of Turkish Star Wars will occur. Have no fear Ottawaites! We will have our own Turkish Star Wars night!

Thought of the Day (taken from my Literature Class): The greatest known paradox is when someone says this phrase: “I never lie.”

Boy, Daniel Craig looks like a sad, sad man who is supposed to fill in James Bond’s shoes.

May I go out on a limb and say that the new Bond film will suck as much as when Timothy Dalton came in and make Bond all ‘rogue’?

Come on. No gadgets, no Q (or R…)…back to the basics Bond.

You know what? Prequels are cool and all, but not when it involves Bond being nothing like we are used to.

I read Casino Royale and it turned me off of Bond actually because it was nothing like the Bond we know and love. Supposedly he becomes this man appears AFTER Casino Royale.

No Welcomes to you Mr. Bond.

Go read Amin’s blog entry here.

His friend in Ottawa is selling off a SLEW of DVDs for killer, killer, wholesale prices. Sounds like he went out of business unfortunately.

I managed to pick up The Beatles Anthology (reg $70), Varsity Blues (hello whipped cream bikini!) and Spinal Tap for $50.

You can’t go wrong. I’m pumped to check out The Beatles Anthology…was a mini-series created by the remaining Beatles back in the 90s. I also received the companion book version of the mini-series from Vero at Christmas. I’m Beatled out!

—-
People have been asking how I got a dent in my car. I have no idea. It’s on the underside of the bumper, so all I can think of it the car hit a curb or a snowbank…

—-
Unbeknownst to some people, the roomie Mike just started his new job (for life!) at Foreign Affairs Canada today. Congrats!

—-
I am hooked on Season 4 of Smallville. I believe Mike is hooked on it also seeing that he’s watched 16 hours of it in the past two days. Man, it would be cool to be retired. Wanna know what my ideal retirement would be, after I do all the travelling I want? Work at a comic shop and watch TV series all day long. End of story. And tend to my vineyards.

Turns out I’m not insane.

Once again, my clock went off at 6:12 instead of 6:25.

I changed it to the right time, went for a shower, and the clock was advanced in time.

Must be something loose in the clock.

Normally I would just beat it against the wall and see if that fixes anything. But I’m making some coin now…I’m sure I can afford a new alarm clock. Plus, I could always put this clock in the spare room. So what if my guests get to wake up 13 minutes earlier?

—-

Last night I did my Comm Research test which confirmed that I need to take better notes. Either that, or the prof is insane. I then spent a few hours with Vero which was excellent.

Anyone out there have a heat gun I can borrow? I have a dent in my bumper and I’ve heard that if you heat the thing up, you can just push it back out, since it’s plastic.