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ThatGuyLam is a Copywriter. He was, until recently, the Communications Director guy at Alpha Ministries Canada. He likes to play with words: 1) in writing & planning advertising + communications 2) by frequently obsessing over kerning and leading; 3) by spending remaining free time on Scrabble®.

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Little (<5min) Clip from #LittlePerson #StandupComedian @TanyaleeDavis #ff #FollowFriday

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Language Warning! Tanya Lee Davis is a comedian, thus probably contractually obligated to drop a 4-letter-bomb in this bit. Surprising that CBC kept it in.

As headliner for the Stand Up For Mental Health 2012 grad class show that my friend was in last Monday, Tanya Lee Davis had me laughing so hard, parts of my face twitched that I didn't think could twitch. If all goes well, I'll plunk an inevitably late post about the night on my Late News blog. Speaking of late news, this past week was Mental Health Week.

omg Happy #NationalScrabbleDay2012! Just found out there's such a thing.

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It's National Scrabble Day. It's a Day because it was founder Alfred Mosher Butts' birthday (and the Nation in question is the US, which I assumed but was good to check). I just found that out. And you'd think I'd know.
That said, the official Scrabble Players Tournament Players site gives no indication of this being a real day.

So don't feel bad if you didn't get me anything.
Just run out and get it now.
I'm totally kidding.
I'm not sure what you do on the day anyway, besides play, which I kind of do anyway.

Have a safe and blessed National Scrabble Day.
Oh yeah, the Canucks play today too.

Report: #TimTebow and#JeremyLin under consideration for Sainthood

They've been the driving force in their teams' wins. They've been very public about their Christian faith. And they've shone without cracking under the intense worldwide media spotlight on their lives.

This, according to an unnamed Vatican official, constitutes sufficient grounds for these two big-name 2012 sports figures to be officially named as Saints. They have arguably achieved two of the main criteria: saintly Christ-like character, and performing miracles. As with almost all Saints, the miracles are the main question which will likely continue to be debated for years to come, especially because the miracles currently on the table are their sports achievements as key contributors to their teams' unexpected wins.

Source: Yahooo! Sports

Got a Hi Score at the Vancouver Scrabble(r) Tournament!

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I got a Hi Score in my Division in the 2012 Vancouver Scrabble Tournament!

If it seems like old news to anyone who happens to be following my exploits, that's because it is pretty old news: it happened 19 days ago. If the organizers hadn't been nice enough to mail me my prize, I wouldn't have known it at all.

The story of my tournament was, in a word, bi-polar.
I know I was a sour-grapes-y on the 2nd day of the tourney, a big reason being I'd had my first O-fer (zero wins)day in my Scrabble tourney career. It happens, but losing does kinda suck.
This in contrast to day 1 when I only lost 1 game, and that a close one.
Kudos to Murray Weber who tied with me for the prize. Funny, we're both usually quite defensive players I think.
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The late news
This post marks the debut of an idea I'm floating. I'm starting a website called The Late News, basically my commentary on news in various states of past-ness. (ie I don't think any of my Scrabble buddies are still talking about this tourney). I'm trying to spin my chronic lateness into some semblance of order, so better late reporting than never. Right? Anyway, part of my personality is to process things mentally before putting my stuff out there. Sometimes it's not a great way to go. But sometimes it is. Hence the tagline on this blog I've set up: News, After Thought.

Some stories I'm developing:
  • my thoughts on the latest season of The Bachelor (yeah, late, I know, eh?...)
  • quickie review of that Introvert book
  • quickie review of that Thinking Fast & Slow book
  • old movie review of The Truman Show
I'd LOVE for you to suggest other late news you'd like written up... I'm willing to reach back pretty far!

Posterousfolio: grilled Jesus?

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Had fun doing this one a little while back, was a neat thing to get on our church bulletin cover.

Trippy experience: I actually made this toast, twice, cutting tinfoil with a kitchen knife while we watched the first Twilight movie, after actually renting it was also an unexpected ordeal (remember back when we actually rented DVDs?). If it's still where I left it, the actual toast still exists.

Thanks to Darrell W Johnson, our Senior Minister, for letting me make him this toast.
As I remember it, he actually held it up during the sermon.


pls remember to lose your hour tonight #dst #daylightsavingstime #daylightsavings

According to blog rules I'm supposed to put a picture here.
Then again, like I mentioned a couple of posts ago, I'm  not sure if this is a blog (and whether it's still cool or not for us to blog). A picture would be really really token here.

Simple msg today: please don't forget to turn your clock forward tonight, if you do Daylight Savings in your area.

I could probably look this up but wondering worldwide: who does the time change? who doesn't? I know we didn't have to in Saskatchewan. For some reason. And I didn't miss it much.