GW's Scribbles

Toy Story BluRay and free movie ticket

Disney has been pretty good with this sort of thing. They have a deal that if you buy either of the first two Toy Story movies, you will get a free movie ticket to see Toy Story 3. I’d love to see it, and I am seriously contemplating buying the BluRay discs just to get the movie passes. If I was going to buy the BRs anyway, I might as well get a free movie!

Things to do with the kids this summer

Since I live in Ontario, there are a couple of great offers out there right now for what you can do with your kids this summer. Tim Hortons has some free swimming available, but unfortunately, my city isn’ t on their list. An even better one is the Kids Bowl Free program. This is where kids can bowl two games every day for free, and a family pass is only around $25 for the summer. Awesome price! Unfortunately, just like the swimming, this one isn’t available at any of the local bowling alleys either

Lab report and cat scan :-)

My grandmother sent this along to me…

A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon. As she laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird’s chest.

After a moment or two, the vet shook his head and sadly said, “I’m sorry, your duck, Cuddles, has passed away.”

The distressed woman wailed, “Are you sure?”

“Yes, I am sure. Your duck is dead,” replied the vet..

“How can you be so sure?” she protested. “I mean you haven’t done any testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or something.”

The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room. He returned a few minutes later with a black Labrador Retriever. As the duck’s owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom. He then looked up at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head.

The vet patted the dog on the head and took it out of the room. A few minutes later he returned with a cat. The cat jumped on the table and also delicately sniffed the bird from head to foot. The cat sat back on its haunches, shook its head, meowed softly and strolled out of the room.

The vet looked at the woman and said, “I’m sorry, but as I said, this is most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck.”

The vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill, which he handed to the woman. The duck’s owner, still in shock, took the bill. “$150!” she cried, “$150 just to tell me my duck is dead!”

The vet shrugged, “I’m sorry. If you had just taken my word for it, the bill would have been $20, but with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan, it’s now $150.”

Tom Brokaw Explains Canada To Americans

A very well done, and fair, video explaining how Canada and the US are similar and different:

Licensed “energy drinks” at Bulk Barn

Every Friday night we get “Friday Night Treats”. The kids look forward to it every week. We usually end up going to the Bulk Barn. The other day we were there, and I noticed the following drinks in the cooler:

In case you can’t tell, there is Flaming Moe’s (from the Simpsons), Power Up (with Super Mario), and Romulan Ale (from Star Trek). My first thought was, “Wow, how can those be legit?” I looked on the cans, and they all have copyright or trademark information on them

I checked out the Boston America web site, and they have lots of different energy drinks that have licensed characters on the can. I guess they are legit. The only thing that kind of bothers me is that some of the cans would appeal to kids.

Andre Agassi making the rounds

In the last week, I’ve listened to Andre Agassi on three different talk shows. They have all overlapped (of course), but all three were worth listening to. If you’ve got the time (I listen on a lunch-time walk), here are the links:

• 60 Minutes – Andre Agassi’s Extraordinary Journey
• Prime Time Sports – aired Friday, November 13, 2009 (view it here, listen to it here)
• Fresh Air – A Tennis Star Who Hates Tennis?

Walken Family Reunion

I haven’t seen a lot of movies with Christopher Walken, but you gotta love the way he talks. This Saturday Night Live skit is very funny!

Buying eyeglasses online

Recently LifeHacker had a good article about someone’s experience buying eyeglasses online. I’ve always wanted to try this. Maybe I will now…

New mothers prefer hotels to hospitals

From Hotels Magazine:

Expectant mothers in Ireland are making the recession work for them by booking special deals in luxury hotels for their post-natal care, in preference to expensive stays in private maternity hospitals.

A growing number of pregnant women are avoiding the large bills associated with consultant-led private treatment by opting for free, communitybased midwifery services. Some are then using the savings to book into hotel suites within hours of giving birth, getting top-level after-care for far less than a stay in a private hospital due to the special deals on offer in the hospitality industry.

Birthday Calculator

PaulSadowski.com has a neat page where you enter your birthday and it returns more information that you could ever want about that day. For instance, a person turning 50 today, would learn this and much more about their birthday:

Your date of conception was on or about 3 June 1958 which was a Tuesday.

You were born on a Tuesday
under the astrological sign Pisces.
Your Life path number is 5.

Your fortune cookie reads:
Your talents will be recognized and suitably rewarded.

Celebrities who share your birthday:
Billy Zane (1966) Kristin Davis (1965) Eddie Murray (1956)
Steven Jobs (1955) Alain Prost (1955) Edward James Olmos (1947)
Joe Lieberman (1942) James Farentino (1938) Michel Legrand (1932)
Abe Vigoda (1921) Chester W. Nimitz (1885) Enrico Caruso (1873)

There are 365 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 51 candles.

Those 51 candles produce 51 BTUs,
or 12,852 calories of heat (that’s only 12.8520 food Calories!) .
You can boil 5.83 US ounces of water with that many candles.