I would call my Prime Minister a Pussy, but I might get sued for Libel.

I relish the day when that (in the opinion of some) anal retentive control freak is removed from office.

Be thankful for your cowboys and philanderers America, you could have ended up with an economist.

Has the media reached the point where they are unable to exhibit even the most basic abilities when it comes to language... every minor political kerfuffle has to be something-gate. City councilors get Elton John tickets before anyone else and we get ticketgate, the Prime Minister's chief of staff says you shouldn't take a campaigning politician ( Read more... )

Jeff Healy Dies at 41

He was one of Canada's most gifted musicians IMHO, never mind the fact that he has been blind since the age of one.

I don't know how well known he would be outside of Canada (he did have a platinum album in the US), but if you ever saw the movie roadhouse with Patrick Swayze , he played the musician Cody.

"All my friends are fuck-ups, but they're fun to have around."*

*note, this in no way resolves them from at times deserving a swift kick in the ass!

This makes my geek heart happy

Every so often I despair that I'm not living on a space station even though this is clearly the 21st century... and what's the point of living in the future if you can't do it on a space station?

And then I read something like this about physicists reorganizing photons to make them more uniformly distributed in a laser beam, and it hits me that I ( Read more... )

There goes another moment of my childhood

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Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?

I'm so out of the loop that I just found out that one of my favorite TA's from last year died this past July...
Thank you universe...
Because you know it's not like exam time isn't stressful enough...

Find peace Christopher.
Cheers.