Hello, my name is Brian Foreman
It saddens me to think that the ability to communicate entirely in Simpsons quotes will die with my generation.
April 28, 2023
If you squeeze a stone hard enough you can get blood to come out, but it's your own.
March 27, 2023
There's a day every spring when "Go Leafs Go!" becomes "Let's go Blue Jays!" Sometimes it's April, this year it's M…
May 14, 2022
I haven't been on Twitter in a while. Anything happen lately?
April 27, 2022
I would have preferred to be a philosopher, but my family needed bread.
March 12, 2021
I don't know if Trump will be a hateful, sexist President, but hate and sexism feel validated today; that is a step backward for the world.
November 9, 2016
Don't do what is best for your pride, do what is best and take pride in it.
September 26, 2016
Nothing like walking through a crossfit competition to get ice cream.
July 8, 2016
Aidan: More! Me: More what? Aidan: More pasta! Me: More pasta, please? Aidan: More pasta mouth!
July 7, 2016
Serious question: does British parliamentary process work like ours, in that anything they do technically requires "royal assent" to pass? Could the Queen unilaterally stop Brexit, if she wanted to?
June 24, 2016
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June 22, 2016
When you think to yourself "Nah, I don't want to work out today" watch this. It makes me want to run 10k and skip lunch.
June 7, 2016
Spent a sunny Saturday morning at the Toronto Mac and Cheese Fest with my girls, eating carbs and cheese and drinking craft beer by the lake. Heaven has no further appeal. #macandcheesefest
June 4, 2016
Why is it that no one can spell "prix fixe" correctly‽
April 19, 2016
This might be the step that (eventually) gets AI across the line, too. Neuro circuitry is squishy and inexact, and maybe that's what makes us good at the things computers are terrible at.
April 14, 2016
Learn a new language, gain a new perspective. This might explain why the Germans are the ones taking a long term view on things like economics and immigration: their language makes them inherently goal-oriented.
March 27, 2016
And in Scrabble news, Crystal just played "lightful" over two triple word scores, which - and we had to look it up - scores NINE TIMES the tile values. FML. Makes my 7-letter "antennas" earlier on look quaint.
March 19, 2016
I'm a tech need at heart, so I find this really interesting.
March 3, 2016
Livin' it up!
February 24, 2016
Thanks for all the birthday wishes!
February 24, 2016
Oh happy day! I feel like dancing in the street!
February 9, 2016
A coworker came into work raving about her new sweater. My favourite part is the soft focus and the lens flare.
February 5, 2016
I'm usually staunchly anti-Apple - owing to their treating everyone like ignorant sheep, driven only by shiny new things - but this might represent their first real innovation since the original iPhone.
January 29, 2016
I guarantee that this is not something a traditional cab company would ever consider - or be capable of doing. Bylaw infractions aside, it's a better system.
January 28, 2016
This seems like an appropriate thing to know how to say in German.
January 19, 2016
I'm using the Duolingo app to brush up on my German, and sometimes the sample sentences are kind of dark...
January 13, 2016
January 11, 2016
Can we just pick up our whole country and move it to Europe? The wilful ignorance of our neighbours to the south is terrifying, and I'm afraid of what it means for the future. The scariest part is that they know what they're doing and why: The Republican Party of Texas literally wrote into its 2012 platform that, “We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills... critical thinking skills and similar programs [that] have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs.”
We just finished a great dinner care of Chef Jono. Great food, great conversation, great experience. Thanks for the anniversary gift, Mom and Dad, sorry it took two months to enjoy it.
December 10, 2015
Seems like the kind of thing one might have heard in the German election campaign of 1932.
December 8, 2015
It won't be long before she's telling us what to do.
November 29, 2015
This is the kind of crap that made Canadians distrust you, Steve. Hopefully the new government will put a stop to this kind of underhanded garbage.
November 24, 2015
Trying to look up some chemistry, and Google gives me Monty Python. It doesn't specify African or European, though.
November 17, 2015
November 16, 2015
I feel for all those who follow Islam in peace and respect. They - and Islam - should not be judged based on the actions of anti-social cowards and lunatics. As the author says "This savagery is no more Muslim than the Ku Klux Klan represents Christianity."
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November 14, 2015
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November 14, 2015
It's pretty incredible that a presidential candidate could believe such a thing. But then, as far as I'm aware, George W. Bush believed in the Easter Bunny.
November 6, 2015
I'm excited that Marc Garneau is Minister of Transport. Maybe soon I'll be able to ride an actual rocket to work!
November 5, 2015
I weep for my team and for my city. This Shapiro character is already off to a terrible start, if this is his doing.
October 29, 2015
Attention parents: open your wallets (after you close your gaping jaws).
October 19, 2015
2015 A.L. East champions! #cometogether
October 8, 2015
I'm with Justin on this one. We're losing out on loads of tax revenue because of some outdated ideological position.
October 6, 2015
Everybody go grab a Walmart flyer and turn to the back page. Aidan's a working model! She's the one in the monkey onesie, third from the right.
September 5, 2015
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August 16, 2015
August 7, 2015
Good article about "Who would actually vote for Trump?" My favourite line has to be: So far, I’d heard Trump compared—favorably—to a horse’s ass and to a laxative, and I began to imagine a Trump campaign poster that was just a big horse’s butthole spewing hot diarrhea.
There are still a lot of very science-y terms, but this is a simple, clear overview of how we currently understand the beginning of the universe.
July 23, 2015
I'm really struggling to find reasons to turn "intense want" for this into "justifiable need". Anyone?
July 7, 2015
Just finished having a pool installed on a lovely summer day.
July 5, 2015
Holy drum solo, Batman!
July 3, 2015
Some people like to get up at the same time every morning, follow the same routine at home, drive the same familiar route to the same comfortable job, do the same work as the day before then head home to start the process again. Most people avoid change and fear the unknown. I am not one of those people; I seek change and thrive on the unknown. I would rather take an educated risk on a new way of doing things than play it safe on the road-most-travelled. I would rather do the hard thing that's the right thing, than the easy thing that's familiar. That's how progress is made. I'm an "out of the box" kind of guy, who assimilates as much information and analysis as is available, and uses it to synthesize novel solutions. I live to make connections, to find the interrelatedness of things, and to understand them. In this way, it's possible to see beneath the surface and discover insights others miss. This can lead to came-changing innovation. I'm always up for a new challenge, and always interested in what the future may hold.