Neato!
It seems that Bugs Bunny is a is a Leo as well.

Don't forget, we are going to see this movie.

If only. One can dream i guess.....

Wow, this and this, is making news world wide. Shows what happens when polite countries get into spats.

Tonight
Chicken!
Dumplings!
Po-tay-toes!

A New Map That Actually Works!

9pm
Verna's

followed by The Pyramid, possibly.

Oh, that crazy Onion!

Huzzah! I am done work for an entire week! Unfortunately, the reason is that I'm going to Pelly.

Ahh, Pelly. Deep in the left ventricle of Saskatchewan.

A place where the wheat roams free, you always get along with your neighbour (mainly because they're your cousin), and the minority population is named Clyde. This is a "Family Reunion/Celebration of Saskatchewan's Centennial" so the town is pulling out all the stops. The itinerary of the town's activities includes not one but TWO barn dances and, of course, a greased pig competition.

My family was able to secure two rooms at the only bed and breakfast in Pelly. But, as I was just informed, there's only room for four people on our 5 person trip. Yours truly now gets to sleep in the van.

So what can I look forward to? Since my Grandpa is no longer with us, we can't be treated to the magical musical stylings of The Listerines (Ukulele accompanied by Fiddle and Acordian). I could try to chat up some of the locals, however, the entire dental population of the town's eligible females couldn't fill a toddler's mouth. And there's only so many times that you can play mini golf before you find it's more fun to hang out talking to the wheat fields. And my school friends wonder why I make fun of Saskatchewan so.

Speaking of school. I registered today! I actually look forward to this. Although that means less free time for our usual nonsense.

So I'm thinking a bit of fats yo, and some drinkage followed by some bustin' of moves.
Whaddya think?
Get some chee-kon. some tastee fruit punch and ginger beer, among other things. Mmmmmm.

Thurdsday
9pm
Verna's

followed by The Pyramid with a go-go dancing Kit Ro, if you so desire.

Hey all; just discovered tonight that for sixty-two nations in our modern world (including Austria, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK and the United States), war "as an instrument of foreign policy" is technically illegal according to international law.

Wow! Why didn't someone tell Captain Planet about this sooner?! Excuse me guys, I've got a lot of very important people to arrest.

--whooosh--

Hey all. I moved out. Or home, or some sort of interim parental-cohabitation home-thing. Thanks to everyone who aided me in my move. Oh wait, y'all didn't not do squat.
In other news, I'm off to party like a rock star in LA on Thursday for 10 fabulous days and 7 questionable nights. And then a week after that to live like a slave in Vancouver. Get me while I'm hot folks, 'cuz I'm going fast.

Kit Ro and myself went to a screening of The Island.
All I gotta say is that Neelix is in the movie!
Well, that and a couple of other things.

The end is near.
Now if it is the end of my beloved franchise, or just the end of this horrid phase of what is soon to be a rebourne (pun intended) franshise, is yet to be determined.
While we wait for the verdict, you can amuse your selves with this.

Honestly.

Hey yo. I'm moving out on the weekend. Back into the parental's house. Should be fun. Only 3 more days. Only 8 more days until SIGGRAPH. Only 10 more days of work. Only, only, only.

Did I mention I'm testing for green belt in a couple weeks? I will be even more of a deadly ninja assassin than the last time you saw me, and let's face it, that's pretty damn deadly. At least in comparison to the so-called self-proclaimed World's Laziest Ninja - a title which I still feel has been wrongly filched from me, having introduced the lazy ninja genre to the world amid mild fanfare nearly a decade ago during Halloween, a costume only fractionally less intimidating than the much-feared Butler-Ninja.

I just finished a great book called "Fortress of Solitude" about a white kid growing up in Brooklyn. It strikes oh so close to home. (As you're all well aware, my misspent youth on the mean streets of Tokyo was the ideal breeding ground to spawn the mega-hip-hop success of Brig Rid's first album "Brig Rid's Awesome Environmental Adventure.")

Peace out homies. And always remember, life's too short to be a fuddy-duddy.

This time it seems that Scotty is getting beamed up.

from wired.com:
Passage: James Doohan, 85

Doohan, who died Wednesday, was already a popular character actor when he auditioned for the role of the USS Enterprise's chief engineer, Montgomery Scott, on the TV show Star Trek. It was Doohan, a master of dialect, who decided on the voice his character should have: "I believed the Scot voice was the most commanding." Doohan, a captain with the Royal Canadian Artillery Regiment during World War II, was wounded on the first day of the Normandy invasion. After the war, Doohan studied acting in New York City and, before making his name beaming up Capt. Kirk, Mr. Spock and the gang, worked in radio and television, including appearances on Twilight Zone, The Virginian and Peyton Place.
-- Tony Long

Sometimes I just don't understand...

