Well friends, it's been fun being beachofdreams  (not that I've been posting much), but I've decided to change my livejournal user name to stor_prime . I feel it's warranted, and that you'll understand that I would like to invite many readers to the blog, and so would not like my often and somewhat irrelevant scribbling from the past to be a part of the archive.  ( Read more... )

I think this piece is well written - for people frustrated with the political situation in both Toronto, and, the US.

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Has anyone heard of the Mathematica programs? If so, have you heard if it is good or not? Seems like an ultra-sophisticated version of Wikipedia that can also do some thinking for you to boot. We may buy it for research (computed visual), but it' always prudent to ask for some testimonials...

(I happen to think that, if at some point we create ( Read more... )

So, on Facebook today I was stumbled upon by one of those side ad thingy's. But it wasn't just any add. It was an ad for Honda - the company I used to work for as a lowly (but still well paid) assembly worker. But that wasn't the most important part of it. Turns out the ad had a person's face on it and it was a former professor of mine.

The ad is ( Read more... )

BREAKING NEWS: this ljournal now (more often than not) brought to you by Blackberry. Eek!

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Would never happen in Canada. Never!

The other night, I was politely told by a non-typical Albertan (may be typical in this case) that I am a typical Ontarian. That is, I apparently think that Canada is like Ontario, and that anything else in the world that is like Canada actually is like Ontario. That is, I'm apparently a self-centered prick. Well, that may be true, but how else am I ( Read more... )

Too late to post. Will do so tomorrow later afternoon. I have a few days until I have a nice whole week off. Stargazing, some camping, canoeing, and plenty of internet.

40 years left to save the world. So the first thing to do is to dispense with formalities.