I have never understood why women wear lingerie–I mean, I love them for it, I do. But what’s the point, you know, of frilly stuff next to your bits in the middle of a Wednesday meeting?
Today, I came to understand. I saw an advertisement for Under Armour. It’s a kind of sportswear, manly sportswear, manly [...]
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I feel sexy
Friday, November 9, 2007
Why the sad face?
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
I’m not one to subscribe to theories of media incompetence. All told, the Toronto media aren’t too bad. Last week, though, seemed a bit of an exception.
Many media reported the catastrophe at Chrysler. The company cut 1100 jobs in Ontario. It made the front page of the Toronto Star and other newspapers in the area.
The [...]
Advertising on CBC podcasts
Monday, November 5, 2007
The CBC is Canada’s public broadcaster. It competes with other, private broadcasters that do quite a good job. CTV, Global, and the A-channels are all pretty decent.
The difference is in the funding. The CBC gets taxpayer dollars: about $100 million of them. It also takes advertising. This puts it at quite a competitive advantage. It [...]
Why nuclear power rules
Friday, November 2, 2007
Imagine you had to choose: $1 million today or $2 million in 10 years. Which would it be?
I think most people would take the cool mil today and skip the later, bigger payoff–after all, you could die, the economy could tank, or a meteor could hit the earth. It makes sense, in some way at [...]
Crime in PEI
Thursday, November 1, 2007
I spent half of this past summer in PEI. We had a great time. It was just fantastic.
We heard, though, an awful lot about how safe PEI is (and how dangerous Toronto is). I didn’t take it seriously. We also heard a lot about how white PEI is. This gave me a sense of why [...]
Booziest provinces
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
I love “The Daily”, Statistics Canada’s daily report on the kooky stuff we do.
Recently, for instance, they released a report on alcohol consumption. I used it to figure out the booziest provinces.
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