Laughing

If I were given the opportunity
to present a gift to the next generation,
it would be the ability for each individual
to learn to laugh at himself.

-Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000)
Cartoonist

Door sign of the week

Incorrigible punster -- Do not incorrige.

Finally, wedding pictures!

After a beautiful month of October, including honeymooning in Montreal & Quebec City, then getting married again during a 10-day trip to Ukraine, Mira and I are back, happy as can be, and ready to show all of you some wedding pictures... should you be interested!

Click here for the Wedding Album (12 images)

Click here for the Pictures Album (17 images)

Click here for the Reception Album (2 images)

Click here for the Honeymoon Album (17 images)

Click here for the Ukraine Album (36 images)

If you have any pictures of our wedding, please send them: dan@danandmira.com.

Reception content wanted!

Hi folks,

Our reception MPs, the wonderful pair of Laura Stewart and Jason Legg, would love to have guests propose activities/jokes/skits that can be added to our program for (!) next Saturday night.

Please do email Laura at her gmail.com address (mmmstew@) with ideas.

Thanks!

-Dan and Mira

End of an era

This health card has seen me through an awful lot:



But since hospitals and clinics have now become bars and beer stores, and I needed picture ID, the government shoved a new friend into my life:



I would wax lyrical and sorrowful about my long lost friend, and reference such tearful songs as Friends Forever and that one graduation song, but I can't lie...

as soon as New Friend entered my life, I put Old Friend through the shredder.

One of the great things about sports

Is that just when the Jays are fatally tanking, the NFL starts back up and I can console myself with football.

Please, do yourself a favour and watch this video, a discussion about the same quarterback of whom I blogged the following last year (quoting Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated):

"You looked at paperboy-size Bears quarterback Rex Grossman warming up before Super Bowl XLI in his too-big shoulder pads and his altar-boy face and you thought, Hey, some kid won a contest to get on the field!

And after seeing him fumble, trip and heave passes that looked like bags full of kittens while leading the Bears right down the American Standard in a 29-17 loss to the Colts, you looked into the lost eyes of Rex Grossman and you thought, Someday soon, this young man has every chance to be my server at the Olive Garden."

Counting

By our wedding day, I will have been alive 288 full months.

Only 1 more to go.

Poignant

"I'm pretty sauced, how's tomorrow for you?"
—Rob Joustra (Best Man)

Buffalo

The coolest thing I've heard in a while:

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically-correct sentence.

It can also be read as:

"Buffalo people [that] Buffalo people intimidate [also happen to] intimidate Buffalo people"

or

"Buffalo bison whom other Buffalo bison bully themselves bully Buffalo bison".

—hat tip to Joelio

Like a bat mitzvah

"It's when a girl becomes a woman that she begins using Excel."
—Brian Harskamp

Kooza

Mira and I went to see Cirque du Soleil's new Toronto show, Kooza, on Sunday night. I had bought the tickets for us way back in March, as one of my engagement gifts to her.

It was mind-blowing. Watch this video, especially the last minute or so, and picture seeing these guys live, wondering if they might actually die in front of your eyes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWfzFntb7So

Wallabies

From two wonderful and recently-moved friends:

"My lovely wife and I will be in attendance at your forthcoming nuptuals.

We wouldn't miss the occassion for all the tea in China, all the sand in Arabia, all the lakes in Canada, all the grass on the Savannah, all the trees in the Amazon or all the water in the Pacific ocean; not to mention all the wallabies in Australlia."

Soon!

The r.s.v.p. date is sneaking up. Please let us know!