Brady Sylvester

December 31 - St. Sylvester's Day. Also traditionally known as one of my least favourite days of the year, along with Father's Day, Christmas Eve, and my birthday.

To be fair, you don't know how to spell "Gretzky", so...

Wait.

All this time I thought I was following Ken Jenning.

Sonofaguns.

It also occurred to me a huge swathe of these guys would have signed up for the bonus money because they were in dire financial straits and desperate, and lost their moral compasses; and now, they can't get out because they'd have to pay that money back and most of it's already gone.

"When the list gets too big to keep track of in your head."

This is my Dad. He was cheesed at The Color of Money because he *needed* to know who wins the game set up at the end.

"I lost my virginity, but I kept the box it came in."

I've been in the "If Batman would just do the obvious thing re: Joker, he would save literally hundreds of lives" school for quite some time, now.

How many more have to die for their amusement before someone does something?

The first picture is the wall above my bed, which is angled. The wall, not the bed.
The second picture is my head.

No , there is no better situation for my bed in my room.

No, I am not getting smarter as I grow older.+

How much more useful can it really be than a random slot-machine-style idea generator that gives you "This + That + In Space" at the push of a button?

I once had a job designing roof truss systems based on blueprints. The ones drawn by real architects were problematic enough.

"Did you know this house design has a 50-foot span of roof with no supports in the middle, or were we going with an industrial steel kinda thing?"

One of my fiats when I'm emperor will be that stock markets are open for trading one hour a month.

Nothing more need be said than: @aggiebrett.bsky.social

Chas and Dave fan?

A rossio?

On further reflection, the shittiest people convince everyone else that everyone else is shitty. Or enough of us, at least.

Another good response is: "Why do you hate Americans? Why do you think Americans are lazy, greedy, morally weak scum? Why do you keep saying that?"

Simplest reply in that kind of debate: "I get that's what YOU would do, but you're an asshole."

Put Adam Jones in charge.

Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

I recall Pogue telling a story about Stoppard turning down a $US gig because he was committed to the BBC for something. Upon being informed he was foolish for choosing BBC TV over $US, he informed them that it wasn't for TV; it was radio.

I don't care if it's apocryphal. And it might not be.

If life gives you Reagan, invade Grenada.

I check it out myself and change my mind if I think it's right.

Hell, I used to vote Conservative (granted the Conservatives up here used to be, well, basically what the current Liberals in power are right now).

Maybe happiness doesn't deserve you.

Same result, but maybe you can feel better about it?

Except for the sea life, of course. Gotta travel for that.

And no rats. Ever. Never seen a live, wild rat.

Wolf, bison, black bear, brown bear, grizzly bear, moose in my front yard once, no end of mule and white-tailed deer, elk, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, golden eagle, bald eagle, hawks and owls, orcas, seals, walruses, coyotes, muskrat, beaver...

I just got on a roll. Sorry. Alberta's pretty cool.

Well, you couldn't be less, so that's a good starting point.

I would respectfully disagree, but even if it's true, it was a helluva trick and it would have been nice to see them try it once or twice. The WC final offensive game plan seemed pretty clearly to be "line up your backs so steeply you've lost ten metres before it gets to the centres, then kick."

Photo of an Oct. 1 Time Magazine article that attributed a quote to US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, when it was actually made up for a Beaverton article.

When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".