The Artsaypunk

You know, just when I was starting to think that I was getting a handle on this teaching thing… just when I thought that maybe, just maybe, these apathetic adolescents were starting to listen… just when I started to hope that maybe I was getting through to them……. Last night, I was marking some homework, [...]

A few months back, soon after shifting into my latest domicile, I installed a window A/C in the wall opposite my bed. Which, I suppose, makes it less a window A/C than it is a wall A/C, but for the sake of clarity, my intention was to indicate that it is the type of air-conditioner [...]

To all my well-meaning and otherwise, very intelligent friends: If you think that the email forward you are sending me is a hoax, but you’re sending it anyway, just in case, I’ll let you in on a little secret: It’s a hoax. There is absolutely no way that Microsoft, were it even possible to track, [...]

I’m so vicariously excited! Given my somewhat reclusive sojourn in the third-world, I haven’t really been in touch with my more extended family. On a whim, I checked in on some Canadian Olympic coverage and realized with a start that my little cousin Graeme Gorham is competing as a ski-jumper. This is Canada’s first ski-jumping [...]

Yesterday, I was doing the rickshaw walk home from school. By this, I mean that it isn’t that far, but it was 12:30 and stinkin’ hot, and thus, my forward momentum was hampered by my constant, backward neck-craning any time I heard the rattling, staccato snarl of a motor-rickshaw. Now, this is slightly dangerous, in [...]

I am drunk with post-purchase euphoria, basking in the novelty of a new toy. Yes, I have finally bitten the proverbial, yet still dangerous, bullet, and bought a laptop. I’m now making my first post from my snazzy, chrome and silver, 17 inch screen (which admittedly decreases portability… but it’s sooo pretty), Dell Inspiron 9300. [...]

A recent conversation en route to what eventually became a night of drunken dumb charades: Journey: Hey you know those massage guys with the oil that stand on the side of the road? Me: Yeah Journey: I just found out recently that they’ll do anything… anything… if you ask them. Me: I just took that [...]