Too weird. The other day I was looking for a NES cheat page for SMW and came across "Super Mario's World" some guy who was dedicated to "saving the children of God from false religions". OK, it was a Geocities page, but that doesn't account for much. On his list of false religions were Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Sikhs, Buddhists, Muslims...etc etc every other possible religion out there except for American Christianity. I'm surprised the guy wasn't a Southern Baptist. But I'm Greek Orthodox and don't appreciate my religion being called a cult.
In richer countries, women have access to more forms of birth control and both sexes are reasonably aware of what happens when you roll in the hay without protection (and I don't mean those pesky pitchforks!). Women having babies later...women choosing careers over families...no expectations of having a dozen babies...my dad is Greek and his family was rather disappointed my parents stopped at two kids...whereas in poorer countries women aren't educated about birth control, can't afford it, it's not available (no OB-GYN around the corner in a place like Namibia!), men won't use condoms, religious barriers...man, the UN can't figure this out of all organizations?
True, unlike most manly computer moguls out there, you never see too much of their wives. OTOH, it is possible to see too much on Mrs. Cowpland:-) Man, what she was wearing to that ball with the gold breastplate. Too weird!
Hmm, I'll have to go home and check it out. It had a colour insert from the movie. The reason that I picked it up (mostly) was that it was a UK paperback...hey, send me an e (gonzocanuck@hotmail.com) and maybe I can lend it to you if you like.
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Yeah, that's true. I was surprised throughout the three of his books that I liked, that the same characters were in there over and over. I suppose I'll have to track down Count Zero one day. But yes, that's right, they are all alike come to think of it...hmm...perhaps he has this realized world in his head but can't bring it out on paper.
OTOH, I found the novelization of TRON in a used bookstore the other day for $1.50. It was incredibly good, I liked the book adaption a whole lot better than the movie!
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I liked Neuromancer, Burning Chrome (the best, I think!) and Mona Lisa Overdrive, but I really, really hated Idoru. It got a lot of good press, but when I read it (I skipped to the ending after more than halfway through) it seemed so *incredibly boring*. I could see how eventually the two characters were going to meet up in alternating chapters, but it was so long and drawn out. Possibly the best part was the Japanese sex hotel:-) Was I missing something? It seemed like such a drag after reading the three above.
It gets worse. Monsanto is pretty vigilant. When a farmer buys their seed, they have to sign this agreement that says their crops may be inspected by Monsanto to make sure they're using the same thing. You also can't give away your seed either, which is a tradition among farmers. Now Monsanto is suing farmers in Saskatchewan who didn't buy the seed, but have the herbicide resistant plants in their field. I mean, how far can you go to control nature? Seeds have been moving for eons by animal poop, wind, sand and people.
Further, let's not forget that the pollen from their GM corn kills Monarch butterflies. C'mon, the stuff is toxic and just plain scary!
And let's not forget that Monsanto, back in the 70s, manufactured flame-retardent baby clothing treated with TRIS and tris - known gene mutagens!
GM food is just a plain bad idea. No one knows what these plants are going to do in the long run. Why aren't are governments not more involved? Why not the public? Nuclear power was a undemocratic decision - is this to be the same with GM foods?
I think if they started doing that I would kill myself. That would be the last straw - the Great Combine will have officially rolled over us, shredding up the last of our humanity, dignity and consciousness.
I agree. No way does it cost that much! Canada managed to do it quite nicely in the seventies, and do you know why? The govt printed a ton of booklets, and pamphlets. I still have one helpful cooking one, that explain that a quarter cup of butter was about two finger widths:-) not to mention passing out free measuring spoons:-) Everyone else did it handily. And are we metric nations not better for it? Why be one of only four countries (the other three are small island nations) to use Imperial and get with the program!
