So I wake up, have a shower, realize all my clothes are dirty except a green shirt. About to wear it when I realize damn! Its a bomber game day. Even worse, its the Saskatchewan roughriders. Even worse, its the labour day classic. There is no way in hell I can wear a green shirt today. Even if the bombers will probably lose regardless, fuck Saskatchewan. No freakin way. So I spent the next two hours washing and drying my blue t-shirts. What else could I do? Its not easy being blue... but its exponentially better than being green.
Sunday, September 02, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
He said She said
Did you know in Tagalog, the language spoken by many people from the Philippines, there is no equivalent word for He or She? If you ever notice a Filipino mixing up and referring to a male as "Her", or female as "Him", that's why.
is what google translate says about the matter.
Now you know!
| pronoun | |
| kanya | her, his, its, hers |
| siya | he, she, him, her, it, herself |
| kaniya | her, his, hers |
| nya | her, his, its |
is what google translate says about the matter.
Now you know!
Saturday, August 25, 2012
One small step
The first thing I thought of when I heard Neil Armstrong had passed away today was Ice Cream.
Not because it was hot today - though it was. I thought of Ice Cream because the first place I learned about Neil Armstrong was from Dickie Dee popsicle sticks.
Back in the day, Dickie Dee was the main distributer of ice cream in Winnipeg, and their popsicles and ice cream had little bits of educational trivia on them. One of the most common was the question "Who was the first astronaut on the moon".. with the answer of course being Neil Armstrong.
Perhaps it was usually found on the rocket shaped popsicle. I can't remember now. It would make sense if it was though, what with the rocket shaped popsicle housing space trivia. There was a tot lot near where I grew up where you'd inevitably see a used popsicle stick in the sandbox with the aforementioned trivia on it.
Dickie Dee sold out to unilever a long while back. To be part of the Good Humor/Breyers brand. I haven't seen any trivia on popsicle sticks in years. It's a shame. How much extra would it cost to make popsicle sticks with little questions on the sticks? It's all so cold and impersonal nowadays.
Alas I couldn't find an image, but I made a reasonable recreation based off of memory.
So, in honour of Neil Armstrong, I had a Rocket Popsicle.
Although to be fair they looked more like the latter photo.
It's kind of timely that Mr Armstrong passed away just after the Mars Curiosity landing. While it wasn't and couldn't be the same as landing a man on the moon, it was perhaps the closest thing this generation is going to see to compare to that. And a lot of people watched it online or whatever way they could.
Not because it was hot today - though it was. I thought of Ice Cream because the first place I learned about Neil Armstrong was from Dickie Dee popsicle sticks.
Back in the day, Dickie Dee was the main distributer of ice cream in Winnipeg, and their popsicles and ice cream had little bits of educational trivia on them. One of the most common was the question "Who was the first astronaut on the moon".. with the answer of course being Neil Armstrong.
Perhaps it was usually found on the rocket shaped popsicle. I can't remember now. It would make sense if it was though, what with the rocket shaped popsicle housing space trivia. There was a tot lot near where I grew up where you'd inevitably see a used popsicle stick in the sandbox with the aforementioned trivia on it.
Dickie Dee sold out to unilever a long while back. To be part of the Good Humor/Breyers brand. I haven't seen any trivia on popsicle sticks in years. It's a shame. How much extra would it cost to make popsicle sticks with little questions on the sticks? It's all so cold and impersonal nowadays.
Alas I couldn't find an image, but I made a reasonable recreation based off of memory.
So, in honour of Neil Armstrong, I had a Rocket Popsicle.
"To the moon!"
Although to be fair they looked more like the latter photo.
It's kind of timely that Mr Armstrong passed away just after the Mars Curiosity landing. While it wasn't and couldn't be the same as landing a man on the moon, it was perhaps the closest thing this generation is going to see to compare to that. And a lot of people watched it online or whatever way they could.
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