Monthly Archives: December 2008

UK Ancestry Visa

Traveling Europe is definitely on my ToDo list. It would be great to travel the continent freely and flexibly. Since both of my parents were born in the UK, I decided to research the possibility of my becoming a UK citizen. Although I’ve found out that I can become a citizen, the process isn’t as [...]

Out Of A Job Yet? Keep Taking Advice from Bumper Stickers

Warning: Rant Ahead
I’m fed up with these stupid “Out of a Job Yet? Keep Buying Foreign” bumper stickers. Mostly because the people touting them are just angry, misguided individuals who love to point fingers at everyone else but themselves (they’re also usually the ones cutting you off in their big SUVs at rush hour because [...]

The Bailout. Coming This January.

Sad, but true.

[via TheAngryEconomist]

How To Be A Consumer

With the Holidays around the corner and the economy tripping over itself, we are being encouraged to spend, spend, spend in order to get things back to normal. Our economy depends on conspicuous consumption. I came across this video today and thought now is an appropriate time to post it.
Watching it reminded my of a [...]

I Got LASIKed

It is done; I have crossed the bridge. I had my LASIK procedure done on Friday and I now have a altered set of eyes.
So far everything seems to be going according to plan. At my 24-hour checkup I could see 20/20 and my eyes looked good. All is not perfect of course. I do [...]

Wise Words on Democracy

As our country (Canada) faces a possible overthrow of the minority government by a coalition of parties, I thought this would be a great time to post a couple of quotes I read today:
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-
one percent of the people may take away the rights of the
other forty-nine.”
-Thomas [...]