June 30, 2007 by ignatiof.

Here’s an interesting one. It’s not a sign per se, but instead is the search results for all small cars at gmcanada.com. You got your Solstice, Wave, Ion, oh and your 9-seating Chevy Suburban.

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June 22, 2007 by ignatiof.

So why is it that you can say ‘destructed’, and ‘constructed’, and you can say ‘destroyed’, but there’s no equivalent word for construction. Constroyed? I like it. I think from now on, you’re going to hear me using that word a whole lot more.

This article is now constroyed.

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June 21, 2007 by ignatiof.

I see so many people buy lottery tickets when the jackpot gets large. Once 6/49 passed $30 million, everyone and his or her dog is buying a ticket. It’s like they couldn’t be satisfied with a mere $4 million. I mean really, who can survive on that kind of money?

Now if everyone’s playing the lottery, you’re going to have to share the winnings with a bunch of jackasses. So my new totally unresearched and unscientific theory is that there’s a sweet spot of when you can buy a ticket that will give you the best chance of winning the most money. Buy when the lottery is low and that’s all you win. Buy when it’s high and you split. Buy in the middle, and you strike green gold!

Here’s a convenient chart which demonstrates my idea:

Still though, it’s a rare day when I buy a lottery ticket. And my chances of winning are just a hair smaller than a regular buyer.

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June 12, 2007 by ignatiof.

Inspired by my worthless brother’s well intentioned but ultimately doomed plan to watch 24 movies in a weekend, I’ve decided to go on a splurge of CD listening. I’m talking albums that I’ve never heard before, mostly by bands or singers that I haven’t listened to much. I have a tentative list of about 50. Here they are:

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Beck - Odelay
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Carole King - Tapestry
The Stones - Sticky Fingers
Prince - Purple Rain
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
The Ramones - Rocket to Russia
The Beatles - Revolver
The Clash - London Calling
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Elvis Costello - This Year’s Model
Radiohead - The Bends
Janis Joplin - Pearl
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Blondie - Parallel Lines
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Kiss - Alive
The Pretenders - Pretenders
Sly and the Family Stone - Fresh
Pearl Jam - Ten
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Otis Redding - The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
CCR - Cosmo’s Factory
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psycho Candy
Roxy Music - Avalon
Jane’s Addiction - Nothing’s Shocking
The Police - Synchronicity
Peter Gabriel - So
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
The Doors - LA Woman
The Strokes - Is This It
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
ZZ Top - Eliminator
Cheap Trick - In Color
Eurythmics - Touch
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Little Richard - Here’s Little Richard

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June 8, 2007 by ignatiof.

By ‘Stuff’ I mean just one thing. When you were growing up, the only people recycling things were Hollywood executives. In the 1980s, when you were finished drinking your Pepsi, Coke, or Cott, you took the can, laid it on the ground and stepped on it, flattening it into an environmentally-harmless aluminum disk and then tossed it in the trash.

These days, however, you would be ostracized and shunned by the public like Paris Hilton if you threw a can in the garbage. Instead, you rinse and recycle it. Your mom had no can recycling wisdom to pass on, so here I am to do it for her.

Don’t rinse the can with hot water!

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