Then again some people are something something. I got nothing. But hey.
Look!
Fogging!

I stumbled upon this from TV Guide.

SMURFS TO GO 3-D: Paramount has acquired the film rights to the Smurfs. The plan is for a trilogy of 3-D, CGI-style features, to being hitting theaters in 2008, the 50th anniversary of Papa et al's debut as a Belgian comic strip.

3-D!
Crazy people.
Then I found some box art. OOOOoooooo, box art!
He can speak?

Can it be. It can. It's liiiiive.....

I think I should have used that for more important matters, such as this. Because, as we all know, nobody expects the spanish inquistion or even the voice of Canada.

Lastly, here is a nifty poster.

We go and see.
Kooky Korean movie.
Have I ever let you down. And yes, Rocky and Bullwinkle was funny.

August 12-18, 9pm
Save The Green Planet
Cinematheque

Electronic paper is here!
Well, almost.

Do you like prime numbers?
Well then, do I got something for you.
I think it's Canadian.

Nintendo brings out a cubed system. Then a mp3 player does the same. Coincidence?
Probably not.

Did I just mention Nintendo?
Well, golly gee. Now that's a coincidence, cuz I was just reading about this nifty thingy here.

Do you like sushi?
How about chocolate?
How about them together?
But then again, it might not be a good idea.

Cud Pup fell in the river, now he needs a bath. This should help you out, me thinks.

All this typing makes me want a new keyboard. One with things that light up and stuff (t3).

Hello All! Here's a few things to get you up to speed on my last few days...
My Bergmann's Cohort and I mastered the challenge of the: 'Banana in 3 Forms'.....
I, Am now officially living the dream! Go-Go dancing Extraordinaire!
A Certain Someone, Should most definetely not go near the riverbanks!
And a few interesting things I uncovered were that;
1) Meat can be now be" grown in a lab"
2) Freecycle sounds cool, I just signed up - check it out!
3) Gerald Green (the Celts rook) can really dunk!

Note to self: Stay away from the river bank.

In the event that we all can get together, we must go to either a photo booth or a professional portrait studio and get a group shot and then have it made into t-shirts. That way we can all have an embarrassing group shot of us when we go our separate ways. And while we won't have each other to be an embarrassment, we will have the shirt!

So please tell me what you all think of this suggestion so we can commit to it and come out of the deal with a great memento of our strange and perverse friendships!

Whew! With all this talk about fighting world poverty and cancelling debt, its nice to see that there are people in the world still doing their best to widen the gap between the rich and the poor. Its too bad that Klein had to eat that same sex marriage dealie, but WHAM! at least he's still got the two-tier health care system working for him--oh baby!

It seems that the nose doesn't like incest either.

Insert your own joke about Cuddle Puppy. And while he scoffs at the article, he can read this.

By the way, phyics is fun!

Did I mention that that 2012 Olympics are in London?
As if you already didn't know.

SO I was worried with all this talk about Malathion that our newfound and beloved Dragonfly buddies would also be dying out due to the toxic gas, which made me cry out in angst for Taz Stuart and all his commendable efforts to otherwise hunt down the damnable mosquitos!
Until I read this...

At 11:58, Monday, July the 11th, Enginerd joined us with a witty comment! Hooray for speaking up Soldier! Welcome to the community.

I had a midget scream at me today.

The sentence sounds strange to be sure. I never thought it would happen to me. He was old, hunched over, he smelled bad. He comes in the store every once in a while and I thought he couldn't talk. He once asked me if the bracelets were real silver and so I realized that there was an equally little voice in his little body.

He used to come into the store in the winter. He'd give me the thumbs up when he saw my socks, he'd blow kisses at me. I guess he really liked my socks. This time though he tried to steal a handful of $6 key chains. I saw him grab a few and start walking away with his hand crammed tightly against his leg.

"Can I hold those for you while you look around?" I ask.

He hands them back to me and his little voice rises to a horrid scream.

"This is fucking bullshit! Who do you think you are? I didn't put them in my pocket!"

"I know you didn't--"

"Fucking bullshit I tell you!"

He left the store still screaming. There were two other women in the store and they acted as if nothing happened.

I'll tell you all the story of J.J. the mage some other time. He is often a regular visitor. He made me feel his vest and often slobbers. Interesting character...

Nice day out today.

The never ending fight between instinct and morals continues.

My neck hurts.

Aahhh. To be in love again.

Pretty Creative

Got this as an e-mail. They took sentences and reformed them to create another more interesting sentences dealing with the subject in the first sentence. I believe they are called anagrams.

DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM

PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER


DESPERATION:
When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH:
When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORE

THE MORSE CODE:
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME


ANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES - LET'S RECOUNT



MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLER

SNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z 'S

A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:
IM A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE

AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:

PRESIDENT CLINTON OF THE USA:
When you rearrange the letters
(With no letters left over and using each letter only once):
TO COPULATE HE FINDS INTERNS

Yep! Someone with waaaaaaaaaaay
too much time on their hands!

As I was at work the other day, I had to unpack a computer in order to set it up. While I was unpacking, I looked at the bag that the keyboard was packed in. I immediately started laughing.

This is what the bag looked like:
I had never seen these warnings before. Evidently, there was a need to create them, or they wouldn't have been created. Also, they needed to be standardized for international usage because they have no identifying language on them. However, I don't know if they convey the messages that they may have intended. Let's look at them in detail.

The first one seems to be someone holding something over his face... It looks to me to either be an homage to Snifit or Hexadecimal. I read it as "Do not hide your true nature from the bag". Possibly because the bag can read directly into the souls of people. Either that or this bag is not to be used by Mr. Freeze, which is understandable.

"This bag is not to be used as a safety helmet for infants"

I mean, seriously, who needs these warnings? The same type of people who sue the chainsaw company because the safety manual didn't specifically say to keep away from exposed genitals. If people go around giving their newborns little plastic death hats, they don't deserve children. I think bash.org puts it best.

My cuz's waterpolo team was in the sports section today! She's like famous, and I am famous too, by association with the greatness that is she.

We should all go to the beach on Sunday, bright and early! Wouldn't you agree?

And in a blatant effort to goad a particular individual into commenting on the blog rather than merely lurking around, did you know I'm dating someone who didn't know what a holodeck is? I remain in a state of flabbergastation after discovering this. I mean, you think you know someone, and then...

And now, to demonstrate my moderate geekitudinosity, here is a bash.org quote involving everyone's favourite youthful ensign.

http://bash.org/?24748

but here's a true classic:

http://bash.org/?35955

And with that, another half hour of my life is gone forever.
Stay tuned for upcoming unicycling footage!

So we might be getting somewhere finally. Unlikely, but there is always hope or something rather.
Some lucky inmates are gonna be having some fuun soon, of the raping variety of course.

If only this was true. If only.

Moscow lost out today. Yay for the West!

And since we're on the subject of the soviets. Pick a name and stick with it already.
Getting tired of changing the sucka. The sex shop is staying there for a while.
Ah, that's all I can muster. Musta wasted it all on yelling at you for drippin on the couch.

Random Thought
Using building windows as mirrors is fun to do outdoors - you can see what you look like when walking!
Realising that there are people behind those windows, and that they are working out at Shapes, staring at you 'staring' at them - is not so fun - more like funny.

Is your horoscope gonna be alright?
is it?

Americans wonder why the world doesn't like them. Honestly, I don't see why the world shouldn't.

They are after all the creators of all that is 3-D.

Kit Ro, I think I found you a friend on the net.

Doctor Who is gonna have at least 3 seasons and 2 xmas specials.
That's 3 series' and 2(x3/5) xmas specials for those across the pond.

Also The Muppet Show: Season 1 comes out next month.

Happy 4th of July to those south of the border.

Hey, did you ever wonder what would happen if Samus couldn't make it?

Behold!

Warning to people with no time on their hands: You're too busy to play this. Play THIS instead.

The new Terry Gilliam flik - "The Brothers Grimm" has Monica Bellucci in it. I thought I'd let you fellas know.

