Well that puzzle experiment didn't work exactly as planned, but I think I'll leave it on the site cuz it's still pretty cool.
It's been awhile since I've said anything about what's shakin in my life recently, so I'll give an update now.
I guess the biggest news is that I'm no longer a single man. During frosh week things came together (no pun intended) with a girl named Jenn that I barely knew before this summer. There were a couple of drunken nights when we flirted in the summer, and obviously more happened in frosh week, so here we are now. She's a really cool girl, and so far she hasn't complained about any of my stupidity or drunken actions, so things are looking good! Then again, things usually start out just peachy before the problems arise.
Regardless, it's been a couple fo years since I've been in anything serious, so I'm looking forward ot a consistent piece of ass. haha
In other news, I found out last night that the Work Study program rejected me, so it looks like I'm gonna be nothing but a volunteer all year long in the lab. Not necessarily a bad thing I suppose, as it'll still look good on my resume and give me alot of practical experience. Hopefully that'll lead to a full time summer job next year, either with the prof I work for now or another option. We'll see I guess.
Last night I also watched ther movie "Unforgiven", a Western with Eastwood, Hack-man and Mrogan Freeman. It was pretty fricken dynamite.
Last night the boys and I all did our annual hockey draft for the upcoming NHL season. I did reasonably well in my forwards and goalies, but my defence is questionable. Two big question-marks are Kim Johnsson and Niklas Kronwall; the former is supposed to be headlining the PP for the wild, and Kronwall should put up some good stats in Detroit. I got Ward and Kipper in net (along with JS Giguerre as a sub) and my boy Ovechkin on forward, along with Gagne, Forsberg, Nash, Bell, Tanguay, and a few others that I can't rememeber at the moment.
I've been much better about staying on top of my school work this year, but I'm seriously fucking tired of waking up groggy as hell, wishing for a nap all day long. One thing that I've let slide badly is my physical activity. I basically did fuck all for a solid month after I finished work, and now it's gonna be rough getting back into things. Last Sunday's baseball game was a prime example of how out of shape I am, seeing as I'm still sore in the legs right now. Then again, I was hungover as shit, which probably didn't help. Thankfully the weather led to the cancellation of our ballhockey game that night. I'll be back soon enough tho, I just need to get over this cold and get our running a bit, then hit the weights again.
I'm still happy as hell to be back in London, but it's starting to sink in that after this year almost everyone will be gone. I know a few people sticking around for another year, but the majority of my friends will graduate this year and start into real life. I guess there's no time like the present, so we'd better enjoy it. I'm also gonna do my best to take a few more pics this year, since Mather wants to do a slidshow/video thing at the end of the year to catalogue all of our years here. I'll be sure to insist that we include that Vitamin C song in there somewhere. I don't remember what it's called...
Around the homestead there's news as well - our landlord fixed our decimated balcony railings, and it cost us $400 to fix the thing. On the plus side, we got a new deep freezer a few weeks ago, and just yesterday we got our new fridge. 6 guys in one fridge was a little ridiculous, but now it seems that we almost have too much space. Oh well, that just leaves more room for beer when we have our next party.
Another thing that's been on my mind (and pissing me off) is the fact that even though I've got my lists together for top 5's of the year, I have yet to post them on here. For future convenience, I'm gonna post them in the August records, that way I'll be able to look back next year and find them. When I finally do get them up I'll just link it from a new post.
Speaking of computers, I finally swithced over to Firefox and away from Internet Explorer. But for this reason, you may notice the title and some other aspects of this blog are totally fucked up. I don't pretend to know fuck all about codes and shit on here, I just figure things out by trial and error.
I highly recommend you switch over as well, as IE is harder on your computer, and much less convenient than Firefox. Plus Firefox just flat out looks better. The change-over isn't without problems though, as you have to reset all of your passwords, preferences, and re-allign all of your favourites.
I guess that's all for now. I'd better get back to the books.
