Mixed Bag

Things don't belong anywhere else.

Eaten by Murphy: I know I just put this site on pause for a couple of days, but something just happened that I wanted to write about. Having worked late last night, I settled down for a little afternoon nap. I lay in…; Continue reading entry #3656

Help Fight Cancer of the Private Parts: Gill is participating in in The Underwear Affair, the BC Cancer Foundation’s 10K run/5K walk “for cancers below the waist” on July 8: Now, this is the first time I have raised money for a cause since maybe Girl Guides,…; Continue reading entry #3654

Oh Those Entrepeneurial Monks: I was channel-surfing toward the World Hockey Championships yesterday (Canada pummelled Norway, the poor bastards) when I halted on the CBC. They had a piece about the Trappist monks at New Melleray Abbey, who make caskets: Our caskets and urns…; Continue reading entry #3646

Additional items in Mixed Bag: Shave Everywhere; My Quest For New Ice Cube Trays; We Live in a Concrete Jungle; I Want a Customer Service Blog Aggregator; It's the URL Giveaway; You are the Sun, the Moon, the Cinderhide Armsplints of the Monkey; A Post About Lists; Flood!; That Bisexual Vegetarian With Questionable Hair Choices; The 'Boy Crisis' in Education; Reader Requests: Web Developer and Old Accordions; Two Quick PSAs; Congrats to Arieanna and Ianiv; Woman Gets Beer From Her Kitchen Faucet; US Faces Mortgage Madness; Hack Your Store Loyalty Cards; Bad Sweater Guy; The Power of the Suit; The Great Soup Panacea; Will Pate, Web Monster, is Looking for a Job; The Perfect T-Shirt; Does Advil Give Anybody Else Crazy Dreams?; ACME Humble Pie: A Fantastic Customer Service Experience; How To Name a Pet; 60 Different Beers; Sarah Gave Birth on Her Bathroom Floor; Medic!; What the World Loves; Is the Slanket Just for Men?; Is Toastmasters for Me?; The Fashion Police Visit the Golden Globes; Envy; How Do You Protect Your Lap?; What is the Average Size of a House in Canada; These People Have Been Married for 60 Years; Yet Another Accident Below My Building; My Last Name Isn't Broadfoot; Choose Up; Random Stuff Sent From Your Fax Machine; Wedding Proposal of the Year; I Want My Jaffa Cakes; Weirdest Email of the Week; Better in Theory; A Blog of Bathroom Graffiti; A Flash Page That's a Joy to Behold; My Grandparents' Garden; Church: 1, Lust: 0; She's About Your Size; Man Killed in Catapault Accident; Remove Your Cuff Labels; Best Diet Soda on the Planet: Jones Soda's Wild Black Cherry; Man Makes $500K With Fake Dog Testicles; Hilarious German Lavatory Sign; Bees 1, Irishman 0; Making the Bride and Groom Kiss; Good New Hall Submission; The Perfect Wedding Slideshow; A New Niche: Gay Wedding Cards; Fruit and Vegetable Spray By the Fruit and Veggies?; Who Invented Cage Dancing?; Old School Flasher; Get Your Hemp On; The Skinny on Pleats; Open Mouth, Insert Lower Body; Building Sponsors are Getting Crappier; Workers, Working and Workspaces; Backless Lingerie; You'd Be Wise to Avoid Freedom 55 Financial; Am I Delivered From My Invoicing Despair?; Cameron Got Run Over By a Mercedes; Who's Getting Pregnant?; More Small Talk Woes; One Night to Leave the Leopard Print in the Closet; 19 Socks and Counting; Interview about Tattoos; Superball Prank; How Not to Secure a Second Date; Bathing in Beer; Jury Duty or Final Exam?; Local Request: We Need New Cleaners; Anti-Bark Collars?; Your High School Nightmare Made Flesh; Last Minute Mother's Day Gifts; Is it Gay to Send Flowers to a Guy?; Photos from Our Birthday; Harris Tweed and Nike; I Own Land; Niche Dating Services; Trim Those Nose Hairs; Marco Beach Ocean Resort Get Litigious Over a Urinal; Seeing the Pope; Two Corporate Bits; Tod Maffin Gets His Ass Waxed; What's Russian for Shrinkage?; Community Lottery Tips; Getting Waxed; Beannachtam na Femle Padraig; Three More Textual Tattoos; The Serendipity of Jam; Textual Tattoos; An Eight Meeting Day; Photoshop Contest: When Robots Go Bad; Holy Nectar of the Gods; Flickr Gets Even More Postmodern; Monowi: Population One (Plus a Library); What's the Deal with Cling Wrap?; Shoe Cake; Bad Idea Jeans, Belfast Style; From the Bed Office; Darren: 2, Rational Small Talk: 0; Worst Baby Names Ever; The Gayest Thing You've Ever Done; Two Amusing Videos for Friday; Update on the Coke Addiction; In Praise of Medium-Term Possessions; I'm Off the Coke; Is This Lamp Attractive?; Request: Product