Final... "final" so close. Can almost smell the crippling Albertan air. Yet, so much left to do before Saturday. Head imploding. Flux capacitor failing, time-space continuum collapsing, pi R squared factorial!

I'm wearing a pretty striped scarf and I feel manly about it.

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. - Larry Hardiman

"Too often, though, our cultural emphasis on freedom and individual rights gets taken to the extreme, becoming "a kind of selfish entitlement that undermines our ability to function as a civil community," says George Scarlett, a professor of child development at Tufts University in Boston ( Read more... )

First off, I am not a fan of Steinbeck. More to the point however, I am, once again, infested with mice. Actually, the whole house appears to be. Tomorrow night shall bring swift glue-trap death to Stuart Little and his friends.

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"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman

Bacardi 151
Congratulations! You're 134 proof, with specific scores in beer (60) , wine (150), and liquor (69). All right. No more messing around. Your knowledge of alcohol is so high ( Read more... )

Ok, did anyone really expect this NOT to happen? [ http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/04/france.riots/index.html ] I find it funny that France was one of the first European countries to abolish slavery and tout equal rights, yet still has severe ( Read more... )

I am journeying to the frozen north this Christmas season. Reminds me very much of Victor Frankenstein's fevered pursuit of the creature through the desolate ice fields of the Arctic. Except I didn't irresponsibly create life out of death. I mean, I guess I could try, but doesn't that contradict Mary Shelly's messsage ( Read more... )

Watch me be a total fanboy:


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