Friday, September 29, 2006
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Monday, September 25, 2006
Betcha didn't know...
The Resume of George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20520
Education & Experience
1. Law Enforcement
- I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver’s license suspended for 30 days.
- My Texas driving record has been “lost” and is not available.
2. Military
- I joined the Texas Air National Guard and then went AWOL.
- I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use.
- By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.
3. College
- I graduated from Yale University with a low C average.
- I was a cheerleader.
4. Past Work Experience
- I ran for U.S. Congress and lost.
- I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas , in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn’t find any oil in Texas . The company went bankrupt shortly after. I sold all my stock.
- I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.
- With the help of my father and our friends in the oil industry, including Enron CEO Ken Lay, I was elected governor of Texas.
Accomplishments As Governor Of Texas
- I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union.
- During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America.
- I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money.
- I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history.
- With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida, and my father’s appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.
Accomplishments As President Of The United States
- I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
- I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.
- I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.
- In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.
- I’m proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history. My “poorest millionaire,”Condoleeza Rice, had a Chevron oil tanker named after her.
- I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. President.
- I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.
- My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History, Enron.
- My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision. I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or prosecution.
- More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than hasbeen spent investigating one of the biggest corporate crimes in history.
- I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.
- I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history. I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
- I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any President in U.S. history.
- I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the historyof the United States government.
- I’ve broken more international treaties than any President in U.S. history.
- I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.
- I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.
- I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. “prisoners of war” detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.
- I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. elections).
- I set the record for fewest numbers of press conferences of any President since the advent of television.
- I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year period. After taking off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
- I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World TradeCenter attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.
- I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people), shattering the record for protests against any person in the history of mankind.
- I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation.
- I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world community.
- I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families-in-wartime.
- In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq and then blamed the lies on our British friends.
- I am the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.
- I am supporting the development of a nuclear “Tactical Bunker Buster,” a WMD.
- I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice.
Records & References
- All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my father’s library, sealed and unavailable for public view.
- All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
- All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.
(Who else could write such brilliance?)
For a little more comedy, check this out.
(h/t to Findlay)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20520
Education & Experience
1. Law Enforcement
- I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver’s license suspended for 30 days.
- My Texas driving record has been “lost” and is not available.
2. Military
- I joined the Texas Air National Guard and then went AWOL.
- I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use.
- By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.
3. College
- I graduated from Yale University with a low C average.
- I was a cheerleader.
4. Past Work Experience
- I ran for U.S. Congress and lost.
- I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas , in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn’t find any oil in Texas . The company went bankrupt shortly after. I sold all my stock.
- I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.
- With the help of my father and our friends in the oil industry, including Enron CEO Ken Lay, I was elected governor of Texas.
Accomplishments As Governor Of Texas
- I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union.
- During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America.
- I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money.
- I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history.
- With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida, and my father’s appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.
Accomplishments As President Of The United States
- I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
- I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.
- I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.
- In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.
- I’m proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history. My “poorest millionaire,”Condoleeza Rice, had a Chevron oil tanker named after her.
- I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. President.
- I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.
- My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History, Enron.
- My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision. I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or prosecution.
- More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than hasbeen spent investigating one of the biggest corporate crimes in history.
- I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.
- I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history. I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
- I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any President in U.S. history.
- I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the historyof the United States government.
- I’ve broken more international treaties than any President in U.S. history.
- I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.
- I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.
- I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. “prisoners of war” detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.
- I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. elections).
- I set the record for fewest numbers of press conferences of any President since the advent of television.
- I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year period. After taking off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
- I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World TradeCenter attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.
- I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people), shattering the record for protests against any person in the history of mankind.
- I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation.
- I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world community.
- I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families-in-wartime.
- In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq and then blamed the lies on our British friends.
- I am the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.
- I am supporting the development of a nuclear “Tactical Bunker Buster,” a WMD.
- I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice.
