Box In The Sky Catches On

Sky coffins: 320 square foot condos in downtown Vancouver. Here's the kicker, they're only $750! Put that on your BBQ and undercook it, Calgary. Seriously, though. 320 sq. ft. isn't that bad, just ask me and my three other room mates who shared a luxurious 326 sq. ft. penthouse in Montréal.

UFC: Skill, Strategy & Strength, or Just Gay?

On Failure

A Top 10 List to End All Lists

Bono has put out a Top Ten List on behalf of God recently in the New York Times. The latest from Bono strays from his typical "saving the world" rants and instead focuses on quantum teleportation and sexy auto-mobiles.

*DISCLAIMER - Do not stare too long into the eyes of the above photo or you may be quantum teleported to a 1990's U2 concert in Berlin (where Bono never quantum teleported... liar!).

Free Haircuts on Oregon Busses!

That's right, Mr. Chuck French has been providing free haircuts to unsuspecting women riding public transit in Oregon. Sources say that when the 'Barber Bandit' is feeling extra generous he might try to glue their hair to the seat of the bus.

Ultra hot blast from the past

As I was watching t.v. the other day I was taken by a song in a commercial. So I typed a few simple words (miss dior cherie commercial) into google and the results changed my life. The song was written by the sexiest woman to ever roam our planet. Her name is Brigitte Bardot, a French goddess that reigned supreme hotness before your mom even had her first period. If you want to know more, wikipedia her. But to honour this mega babe, download her best-of album and give it a listen. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised, I was.

Canadian Indy Band Finally Gets Big Break

The much lauded critical darlings, Nickleback, finally catch a break from the mainstream media. A band that has slipped under the radar for years recently won Band of the Decade accolades from the Associated Press. Speaking about the award frontman Chad Krueger was unapologetic for his bands alternative style and artistic nature. "It has been a long road. I just don't think the general public every really understood what we were about and what our music represented. It is pretty subversive and introspective stuff. All I can say right now is look out for our next record. It will punch you in the face! We have tried to incorporate more experimental electronic sounds, Krautrock, post-punk and jazz influences this time around. So, all I can say is you have been warned."

Egg Story

An 88 year old man ate 25 soft boiled eggs every day and his blood cholesterol level nevertheless remained well within the healthy range. The man appeared to have early Alzheimer's disease and could not remember most things he did during the day, but he felt compelled to keep a diary in which he carefully recorded every egg he ate. About this obsessive behaviour, he said: "Eating these eggs ruins my life," he said, "but I can't help it".

-excerpt from "What to Eat" by Marion Nestle

CD Sales Breath New Life with the Sales of Amazing Hip Hop Album

Just when I swore to never purchase music ever again this album comes out and I am compelled to buy it and copies for all of my friends strictly for its epic cover art.

Hulk Wants to Tell You the Truth About His Skank Wife

I love this interview. Hulk you rock! You tell the truth. We can handle it.

Lite Up My Day

Dear Blog,

Yesterday while at work I made a cup of soup out of a can of V8 by simply warming it up in my plain white coffee mug. However, today I found my mug crustated with tomato juice, so I decided to get a new mug. I ditched the old one in the sink for someone else to clean and opened the cupboard to get a new mug. Wow! There it was. The Lite 96 CHFM collectors mug. That is right. I have in my possession one of the most sought after collectibles on the globe. Now I have to decide whether or not to auction it off on Ebay (probably starting at $9000) or proudly display it on my desk?

Signing out blog,
That Guy in Your Office

The Meat-Up (and Other Reasons Why You're Fat)

All the meats. In once place.

Are You Reasonable?

2. REASONABLENESS

(1) Reasonable Person

(b) Knowledge

HNE-12 Intelligence.

