Vikingsson on October 31st, 2007

My system sends random quotes from various sources and today a Jack Handy quote came in that seems appropriate for this blog:
“When the age of the Vikings came to a close, they must have sensed it. Probably, they gathered together one evening, slapped each other on the back and said, ‘Hey, good job.’”
-Jack Handy
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Vikingsson on October 15th, 2007

This is almost cruel. I got an excited call from my children and they said “dad, guess what? We have some water from Iceland”. Now this is just water but I must admit that one of the things I’m doing upon arriving in Iceland is to get some tap water. I [...]

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Vikingsson on October 9th, 2007

I don’t know what made me think of this but in a galaxy far far away I was a little boy that spent his days exploring the world on his bicycle and climbing any tree that promised a view of the world. I can’t imagine letting my own children wander aimlessly about without a [...]

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Vikingsson on September 21st, 2007

Everyone was waiting for the magical moment when the Canadian Loonie would hit parity with the U.S. dollar. Waiting, checking stocks, checking the CBC, listening to the experts, wondering what would happen. For me a .995 Canadian dollar was effectively 1.0 already. I can’t remember the last time anyone tried to segment [...]

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