A friend of mine posted this article up on Facebook the other day, and I just got around to reading it. Fairly interesting piece stating that terrorist organizations more often than not are spawned, not from political oppression, but from boredom and social disenfranchisement.

Security Matters: The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists
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So, I just took The Political Compass - Test

I was amused by the result. Not at all what I was expecting. Maybe Canada is getting to me? I don't know. I should mention that "Libertarian" is more Anarchistic in this context.
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If money were no object, what would you drive and why?
Yes, you can have as many as you want.

Said the wife to me today: "There's no such thing as cheating on the Internet, just repurposing"

Work is going well. Never a dull moment. Actually there are plenty of dull moments, but in between I'm learning how to lay carpet, wire lights, frame, drywall, stucco, and soon . . . install windows!

268 of them!

So the job with the maintenance dept. is interesting. Never a dull moment. It's like working at camp, only without all the fun stuff to do during my free time. In fact with very little to do in my free time.

So yes, thus far I have help build a new office inside a very small room - so carpentry, drywall, painting, and then best part: the demolition ( Read more... )

So I'm headed to Cali in the morning to hang out with my dad for a couple of weeks. Haven't seen him in well over a year. In that time my mother has passed away, and my dad has moved among numerous other things I can't recall at the moment. It's weird to be going to see my dad, but not going "home" - at least not to the home I grew up in, and will ( Read more... )

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think. is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing ( Read more... )

So it just hit me that I haven't updated in . . . a while. That's mostly because there is very little to report from the flatlands.

I spend my weekends doing a little homework, the dishes, and in the basement of Joe's Place running the climbing wall.

I spend my days in class (Urban Sociology, Principles of Leadership and Administration - don't worry ( Read more... )

So, while most of my readers are floating away, either because they live in that part of the continent where the annual rainfall occurs in the span of a week, or the other part of the continent where it simply rains all the time, I am here in the barren wind swept wastes of Saskatchewan.

Last night we got a "blizzard warning" and it snowed a little ( Read more... )