HNE-12 Intelligence. Everyone is required by negligence law to possess a certain modicum of intelligence. Stupid individuals must answer for their foolish ways to their victims, even though they may be forgiven by their Maker.1 The awkward and the accident-prone must make good any losses they produce.2 The reasonable person is presumed to possess neither over-apprehension nor over-confidence.3

Common knowledge. A reasonable person must know certain common things, for example, that fire burns, knives cut and heavy objects fall when dropped.4 It should be realized that animals can get into mischief,5 that defective equipment6 and open excavations are dangerous,7 and that snow and ice may fall off a roof.8 Any prudent person must foresee the hazard of explosives,9 blowtorches,10 hot rivets11 and poison.12

Need to expand knowledge. A reasonable person need not be aware of esoteric matters,13 but as human knowledge expands, the esoteric may become the commonplace. At least one should know when one is ignorant of something and that information or expert advice should be sought. To drive with one's vision obscured14 or to proceed in the face of an enigma such as a purple traffic light,15 may well be negligence. There is nothing wrong with doing one's own simple household repairs,16 but when the task is a complex one, it may be negligent to proceed without expert advice. Thus, those who build bridges without adequate professional counsel about drainage subject themselves to liability even though they may have escaped if they had consulted competent engineers.17 There are conflicting decisions on the need to consult experts over trees. For example, there is apparently no need for ordinary landowners to confer with specialists to determine if their trees need looping, because they may rely upon their own judgement.18 On the other hand, if the trees are near a busy highway, if a defect is visible, and if the defendant is a large landowner, there may be a "duty to provide himself with skilled advice about the safety of trees".19 Here again, it appears that more effort must be expended to avert greater risk. Normally, however, an actor will be relieved of responsibility if following professional advice or if hiring an expert to perform these tasks,20because it is eminently reasonable to rely upon others,21 especially when they are skilled persons.

Superior knowledge. If people possess superior knowledge, they are obliged to act reasonably as a result. Thus, where the defendant is actually aware of the presence of an inflammable fluid,22 or of mink that are whelping,23 or if the defendant is a "skilled storekeeper",24 additional demands may be expected. A person who uses a light in a garage must do what "any experienced man would do in the face of the known hazards implicit in the undertaking".25 Similarly, someone who utilizes an acetylene torch must exercise the care that a "reasonable man, skilled in such things, would exercise in using such a torch in the particular circumstances of time, place and space, and proximity to inflammable objects involved in its use".26 Someone with actual knowledge of danger has to issue a warning, whereas one who lacks it may not.27 Those who profess to be experts must live up to the standard of their professional confrères.28 A professional football player, for example, is expected to live up to a higher standard than one who plays for a local team.29 There is a special obligation upon drivers of emergency vehicles to be able to handle crises in a more effective way than ordinary drivers because of their training and experience.30

The Reasonable Man

Like the long-haired, bearded man that white people imagine Jesus looks like, I present to you law's Reasonable Man in the flesh.

Juuuuuicy!

Blackface Just Won't Quit

Due Process

Officer kills suspect, plants gun and re-tells episode of COPS he saw last Friday.

Just Two Girls, Having a Good Time

Efficient.

Democracy Not

Amy Goodman detained at Canadian border on suspicions that she was going to Vancouver to criticize the Olympics.

Andrew Gets Wave Invite!

And boy is he excited. He's going to spend all day trying to figure out how to get people to join so he can "ping" them.

America

So two more taser stories. One involves a homeless man who caught on fire, and the other is a mentally disabled deaf man who wouldn't leave a bathroom.

Cop Tasers 10 Year Old Girl

A local Arkansas police officer answered a house-call by a mother who couldn't get her potentially criminal daughter to go to bed. When the "nice guy" approach of simply threatening the young girl with jail time failed, the officer was forced to deliver electric shocks to her back. After cuffing the little bitch he then carried her to his squad car because she couldn't walk. In her defence, the child says that she usually goes to bed on time. (Link to Story, because it actually exists).

They're Being Ironic

More Rockn.

Harmonized Tax-Free Turkey Stuffing

You only pay the GST!