I have been extemely diligent this year in making sure that the snow is cleared from my walks as soon as I can. There have been evenings when I have shoveled the walks after work and with the snow still falling, swept them while taking the dogs out before bed. I am in the best [...]

Can you guess what that lovely purple fruit is to the right? Grapes? Plums? Cherries?
Nope to all of those. They are tomatoes. That’s right, genetically modified tomatoes. Tomatoes that have had anthocyanins, a category of antioxidant pigments, added to their DNA.
Anthocyanins are typically found in blueberries, cranberries and blackberries and other dark red [...]

While I was taking my sabbatical from posting I made a list of things to write about. I was going to wait until later in the week to do this however I happened across a problem today that was on my list.
To the people of Yellowknife: the red hand (or man) at the cross walks means [...]

You lovers of the English language might enjoy this .
Here is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word. That word is ‘UP‘.
It’s easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?  [...]

The English language is one of the strangest and hardest languages to learn. Do you remember being in school and having your teachers tell you that there were rules to the English language? Then they have the nerve to tell you that there are many exceptions to the rules. What’s the point of the [...]

Recent problems with protesters interferring with the tradition of the Olympic torch relay because of China’s occupation of Tibet and its weak record on human rights have caused a public relations nightmare for the country as it prepares to host this summer’s Olympics. The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were supposed to provide a [...]

I like reading the news every day. I have several news sites that I read. It is a way of keeping abreast of what is happening in the world. There are days though when just reading the headlines is enough to make you wonder what is going on in the world. Today was one [...]

I have been having an ongoing discussion with a commenter in my post about renewing my driver’s license. I have totally enjoyed the riposte between us. There was a mention about how not sending notices saves money. A couple of thousand dollars at most which will not do much. The GNWT is talking about [...]

Are all Department of Motor Vehicles as difficult as the GNWT’s. I have never had such problems.
Let me explain. I went into the DMV this morning to renew my driver’s license. It had expired on my birthday on the 16th of February. Now, to begin with the NWT is a little slow in the [...]

Smoke detectors and fire alarms. Every house should have them. They should be tested regularly to make sure that they are working mechanically. But do they work?
Mrs. EB sent me this video the other day (it was sent around to everyone at her work) and I was quite surprised by the video. I was actually [...]