violent crime rates in the US just amaze me....for instance, in Detroit that is right across the bridge from Canada and has about the same population as Ottawa, their murder rate as of their 2008 statistics is 40.8 reported cases of homicide for every 100 000 people which makes it just under 400 murders a year, hundreds?! [then again there isn't ( Read more... )

TONIGHT @ Zaphod's will mark my cautiously triumphant return to the DJ booth!!

AND we're lucky enough to also have the band 'iVardensphere' playing live for us, for a pay-what-you-can show no less!!

SO...please come?

*listen to iVardensphere

ok so this will qualify as my lamest one-year-closer-to-death day get-together EVER, but as much as i'd like to pretend like i don't have birthdays anymore, i'd love to see some friends and share in some of my favourite films on a large screen, even if we have to hang out in a damned hospital!

SO here are the details:

WHEN? Thurs. Feb. 25th 5pm- ( Read more... )

what seems so obvious to me is so foreign to everyone else....i must be some kind of alien but i've misplaced the mothership and all i want is to do is go home.

so after 2 weeks in ICU and 6 weeks on the post-surgery ward i'm now in the [spinal] rehab center at the General [oh so much better than the Civic aka hell hospital] and am working at getting my legs working again...it's a long, painful road ( Read more... )

Greetings all ( Read more... )

as i continue to ride out this incredibly lengthy, debilitating, irritating and INCREDIBLY painful set of injuries, i just had to struggle to the PC today to share something interesting...

the most unusual version of Winnie the Pooh or Vinnie Puh [part 1] i've ever seen...

hey sorry for not returning messages or being remotely reachable the last week and a half...in my usual luck-o-leslie, 2 weeks ago i managed to tear some some ligaments in my right hand, making it useless and thumb and forefingers were in excruciating pain...and i thought that was bad until, only a few days later, i had an accident with my back ( Read more... )

ATTENTION AWESOME COMPUTER G33K FRIENDS ( Read more... )

Which Extremist Are You?
Your Result: Anarchist

Your political views most closely match that of an anarchist. Anarchists see government as having a negative influence, or otherwise believe that we'd be better off without it, and thusly reccomend a lack of such things. If you are not an actual anarchist, than you probably exhibit such related ( Read more... )