Adam is mad as hell over this, so just for him, I'm putting the issue up here for everybody to see:
Save the Hoodie
Now go make a hoodie-wearer happy.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Sunday, January 29, 2006
You're a rabbit fur flogger! You're so soft and
fluffy and cute - but if wielded with
sufficient force, you can still make an
impact that will be remembered.
What Type of Flogger Are You?
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And in other news:
People in Russia are dying because of our amazing spell of warm weather. What a way to steal somebody's sunshine.
I blame the giant hot sauce bottle.
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Rules
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
"Because it was usually paid via the wage packet, employer groups opposed the WFTC as an administrative burden that, in the words of a leading Conservative, turned private sector firms into 'unpaid benefit offices.'"
-Welfare Hot Buttons by Sylvia Bashevkin, University of Toronto Press 2002.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
"Because it was usually paid via the wage packet, employer groups opposed the WFTC as an administrative burden that, in the words of a leading Conservative, turned private sector firms into 'unpaid benefit offices.'"
-Welfare Hot Buttons by Sylvia Bashevkin, University of Toronto Press 2002.
Thursday, January 26, 2006
The magickal freezer of awesomeness
Everyone should have one like this...it's always full of soy ice cream without even the necessity of going to the grocery store or paying for it.
That happy reality is numbing the AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in the back of my head: a week's worth of school to catch up on, a high GPA to maintain, a mentoring program to prepare for, a media-fodder job-shadowing event to coordinate, a family with which to communicate, a job to attend to, ocular health to take care of, grad photos to get done, bills to pay, a life to lead and two other people to feed.
And I can't find my green hi-liter. I really am so obsessive-compulsive sometimes that I can't concentrate if I'm using any other colour of hi-liter aside from green. Purple least of all. This is one of those times, and purple is the only one I can find. Must. Buy. Green. Hi-liter.
Sleep? I did that once.
That happy reality is numbing the AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in the back of my head: a week's worth of school to catch up on, a high GPA to maintain, a mentoring program to prepare for, a media-fodder job-shadowing event to coordinate, a family with which to communicate, a job to attend to, ocular health to take care of, grad photos to get done, bills to pay, a life to lead and two other people to feed.
And I can't find my green hi-liter. I really am so obsessive-compulsive sometimes that I can't concentrate if I'm using any other colour of hi-liter aside from green. Purple least of all. This is one of those times, and purple is the only one I can find. Must. Buy. Green. Hi-liter.
Sleep? I did that once.
Sunday, January 22, 2006
"The Holy(er than thou) Bible of Vegetarianism"
16 hours to Montreal. 16 hours back. 4 days in between, with a small group in a big city. It's nice to be home and back in my own space - not to say that I didn't have fun, of course. Among the memorable moments from the conference (besides this post's title, which I got from Ryan):
Ryan (again): The glass is half-empty for you, isn't it, Justine?
McGill Bloc hack: I'm from Nova Scotia, I'm an anglophone.
McGill NDP hack (quoting somebody else): Canada is like a cow: fed by the West, milked by the Centre, and just imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.
Bailey (Lethbridge): You see, my fish has a black belt and it beat up the Yeti. But it has never beaten up a unicorn. Thus, unicorns do not exist."
Jonathan (MSVU) and cab driver: Haha! Kak!
Doug (UVic): So what you're saying is, I should get you in on this game of Beirut...
Bruno (MSVU Greenpeace hack): I don't careabout the rainforest. That's not here, it's in South America!
Ryan (again): The glass is half-empty for you, isn't it, Justine?
McGill Bloc hack: I'm from Nova Scotia, I'm an anglophone.
McGill NDP hack (quoting somebody else): Canada is like a cow: fed by the West, milked by the Centre, and just imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.
Bailey (Lethbridge): You see, my fish has a black belt and it beat up the Yeti. But it has never beaten up a unicorn. Thus, unicorns do not exist."
Jonathan (MSVU) and cab driver: Haha! Kak!
Doug (UVic): So what you're saying is, I should get you in on this game of Beirut...
Bruno (MSVU Greenpeace hack): I don't careabout the rainforest. That's not here, it's in South America!
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Notwithstanding the 11th commandment, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's blogosphere," as well as the 12th, "Thou shalt not use the word 'blogosphere' for it is cheesy," I'm totally jealous of the sheer number of comments made on Mark's site. I need a bunch of geeky (meant in the best way possible) friends to post lots of geeky comments on here!
Off to Montreal tonight for nerdarific poli-sci madness - I'll be back on Sunday night if all goes well with the drivingness.
Off to Montreal tonight for nerdarific poli-sci madness - I'll be back on Sunday night if all goes well with the drivingness.
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Friday, January 13, 2006
Having fulfilled my civic duty for another election, I am now indulging in some neapolitan frozen soy ("Soy Delicious frozen soy dessert" to be exact). I'm too busy to go to the gym and yet somehow have plenty of time for sitting on mny ass, eating junk food and blogging.
