Archive for January, 2008
A Wise And Grounded Woman
was never a big fan of Laura Linney – at first. I thought she overacted terribly in The Truman Show. I couldn’t see what critics saw in her – until Love Actually, in which she was terrific and believable and heart-breaking all at once. Now I like her as an actress and as of yesterday, [...]
Read More..>>Bill Gates Take The Wheel
General Motors says we’re just about a decade away from the first tests of driverless cars. If projections are correct, you will eventually be able to be a passenger in your own vehicle! They’re using technology to create a vehicle that is supposed to keep itself away from other cars, maintain speed, park itself, etc. [...]
Read More..>>Heartache For A Hearthrob
Ghost and Dirty Dancing are two of the biggest chick flicks of all time, no question. And their common denominator is Patrick Swayze. Swayze has pancreatic cancer, one of the most deadly forms of the disease. I had to dig back into my memory bank to figure out how I knew as much as I [...]
Read More..>>Greedy Greederson of Greedville
Well, isn’t this just a kick in the savings account! A survey of Canadian CEO’s salaries is out and it finds that by the time the highest paid among them have put in a bit more than one day’s worth of work, they’ve earned your entire year’s salary. The average annual income for the top [...]
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