Category Archives: Wee Bit O’ Humour

I Think I’ve Been Experimented On

Posted on 2 November 2011 by Larry Russwurm

The new Coldplay album, Mylo Xyloto is out. I’ve been waiting since June because I wrote this post mentioning Coldplay and some thing, perhaps human, perhaps a bot, alerted me that Every Teardrop is a Waterfall was out. I checked … Continue reading →

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Poor Millionaires and a Possible Penance for Cherry

Posted on 19 October 2011 by Larry Russwurm

It’s becoming more and more well documented that concussions are serious. Largely news of this reaches us from the sport of football and studies done on exNFLers. Which makes sense – the most likely sport for getting a concussion is … Continue reading →

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Are You Taking a ConCERN Position on the Large Hadron Collider

Posted on 14 October 2011 by Larry Russwurm

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider or LHC has drawn so much interest that some of it is negative. There are fears that we’re dealing with forces of nature we don’t know how to control or how they fully work. Look, that’s … Continue reading →

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Contrary Ontario

Posted on 8 October 2011 by Larry Russwurm

Greetings from Contrario, the multiple personality province that votes a different way federally and a different way provincially. If the Progressive Conservatives are in nationally this province will vote Liberal for its provincial leaders. If the Liberals are in nationally, … Continue reading →

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TV Weathermen Aren’t Scientists

Posted on 1 October 2011 by Larry Russwurm

In a nearby riding, Kitchener Centre, Progressive Conservative candidate Dave MacDonald is running for election for the Ontario government. He is a former weatherman for the CTV network in southwestern Ontario. In Canada, there is no accreditation to allow the … Continue reading →

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Famine and Cannibalism

Posted on 24 September 2011 by Larry Russwurm

In my news watching lifetime there have been three big famines: the Ethiopian famine of Bob Geldof fame, the Malawi famine of 2002 which was given little press, and the current Horn of Africa famine. Despite brutal circumstances and horrible … Continue reading →

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About the New Banner

Posted on 24 August 2011 by Larry Russwurm

Many thanks to my sister Laurel for creating my new banner for this blog. She is very skilled in photo manipulation as evidenced by this banner and creates the best cards from her computer and many pictures she takes. For … Continue reading →

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Hands Inking Hands

Posted on 7 August 2011 by Larry Russwurm

  I think Escher tried to be inclusive in his famous “Drawing Hands” picture. After all, one of the hands is a left hand and the other is a right hand. Or maybe Escher just wanted to produce ‘one magical … Continue reading →

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Obese and Wonderful

Posted on 5 August 2011 by Larry Russwurm

The obese and wonderful segment of the population, while perhaps being bad in a few ways, is good in at least one way. Of course much of the public would see any increase in obese numbers as bad and unwanted. … Continue reading →

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A Cheap Papercraft Future

Posted on 30 July 2011 by Larry Russwurm

This first of my cheaply wrought photographs shows me with something on my left forearm. You see with some of the flexible, paper thick computer hype, the obvious has been thrown about: the prediction of wearable computers. That is my … Continue reading →

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