Last night I was at the World Wildlife Fund's open house presentation on the Mackenzie Basin and one of the sponsors there was Bullfrog Power. By charging you an extra $0.02 per kilowatt hour, you can be using 100% wind power. I signed up that night. You still get your regular power from EPCOR or whoever and you still pay them as normal. ( Read more... )

I'm going in to have a cavity filled this afternoon. Joy. Having been to the dentist before I've always been ok with it. An annoyance to be sure, but it was something that you had to do. Now I'm apprehensive about it. The initial shock of Novacaine. The inevitable chewed up inside of my cheek because I have no idea where my teeth are biting ( Read more... )

Battlestar Galactica Season 4 is upon us! Friday April 4th, 8pm on Space. I need to get viewing on BSG Razor that I borrowed from mort_q, but I still have 3 episodes of Jericho to get through (having gone through the season finale of Terminator and one episode of Jericho last night). No Warcraft raiding for me this week. Need to watch TV ( Read more... )

Upcoming Citadel and Winspeare events I'm interested in:

ESO:
Symphony Under the Sky - August 29-September 1, 2008
Sci-Fi Spectacular - January 23-24, 2009 (George Takei narrating; Star Trek music baby!)
Cirque de la Symphonie - March 20-21, 2009

CitadelPride and Prejudice - September 20-October 12, 2008 ( Read more... )

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First order of business - Tim Hortons double-double and a Canadian Maple doughnut - Check.
Next: Sleep - In progress.
Next: Shower - TBD.

What can I say about this place. I have so many things to say that I'm not sure how to say it. First off, I am slumming it. I'm not in HK proper - I'm in the "village" of Ping Shan to the northwest of HK. My uncles are fairly prosperous and they own some buildings there. Our apartment my mom and I are staying has no flush toilet - you have to ( Read more... )

I'm off to Hong Kong! I'll be back in Canada on the 14th. If you like me to look into something while I'm there, leave me a note.

If you like, you may propose to me.

Have you ever thought, what if they put a really fat man in net?Along that same lines, what if, as a politician, you ran as an independent where your entire platform is to join the winning party? As N (who has an LJ, but I'm not sure who it is right now) has been telling me in Facebook says, the majority of votes does not help to elect a candidate ( Read more... )