April 2010
Feathers of an arrow
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I'll speak slowly if you're on something, and faster if you're not
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Roll the dice
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Aside from being about interesting animal fetuses images were captured is really cool, it's one of the first instances of 4-dimensional scanning. To get the images, producer Peter Chin used a 'combination of three-dimensional ultrasound scans, computer graphics and tiny cameras to capture the process from conception to birth of a number of animals including sharks, elephants, dolphins, dogs, and penguins'.
Since I have a fascination with all things gross and bodily (the podcast I am listening to was titled "Should We Save Umbilical Cord Blood?") this sounds like a really interesting series that I figured I'd share here with anyone else interested in animal babies and blood and birth. Oh, and penguins.
Check out the page for the Extraordinary Animals episodes here and the general page for the documentary series here.
Wasn't looking at your girlfriend, didn't touch your mustang
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And by that I mean... just my bedroom.
I never realized how much stuff I have.
It's gorgeous out today and I should be out in the park enjoying my lunch.
But I'll spend it here checking out Winnipeg Cat because I love inside jokes about the place I live.
And it's too much effort to go outside.
You're a really great person, you just don't know it yet
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I wish that every time I said or did something awesome somehow this clip of Citizen Kane clapping determinedly would be shown.
Picture me always as a god, don't put me on a pedestal
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The next time I start spending all my time stressing, one of you just slap me (verbally!) and remind me that everything works out in the end and I need to stop stressing.
Everything's working out, and spring is here.
In celebration of Spring and new things (and a bit of inspiration from Galadarling!), here's my Spring Mix, a bunch of new (and old!) 'tunes that have been making me dance and smile lately.
1. Cassette Kids - Spin (House Remix)
2. Jay Z - Dirt off Your Shoulder
3. Chris Komus & Alex Ridley - Chick Magnet
4. Kid Beyond - Wandering Star
5. We Have Band - Love, What You Doing?
6. Cake - Going the Distance
7. Kanyé West - The New Workout Plan
8. Broken Bells - Vaporize
9. The Von Bondies - C'mon C'mon
10. Vampire Weekend - Cousins
11. Deastro - The Shaded Forests
12. The Stereophonics - Superman
13. Pulp - Common People
14. Beck - Cellphone's Dead
15. Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
Obviously if you guys have any musical suggestions to make, I'd love to hear them! I'm always up for new 'tunes.
Love machines on the sympathy crutches
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I just listened to an episode of "The Current" on CBC called "Health Care User Fees" and when I saw the title I thought "oh, more coverage on US health care".I was wrong, it was about us. Canada.
Excuse me?
Apparently in an attempt to pull Quebec out of the red financially Quebec Premier Jean Charest has put forward the idea of imposing a 25$ user fee for every doctor's visit.
Since taking office in 2003, Permier Charest will have indebted Quebeckers by more than $42-billion, which is an historic record, and I understand the obvious desire scrape together money where they can, and with actions like raising the price of electricity by 3.7 percent, hiking gas prices by a cent a litre, and charging higher costs for post-secondary tuition (which I am also against, but that's another topic), going after Health Care seems like a cash-grab.
According to the Charest government because they would be collecting back the amount owed from visits off workers income tax instead of making them pay up-front it's technically not a violation of the Health Care Act.
Oh, but don't forget that the “health contribution” will cost adults $25 this year and eventually climb to $200 in 2012.
This, my friends, is garbage. It completely violates the entire spirit of the Canadian Health Act, which is based on the principle of universal access. What about pregnant women, people with cancer, small children, or the chronically ill? Being charged anything for a doctor's visit is an absolute outrage. It's disgusting to even suggest it.
Thankfully it has been met with vehement opposition. Even good 'ol Iggy had something to say, and ideally as a result of the overwhelming negativity the issue will be dropped. Hopefully. Otherwise I'm afraid what could go through in Quebec will become standard practice in other provinces as well .
I'm honestly amazed at something like this, right after we watched the US fight tooth and nail for a shred of what we have up here.
I'm amazed, and ashamed.
The color leaks through the papers
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Much more meat and drinking happened, but I was underdressed so I stood by the fire staying

obviously they meant me. Hee hee.



Super busy these days guys, but I made this for dinner tonight and having this for breakfast tomorrow, so you can rest easy knowing I'm at least looking after my palette.
Oh, and because being too busy means not having the time to read anything super heavy, I'm re-reading this because I have the box-set. You should too, if you haven't already.
Didn't know how lost I was
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I hate the public bathrooms in my office; they're never terribly clean and at least one stall's always broken.
Today was no exception, even though the cleaning lady was hanging out in there, she was talking on her cell phone instead of doing her job.
Whatever, I'm just in there to pee and gtfo.
Do my thing, reach down and realize the toilet isn't flushing.
Open the back and realize the entire chain is missing.
I am not reaching into the back of a public toilet and covering my hand in that water, no way. I'll let the receptionist know and she can call someone to come fix it.
Exit the stall.
Wash my hands.
The cleaning lady steps into the same stall and proceeds to make disgusted sounds at me and motion at the toilet.
I tried to explain that it was broken, but she just kept harshly speaking at me in another language and looking at me with an expression of pure disgust on her face.
Did I honestly just get chewed out by the cleaning lady for not dealing with a broken toilet?
I left my head and my heart on the dance-floor
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I got the apartment yesterday.