Ladies and gentlemen and others, I present to you the Queerasmoi Socially Responsible Couch Potato Portfolio. It's a lovely blend between low fees, social responsibility, and lazy passive investing.

Here's the details of my target portfolio.

Part A: Canadian equities - iShares CDN Jantzi Social Index Fund (TSX:XEN), Management-expense ratio (MER) of ( Read more... )

Okay, so you've heard of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon"?  If Kevin Bacon himself has a "Bacon number" of zero, anyone who's appeared with him gets a number of 1, and so forth.  Thanks to my appearance as an extra on The L Word in March, I have a Bacon number. Many of the actresses I stood just a few feet away from are linked to Bacon by only one ( Read more... )

At the little grocery store on East Broadway at St George...

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My road bike needed some new handlebar tape.  So I bought some new handlebar tape.


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Is it just me, or does the US dollar seem to sink close to or below parity during the first week of every month ( Read more... )

Tonight,
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I love this character.

Dear Mr. _______,

Thank you very much for your e-mail, and your concern about the placement of our OneMatch advertisement at the local night club in Vancouver.

Our target market for our media campaign is young, diverse Canadians - specifically those in the two largest cities of Vancouver and Toronto. Since we are trying to reach young Canadians, ( Read more... )

To: Canadian Blood Services ( Read more... )

I've been griping for a long time about how Canadian shows like This Hour Has 22 Minutes are not commonly posted on Torrent sides.  Now that my TV tuner software blows, and my ancient VCR is breathing dying gasps, if I miss comedy night on CBC there's no instant replay of full episodes.

And then I discovered that, indeed, I can download 22 Minutes, ( Read more... )