Records & References
- All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my father’s library, sealed and unavailable for public view.
- All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
- All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.
(Who else could write such brilliance?)
For a little more comedy, check this out.
(h/t to Findlay)
Monday, September 11, 2006
Five years on
I'm not gonna say I remember it like it was yesterday, because I don't.
But I do remember sitting in Mrs. McDougall's english class, staring up at the television in the corner of the classroom, just like everyone else.
I do remember thinking "this is real and this can be happening", while I imagined most of my friends and classmates thought it seemed more like a blockbuster movie.
But most of all I remember thinking one thought, again and again: I'm sure glad I'm Canadian, and not an American.
I wouldn't call it patriotism. It's more like realism. I knew that things would change in the world as those buildings came down, but at the time I had no idea what was in store.
I obviously didn't know all of the facts of the world (and I still don't) because I was still something of a kid, but I did know that Western societies held the monopoly on selfish and exploitative practices around the world.
I knew about sweatsops.
I knew that I, personally, was ridiculously wasteful in a world of finite things.
I knew about government interventions in developing countries that ended in assasinations and coups.
I read articles about potential "terrorist plots" that could come to fruition in the U.S.
I had seen the news coverage of Palestine vs. Israel.
I guess you could say I had a better grasp on the realities of the world than most kids my age. Most teenagers prefer to live in a bubble, devoid of anything but self indulgences and personal problems that always take precedent over the world outside. It's easy to do I suppose, because it's impossible to understand what it's like in someone else's shoes when you close your mind to the world. We've never been opressed, or lived in fear of a power we are impotent to stop. We didn't have to work for our livelihoods at the age of 6, or walk for miles just to get fresh drinking water. We didn't have to live with dozens of other people in a single house, or have our possesions confiscated by a government that considered us to be worthless. We've never had bombs dropped on us by madmen bent on greed and power.
But these are the realities for some people. People you and I will never meet; never have to look in the face or pass by in the street. These are the people we must not think about in order to preserve our high-and-mighty moral fabric. Because if you were forced to think about it - if your neighbour's house exploded from a foreign bomb being dropped on it - you might start to question what's going on in the world, instead of ignoring a grotesque problem. And the strangest part is that we as individuals have the power to stop it. Only we choose not to. We elect criminals and warmongers, give them free reign over our countries and militaries, and never stop to question their lies and motives.
Because afterall, we need revenge, right? That's what 9/11 was the catalyst for in the public eye, but politically it served another purpose, and that was to further the objectives of a very small sector of society. And these people did a great job of encouraging hatred and fear in the public. They kept us all occupied with bullshit so they could go about their business unimpeded. They shifted blame to an innocent country that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11, but we didn't care. We needed revenge, remember? And who the hell cares who has to pay, so long as we're appeased.
But five years on, are you happy with what we've done? Does anyone feel safer? Do you feel that we're in Afghanistan and Iraq for noble and self-defensive reasons? Do you still trust the government? Do you trust Middle-Eastern strangers on the subway? Do you like what they've done to commemorate the deaths of those 3000 Americans down at Ground Zero?
Sorry, that last question wasn't fair.
Personally I feel less and less safe with every person that is killed in this war on terror that arbitarily targets anyone that doesn't agree with our governments' ideals and goals. We are making more and more enemies by the day, and the hatred agains the U.S. in particular must be at an all-time high. And there's no doubt that Canada is losing global favour as we kneel down to our master and commander.
Soldiers who are supposedly bringing peace and freedom to Iraq (a country that was at least habitable under Saddam Hussein) are killing innocent people every day. They are killing families indiscrimintely. They are raping children, killing women, and torturing young men with malace in their eyes and an undying belief in their hearts that what they are doing is necessary for you and I to live free.
Commanders are dropping illegal chemical weapons on civilians and firing bombs from distant warships. They're sanctioning the abuses that we see in Abu Ghraib and Gitmo.
Under the guise of democracy they deliver nothing but oppression.
