Month: May 2021

[Reflections]

When I first wrote this I had been recently packaged into early retirement by the corporation that I had worked for the last 21+ years as an IT employee. While the actuality of the termination of employment was not totally unexpected – one would have been completely blind or totally oblivious to the trend of… Continue reading [Reflections]

At Your Fingertips ……

The explosive growth of the World Wide Web is, in some respects, akin to having access cable television or tuning in to satellite TV channels. In the end, it boils down to one essential component: global communication at your fingertips, commercial vested-interests aside. Continued growth of the internet (WWW), as consensus continues to develop, is… Continue reading At Your Fingertips ……

[Lives of Quiet Desperation]

All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common. (Francis Bacon, Novum Organum) A sense of discontinuity intrudes upon the… Continue reading [Lives of Quiet Desperation]

[Rant on …] Cows And Bears

The Banana Boat Song Annoys Me To No End Each, and every time, that I hear the refrain  …. Day-o, day-ay-ay-o (the Harry Belafonte’s popularised version of The Banana Boat Song), it irritates as much as it did as when I was a youth. Now, as an adult, the source of this irritation happens during basketball games where… Continue reading [Rant on …] Cows And Bears

[The Satire Is Intentional]

Culturally, American and Canadian are mostly indistinguishable but yet distinct from one another. In much the same way as British, German, French, Spanish, Greek, Italian, Asian, Middle-Eastern, African (including all sub-groups – like Congolese, Nigerian, Egyptian, …..). That is, all cultures are similar but distinct from one another. (Put that in your crack-pipe and smoke it!) As I set… Continue reading [The Satire Is Intentional]

[Walk This Way]

An observation I have of the city of Toronto. I don’t see ‘too many’ instances of obesity among the citizens. Go ahead, thump your chests if you want to …. but there has definitely been an increase of ‘visible’ individuals who now navigate about via ‘mobility vehicles’. I confess that I first noticed their proliferation when… Continue reading [Walk This Way]

[The Traveller]

Or, as Jim Reeves intoned so many years ago (in my youth) – Welcome To My World! This project began with me having no clear idea on theme or subject matter to focus on as a ‘blogger;. So, I’ll present my thoughts in the form of a monologue or ‘a stream of consciousness‘? I engage my muses when I write..… Continue reading [The Traveller]