Well, we finished. But that was hard. Harder than the Beast last year at Mont Ste. Marie, near Ottawa. Harder than Dead End Apocalypse, even without the extra 30lb sand bag. Trudging up and down a mountain with a 540m vertical drop for 21.5km (although I've seen it reported as anywhere from 20km to 24km, but somewhere around 21.5km is the most ( Read more... )

Shortly before she returned from her trip to Russia, my friend SOLO challenged a number of us to be accountable for something this week...so I said that in addition to some work-related responsibilities, I had a blog post that needed to be written up...in fact, what I needed to post was something that I'd committed to writing back in December (or ( Read more... )

Further follow-up to a question I asked several weeks ago: "Have you ever wondered how your internet search queries would sound if you had to say them out loud to a real person?"  For your viewing enjoyment, I give you CollegeHumor's "If Google was a Guy - Part 3":

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While I’m still working on the third, and therefore final, part of my three-part series discussing the issues and controversies(?) surrounding No Age Statement (NAS) whiskies, it appears that I write better - and faster - when something has irked me…and something has indeed irked me.

A couple of days ago, a Brand Ambassador for an international ( Read more... )

Again, this isn't really comedy, unless you enjoy watching me fall in the mud, but it was a sh$t-load of fun... On August 23rd we drove to Hamilton, Ontario, for a wedding, but we were also looking for any opportunity to do another Obstacle Course Race (OCR) before we hit The Zombie Run near Philadelphia on August 30th, and as luck would have it, ( Read more... )

About three weeks ago I absently remarked on Twitter that a head-to-head-to-head tasting of the three 21 year-old Canadian whiskies that I had in my cabinet (Danfield’s Limited Edition 21 year-old; opened), and on my storage shelf (Collingwood 21 year-old and Century Reserve 21 year-old; unopened), would be an interesting endeavour…and things sort ( Read more... )

About a month ago I added to the myriad of articles and blog entries about the "evils" no 'No Age Statement' (or NAS) whiskies (see Part One, here), and promised that I'd write Part Two, on 'age statement' or 'vintage redaction' the next week...well, I got distracted, and things have died down a bit, although there continues to be sporadic ( Read more... )

A bit unorthodox, since it isn't really comedy, but it is still amusing. Back in early/mid July, our informal running team (the United Nations Zombie Emergency Response Task Force [UNZERTF] - 'Run Fast or Die') took on Tough Mudder Montreal for the second year in a row (I couldn't participate last year as a result of the concussion), but this time ( Read more... )

I know that I'm several months - and some very comprehensive and nuanced discussions - late to the party, and that other people with far more knowledge of the industry have already covered this issue in depth (see Curt, Oliver, Lucasz, and Gal, among others), but it bears further examination, which why I've divided this subject into three parts ( Read more... )

It's been a while, and while normally I'd apologize for my unannounced hiatus, this time around we were on vacation (more on that later...). Now that we're back, I can get back on schedule...so, without further ado, I give you Barely Political's "X-Men Back to the Future Past":

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I watched 'The Wolverine' during our vacation. It was terrible, or at ( Read more... )