01 October 2024 - CFL, Say It Ain't So!

Well, the mighty leaders of the Canadian Football League have foolishly decided that their game is inferior to that played on the NFL gridiron. Accordingly, they plan to change the field size, to restrict the scoring of the rouge, and a host of other rule changes aimed at making the CFL an NFL-Lite, as it were.

Don't they realise that there already is an NFL-Lite league in the US? After all, what is the UFL - what remains of the two other recent failed attempts at adding a league, the USFL (redux) and the XFL - if not just a minor league version of the NFL?

Surely there's room for an actually Canadian game in Canada, eh? Perhaps I'm taking this too personally, but when the powers that be attack my own favourite flavour of football my hackles can't help but raise themselves.

Good grief: they didn't even consult the owners, players, or fans - they just assumed they knew best and went ahead and announced the demise of the Canadian game.

Join me and thousands of other fans by signing this online petition to postpone (at least!) these rule changes:

https://chng.it/g576CbZ5qB

 Here's hoping there will be enough of a groundswell to convince these folks to leave our game alone!

Oskee Wee Wee!

 

21 August 2025 - A Plea for Capitalization

 When, Dear Reader, when did the world stop capitalizing 'Earth' when it's a proper noun?

Earth is the place - the planet - while earth is the soil - dirt.

It's not difficult to understand. I don't see articles on trips to mars, but rather to Mars - as is only proper (pardon the pun). Even plaster of Paris gets its capital P.

What has the Earth done to English speakers to relegate it to a second-class status?

Please, I implore you, stop this madness!

 

grr 

04 January 2025 - Quantum Disentaglement

 This is the anniversary of a very important event in the history of quantum physics. 

On 04 January 1961, Erwin Schrödinger's cat, Lagerung, burst out of his box and observed his master's state, thus determining that Schrödinger was dead.