Malcolm's Ramblings

Federal Election: Does Anyone Deserve Your Vote?

We are currently in the midst of likely the shortest election campaign timeline the Federal government can run, and I am hearing the odd soundbite that makes me perk my ears up, but is there really anything to get excited about? Using BNN Bloomberg’s write-up about where each party stands so far, I wanted to […]
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Hasbro Helping Make Racist Babies?

Recently on Fox News – “Hasbro claims babies as young as three months old can show racial preferences… Three, four and five years old can show pro-white biases.” This blog post is going to deal with the topic of race and might be triggering to some people. Please read at your own discretion.
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Low Cost Canadian Cell Phone Plans are Garbage

The requirements the CRTC has given the cell phone service providers to create low cost plans look like something written up from 2012, with features and prices that just don’t make sense for modern times. It looks like the big-three will continue to make huge amounts of money, even off these “discount” plans. Minutes They […]
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SUV Maybe?

This is the third in a series of posts starting almost two years ago about vehicle choices to someday replace our car. The first post was Electric Car Options in October of 2019, the second was Hyundai Kona EV – Too Tight a Squeeze and after that whole thing, I decided to temporarily open up […]
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Surrogacy

This is a difficult topic for me to write about as I never thought I’d be heading down this road, but here we are… There are so many moving pieces to this whole thing, but I should start by saying that my wife has written more about this journey than I probably ever will both […]
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A Year in Our House

So it has been basically a year since we moved into this house and while it wasn’t the year we expected when we started the process of buying the house, I definitely can’t complain. Living here during Covid has been great. It’s mostly little things like having our own entrance, controlling the number of people […]
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My Experiences Thus Far with Crypto

I have thought that cryptocurrencies were interesting for years now, but I have always been too risk adverse to invest any real money into it, until recently. Back years ago, I bought three bitcoin for around one hundred dollars. Unfortunately, I wasn’t smart with it and put it on a wallet on the local computer […]
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Sol Prima Mothballed

So after a few months, I’ve decided to close down Sol Prima Miniatures for now. It just wasn’t converting and while fun, it was eating up a bunch of money each month. I was spending over one thousand per month for six months to try to get the project going, and at the end, I […]
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Protected: Struggles

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KAG-Con 2021 – Flash-Fiction Challenge

So from today through the eighteenth, Kingston Area Gamers are holding a virtual comic-con style event with contests, hosted game events, and more called KAG-Con 2021. One such event is a flash-fiction challenge that Sol Prima Miniatures sponsored a small cash prize for. The writing challenge must follow these rules: Be between 50 and 1200 […]
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