Entries from October 2008
WOW, did it just rain here.
I mean really hard rain. Felt like a monsoon. The skies are clearing up but still calling for showers tonight. This may turn into a very waterlogged game. Yes folks, your trusty Catpaw is off to the Chile vs Argentina semi-final tonight. Hope the teams remembered to pack their [...]
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Tags: FIFA · Football · Soccer · Toronto · Weather
About 985,000 Easy Bake Ovens are being recalled due to:
an entrapment and burn hazard
Sounds all rather legal to me… On first glance I thought this was another low fat, no fat, no sugar must use artificial sweetners rant….
You know - Beware the beguilling pink devil for it will surely entrap [...]
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Tags: Childhood · Product Recalls · Silly Moments
Looks like Canada’s largest daily newspaper decided to be the big party poopers this week. Yes the yoyo’s down at the Toronto Star newspaper decided it was newsworthy to publish the names of the Harry Potter characters who supposedly die in the last installment of the series.
Now why would a major paper do this? [...]
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Tags: Bookstores · Rants · Utter Stupidity
I collect early aviation memorabilia. Post cards, books, stamps - especially stamps - etc. As long as its an early aeroplane, then I’m excited. I prefer the pioneer days leading up to the First World War. It must have been exciting to climb into a cockpit knowing you were one of [...]
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Tags: Aeroplanes · Airplanes · Aviation · Early Flight · History