Category Archives: Leger-de-Mind

Ontario hasn’t recovered from SARS. Witness the girl who rubbed with alcohol and put on gloves before weighing me a kilo of fusilli. I should have asked: “If I promise to sterilize the pasta in boiling water before eating it, … Continue reading →

You know you’re pretty close to a manual restart when the last line under Program Manager’s applications tab is ‘Program Manager – (Not Responding)’.

From a study investigating risk factors for retained foreign bodies after surgery: “The increased risk associated with increased body-mass index probably reflects the amount of room there is in a patient in which to lose a sponge or instrument.”

If you start working at a froofy coffee joint that offers such far-fetched, not really coffeelike abominations as the half-caf-skim-milk-almond-roca-mocha,-oh-and-could-you-put-it-over-ice-with-one-of-those-non-sugar-sweeteners-please, you might start wondering how you can modify your own morning joe at home. As they say in the north, fly … Continue reading →

Here’s a sign from the nearby office supplies store: “Unattended children will be given an espresso and a free puppy.”

…Nail in Coffin, for the picture. But did you have to use the one from my weaker years?

Although you can shoot heroin and cocaine at Vancouver’s “Safe injection site,” there’s a sign on the wall banning smoking. After all, cigarettes are bad for you.

A firefighter taking a break from fighting a blazing fire, taking off his face mask, and lighting up a smoke.

As more evidence that King 5 News of Seattle only reports bad news, here are the main stories this evening: An avalanche, bomb sniffing dogs, a terrible winter storm, a tree into a building, and puppies. That smuggle drugs.