Rock the Vote was...well, it was kind of a bust. To my knowledge no media showed up, there was a decent number of people there but half of them talked through the candidates' speeches, and the two Conservative candidates didn't even get up to give speeches. And most of the candidates left pretty early. Blarg.
However, I did talk to Elizabeth Perry, a wonderfully energetic Green Party candidate from Dartmouth, whose speech was along the lines of "Our platform is about everything your parents told you about the world when you were a kid, before you found out that the world isn't really like that." I thought it was a really neat spin on things that you don't usually hear coming out of the mouths of political candidates.
I'm an NDP supporter, and of course there is a widepread perception that the Green Party is taking votes away from the NDP - which i imagine has some truth to it, although in my experience those who vote for the Greens are already pretty sure that the conclusion in their riding is forgone and they can support the Greens without jeopardizing the results. Under a proportional electoral system they would have won about 12 seats or more in the last election (I think - they got something like 4% of the vote, didn't they?) but their support is currently too diffuse to win a seat under the system we have.
Anyway, I think that running a full slate of candidates and making a fuss about being shut out of the debates and most of the election brouhaha is a way of making a powerful statement about the issues that SHOULD have a prominent place in politics but are consistently sidelined. I mean, what have we heard about the environment this campaign? Canada just hosted the 11th Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol and the federal election campaign, at least on the part of the major parties, completely ignored the issue of our failure to make progress on our Kyoto commitments - we've got what, 6 years left to achieve them and our emissions are still going up, up, up.
I also really appreciated how NDP candidate for Halifax West (the Mount's riding!) Alan Hill reminded everybody that they could vote either in their home ridings or in Halifax. I think that for students, voting is extra complicated because not only do they have to fit learning about the parties, candidates and issues into their busy schedules, their transitive lifestyles make it difficult to know where they belong in electoral terms. And this contributes to the monstrous proportion of young people who don't vote. And this mass abstention doesn't go unnoticed by those who write the party platforms - they focus on the concerns of the people wo do vote and we're left with dysfunctional post-secondary funding schemes and student loan repayment conditions, not to mention ballooning tuition rates. So to all those in the 18-30 age group who don't vote: thanks a lot. I hope you all get splinters in your hands and then they get infected and then it's painful to wash your hair so you get all greasy and nobody invites you out anywhere so you have to stay home every night watching annoying movies like Ace Ventura, Pet Detective.
Rock the Vote was...well, it was kind of a bust. To my knowledge no media showed up, there was a decent number of people there but half of them talked through the candidates' speeches, and the two Conservative candidates didn't even get up to give speeches. And most of the candidates left pretty early. Blarg.
However, I did talk to Elizabeth Perry, a wonderfully energetic Green Party candidate from Dartmouth, whose speech was along the lines of "Our platform is about everything your parents told you about the world when you were a kid, before you found out that the world isn't really like that." I thought it was a really neat spin on things that you don't usually hear coming out of the mouths of political candidates.
I'm an NDP supporter, and of course there is a widepread perception that the Green Party is taking votes away from the NDP - which i imagine has some truth to it, although in my experience those who vote for the Greens are already pretty sure that the conclusion in their riding is forgone and they can support the Greens without jeopardizing the results. Under a proportional electoral system they would have won about 12 seats or more in the last election (I think - they got something like 4% of the vote, didn't they?) but their support is currently too diffuse to win a seat under the system we have.
Anyway, I think that running a full slate of candidates and making a fuss about being shut out of the debates and most of the election brouhaha is a way of making a powerful statement about the issues that SHOULD have a prominent place in politics but are consistently sidelined. I mean, what have we heard about the environment this campaign? Canada just hosted the 11th Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol and the federal election campaign, at least on the part of the major parties, completely ignored the issue of our failure to make progress on our Kyoto commitments - we've got what, 6 years left to achieve them and our emissions are still going up, up, up.
I also really appreciated how NDP candidate for Halifax West (the Mount's riding!) Alan Hill reminded everybody that they could vote either in their home ridings or in Halifax. I think that for students, voting is extra complicated because not only do they have to fit learning about the parties, candidates and issues into their busy schedules, their transitive lifestyles make it difficult to know where they belong in electoral terms. And this contributes to the monstrous proportion of young people who don't vote. And this mass abstention doesn't go unnoticed by those who write the party platforms - they focus on the concerns of the people wo do vote and we're left with dysfunctional post-secondary funding schemes and student loan repayment conditions, not to mention ballooning tuition rates. So to all those in the 18-30 age group who don't vote: thanks a lot. I hope you all get splinters in your hands and then they get infected and then it's painful to wash your hair so you get all greasy and nobody invites you out anywhere so you have to stay home every night watching annoying movies like Ace Ventura, Pet Detective.
