Contextless Thoughts

I haven’t had much time to write much of anything other than the occasional tweet on Twitter from my iPod Touch lately.  Some have said that Twitter is ruining my blog but the bigger issue is that I don’t have uninterrupted time to write.  If I had time to write, this is what I would [...]

In the most mediocre Canadian contest.  I am serious.  Join the campaign.  It’s going nowhere that spectacular.  Brent Gretzky is only mediocre because of his brother.  Warren Kinsella has FOUR well known books and drives a nicer classic car than I do.  Alan Thicke?  Way, way nicer hair than any of us.  He is a [...]

J.P. Riccardi throws in the towel, just like he has over the last six years. 50 things that are blamed on the rising cost of oil.

Wendy is blogging about some cheap cabins that I kind of like.  She also links to the Lightbox Cabin which I find pretty amazing. The six Canadian NHL teams provide 31% of NHL revenue :: In fact, eight U.S. teams – the Coyotes, the Florida Panthers, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Islanders, Atlanta Thrashers, Washington Capitals, [...]

I can’t figure out what Hillary Clinton is going to accomplish by keeping her campaign going until the Democratic convention in August.  Jason Cherniak has some reasons on why she should stay in the campaign but in the end he is arguing for a Canadian type political convention rather than an American one (one with [...]

I found out about Cabela’s (via Jason Kottke’s blog) a couple weeks ago and ordered their catalog  to take a look at.  Cabela’s is a Sidney, Nebraska-based direct marketer and specialty retailer of hunting, fishing, camping and related outdoor recreation merchandise.  Right now their catalog is the most widely read thing in the Cooper household.  [...]

I just read The Macintosh Way by Guy Kawasaki.  It was sent to me anonymously a month or so ago and it is a great book.  Some excellent stories about Apple and early pioneers like Dave Winer are in there.  If you can find it at a used book store, it is worth reading.  Whoever [...]

Some photo sets of our trip to Regina:  Saskatchewan Science Centre, Saskatchewan War Memorial, and the Saskatchewan Legislature After returning early, we did manage to get a head start on some yard and garden tasks for our house.  A productive trip to Canadian Tire, Home Depot and Peavey Mart.  The big jobs this summer will [...]

I made some tweaks to the site that you will find throughout it.  I have finally added a search box on each page from Google that combined with Google Sitemaps should offer much better search results.  There is an improved navigational element which should make it easier to find stuff in the top left corner [...]

It’s been two weeks of this flu and I still feel miserable but am feeling better. If I keep getting better, I may start blogging again but you never know. I was listening to the head of the Baptists rail against John McCain the other night. Apparently he committed the unforgivable sin, he voted to [...]

It’s been a crazy week and I am looking forward to a quiet weekend. The big plans are to post the rest of my review of The War Room, finish The Ghost Map, and listen to some music. I am not sure if I will watch the Super Bowl or not. If I am suitably [...]

What is it that Democrats see in Hillary Clinton? If she wins the primary, she will will unite the Republicans in a way that James Dobson could only dream of. Speaking of the religious right, I wonder what would happen if a strong evangelical presidential candidate who shared their values and happened to be a [...]