You may use this on your anti-vaxxer acquaintances ( Read more... )

There are enough kidnap victims in Columbia that radio stations will play messages from family members to the disappeared. I guess there's a buck to be made doing just about anything.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=131022&page=1

Rien.

We went on a quick tour to Banff yesterday, and my word there are a lot of fossil/gem shops. Their effect on me is cumulative, especially if there's a sale. I now have a piece of iron meteorite. Something 4.5 billion years old was waiting just for me. Anyone here old enough to remember King Tut's tour of 1979? I fell in love with lapis lazuli as ( Read more... )

I had to be dragged kicking and whingeing into the internet (back in 1995), and I originally took to an iPod because I was fed up with a Discman that ate batteries like I eat peas ( Read more... )

Well, that was easier than I thought. Bishop Henry has complied with my request. I am no longer a Catholic. Alas, I don't get a cool certificate in Latin saying so, but when the Pope speaks for all those people, he can no longer include me!

Henry did get his little dig in, suggesting I am prey to the Fallacy of Ignorance. The nerve!

I've hemmed and hawed for years, meaning to do this, but not getting cross long enough to follow through. Today, after talking with Squire, I have drafted a letter to send to Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary, asking officially to be excommunicated ( Read more... )

You know how a transmission will blow about a week after the warranty expires? 2 days after my birthday I wake up with a stiff lower back, and it has *stayed* stiff all day. Ah, mortality.

As some of you know, Squire is now in Fort MacMurry. More specifically, he's in Suncor's Firebag project, which is two hours north of Fort Mac. Internet is twitchy, the phone connection is waves, not particles, and there are no post offices ( Read more... )

Florence, in its Renaissance height, had a population of about 30 000. Calgary, with a million people, doesn't have fabric stores that sell 3/8" self-cover buttons. Am I asking for the moon? Anybody out there in a *real* city? Could you send me a pack? I'll pay you!