Life Lessons for me, I think...
I had just sat down on the bus when I noticed that there was some sort of commotion going on at the front left hand side bench seat - there was an adolescent girl with her arm around a 30-40 year old woman who was rocking back and forth and turning beet red, her tongue moving in and out of her mouth desperately as if she were panting, silent, and struggling to speak. The girl was talking in a foreign language to this woman, and blowing gently on her face, to cool her off. Suddenly, the woman made gestures that she needed to get up - in fact it looked like she was going to be sick - while this was happenning, a somewhat elderly woman was yelling to the girl to give the lady water, that she needed to have water, and then when the woman started looking sick - a lady across the aisle pulled the cord so that the girl and woman could get off - Turns out, this adolescent girl, to whom English must have been a second language, had a couple of other very young childeren under her care also - and they all got up and off - the look on the girl's face was heart wrenching as she struggled to lead the woman up Portage Ave, just pure fear and anguish... Dammit, I was so paralysed by not knowing what to do - I wanted to act - but I started worrying that I had to be at work very soon, if it was even my place to offer help -> would it seem strange to these people that some guy just followed them off of a bus and started offerring them charity? Ya know, I didn't want to insult them - the girl seemed to be very proud... But still, I just wanted to grab a bottle of water from a store, and run it over to them, offer the use of my cell, or pay to get them a taxi cab home - whatever it took - but I didn't. I just stayed on that bus, fixed within my seat, worrying about what to do, and if it was to late to go back and help them, until it was too late and there was no way that I could help them, and get to work on time, I had ridden too far... I almost cried I was so upset by my failure. But, I realised that I needed to change my perspective on this incident, or it was going to torture me more than was fair, and I realised that this was one of the first times that I felt so stongly the urge to help out a total stranger - to ignore social pretexts and just do what I felt was Right. Well, I knew looking back, that the next time I had any similar feelings, I would act more quickly and confidantly. I spent the rest of the day, trying not to shy away from those opportunities; giving some bus tickets to a drunken man who I met while sheltering from the downpour in a bus shack on Osborne -> he needed to get home to Sargent and had no fare..., to pledging to come in on my day off to help make sandwhiches for donation to a charity which feeds street kids, to even just offerring the taxi cab driver some gum after I had failed to start any conversation, and all we had shared until then was silence interrupted by his dry, throaty, cough -> he took me up on my offer and even thanked me again for the gum when he dropped me off - turns out he'd been struggling with this cough for days...
So what I'm trying to say guys, is, do any of you go through life worrying like this? Looking for ways in which to help others, being tortured when you see how you could have acted, and did not? I'm not trying to preach, I'm just curious. Personally I think it's partly just the helper in me...

Hey all; chief vagrant reporting in--did someone call? I'm not sure if you guys got the order right, or even said all of them...but here I am.

Hey so, did anyone notice that--on the day after our infamous dominion day--that Canada totally stunk out the live 8 shows? I mean, apparently Canadian music consists of fat, balding men or young whiney ones. Oh and of course how could I forget...her .

Maybe I'll move to Mexico. That'd be rad.

--What's that? Someone left a plastic bag a plastic bag in a nature preserve and small innocent muskrat is trapped inside?

I think K.Rom mentioned it earlier, but here it is again anyways.

Luther Vandross R.I.P. Sucker was only 54. Damn.

Also, Ice Cube - the Gangsta, R.I.P. Scroll down for some nostalgia.

We should go see this. And we must see this. Musta must.

Things learned on the Day of the Dominion:
(also here)

• If wearing a tube top and running. Hold one breast in your hand. The other will tow along.
• Lazy ninjas are unable to catch a bus if it is raining.
• If you're fakin' bakin' and are not attractive, rubbing your breasts while walking will only distract people from the rest of you until you stop rubbing your breasts.
• Newcastle Brown Ale goes good with BBQ.
• The streets of this city are determined to sprain my ankle.

More products of staying up too late...
My room got a little flooded - lets just say that that sucks...
Trying to find out why a pillow which came with my futon just wouldn't dry out after being washed - realised that the material was weird - very dense - realised that the material is probably same futon material that is in my bed - duh - well, cutting the seam didn't explain much - so I went to the net to sort out the best way to dry it...
Oddly enough -stumbled across this website - somehow found myself in some archived photo journal explaining how he had to kill pigeons - but also had funny picture stories of gothic japanese girls holding his baby - Blll - I think I am finally seeing a little bit of the Japan that you tried to explain to me oh so many times...
Photo guy's main page

Ok, so I was reading on the CBC website about the interesting developments in Israel right now - for the first time that I can remember hearing about(or being informed of - who knows, maybe this has been happenning for a long time and has just never been reported in the west), the government is battling with Settlers of Palestine - I don't know if I'm informed enough to make any kind of statement, or even if I should voice my opinion on this as it is a very serious matter... but I think that it's about time that the Israelis are moving in this direction - I think that it is a step towards acknowledging that what is happenning is wrong - the settlements are illegal. Any comments would be appreciated as I would like to know what you guys are thinking.
CBC website
thanks

Well, looks like I can't walk by any windows anymore.

Superannuated knows what I'm talking about.

Stupid Umbrella Corp.

Water?

Happy Dominion day.

It's like Canada Day, but more evil sounding.

"Welcome to the Neighbourhood"

Reality T.V. might have some function, after all. Recently ABC's plan to air a show with the aforementioned title has been cancelled because of the controversy it stirred up. The concept: a contest to win a house in a white neighbourhood near Austin, Texas. The contestants: hispanics, blacks, gays and lesbians, pagans. The result: complaints from conservative whites with the end result of the show concept never actually coming to fruition.

True, the prize of such a house may be a mixed blessing. Would a gay couple want to be living in a white homophobic neighbourhood where they may be ostracized at each turn? Obviously not. But the concept of the show remains interesting in itself and the fact that it was pulled even more so. We are indeed living in an unspoken apartheid. Beliefs, customs, etc., need not be coded into law. In the end it is the unwritten rule that is much more binding.

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