Of course! It's way easier to count in tens than in 12's. You'd have to memorize an incredible amount. It's more natural to count 5, 10, 15, instead of 6, 12, 18, 24, 32...??? And if you can't remember the units, just remember this:
Keith (kilometer) Hit (hectare) Darren (decometer) Making (Meter) Darren (Decimeter) Cry (Centimeter) Mommy (Millimeter)
My great, great, great grandparents were Polish and Ukranian, they were farmers out in Central Alberta. Actually, Alberta has a very large Ukranian population. We can think of Poles and Ukranians as being bumbling idiots, but when it comes to a rich culture, pyrogies, Shumka dancing and gaily painted Easter eggs beats out the cowboy/stampede mentality of Southern Alberta.
And yeah - during the first world war, Canada had internment camps for Ukranians too. A very short stick, if you ask me.
I like the top post, all countries have their hang ups. We're all oppressed. But I can honestly say I'm glad to live in Canada. Your more likely to be stabbed to death than shot.
Funny to see that word. I know this is a bit OT, but has anyone ever watched a cartoon called "Blazing Dragons"? It's the brainchild of Terry Jones and some other guy. The dragons go on a search for the Holy Quail, end up with a kale, and a very holey pail;-) One of my faves.
Some people take them very seriously you know. If you look in the back of Western Horseman, or any kind of cattle mag, there they are - golf clubs and canes made out of a ex-bull's reproductive parts. Plus, you can even get the purses, but on a ittle stand. I have no idea what you would fill them wit h - candy???
LOL I get the shakes when I bid on something and it's down to the last min or so. But I'm not addicted. I only check once a week...you can spend way too much $ on it! Not to mention time:-)
I decry both chains of newspapers in Canada. Southam is bad, the Sun is even worse. The Calgary Sun is so mired down in some misogynistic age, that they have a Bible thumping woman hating columnist called "Tom Humble". Bah! Their pictures are bigger than their stories. Sad, sad, but oh, how many will be crushed by the mighty thumb of Conrad Black?
I can agree to a small part. My brother and I are both left handed (and our parents are right-handed). He has a very mild form of ADD (thankfully this was "back then" and my mom's response was a staunch "no" to Ritalin). I have a speech impediment (which seems to have gotten worse in the past two years). Being lefties, nothing is made "right" for us. Scissors, door knobs, twist ties are all problems. Half the time I just nearly miss walking into things - constantly dropping things - LOL.
OTOH, my brother is a math whiz (I almost failed!) and is a bookkeeper. I'm into HTML and Javascript. I didn't speak for a long time either...maybe till I was eight, I never actively engaged in conversation (we got a pair of birds and then after that I couldn't shut up!)
Perhaps I'm just introverted to the extreme. I prefer to read and spend quiet time programming and designing.
I am told that left-handedness is the result of a difficult birth, and that most lefties are somewhat brain damaged, tho I'd to think that! It's true I "zone" people out, but that's because I need to concentrate...
School may have been another factor. I was lousy in gym, and math especially. I was in the "slow" group in Grade 3 - you can't imagine how demoralizing that can be to a little kid! And I tended to be ignored a lot, just because I was in my own little world half the time;-)
I think it's a lot of things...and of course we're all not normal...sheesh!
Shaw Cable puts out a mag called 'The Big Picture' which is basically an advertisement disguised as a magazine (complete with recipes and horoscopes!). I found it suspicious. If you're not too swift, you might never get that in w/all the other ads are ads for Shaw stations. I find it amusing. The articles are extremely dumbed down and pretty pointless. I could write a better two-page introduction to HTML that the one that's in the current issue.
The idea is that the mag is subtitled something like "a survivor's guide to wired living". Yeah, it's tough being plunked in the middle of all these whiz-bang things, but c'mon, a V-chip??? What's so hard about that?
I find parents today pretty sad. I know it's a hard job, but I'm tired of the neighbour's kid "expressing himself" with a carton of eggs (on our house).
But then you know, this was in the Simpsons all along - you know the one where Sideshow Bob is trying to kill Aunt Patty (or Selma) and Bart uses hand puppets to explain the concept of natural gas explosions.