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Bad poli-sci nerd that I am, I missed yet another leaders' debate last night, but I'm not lamenting that loss as apparently it was just another occasion for the leaders to attack each other - although this time the victim was Stephen Harper, whose party is now leading in the polls.
And to my credit, I did spend the evening teaching Jenn about the parties and candidates so that she can make a more informed choice. So in that sense I am a good little poli-sci nerd. ANYWAY, a friend sent her a link to this blog which, although I'm sure the real Rick Mercer would have enough star power to convince the CBC to give him his own domain or at least part of theirs rather than making him settle for a silly little Blogger account, contains the kind of quirky, cynical, Canadianesque kind of humour that we all know and love. And a description of Stephen Harper's dream Cabinet.
So Adam took me out for dinner at Opa last Thursday and then to see The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The Chronicles of Narnia were such a memorable part of my childhood that it was wonderful to see that the creators did the book justice. No humans in beaver suits here, as in the old BBC version of yore.
There was, however, a small problem with watching that movie with my lovah rather than my girlfriends. Let me put it this way...had I been sitting in my living room, watching the movie with Jenn, one of my first comments would have been, "wow, put 5 more years on Edmund, eh?" and then I probably would have howled. Though currently only 14, Skandar Keynes is a definite hottie-in-the-making. Other feature hotties: James McAvoy as Mr Tumnus and the baby-faced William Moseley as Peter Pevensie. But of course the Boy doesn't want to hear about that so I had to wait until I got home to talk about it with Jenn.
I really hope they make more of the books into movies...I'm dying to see Prince CCaspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader as movies.
In other Things That Make Me Smile, Julie was apparently so inspired by our Mupet-watching night last Friday that she went and found a video of Manamana for your viewing pleasure (see sidebar). hey-are those subtitles in Russion?
Rock the Vote NS (that last bit so that they don't get sued fro copyright infringement or something) is tomorrow and I've been asked to greet the candidates or other such fanciness.
And to my credit, I did spend the evening teaching Jenn about the parties and candidates so that she can make a more informed choice. So in that sense I am a good little poli-sci nerd. ANYWAY, a friend sent her a link to this blog which, although I'm sure the real Rick Mercer would have enough star power to convince the CBC to give him his own domain or at least part of theirs rather than making him settle for a silly little Blogger account, contains the kind of quirky, cynical, Canadianesque kind of humour that we all know and love. And a description of Stephen Harper's dream Cabinet.
So Adam took me out for dinner at Opa last Thursday and then to see The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The Chronicles of Narnia were such a memorable part of my childhood that it was wonderful to see that the creators did the book justice. No humans in beaver suits here, as in the old BBC version of yore.
There was, however, a small problem with watching that movie with my lovah rather than my girlfriends. Let me put it this way...had I been sitting in my living room, watching the movie with Jenn, one of my first comments would have been, "wow, put 5 more years on Edmund, eh?" and then I probably would have howled. Though currently only 14, Skandar Keynes is a definite hottie-in-the-making. Other feature hotties: James McAvoy as Mr Tumnus and the baby-faced William Moseley as Peter Pevensie. But of course the Boy doesn't want to hear about that so I had to wait until I got home to talk about it with Jenn.
I really hope they make more of the books into movies...I'm dying to see Prince CCaspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader as movies.
In other Things That Make Me Smile, Julie was apparently so inspired by our Mupet-watching night last Friday that she went and found a video of Manamana for your viewing pleasure (see sidebar). hey-are those subtitles in Russion?
Rock the Vote NS (that last bit so that they don't get sued fro copyright infringement or something) is tomorrow and I've been asked to greet the candidates or other such fanciness.
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
I found something nestled among my bookmarks this evening - Hipster in Training sent it to me ages ago. This girl has almost the same name as me.
technicolor.org
technicolor.org
Sunday, January 01, 2006
New Year's madness
So the whole Joel Plaskett thing enver happened...I wasn't feeling too hot so i pulled out of the party plans and was glad that I did. Today we cleaned and de-Christmas-ized the apartment (although we contemplated leaving the tree up and just decorating it for Valentines' Day).
My grandparents had their annual shindig filled with distant relatives who I can never identify, and Adam braved the family once again, and was rewarded handsomely with free food. My neice was adorable, she kept coming and sitting between us. So it appears I've got competition - and she's really cute, too. Damn.
Anyway I've gotten a start on my New Year's resolutions - my credit card is safely encased in a fauxgurt container full of ice. It's a start.
My grandparents had their annual shindig filled with distant relatives who I can never identify, and Adam braved the family once again, and was rewarded handsomely with free food. My neice was adorable, she kept coming and sitting between us. So it appears I've got competition - and she's really cute, too. Damn.
Anyway I've gotten a start on my New Year's resolutions - my credit card is safely encased in a fauxgurt container full of ice. It's a start.
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