1) Ribeye. The king of steaks! Fatty, bad for you and you can’t have it small. 10-12oz at a minimum with a fat cap that is delicious rare. Rub some kosher salt and pepper on it and pour the heat on it and voila, enjoyment! My dream is to do one bone-in but that makes it so big that you need two to eat it.

2) Flank (or skirt). Cheap ass steak! Comes in 2-3 pound cuts and is never found in supermarkets, you gotta ask a butcher for it. Works fine grilled with a little salt and pepper but work even better when you do a soy/sugar/vinegar marinade for a night so you break down the touch fibres in it. Then it’s awesome.

3) Hanger. The most manly of steaks. There’s a hint of liver/kidney in this steak because of where it is on the cow but this also means it tastes like beef should. I’ve never made it myself partly because I’ve never seen it for sale. Needs a lot of marinading to make it work but is great on grill.

4) Filet Mignon. Girly steak! Needs a lot of sauce for flavour. Why would you eat a steak that needs sauce (marinade is ok)? Adding bacon is ok though.

5) Tenderloin. This is the cut for the healthy people but why eat steak if you want to be healthy. Go eat some chicken instead. Beef is for people who want a heart attack.

6) New York. Now we’re into the garbage I won’t eat. It’s for people with weak teeth (older people) who can’t afford a filet mignon.

7) Sirloin. Get out of my kitchen! This is not just garbage but cheap garbage! Get a flank steak instead and make your father proud. This is stuff you feed dogs.

Steaks should be made on hot, hot charcoal and it should be served between blue and medium rare. If you want it medium you’re an idiot. If you want it well done you are a Nazi Republican Catholic Priest who lives next to a preschool.

Also, never use regular salt on a steak! Use only sea salt or kosher salt. Rub it on thick, it’ll cook off when you grill it. Use fresh black pepper too.

Now go out and eat meat.

1. Wrong hire. Looked good on paper, interviewed well but ultimately is the wrong person. Easy to fix, you fire them and go look again. Sure it sucks but it’s not that great a loss.

2. Great hire. No look further, you’ve found a star that you can groom for a promotion. You’re set!

3. So-so hire. This is the worst possible hire you can make because this person never does bad enough that you can fire them but they also never do great enough that you love them. They aren’t technically underperforming but they aren’t optimal so all you’re doing is throwing money away. You are burning up opportunity with this person.

#3 is the worst thing you can do to your company.

If you think the Miata needs more power and more size then you obviously don’t understand what a Miata represents.

The harsh comments in this articles about this couple are well deserved. Let’s recap, they are:

1. Getting married this year
2. Saving for business school
3. Just took out a mortgage on a condo
4. Because of the HST they will have to cancel their Mexico honeymoon.

You’re bloody idiots! It’s not the HST that’s killing your honeymoon, it’s your stupid spending habits! Spend within your means you fools! You should have stopped going to Tim Horton’s and Serious Coffee months ago.

I make more than the two of them combined and I have the good sense to avoid the coffee shop and make my coffee at home (I used to have a cup a day at the shop till I added up the money and realized I was STUPID). If any good will come of the HST, it will be to get these two to see how they are wasting money.

Onto the broader subject of the HST, the Times-Colonist is running a series on how the HST is going to ruin people’s lives. What I’ve learned is that people have trouble managing their money and that the Times-Colonist has had trouble finding people who are really hurt by this.

Yes, the impact according to the Stats Canada report they quoted sounds sizeable (it’s also more than I expected) but in context with how much you already pay, the worst case scenario is slightly larger than an accounting error and still worlds better than what things were like 10 years ago.

Looking at my income statement and my expenses for the year I figure the worst case impact for me is around $600-700 annually. Including all hidden taxes, city,provincial and federal taxes, things like CPP and EI payments, that $600-700 means a 2-4% increase in taxes over last year (not a 2-4% increase relative to my income, just to what I paid in taxes).

Considering that tax freedom day (the day when you’ve made enough to cover your taxes) has moved from June 24th to about June 9th in the last 10 years I’d say that we’ve got it good. Worst case scenario is that the government is scraping back some of those days.

Looking at the Stats Canada numbers I’m a bit skeptical of their math, if lower and middle income earners are getting increased tax rebates which I don’t qualify for I’m not sure how they came up with numbers so high. How does someone who is getting a couple hundred dollars of rebates end up getting hit as hard I would when I’m making twice as much as they are?

I’m a Liberal when it comes to social policy but for family related things, I’m a Liberal so that we can support Conservative values. I believe in protecting the core of the family in similar ways that the religious right often talks except that I actually want to spend government money in doing it whereas the religious right only knows how to talk about it.

So here, with parental leave, I want to see us become more Liberal and support more parental leave. I want the home to be more equal so that at work things are more equal (at my job, all but one member of senior management is male and all but one of my working group is male).

I think it all leads to better outcomes in society – more productivity, more job satisfaction and more jobs.

I view change is inevitable. You can defer it and fight it but change always wins.

So thus I’m sad to see long time residents of Chinatown fight the change that Chinatown desperately needs. I spent many a day in Chinatown over the past 30 years and it is really, really sad to see what it has become – more so than what has happened to the downtown east side. There’s absolutely no reason nowadays to visit Chinatown, it is decrepit, dirty, old and has nothing to offer that you couldn’t get elsewhere with great quality. Not even the cultural aspects are worthwhile.

When it comes to change, you can either be part of the process or you can be wiped out. If you’re part of the process you can retain the things you value most because people will want to listen to you, they will respect your opinion.

Instead these people have fought everything and have gotten nothing – they’re having what’s important to them taken away not by the people they rail against but by themselves. Just take a look around Chinatown today and you’ll see what I mean.

Chinatown can be saved but not the way things are going.

Serious Pie in Seattle doesn’t make the list? There must be some fucking awesome pizza on this list then.

There are people who are embarrassments to themselves and there are those who should be ashamed of themselves. The owner of this blog is both.

The house in question is about to be torn down and replaced with a modern new home being built by a husband for his family. Specifically for his paralyzed wife.

If you look at the house on Google Street View you’ll see another ho-hum house that speaks of tackiness – there’s no reason why that house should qualify for heritage status nor any reason why someone shouldn’t have the right to tear it down so that his family can have a life they want.

Shame on Kirsten Campbell for what she is doing.

It should be a percentage (.5%?) with a minimum of 10 cents.