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1 slightly used Major League Baseball team that goes by the name "Toronto Blue Jays".



The day has arrived...the trading of the best pitcher in the game, Roy Halladay.

I've now given up on this team. I hate this team for trading away the only player worth watching.

And what did they get in return? So far, nothing. A bunch of prospects? Means squat to me.

Sadly, I'm sure there will be many others feeling this way...there will be no support for this team next season.

They will move to another city.

What a waste.

There's something about cyclists that annoy me, and today I saw an article on the local newspaper website about cyclists that renewed my annoyance with them.
It's all about cyclists and motorists sharing the roads, living in harmony. But, for some reason, cyclists seem to ignore the rules of the roads, namely traffic lights and stop signs. While motorists MUST stop at red lights and stop signs, cyclists seem to ignore them and ride right through them, without as much as a slowing down. It annoys the hell out of me.

The newspaper article stated that they monitored a busy 4-way stop intersection, and of the 159 cyclists that approached the intersection, only 21 of them bothered to actually stop instead of blindly blowing through.

As a motorist, nothing annoys me more than a moron cyclist that thinks the rules don't apply to them, that no matter what happens on the roads, they're ALWAYS right and motorists are wrong. If they get run over, they'll say motorists are too aggressive and pay no attention to cyclists, that they have the right of way at an intersection, just as if they were a pedestrian. I think that's bogus. If they want to share the roadways with vehicles, then they should be held accountable to the rules of the roads.

What do you think? Am I wrong in thinking this way?

Poll #1438663 Cyclists
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15

Do cyclists need to obey the rules and signs of the roads, just like any other vehicle?

If the Blue Jays trade Roy Halladay and they keep that dipshit general manager J.P. Ricciardi, I'm completely turning my back on this team. There is no way I can have any kind of respect for the organization if they give away the best player in the game...and doesn't even matter what they get in return.

I'll burn my Blue Jays hat and everything else Blue Jay related.

It also gives me another reason to hate Rogers.

Here's an interesting article I came across... 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About

I have to admit, a few items on the list are things I'm going to miss as they seem destined to fade into history.

There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week’s 40th anniversary of the moon landing for one. But Moore’s Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster and better widgets and thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with will not be passed down the line to the next generation of geeks.

That is, of course, unless we tell them all about the good old days of modems and typewriters, slide rules and encyclopedias …


Audio-Visual Entertainment

1. Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something. I actually still use my VCR seeing how the hard drive on my HD receiver likes to die on me
2. Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds. Super-8 is unknown to me
3. Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. See what happens when you give a Walkman to today’s teenager. Haha, I loved my old mini cassette stereo
4. The number of TV channels being a single digit. I remember it being a massive event when Britain got its fourth channel. TV Ontario use to be channel 2 on the old cable dial…now it’s channel 265
5. Standard-definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room. We didn’t have a huge CRT TV, so it wasn’t overwhelming, but I know those massive ones
6. Rotary dial televisions with no remote control. You know, the ones where the kids were the remote control. I know those ones but thankfully I was born into the remote control era…phew!
7. High-speed dubbing. I use to trade songs on cassette with a friend of mine…high speed dubbing was a life saver!
8. 8-track cartridges. I had never seen an 8-track tape until a few years ago when a co-worker of mine showed me the 8-track player in his pick-up truck
9. Vinyl records. Even today’s DJs are going laptop or CD. I love vinyl!
10. Betamax tapes. I don’t know anyone that had a betamax recorder

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It just finished pouring rain. Yet another wet day this summer. It sure is putting a damper on my plans. The weekend family get together picnic is now officially postponed to late next month, due to uncertain weather this coming weekend. In a way, I'm not disappointed. I've never really had "fun" during those things because, even though I don't really see some of my relatives that often, we never really have stuff to say to each other, plus they still treat you like you're 12 years old. The only questions that are "grown up" related are the "when are you getting married?" or the "oh, you do that type of work? Why don't you go work for so-and-so company?" type ones. Yeah, things that have no real answers are always the greatest conversation subjects.
So, it's not all that bad. In one way, I won't get to see people I haven't seen in a while, but in another way, relatives in small doses is better than meeting the whole army at once.

If the weather does hold up, I think I'm going to turn a long overdue visit to the zoo into a reality on Sunday. If it does rain, I can always go indoors, into one of the pavilions, so it shouldn't be a waste of a day. It'll also be the second road trip of the week.
Earlier this week, I paid a visit to Niagara Falls. That too had been a destination I failed to visit for a number of years. It turned out fun, even though it started to rain while I was down there. Bastard summer weather!
I'll make another entry about that, complete with a few pics, provided I get my lazy ass around to uploading them. And, as always, I have an interesting, almost embarrassing, tale to tell about that adventure! Nothing is ever easy as pie with me.