“Amazing things will happen.” Or will they? Stay tuned. (Or not. It’s entirely up to you). twitter.com/btwol facebook.com/btwol btwol at btwol dot ca Or, if you prefer, just ask me anything. I’m George Borges and this is my silly little blog. Living the dream and blogging the nightmare(s). Trust me.Tumblr (3.0; @btwol)http://blog.btwol.ca/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9cyPFQbgCpb3cq1kQzyUvcpho1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>I witnessed a murder today.</strong></p>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/3189381204http://blog.btwol.ca/post/3189381204Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:29:47 -0500<a href="http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/02/07/internet-usage-debate-the-real-myths/">Internet usage debate, Part 1: The real myths | FP Comment | Financial Post</a>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/3182279234http://blog.btwol.ca/post/3182279234Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:29:22 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0h0uxrcW51qz93koo1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Dead men don’t talk.  Detective Waters had been on the force long enough to know that and so it didn’t take him very long to figure out that I was standing behind the dead man, talking in a silly voice and using my hand to move the dead man’s mouth so it looked like he was talking.</p>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/501463644http://blog.btwol.ca/post/501463644Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:06:58 -0400“Don’t be afraid that your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.”<br/><br/> - <em>Grace Hansen</em>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/476735190http://blog.btwol.ca/post/476735190Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:11:44 -0400<a href="http://pwspoilers.com/conan-obrien-to-fox-virtually-confirmed=2936">Conan O’Brien To FOX Virtually Confirmed</a>: <p><a href="http://daily.kylebunch.com/post/470286542/conan-obrien-to-fox-virtually-confirmed">bunch</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Depending how you read this headline it either means (a) that Fox and Conan are close to consummating the very deal that NBC was trying to block way back when they promised him the <em>Tonight Show </em>and created their latest late night mess or (b) they’re working on some sort of virtual/CG version of his show, hopefully featuring him as a 10-foot tall blue-skinned ginger (which technically only involves adding a few inches and making a slight hue adjustment).</p> <p>[<a href="http://videogum.com/160501/conan-obrien-virtually-confirmed-to-make-late-night-deal-with-fox/tv/late-night/">via</a>]</p> </blockquote>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/472926904http://blog.btwol.ca/post/472926904Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:25:38 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzd8o7p78k1qz93koo1_r1_250.gif"/><br/><br/><p>“Nothing like the mess of an elementary school play to remind me to buy condoms,” I thought I thought, but actually said loud enough to interrupt the show.</p>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/452254851http://blog.btwol.ca/post/452254851Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:00:44 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyfj89PXHM1qzde9lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/422364882http://blog.btwol.ca/post/422364882Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:14:14 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyl8elo8xq1qb2rs7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://daisydukes.tumblr.com/post/419272531/llllllllllllllllllllllllllluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu">daisydukes</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU</p> </blockquote>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/422357771http://blog.btwol.ca/post/422357771Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:08:48 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kym6x7C6E81qzs209o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b><a href="http://www.daylife.com/photo/0fZUfye3r448S?q=Team+Canada">Gold</a></b></p>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/420269633http://blog.btwol.ca/post/420269633Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:03:15 -0500<a href="http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2010/02/16/olympics_canadians_strike_back">Winter Olympics? Canada Strikes Back!</a>: <p><b>In the wake of Olympics criticism, letter writers from the gentle north roar to their country’s defense</b></p>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/397790934http://blog.btwol.ca/post/397790934Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:28:04 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx9xciBDBn1qz93koo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><b>Gom Goes Undercover!</b></p>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/396528313http://blog.btwol.ca/post/396528313Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:47:30 -0500“Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”<br/><br/> - <em><b>Douglas Adams</b></em>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/396504330http://blog.btwol.ca/post/396504330Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:23:48 -0500<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2244692/pagenum/all/#p2">Might It Possibly Be OK If We Kick Some Ass?</a>: <p>Why the world finds Canada’s quest for Olympic gold strange and adorable.</p>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/395281947http://blog.btwol.ca/post/395281947Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:37:22 -0500<a href="http://tomoatmeal.com/post/395117266/freeze-i-am-the-robot-cop-if-i-was-a-cop-who">Tom Oatmeal: Freeze! I am The Robot Cop. If I was a cop who got murdered, I would...</a>: <blockquote> <p><b>Freeze! I am The Robot Cop.</b></p> <p>If I was a cop who got murdered, I would certainly hope that someone would have the decency to turn my corpse into a kind of half-man, half-robot guy. What better way for my wife and young son to ease themselves into the grieving process than to know that I’m still…</p> </blockquote>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/395124340http://blog.btwol.ca/post/395124340Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:49:07 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxqvaxPwrW1qalp3do1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>What Michael Jackson might look like in the year 2000 (EBONY magazine, 1985)</b></p>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/385915006http://blog.btwol.ca/post/385915006Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:54:33 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/D8Vh9_Hi1kY?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Vh9_Hi1kY"><b>Unnecessary Censorship</b></a></p>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/384001240http://blog.btwol.ca/post/384001240Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:31:54 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/immBMOwuFkqpzhxyWXmjngDeo1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>An Excerpt from my Really Short Detective Novel</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Detective Stone and I made one hell of a team.  Sure we were different, but I truly believed that it was our differences that were going to make us unstoppable.  Stone was by the book: using gloves and bags to gather evidence while I would just pick things up with my bare hands, sniff it, and put it in my pocket.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Our differences didn’t end just with our work on the force, Lord no!  Even our methods of seduction were different.  Detective Stone stuck to the old ways: a nice suit, romantic dinner, and good conversation, while I opted for a more direct approach: Pulling a portion of my scrotum through my fly and then asking women if I had gum stuck to my pants.  A few hours later, we found out that I wasn’t really a detective at all – just a guy who had wandered in to eat donuts after a night spent sleeping under a car.</p> <p><b> </b></p>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/380712220http://blog.btwol.ca/post/380712220Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:29:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxj0mvwlnr1qzpwi0o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>And now comes the obligatory child sacrifice…</p>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/378635569http://blog.btwol.ca/post/378635569Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:16:55 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxjh8zejwn1qalp3do1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>What is Justin Bieber?  Google to the rescue…</b></p>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/378536467http://blog.btwol.ca/post/378536467Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:07:47 -0500<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kpxiCxO5k0g?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><b> </b></p> <p><b> </b></p> <p><b> <p>AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Freakout</p> </b></p>http://blog.btwol.ca/post/378529973http://blog.btwol.ca/post/378529973Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:03:14 -0500