Mike Browne’s Blog

We have been wondering what (other than a Super Store) they were going to build near our train station for some time. Now a sign has gone up pointing us to www.cineplex.com. Had we been half awake we might have gone to the Cineplex site before and found this Press Release – TORONTO, January 15, 2004.

So now it will be a 5 minute drive for a movie. Colour us broke.

MeccaDonald’s Happy Meal! Proof that McDonald’s is evil. Thanks to Carol for sending this one.

Why do I want to see this movie so badly? Fox Searchlight: Napoleon Dynamite
Perhaps, on some level I relate very closely with these pathetic specimins. No perhaps about it. I know it’s true.

Ridge defends higher terror alert as ‘essential’ even though some of their information pre-dates September 11, 2001. This smacks of politics all around. Why a terror alert now with this old info? Well, the Democrats had their convention last week and Kerry has gained some ground on Bush in the polls as a result. How better to distract the public than with a big bad terror warning. Anyone willing to take odds on what’s going to happen? My bets are on absolutely nothing and then Bush’s spin-meisters saying, “Look. We prevented an attack. Vote for Bush.” This government has cried wolf so many times it’s become ridiculous.

This is one case where I really hope I’m right. If I’m wrong and something really does happen I’ll be surprised. But honestly I don’t believe anything is going to happen. I’d rather not spend my life in fear of what may happen. Taht way the terrorists win. It is what they want.

A related site is October Surprise! What will happen before the election?

Since I’ve been eating lower carb foods I really miss my Special K. Well no longer. Now I can get cookies, waffles and low carb Special K right from Kellog’s on the grocery store shelves. It should be at least another 75 years before it shows up here in Canada, but at least there’s hope.

Check out Bill O’Reilly Vs Michael Moore. An unedited ‘interview’ of Moore by the oh-so unbiased (not) Fox News in two downloadable parts. I love watching grown ups argue like little kids in the backseat of a car.

“Don’t make me pull over!”

Check out these tips from gapingvoid: how to be creative

Check out these mythological creatures its a graphical interpretation of Jorge Luis Borges’ “Book of Imaginary Beings”.

My old friend Darrin is an OPP officer near Barrie Ont. Apparently he had quite a bad wreck as a pursuit came to a sudden end. He’s pretty much okay, just a busted elbow. Ouch. Here’s a picture of the of the car and here’s another of the post crash . Below is the note he sent:

I was hit by a stolen motor vehicle head on today and lived to talk about it. I suffered only a fractured left elbow and bruises. I even chased the driver on foot for 1/4 km and arrested him. Yes, I saw my life flash before my eyes. It just wasn’t my time.

Good goin’ Darrin. One less bad guy on the road.