And I find it unfathomble that people can actually believe that Saddam had anything to do with 9/11, and that all of this is actually accomplishing something. (Beyond inciting and maintaining hatred for the U.S. and it's allies.) People actually believe that 9/11 came out of nowhere, that somehow we are all completely innocent in the global community; that we deserve to have our freedoms and rights and liberties because we've somehow earned them. While in truth we haven't earned anything.
There's a huge difference between ignorance and innocence. Just because you ignore a problem doesn't mean you're not culpable for its effects and outcomes.
9/11 should've taught us that. You'd think that considering we've been educated since the age of our most basic reasoning, we'd have the smarts to think outside of the box that our education has closed us within.
We should've learned to stop what we were doing and treat the rest of the world with respect. But we've done the exact opposite in the past five years. We've only gotten worse, and the world has been dragged into the gutter that all of those lazer-guided missiles and car-bombs have created.
Down here at the bottom of the trench it looks like a fucking slippery slope to climb.
But I do remember sitting in Mrs. McDougall's english class, staring up at the television in the corner of the classroom, just like everyone else.
I do remember thinking "this is real and this can be happening", while I imagined most of my friends and classmates thought it seemed more like a blockbuster movie.
But most of all I remember thinking one thought, again and again: I'm sure glad I'm Canadian, and not an American.
I wouldn't call it patriotism. It's more like realism. I knew that things would change in the world as those buildings came down, but at the time I had no idea what was in store.
I obviously didn't know all of the facts of the world (and I still don't) because I was still something of a kid, but I did know that Western societies held the monopoly on selfish and exploitative practices around the world.
I knew about sweatsops.
I knew that I, personally, was ridiculously wasteful in a world of finite things.
I knew about government interventions in developing countries that ended in assasinations and coups.
I read articles about potential "terrorist plots" that could come to fruition in the U.S.
I had seen the news coverage of Palestine vs. Israel.
I guess you could say I had a better grasp on the realities of the world than most kids my age. Most teenagers prefer to live in a bubble, devoid of anything but self indulgences and personal problems that always take precedent over the world outside. It's easy to do I suppose, because it's impossible to understand what it's like in someone else's shoes when you close your mind to the world. We've never been opressed, or lived in fear of a power we are impotent to stop. We didn't have to work for our livelihoods at the age of 6, or walk for miles just to get fresh drinking water. We didn't have to live with dozens of other people in a single house, or have our possesions confiscated by a government that considered us to be worthless. We've never had bombs dropped on us by madmen bent on greed and power.
But these are the realities for some people. People you and I will never meet; never have to look in the face or pass by in the street. These are the people we must not think about in order to preserve our high-and-mighty moral fabric. Because if you were forced to think about it - if your neighbour's house exploded from a foreign bomb being dropped on it - you might start to question what's going on in the world, instead of ignoring a grotesque problem. And the strangest part is that we as individuals have the power to stop it. Only we choose not to. We elect criminals and warmongers, give them free reign over our countries and militaries, and never stop to question their lies and motives.
Because afterall, we need revenge, right? That's what 9/11 was the catalyst for in the public eye, but politically it served another purpose, and that was to further the objectives of a very small sector of society. And these people did a great job of encouraging hatred and fear in the public. They kept us all occupied with bullshit so they could go about their business unimpeded. They shifted blame to an innocent country that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11, but we didn't care. We needed revenge, remember? And who the hell cares who has to pay, so long as we're appeased.
But five years on, are you happy with what we've done? Does anyone feel safer? Do you feel that we're in Afghanistan and Iraq for noble and self-defensive reasons? Do you still trust the government? Do you trust Middle-Eastern strangers on the subway? Do you like what they've done to commemorate the deaths of those 3000 Americans down at Ground Zero?
Sorry, that last question wasn't fair.
