Jay’s Life

I am posting this entry from my new test iPhone from work. I must say it’s pretty cool. I can’t wait untill it is available in Canada.

I listen to local talk radio, and every now or then they bring up the topic of recycling. Frequently someone calls in to say that they “…find it too hard to sort my garbage…” or “I pay taxes, why should I touch my garbage twice?”. So I think that I have figured out a solution. It is a simple matter of clarifying the order of recycling. When you sort your garbage, do it as you throw it out, because clearly, you are all tossing it in a green garbage bag and sorting it on garbage day. There is no other explanation for your ridiculous arguments against recycling. Also to the conspiracy folks, it does go to a recycling plant, not to the dump. Why in the world would you go to all the trouble as a municipal government of sending two different trucks to collect your waste and take it to the same place?

Check http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/petfood.html#recall for an updated list of all of the foods recalled. This is the American website but its very comprehensive, our government hasn’t been quite as helpful in providing this information.

My suggestion is to check the ingredients list on your pets food wet OR dry, if it contains wheat gluten throw it out and find something else. The recall is expanding pretty much daily, don’t put your pets at an unnecessary risk.

I had a funny conversation today with a friend about ‘designer dogs’. Maybe I haven’t been paying attention but when did this trend start? I thought names like Labradoodle and Yorkipoo were just things people made up to feel more special about their dogs being crossbreed….why thats important I don’t know. I thought just chiuaua’s were in style, thank goodness its not so. Adopted dogs are the only cool dogs around here.

Today I learned about Bugs. Bugs, apparently, are Boston Terrier X Pug crosses. The cross between the two breeds make their eyes bug out of their heads, creepy. I don’t know if thats where the name came from but from the pictures it was an accurate guess.

Porkie is funny too, a pug and a yorkie. That would be one seriously ugly ugly dog.

Puggle also sounds stupid, pug and a beagle.

Other funny dog crosses:

* Bearded Chin (Bearded Collie & Japanese Chin)

* Boy Toy (Boykin Spaniel & Toy Poodle)

* Bull Shitz (Bull Terrier & Shih Tzu)

* Havapinch (Havanese & Doberman Pinscher)

* Chocolate Malt (Chocolate Lab & Maltese)

* Annoyed (Anatolian Shepherd & Samoyed)

* Great Scott (Great Dane & Scottish Terrier)

* Cold Duck (American Eskimo & Duck Tolling Retriever)

* Brittanytese (Brittany Spaniel & Maltese)

* Nopeeking (Norfolk Terrier & Pekingese)

* Jack in the Box (Jack Russell & Boxer)

* Sushi (Sussex Spaniel & Shih Tzu)

* Pie in the Sky (Pit Bull Terrier & Skye Terrier)

* Hairy Rat (Harrier & Rat Terrier)

I pray that these are joke names for dogs. They have to be, no way would you ever see and Great Dane and a Scottish Terrier breed. But they are funny.

If Happie was a designer dog he would be a Bullshit Lab Germ.

You to can have your very own ‘designer dog’ check out your local humane society or petfinder.com for hundreds of listings.

So today I tried to buy a new Palm TX from Best Buy. I had found a lower price at TigerDirect, and wanted to take advantage of their price match policy. Best Buy had the TX listed at $399. Tiger had it listed at $324.
I went in and the only one in BB was an open box, and after standing around for 15 minutes while they tried to get someone at the brick and morter TigerDirect, because apparently the online store isn’t good enough, I was told they didn’t have it in stock, so I was out of luck.
On the advice of my buddy Nick, I pulled into Staples to give them a shot at it. Not only was the sticker price $365, but they looked up the online stock, and matched the price, adding their 110% on the difference between the two prices. So $322 later, to Staples not BB, I have a new TX and plans to continue to take my business to anywhere but Best Buy from now on.

I am the very model of a modern Major General
Have information vegetable, animal and mineral
I know the kings of England and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo in order categorical
I’m very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I’m teeming with a lot of news
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
Many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
Many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse..

Heres the senario….

Three weeks left in the semester, 4 group term projects due (115%), two more midterms (50%), 60% of in-class participation marks still riding, 1 exam (25%)
250%/500%
= 50% of the marks this semester still outstanding.

Heres the Solution
SETTING UP YOUR WORK SPACE

*install a foot spa and massage chair at your desk

*remove clock that reminds you every 15 minutes that you’re running out of time (such a pretty clock though)

*remove all obsticles between desk and coffee maker (including the dog)

*clear off a space on your desk, move key bar items such as Baileys and shot glasses to within arms reach

*find the most comfortable chair in the house and claim it as your own for the next three weeks (thanks honey!)

sit down, brace yourself and hope its all over soon.

See you in December

This choked me up when I read it, I really wish I could have known her. Its people like Roberta Langtry that make this world a better place.

Teacher kept her riches secret, then left charity $4.3-million

MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT

ENVIRONMENT REPORTER

TORONTO — During most of her long life, Roberta Langtry was an unassuming elementary school teacher in Toronto.

She always shied away from the limelight and spent many years during her career trying to help autistic children with their speaking difficulties. But Miss Langtry, who died last year at the age of 89, carried an unusual financial secret that has been revealed only through her death.

Unknown to almost everyone who knew her, including her closest friends, the modestly paid teacher was really a closet multimillionaire, who through a bequest has given what is believed to be the largest donation from an individual to an environmental cause in Canada.

Miss Langtry asked that more than $4.3-million of her estate be given to the Nature Conservancy of Canada, a charity that buys environmentally sensitive land and turns it into nature reserves.
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But there was no mistake, and Miss Langtry’s legacy is being feted by the conservancy, which is issuing a news release on the donation today. It plans to use the money to buy more wetlands and help safeguard the Oak Ridges Moraine, a pastoral rural area north of Toronto that Miss Langtry held dear and is the subject of large-scale conservation efforts in the province.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/story/LAC.20060929.CONSERVANCY29/TPStory/National/

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Thanks to everyone who tried to help win our wedding at the CNE. Another couple has won the prize. We really appreciated all your support over the past week. We’ll let you know when we’ve picked a new wedding date.

Thanks again.