I recently started studying French and I found it off that with direct objects, the gender of the pronoun is determined by the object rather than the person whose it is. Thus you would basically say his book if you are talking about a woman’s book because book is masculine or you would say her table if you are talking about a man’s table because ( Read more... )

I was thinking about shame the other day and it really hit me just how full of shame our whole culture is. It's not particularly surprising to me that we have this air of shame that surrounds us, it's just how pervasive it is to everything. I certainly feel like there's a place for shame. There are some shameful things that people do, but existing ( Read more... )

Not sure who saw it and who didn't, but my citizenship test is coming up next Tuesday. I've been randomly taking practice tests since I found out and boy is it fun. All that aside, I had a particularly special Canadian experience today. I turned a corner and almost ran into someone. That's not the special part. What was special and interesting, was ( Read more... )

Is it weird that I have so many exes on my facebook friend's list? That's a question that I ask myself every now and again, usually prompted by someone else's reaction to a story about tell about an ex, where it somehow comes up that we, in point of fact, are friends on facebook. While I'd say the easy answer to this question is no, that these were ( Read more... )

This past Tuesday, Ronny, Lexi and I went to see . . . And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead at Lee's Palace in Toronto. I'm fairly sure this is just about the only band right now that I REALLY wanted to see and I have to say that the show did not disappoint ( Read more... )

Not sure if anyone is watching Revolution, but I’m pretty sure I know what those necklaces are really for…

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So for those of you who don't know, my dear and lovely wife isn't so good at not passing out the Christmas gifts as they arrive. That being said, the kind and generous Charlie (who has as of yet to respond to my questions about what he wants for Christmas) got me Rocksmith for the XBox. I thought it only appropriate to show a picture of me playing ( Read more... )

I've been trying to make an update every week, but I missed last week. Oops. I may have missed two weeks. Oh well ( Read more... )

I don't really have a whole lot of new and exciting information, but I figured I should just get back in the habit of blogging. Right now I'm watching Prometheus and chilling out a little while Sunny works and the kids clean up their crap a little. While the kids have things they are expected to do regularly, they have Friday chores that we expect ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how I feel about this, but I was listening to some Anne Rice on audio-book the other day and it kind of put something into perspective for me. As most of us are vaguely aware, the US Constitution was adopted in 1787. There a large number people in the US are talking about going back to how this country was "meant to be" based on how ( Read more... )