Personally I feel less and less safe with every person that is killed in this war on terror that arbitarily targets anyone that doesn't agree with our governments' ideals and goals. We are making more and more enemies by the day, and the hatred agains the U.S. in particular must be at an all-time high. And there's no doubt that Canada is losing global favour as we kneel down to our master and commander.
Soldiers who are supposedly bringing peace and freedom to Iraq (a country that was at least habitable under Saddam Hussein) are killing innocent people every day. They are killing families indiscrimintely. They are raping children, killing women, and torturing young men with malace in their eyes and an undying belief in their hearts that what they are doing is necessary for you and I to live free.
Commanders are dropping illegal chemical weapons on civilians and firing bombs from distant warships. They're sanctioning the abuses that we see in Abu Ghraib and Gitmo.
Under the guise of democracy they deliver nothing but oppression.
And I find it unfathomble that people can actually believe that Saddam had anything to do with 9/11, and that all of this is actually accomplishing something. (Beyond inciting and maintaining hatred for the U.S. and it's allies.) People actually believe that 9/11 came out of nowhere, that somehow we are all completely innocent in the global community; that we deserve to have our freedoms and rights and liberties because we've somehow earned them. While in truth we haven't earned anything.
There's a huge difference between ignorance and innocence. Just because you ignore a problem doesn't mean you're not culpable for its effects and outcomes.
9/11 should've taught us that. You'd think that considering we've been educated since the age of our most basic reasoning, we'd have the smarts to think outside of the box that our education has closed us within.
We should've learned to stop what we were doing and treat the rest of the world with respect. But we've done the exact opposite in the past five years. We've only gotten worse, and the world has been dragged into the gutter that all of those lazer-guided missiles and car-bombs have created.
Down here at the bottom of the trench it looks like a fucking slippery slope to climb.
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Back to school, back to school to prove to dad that I'm not a fool
It seems that within a few short days most of my annoyances in life have disappeared.
My list of shit that was annoying me has become considerably smaller. Since I'm no longer home, I don't have to worry about all of those things - like the cats and the John-man, as well as my parents.
Plus I found some decent white shoes and my Kelly Clarkson poster! Had to go all the way to Sam the Record Man to find it too. He's a good man tho, he knew what I was lookin for.
And now it seems that life is going a mile a minute. Everything's picking up speed and coming together, and all I've been able to do is pound back the beer and pretend I'll catch up next week.
My list of shit that was annoying me has become considerably smaller. Since I'm no longer home, I don't have to worry about all of those things - like the cats and the John-man, as well as my parents.
Plus I found some decent white shoes and my Kelly Clarkson poster! Had to go all the way to Sam the Record Man to find it too. He's a good man tho, he knew what I was lookin for.
And now it seems that life is going a mile a minute. Everything's picking up speed and coming together, and all I've been able to do is pound back the beer and pretend I'll catch up next week.
It looks like I'm gonna be getting a job in a lab, at least as a volunteer for a couple of weeks until my application goes through for paid work. I'm gonna get into a lab with a prof who just advised me on my courses, and we've sorted out that in the end I'm gonna end up with a Double Major in Med Sci and Micro/Immu, with a minor in Psych. I don't even know if that's possible tecnically, but it's what I'll have.
Turns out this prof is also teaching 2 of my classes this yr, so that means I'll have to try harder in those classes so I can impress her (and that way I can beg my way out of the midterm to write it early, so I can go to this concert on Nov 3rd)
That concert is none other than BOB FUCKING DYLAN featuring the FOO FUCKING FIGHTERS! I almost pooped myself when it was announced, and I even woke up early (still drunk) to order the tix online. They weren't cheap, but I thought to myself "when are you ever going to see Bobby D again? Not to mention the Foo's you idiot."
I also found out this week that my uncle (well tecnically my step-mom's brother-in-law) is in my anaomy class. I remember he mentioned somethign about furthering his education, but i had no idea it would be in my class at my school. He is, afterall, 40 yrs old and from Toronto. But he's a really cool guy who acts and looks like he's in his late 20's. I'll have to go out boozing with him sometime.