Display Designer; Overcoming Procrastination; Toboggan Run and London Underground; It's Scary When New Jersey Calls; What Does Your Tattoo Really Say?; Dating Woes (or Dating, Whoa); Geoffrey Beene Makes Bad Shirts; Webmusement; Wallet Alternatives; Put Warning Labels on Your Children; Plugging People; More Small Talk Gone Awry; Potty Training Can Be Funny; Gross Photo of the Week; Worst Toys of 2004; Photoshopping Your Partner in Christmas Cards; More on Messing with the Service Industry; More on Having Children (Or Not); Highway Covered in Chocolate, Wonka Unavailable for Comment; Nutty Scottish Beverage Du Jour; Darren: 1, Rational Small Talk: 0; Smoking Advocacy; The Real Life Cutter John; My Only Piece of Wedding Advice; Heather Wants a New Job; What Lyrics Would You Tattoo on Your Arm?; Buying a Dress Shirt; My Cologne Dilemma; Who is Your Hollywood Doppleganger?; Dead Like Me and Good Forensics; Backbends are So Energising; 1958 Free iPods and Counting; Beauty Myth 1, Women of Canada 0; TGI Friday's Bacon Churner and Other Snacks; What's Your Tiny Neurosis?; That's One Amusing Felony; No Letter of Apology from UPS; How To Pick Up Girls in the '70s; Practical Clothing; I'm Giving My Shirt Back to UPS; Overheard in a Long Queue at the 7-11; Naming Your Children; Extra Safe or Ribbed?; Colorado is the BC of American Obesity; UPS Wants Its Shirt Back; Joining a Sorority; Buying My First Handbag; Riding Luas; Innovation from a Pizzeria; Faux Billboards; In Praise of My UPS Shirt; The Courier's Perspective; Two Virginity Links; Where's My +3 Staff of Confession?; Only 25% of India's Condoms are Being "Properly Utilized"; That's Some Browser Window; Union School Get Well Cards; Final Word on Sex Toy in Max Payne 2; Anything on Earth; I'm Out of Town for a Couple of Days; Does Liechtenstein Have an Army?; How Much Gold is there in Goldschlager?; Buy My Parents' House; At Least He's Honest; Wedding Cakes; Homing Pigeons Vanish During Race; The Amazing Sperm Race; It Ain't a City in China; Save the...I Can't Bring Myself to Say it; What Do You Think of the Interviews?; Horsing Around; Blogger Meet-up Round-up Up; The Truth about Giving Birth; Two Items on Midriffs; How Often Do You Replace Your Pillows?; I Bought a Linen Suit Today; The Starbucks Marathon; The Bathroom Diaries; New Term: On the Down Low; The Story of My Social Life; Sex Bracelets?; Follow-up to the Children Question; Why Children?; What Fresh Fruit is This?; Some Early Writing of Mine; Fake IDs Go High-Tech; Let's Talk Alumni Associations; Patent: Method of Swinging on a Swing; Sweat and Breaking in a Ball Cap; Get your cuddle on; Party Photos; Reminder de Soiree; 10Socks Update; A Klingon to December Wedding; I Have a Massive Head; Universities and Gender; How Do They Dealcoholize Wine?; The Golden Ratio of Elevator Trappage; Ugh; A Terry Gilliam Moment; Plan B; The Economics of LSD; Hell Houses: Get Scared, Get Saved; My Danish Socks Arrived; Another Flowers Update; Another Update on Flowers for Al and Don; The First Time, Professional Style; Celtic Fest, Vancouver Style; Talking to Strangers; Do You Give the Gifts Back?; My Office; Holy Crap, Cathy's Getting Married; Why Isn't Couscous More Popular?; Gender-Neutral Bathrooms; Most White, Middle Class Dream Ever; A Paean to Online Grocery Shopping; My Lousiest Songs; Follow-Up: Poached Eggs; How Do You Poach Your Eggs?; Ashes to Ashes; The Vintage Clothing Gender Gap; The Car is Sold; Gender Differences; A Lesson in Sunblock; Cheeses of Nazareth; An Inside Bet; Dogs Know About Fire and Water; We're Back on Mars; I Got Almost Nothing for Christmas; Music at the Gym; It's Not Gay If It's With a Spaniard; Christmas Gifts, One Last Time; The Weekend of Hedonism Begins; The Perfect Guy; More on the James Dewey Watson Bobblehead; One More Shopping Tip; That Yuletide Spirit; House Smells; She's About Your Size; Dispensing with Old Clothing Samples; The World's Biggest Liar Competition; Best Ear Plugs Ever; Bird Note; Ever Dream of Being a Roadie?; Born to Hand Jive, Baby; Is Stubble Sexy?; My Manbags; Fluevog Stigmata; Falling Back; The Hungover Gourmet; Jobs I Have Had; British Schoolboy Uniforms; Gone to Calgary; I Saw an Awful Thing This Weekend; He Got Beard; Menn��nk� avantoon uimaan?; Caption Contest; Locks of Love; What Do You Call These Things?; Fighting the Good Fight; Graphic Design of the 20s and 30s; Next Week, Free Crack