I'm 30.

Obama recently made his first formal visit here a few days ago. He was only here for about 6 or so hours, but holy hell did he make one big political impression on everyone. It was so much so that in everything he did, our PM was so far out of his depth. It's quite bad when Obama also met with the leader of the Official Opposition, and then hours ( Read more... )

In all the time I've lived here I have never ever heard of so many people getting shot and killed around Vancouver in so little time. In general I think less than 6 people die over the course of the year being shot, and sometimes are usually on account of the police. But we're already more than halfway through Februrary and there's been 12 so far ( Read more... )

Canadian TV stations, particularly the CBC are treating Obama's inauguration as if it were the second coming. They're going to be broadcasting the entire event live on TV. This sort of treatment to an incoming President I don't think has ever been done before. It's quite odd.

I've been playing a bit of Valkyria Chronicles yesterday and today; up to Chapter 4 now.

So far, I think the game is really solid. However, the characters and dialogue are atrocious. There are times I wish this game had a scene skip function so that I can get right down to the battles because they are incredibly fun, suspenseful, and involved ( Read more... )

Just looking down beside my seat I saw this ad on the front page of the classifieds section of our local paper ( Read more... )

We'll be having a rare White Christmas this year. In fact it'll be the whitest Christmas we've ever had. There's currently about a foot and a half of snow on the ground, and it's supposed to snow off and on for a few days ( Read more... )

I was looking through today's RSS Headlines, when this one jumped out at me. "Is political 'nobility' undemocratic?Apparently after over two and a quarter centuries without a monarch, the term "Title of Nobility" is lost on him. Retarded media is retarded. A family of politicians does not have any titles to nobility, and England has been doing just ( Read more... )

Just saw the weather forecast for the next few days, and we're expected to go down to -12C by the weekend. With the wind going on here, it'll feel like -20C or so. Most of the time we have very mild winters, and occasionally we have substantially cold ones. But this is just getting insane. I don't doubt that it will get this cold, I've had to be ( Read more... )

Earlier today, our Prime Minister met with the Governor General and requested a Prorogue (technical term for "Suspend") of Parliament. The government is effectively closed until the end of January now, when it will resume ( Read more... )