In other news, the female presence in my life has picked up alot too. There's tons of stuff to worry about right now tho, and this is just another thing to add to the list. In the end I'm sure I'll fuck everything up and find myself at home alone every friday night.
Just kidding, I'm as smooth as silk baby.
Mint out.
Saturday, August 26, 2006
A big ol' waste of time
I recently finished reading a book titled "Fidelity" by Michael Redhill. It's actually the first book I've read outside of school in about three years or so.
It wasn't a novel, just an assortment of short stories that are all loosely or directly related to sex or relationships. I picked the thing up at Chapters for $5, intending to read it on the Dominican trip, but I ended up reading my dad's Steve Earle biography instead (and I'm still working on it).
And fuck me was this book ever horrible.
Every story had a good intro and midsection, and everything was very well written, but there were no conclusions. No climaxes, no surprises at the end, no resolutions, just an abrupt stop in the flow.
Judging from the guy's picture in the book jacket, he's a yutz of the highest order. A real prick with an intellectual ego who think's he's the shiznit and ought to be held in higher regard than the common folk. The kind of guy who would talk of yuppy bullshit in front of people who aren't "in the know" just to hold that over them. The kind of guy who, if you asked him what _____ was, he'd say "Well if you don't know then I obviously can't tell you!"
I could tell all of this from his little picture don't ya know.
And he used some brutally irritating phrases in his writing. The one that's stuck in my brain is "the satellite dishes drank up the sky's signals". Who the fuck sits down, writes that kind of tripe, and thinks to themselves "Wow, I'll publish that!"
A real loser, that's who.
Someday I'll write a book, and some fuckin kid will write about it bitching about how bad my writing was. And on that day I'll think to myself it's better that he thinks for himself rather than not think at all.
It wasn't a novel, just an assortment of short stories that are all loosely or directly related to sex or relationships. I picked the thing up at Chapters for $5, intending to read it on the Dominican trip, but I ended up reading my dad's Steve Earle biography instead (and I'm still working on it).
And fuck me was this book ever horrible.
Every story had a good intro and midsection, and everything was very well written, but there were no conclusions. No climaxes, no surprises at the end, no resolutions, just an abrupt stop in the flow.
Judging from the guy's picture in the book jacket, he's a yutz of the highest order. A real prick with an intellectual ego who think's he's the shiznit and ought to be held in higher regard than the common folk. The kind of guy who would talk of yuppy bullshit in front of people who aren't "in the know" just to hold that over them. The kind of guy who, if you asked him what _____ was, he'd say "Well if you don't know then I obviously can't tell you!"
I could tell all of this from his little picture don't ya know.
And he used some brutally irritating phrases in his writing. The one that's stuck in my brain is "the satellite dishes drank up the sky's signals". Who the fuck sits down, writes that kind of tripe, and thinks to themselves "Wow, I'll publish that!"
A real loser, that's who.
Someday I'll write a book, and some fuckin kid will write about it bitching about how bad my writing was. And on that day I'll think to myself it's better that he thinks for himself rather than not think at all.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
That really grinds my gears
For the past week or so at work we've been doing our stoplight installation thang under some serious high tension power lines. There's three separate tower lines running above this intersection we're doing, two of them being 550 000 volts, and the last one 220 000 volts. I don't claim to know what the hell that means in usable elctricity, but it's fair to say that voltage like that would skullfuck anyone who touched the wires directly.
But what I've learned as of late is that electricity can jump a helluva long way.
And it really pisses me off.
Just touching one of our pickup trucks (which sits on the raod about 5o feet below the lines themselves) gives you a nice little jolt of power through the old blood and bones. Not to mention the shocks you get when standing 25 foot steel poles. We did that part of the job today, and as I was standing near a pole, maybe 2 feet away - not even touching it - it felt as though someone was firing little rocks at my arms at high velocity.
