Archive for June, 2006
1800HART on YouTube
call HART crazy .. but
One of these days .. I’ll figure it out and get me a microphone on this computer, or better yet a camera! For now .. I’ve uploaded a few funny videos that people sent me through Email - which, like spam - I am assuming it is public property and fair use to re-post them. I have them listed on my 1-800-HART site in the Amusing Video category .. and now on YouTube ..
My I.D. over there is .. 1800HART
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA: The Good And The Ugly
call HART crazy .. but
There has been a lot of talent that has come out of Winnipeg. Honestly, I think the lack of recognition might be that Winnipeg’ers all want to be rich and famous, or both .. but really don’t wan’t the world to know where we come from - because it’s nice here in out little place in Canada. Prices are not skyrocketing (yet), we get a lot of sun, we are home of people like Burton Cummings, Neil Young, Harlequinn, and other famous musicians and non-musicians .. we are an hour’s drive away from the U.S.A. border and 3-hour drive to Grand Forks, North Dakota (4 hours to Fargo) .. and an hour’s drive to Lake Winnipeg and some of the greatest beaches in the world .. Gimli, Grand Beach, Victoria Beach (where we have a cottage now), and so on and so on! We have about 10,000 lakes in Manitoba and many Provincial forests and parks and up north Manitoba you can get the best fishing comparable to anywhere .. visit Churchill and go Whale Hunting and find some polar bears above the tree line. I have no plans to be a public broadcast for Tourism Manitoba .. but, I just wanted you all to first visualize what Manitoba is all about .. besides being in the center of Canada (yes it’s true) and being in the center of North America! (Okay, I’m not sure if THAT’s true, but we like to think so!).
The “Red River Ex” is in town
call HART crazy .. but
I probably won’t go.
The Red River Exhibition is an annual carnival or county fair that has many rides, live events, gambling traps and merchants flogging their wares for everybody to spend money on. This year, it is on between June 16th and June 25th. I think it’s about 5 days early this year. Why? Probably, because for the past 25 years it rains every bloody day at this event! Maybe they think that if they book it earlier, there won’t be rain. But, there was rain over the weekend. Why? Because IT RAINS DURING THE SPRING AND SUMMER HERE IN WINNIPEG! ACCEPT IT!
At least it doesn’t rain most of the time like it does in, say Vancouver or in the UK .. and even though we are known as “Sunny Manitoba” .. we do get our share of rain storms.
Big Huckin Chicken ?
call HART crazy .. but
Huckin’ Chicken Extreme Air
Ya .. another stupid Burger King Commercial … = OR IS IT?
From the site:
It’s not that he was using Chop Sticks .. it was .. Geeez! SHUT UP, Will You?
call HART crazy .. but
I was out and about today, and stopped at the Palatal Express for lunch and a delicious Mongolian Stir Fry! Yummmmy. It’s ingenious this place. It’s basically like a Subway style of self-serve counter, where you can pick your choice of noodles, vegetables, meats and sauces .. and then your meal is stir-fried and cooked right in front of you on this 5-foot open wok/stove.
I was enjoying my lunch, when a few seats next to me there was this couple - a man and woman. I think they were co-workers, and they were dressed up so I figure they must have worked together.
iPods more popular than beer
call HART crazy .. but
According to a new survey …
In a rare instance, Apple Computer Inc.’s iconic iPod music player surpassed beer drinking as the most “in” thing among undergraduate college students, according to the latest biannual market research study by Ridgewood, N.J.-based Student Monitor.
Guaranteed An Approximate Time For A Service Call?
call HART crazy .. but
Well, my fancy schmancy furnace filter that I just replaced on June 1, 2006 and cost me $39.99 CDN got damaged from being in the 3 inches of water. Fortunately, I keep a bundle of those 3-packs for $1.99 filters so it’s not really that much of an issue.
What is an issue is that our Air Conditioner is on the fritz again. What is happening is that it is icing up and stops working. It has nothing to do with the flood in our basement yesterday, as it has been going on for about 2 weeks now. We put the air conditioning on, it cools the house down, it ices up, the house gets hot, we turn off the air conditioner, the ice melts, and repeat.
It never rains here .. it pours!
call HART crazy .. but
In the past few days we have been having really nice weather .. reaching about 30c during late afternoon. Yesterday around 3:30pm it suddenly got black all over the city and we all had about a torrential rainstorm that lasted maybe 10 minutes, drizzled for another 20 minutes, then stopped and cleared up.
That’s how the rain has been off and on for the past two weeks.
