Mike de Ruiter.ca

so we were kinda talking about this last night at ballys, and figured i’d toss my two cents out there online.  anyways, so check this link out about the “7 wonders of canada”.  i have absolutely no problem with two of the “wonders”:  the rockies and niagara falls.  those are absolutely wonders (natural or manmade) [...]

so i’m sitting here this morning setting up my tv.  i install the wall mount, open up the box and start setting up the mount part that goes on the back… only to find out that there’s no manual, remote, or power cord.  the bastards sold me an open box for full-retail price without the [...]

so tonight i figured i’d reinstall windows since it’s been a year and a half since i’ve wiped everything, and figured it would be a good time to get rid of linux off my computer since i never use it.  so i saved the stuff i wanted to my external harddrive, got a windows xp [...]

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Hypnotize
By System of a Down
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“just one more week.  just one more week.”…. that’s been the mantra of rich, hayley and i for the last 8 days.  that’s b/c last week thursday we were told that starting feb. 26 we would no longer be teaching afternoon [...]

ok, so i just read yesterday that nickelback won some billboard awards for best album, and best group.  so can we just have a moment of silence for music?  it was fun while it was alive, but it is now dead.  hopefully it is resurrected in some form by the time i get back to [...]

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Hipeponymous
By The Tragically Hip
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well, i think i’m buzzing enough to write about the bullshit i had to put up with this morning.  so i think i told you about how one morning a week we’ve got to be at school at 8:30 in the morning [...]

i just discovered this on a news site that i check regularly.  it’s a bit old, but if you feel like hating bush and reading some shit that will get you pissed off, check out this rolling stone story .  it did the job for me.  and to top it all off [...]

well today we had a “cooking competetion” at school for the kids.  and it was great, except for the entry i was planning on doing.  i decided on rice krispie squares b/c they’re easy, no baking, whatever.  well, it turns out marshmallows don’t exist in this country.  hayley and rich beg to differ (they’ve seen [...]

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In a Coma: 1995-2005
By Matthew Good
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i just remembered this today… and it makes me incredibly happy.  futurama is coming back!!!! finally… we get to see more bender bending rodrigues, and company.  which reminds me of a bender line which is fittingly appropriate based on experience [...]

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Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below
By OutKast
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so yesterday one of the teachers comes up to us and says that we have to do “phone teaching” this week, and here are the students numbers, set up appointments with them.  ok, whatever, so i do that.  most of them [...]