It's all probably boring as hell to most people, but it's been turning my stomach and pissing me off somethin fierce. So I got to thinking of a few other things that are really grinding my gears these days.
1. Men wearing capris. I'm not talking long shorts or pants that are hiked up too high. I'm talking summer-fun capris. Fuck off you stupid metrosexual or emo or whatever bastards you wanna be labelled as.
2. Cats. My brother has moved out, but he didn't take his fucking 4 cats with him. And seeing as my parents are away this week, I'm stuck with the little fuckers. I'm allergic to cats, especially the type that constantly wants to be near me.
3. Blogger. I'd write on here far more often if this damn program allowed me to put up pictures. Something's seriously fucked, so I tried to set up a flickr account. But I can't get in cuz they claim my password is wrong and doesn't jive with my Yahoo account. So that's another pain in the ass. Maybe I'll just resort to Photobucket or something.
4. Being at home. The dryer is euchred and sqeaks like a mofo. There is zero counter space in the kitchen. I have to wake up at 6 a.m. everyday. The shower curtain billows inwards and cramps my showering style. All in all, I can't fuckin wait to get home to London, if only to hear Mather yell "beverages!" every time he comes home.
5. Shoes. I'm currently in the market for a pair of white shoes for school (that's right, they're not gonna be black for once) but seeing as I'm picky as hell, it's getting rather frustrating trying to find a pair that I really like. There's just so much shit out there these days.
6. Censorship. I like the new Panic! At The Disco single, but it's totally fucking ruined on the radio. Can't say whore and can't say goddamned, but you can say shhhh and ___damned. I wish those goddamn whores would just let the song play as it should.
7. Bands who think they're cool cuz they title their songs with ridiculously long phrases. Panic! At The Disco and Fall Out Boy stand out in this category, but it's not the bands I dislike, just the titles.
8. Kelly Clarkson posters. For the life of me I cannot find one anywhere. Hilary Duff just won't do!
9. The John-Man. I hate him more now than I did when I wrote my "Dear John" letter. So you can imagine how much I want to be done work, can't ya?
But what I've learned as of late is that electricity can jump a helluva long way.
And it really pisses me off.
Just touching one of our pickup trucks (which sits on the raod about 5o feet below the lines themselves) gives you a nice little jolt of power through the old blood and bones. Not to mention the shocks you get when standing 25 foot steel poles. We did that part of the job today, and as I was standing near a pole, maybe 2 feet away - not even touching it - it felt as though someone was firing little rocks at my arms at high velocity.
It's all probably boring as hell to most people, but it's been turning my stomach and pissing me off somethin fierce. So I got to thinking of a few other things that are really grinding my gears these days.
1. Men wearing capris. I'm not talking long shorts or pants that are hiked up too high. I'm talking summer-fun capris. Fuck off you stupid metrosexual or emo or whatever bastards you wanna be labelled as.
2. Cats. My brother has moved out, but he didn't take his fucking 4 cats with him. And seeing as my parents are away this week, I'm stuck with the little fuckers. I'm allergic to cats, especially the type that constantly wants to be near me.
3. Blogger. I'd write on here far more often if this damn program allowed me to put up pictures. Something's seriously fucked, so I tried to set up a flickr account. But I can't get in cuz they claim my password is wrong and doesn't jive with my Yahoo account. So that's another pain in the ass. Maybe I'll just resort to Photobucket or something.
4. Being at home. The dryer is euchred and sqeaks like a mofo. There is zero counter space in the kitchen. I have to wake up at 6 a.m. everyday. The shower curtain billows inwards and cramps my showering style. All in all, I can't fuckin wait to get home to London, if only to hear Mather yell "beverages!" every time he comes home.
5. Shoes. I'm currently in the market for a pair of white shoes for school (that's right, they're not gonna be black for once) but seeing as I'm picky as hell, it's getting rather frustrating trying to find a pair that I really like. There's just so much shit out there these days.
