Another classic of Matt Trewella.
Category: Odds and Ends
Boomer hate
We would have had you simply behave like every other generation before you instead of rejecting their values and traditions. We would have had you practice stewardship of the nation rather than strip-mining it.
Got the whole world
Zig Ziglar wrote that according to legend, it was reputed that a very wise old man who lived on a hilltop overlooking the beautiful city of Venice, Italy, could answer any question anyone might ask him. Two local boys figured they could trick him, so they caught a bird and took it to the wise sage.
“Tell us,” they asked, “is the bird in our hand dead or alive?”
The wise man replied, “Son, if I say the bird is alive, you will close your hands and crush it to death. Or, if I say the bird is dead, you will open your hands and it will fly away. The answer is in your hands.”
And so it is with life. Whether we succeed or fail, live a meaningful or empty life, lay up treasures in heaven or go empty handed to meet our Lord and Savior, it’s all in our hands! For whatever we sow we reap. It’s the law of the harvest.2
‘Dr. Foth’ was a force in Canadian journalism
One of my favorite writers.
There are no writers, at least in Canada, who can write like him.
Back when politics was a gentleman’s sport.
Allan Fotheringham, “Dr. Foth” as he was known to his readers, was what we used to call a “Big Foot” columnist in journalism.
torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-dr-foth-was-a-force-in-canadian-journalism
If you ever fly again…
Masked barreling
Remote Controlled Alligator Prank 2018 – Boat Cops Called!
This is better than the movie
I will try and watch the movie again, but I still don’t understand how it won the Oscar – an increasingly irrelevant show.
Breanna Gray still can’t believe the pizza box-folding abilities she honed as a teenager are now part of movie history.
Source: Ottawa woman’s pizza box-folding skills make cameo in Oscar-winner Parasite | CBC News
Good old Johnny O
Podcast tech tip for resetting android radio connections
If you have an android car stereo for BT streaming (and who doesn’t these days) and are having problems playing certain podcast episodes, here a solution.
The title of the podcast episode may have a special character (like a ‰x) or be too long. This will cause the display to crash, and that may freeze or reset the whole device.
I’ve also had trouble with long podcast descriptions with special characters in the rss feed crashing devices and podcast players.
The less you put in the title and feed, the better your feed will perform in this buggy software world.
This took me quite some time to figure out. I even had to listen to a horrible podcast. on the subject to figure it out.