I’ve been off for a few days enjoying the holidays – I’ve not gone anywhere online – don’t worry
Anyhow, to all my political friends, foes, and in between, I hope you had a very Merry Christmas, and I wish you the best for the upcoming New Year.
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Elders Scroll V: Skyrim, is due to be released. Some video of the scenery and characters that was released by Bethesda, the maker of the game, has me drooling: If Harper is going to send this country to Hell in a handbasket, as I believe he will, at least I’ll have a distraction. Send me an email when the next election rolls around.. I may be busy for a while UPDATE @ 5:53 pm: New animation/finishing combat moves video released! (Warning; not for the squeamish) If you missed it from yesterday, Goderich Ontario was struck by a tornado that developed from a thunderstorm coming off of Lake Huron yesterday (Sunday) at around 4 pm EDT. It was a bad one: Numerous buildings were completely destroyed, with roofs and siding ripped off. An entire residential block had to be evacuated as crews worked to contain a large gas leak. Tragically, one man who was working in the salt mine at the time the storm ripped through was killed..While the investigation in the tornado ravaged community continues, Environment Canada considers the tornado to be rated an F2 or F3 storm on the Fujita Scale with winds [...] When a cold snap or a blizzard hits the US deep South, those people who are climate change skeptics are quick to denounce “global warming” or “climate change” as being fake, or hooey, or so on. I’ve not heard that same claim however over the worst heat wave to grip North American in well over 2o years. There’s either a lot of silence out there, or they NOW embrace the idea that it’s a “random weather event”. That’s called trying to have the climate change argument both ways. We’re in the middle of a Canadian wide heat-wave here (with the exception of the east and west coasts); one of the more extensive ones we’ve had in a while. I thought it might be fun to do one of those “It is so hot out” threads. The obvious one people can come up with is “you can fry an egg on the sidewalk” (and you probably will be able to on Thursday in SW Ontario – forecast highs are 36-38 deg Celsius, before the humidity), but I’d like to see other examples people can come up with. IF you’re really creative, try giving the answer in a [...] During the Olympics, Vancouver folks were very patriotic, yet very civilized in their fervour, as it should be. A year later, their hockey team loses a 7th game in the Stanley Cup final – a team supposedly representing all of Canada (which I’ve already said is baloney), and a sizable chunk of them decide to set their city on fire and destroy stuff. What happened in just over a year? One thing that really annoys me is banks making commercials trying to gain favour by going all nationalistic and pulling out the “Canada hasn’t won a Stanley Cup in 18 years!”. A newsflash to them and to a lot of fans saying the same thing: this isn’t the Olympics. This is 2 teams representing their cities, not their countries. There are as many Canadians on Boston’s team as Vancouver’s. Last year’s Stanley Cup champions, the Chicago Black Hawks, had the most Canadians of any team in the playoffs. Why weren’t they “Canada’s team?” Let’s save the fervour of cheering for your country at actual Canada vs USA games at [...] I don’t often post a lot on here other then political blogposts, but it’s the end of the weekend, and not much is going on, so I thought I’d post something else (okay, I could talk about the Senate page protesting Harper’s throne speech and getting canned, but several thousand others have already done so). In my spare time, I am a big fan of Role Playing Games, or RPGS. I’ve played some online, and I play those I like that are home versions. One of the major games I’ve always liked is The Elder Scrolls, which has been coming out from Bethesda Softworks since 1994. They have a [...] This caught my eye on Twitter from a blogging acquaintance of mine. Brandie Weikle, who blogs at and is also the editor for the Toronto Star’s parentcentral.ca and healthzone.ca section, is on a team trying to raise money to sends kids who have cancer to Camp Oochigeas, but they’re about 700$ short of their fund raising goal. If you’d like to donate to her team and help them in their worthy cause, go to the page here to click on a name of the team to donate. I’m going to donate to Ms. Weikle, since I know her, but you can donate to whoever you like. (there are [...] No political post this AM; too much going on. I had to go down to my local hospital’s Emergency clinic last night to get a minor thing checked out, and ended spending 3 1/2 hours there and not getting home til after midnight. I was off to the pharmacy very early this AM to get my prescription, so it’s been a bit nutso. The long wait did allow me to watch CTV’s Monday night programming in the waiting room. I can’t say I was too impressed – I’m not much into sitcoms. Oh, and I’m not really too unhappy about the long wait, or rather, I can understand it. [...] |
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