6. Censorship. I like the new Panic! At The Disco single, but it's totally fucking ruined on the radio. Can't say whore and can't say goddamned, but you can say shhhh and ___damned. I wish those goddamn whores would just let the song play as it should.
7. Bands who think they're cool cuz they title their songs with ridiculously long phrases. Panic! At The Disco and Fall Out Boy stand out in this category, but it's not the bands I dislike, just the titles.
8. Kelly Clarkson posters. For the life of me I cannot find one anywhere. Hilary Duff just won't do!
9. The John-Man. I hate him more now than I did when I wrote my "Dear John" letter. So you can imagine how much I want to be done work, can't ya?
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Findlay's Music Whore Survey
| LONG Music Survey To Music Whores | |
| Your 1-5 fav band/s or artist/s: | Matthew Good, Foo Fighters, Steve Earle, Joel Plaskett, Stereophonics |
| 1-5 band/s or artist/s you hate: | Kim Mitchell, REM, Our Lady Peace, Guns N' Roses, Simple Plan |
| Your fav song: | Matthew Good - Weapon |
| A song you hate: | Puddle of Mudd - She Hates Me |
| The music styles you listen to?: | Almost anything, but mostly rock-based stuff |
| Music styles you hate?: | Rap, Techno, commercialized crap like boy bands and slutty girls |
| Ever been to gigs? What artists did you see?: | Tons... too many to name |
| Your fav album: | Lowest of the Low - Shakespeare My Butt |
| The first album you bought?: | Live - The Distance to Here |
| The last album you bought?: | Rise Against - The Sufferer & The Witness |
| Do you download songs/albums? Or prefer to buy the albums?: | I d/l songs to find bands I like, then buy their stuff |
| How many CD's do you buy a month/year?: | say... 2 a month? so about 25 every year |
| Current song you're obsessied with?: | William Shatner - Common People |
| An album you have at home and you are asmahed of/regreted you bought?: | Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavoured Water |
| A band you love and you are (not) ashamed to admit?: | Kelly Clarkson |
| Your fav vid clip? (you don't have to like the song!): | White Stripes - Hardest Button to Button |
| Your fav combination of vid clip and song? (you like both clip and song).: | Matt Good - Weapon |
| The song that makes you cry?: | Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven |
| The songs that makes you wanna party/bounce/dance?: | Alicia Keyes and Stevie Wonder - Karmastition Remix |
| The song with the most beautiful lyrics?: | Danielle French - Worthy |
| The song with the nicest title?: | MG's "The Fine Art of Falling Apart" |
| Best cover song?: | Steve Earle covering "Dead Flowers" by the Stones |
| The hottest/sexiest singer alive (or dead)?: | Dido |
| A gig you loved (even if you just heard/saw on TV)?: | Green Day in the summer of 05 |
| Music for me is....: | A mood changer |
| When was the first time I relised I'm a music addict?: | when I spent over $100 in one trip to Sam's when it shut down |
| People who don't care for music are...: | missing out, probably cuz they're too ignorant to get past Much Music's countdown |
| Do you buy band's merchandise?: | all the time |
| Do you trade band's merchandise/bootlegs etc?: | no |
| This survey was (you can say): | difficult to find the answers for |
| Take this survey Find more surveys You've been totally Bzoink*d | |
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Skin deep
So some big news in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case has come out today...
John Mark Karr has confessed to being with her when she died, but apparently he was in love with her and her death was an accident.
Gee, now America can finally rest easy.
I only mention this because I was wondering if anyone would give a flying fuck if this girl wasn't the next Cleopatra or whatever.
I'd wager that you never would've heard her name before.
John Mark Karr has confessed to being with her when she died, but apparently he was in love with her and her death was an accident.
Gee, now America can finally rest easy.
I only mention this because I was wondering if anyone would give a flying fuck if this girl wasn't the next Cleopatra or whatever.
I'd wager that you never would've heard her name before.
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