My birthday is this month, so it was time to renew my vehicle's license plate.  I drive a 1999 car, so it was also time for a vehicle emissions inspection report. I've been driving this car for 13 years, putting 250,000 kms on it, but it passed the emissions

Argh. This recent news story about Cardinal Thomas Collins taking exception to the McGuinty government's amendment to its anti-bullying legislation preventing Catholic school boards from vetoing the club name Gay-Straight Alliance, pisses me off.  If an anti-homophobia group wants to call itself Gay-Straight Alliance, so be it.  Unfortunately, the Catholic

I chew a lot of gum.  You may recall my desperate plea 7 years ago for sugarfree bubble gum.  I like my gum sugarfree, and I like to blow bubbles.  Is that too much to ask? I recently discovered a new gum that I love.  I take down six pieces

I'm not literally allergic to anything, but I don't want stuff.  I was thinking if you left me some fairly basic clothing and footwear, and a few kitchen and bathroom essentials, I'd be very happy with a mere handful of items. At least one decent wifi-connected computerMy Android phoneMy baseball

Here are the top 5 names for births in the USA from 1912-2011.  As a male named Michael, I'm always interested in where that name ranks. Incredibly, from 1949 to 2010, the name Michael has ranked in the top four.  Even more incredibly, from 1953 to 2010, it ranked in

The graphic below has been floating around.  It's totally accurate.  Here's the car stereo I wanted 10 years ago and the one I want now. And here's the car stereo I actually have today.  Please suppress your laughter. The CD player hasn't worked since 2006...  My kingdom for an Aux-in!

YouTube videos have been embedded in blogs since the dawn of time.  Actually, that's not true.  YouTube didn't exist until 2005. Out of curiosity, I wanted to find out when I embedded a YouTube video on this blog for the first time.  It was February 4, 2006 when I shared

Someone posted this picture on Reddit and I was blown away when I saw it.  It was taken June 5, 1989 in Beijing, China. That of course is Tank Man, he of the iconic photo below. I've always just known this second photo.  I didn't realize there were other angles

I helped an old friend with her new site.  It's called My Toronto Scoop and she posts all sort of deals in the GTA.  Check it out, won't you? I saw she recently posted a promotion from one of those star naming companies.  Basically, you adopt a star and give

I still love my WWWD t-shirt.  I bought it from puckinghilarious.com over two years ago and it remains my go-to tee when I need an extra dose of intensity. WWWD, of course, stands for What Would Wendel Do.  Here I am wearing it yesterday at High Park. Pic courtesy

For the past few months, I've been rotating between boring ol' regular Cheerios and Special K.  That's it.  Cheerios and Special K. A bunch of cereals I used to enjoy got fired when I read the labels.  A lot of tasty cereals are loaded with sugar, and there's more than

When I was young, everyone told me you had to go to university or you'd end up making minimum wage in a dead-end job.  This mantra was repeated over and over again, by teachers and the like. I believed it to be true. After high school, I did what I

A couple of years ago, Dove MEN+CARE decided to remove my excuse for stinking like a man.  I used that shampoo and soap, but Dove must have sensed a disturbance in the force when it ran out. This arrived at my door the other day: Before you judge, it

I love long weekends.  This seemed like a good long weekend to write about Pascal's Wager. Blaise Pascal was a seventeenth century mathematician who came up with an argument for why one should live as if God exists, even though this cannot be proved or disproved through reason. You'll find

Titled as found. This is the back of an RCMP car in Edson, Alberta.  They thought he was drunk, but later found it it was merely.... ...Mercury poisoning.

The other day I posted an image comparing an American $100 bill and a Canadian $100 bill.  It seems to have ruffled a few feathers. When it comes to God (or Yahweh, El, Allah, etc.), you typically get a passionate response.  Those who believe, believe so fully you simply can't

It's the vernal equinox, people! If your Latin skills are rusty, today is the first day of spring. I can't think of a better way to celebrate than by spinning that CanCon classic "The First Day of Spring" by The Gandharvas.

There's a clear different between the American and Canadian $100 bill. Advantage: Canada.

How many of you Googled the name Joseph Kony this morning?  An awareness campaign by Invisible Children Inc likely has someone you know and love learning all about Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the bad shit he's been causing in Uganda in the name of Christianity. Here's the video

Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, "What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?" This is his answer. Here's the direct quote from the video: The most astounding fact…the most astounding fact is the knowledge that

The Guardian is a British national daily newspaper, founded in 1921.  Their latest ad is a modern update on The Three Little Pigs fairytale and I quite like it. Great ad, isn't it?

My son plays hockey at George Bell Arena, but his practices take place outdoors at High Park Rink.  There are weekly practices scheduled through March. Yesterday, I received an email from my son's coach letting me know the outdoor practices are cancelled for the rest of the season because the

This photo of a makeshift memorial for Neil "Wheels" Hope at Queen and Degrassi was taken by rachelconduit using Instagram.

Happy Valentine's Day.  I choo-choo-choose you.

A long, long time ago, I helped Mississauga Blogger with his Mississauga Blog.  I was sad to see the blog lapse over the years, and today it's nowhere to be found. Mississauga Blogger may not be blogging anymore, but we're still in touch.  In fact, he needs our help. Here's