I was over at my parents last night to watch TV (I don't have one) and my mom hurriedly called me to watch the news. It was the 9/9/99 problem. Sheeeesh! What shoddy reporting! And it was again on the morning news. I mean, if it was a problem on the 9th, why is it still being reported when midnight of the 9th has already passed?
I agree, it's only to make people secure. I'm still worried about nuclear plants and weapons tho. Despite an inflated safety record, human error is the most common cause of nuclear accidents. Not to mention disgruntled, un-unionized employees...oops! better check my fridge for plutonium in the cheese (The China Syndrome)
Yeah, the last few seasons have totally not made sense. I'm totally lost as to what's happening in the show now, with aliens here and there, CGB, etc etc, like, what is happening???? Some of the writing, compared to earlier episodes, have been very lame. Can anyone say Twin Peaks?
I liked that one too, but then it just got too weird and made less sense.
I have a stack of birthday and Christmas cards from since I was a baby. Not nostaligic or anything, but most of these cards are all that are left of friends who have moved away (or in one case, died), my great-grandmother - gone as well. What a smile it brings to my face each time I see her old, creaky handwriting:-)
I have several collections of letters written by many authors. One of them is (natch) Hunter Thompson. He was carbon-copying his letters from the time he was a teen. What a fascinating read! Now how many people keep their email like that?
Taking the time to go thru letters and cards is fun and reminds us that we're human, rather than hi-lighting and hitting delete delete delete
OTOH, I'd take spam over regular junk mail any day. I'm sick of those crappy two-bit pizza places that have to advertise in green in pink!
Canadians are taxed more than most people in other countries, and it's just horrific. I don't mind stuff coming off for social programs, but it's a little disheartening - I once worked two part-time jobs and owed almost $900 in income tax this year. A friend of mine who had five part-time jobs in the tax year had to pay almost $1100. Gee, any idea why the guy had so many jobs in the first place?
I like the idea of protecting Cdn culture, but we don't need the CRTC. If the music is good, people will listen. OTOH, CBC, spare us your crappy sitcoms! Documentaries and news and hockey is what you do best. More Daniel Richler and Avi Lewis (but forget Ralph Benmergui, pleeeeez)
I'm lucky to live in Alberta, which has no PST, just GST...I can only pity ppl in the maritimes - that's like, 20% PST + GST.
From the site:During 12th grade, I read up a book called "Stupid Mac Tricks." One of the tricks in it was how to replace the Mac's startup screen. As a joke, I made a graphic of a black-bordered white box with a gray background. The text in the box read, "This computer will self-destruct in ten seconds. Thank you, Apple Computer Co." I made this the startup screen for a computer in my high school's computer lab.
The next day an "out of order" sign was taped to the monitor. The lab attendants usually wrote the reason on the bottom edge of the paper, so I leaned in to read what had been written there. It said, "Will self-destruct." "
Oh lord, this site is *too good*! Can you imagine???? (well, yes, I can, I've been there too!)
Web stuff is what I do. When I get home at night, one of the last things I ever do is surf the web! Now if I did, well, that would be a real addiction!
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I agree. But you know, it's kind of nice when they shoot themselves in the foot :-)
Too weird. The other day I was looking for a
NES cheat page for SMW and came across "Super Mario's World" some guy who was dedicated to
"saving the children of God from false religions".
OK, it was a Geocities page, but that doesn't account for much. On his list of false religions were Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Sikhs, Buddhists, Muslims...etc etc every other possible religion out there except for American Christianity. I'm surprised the guy wasn't a Southern Baptist. But I'm Greek Orthodox and don't appreciate my religion being called a cult.
In richer countries, women have access to more forms of birth control and both sexes are reasonably aware of what happens when you roll in the hay without protection (and I don't mean those pesky pitchforks!). Women having babies later...women choosing careers over families...no expectations of having a dozen babies...my dad is Greek and his family was rather disappointed my parents stopped at two kids...whereas in poorer countries women aren't educated about birth control, can't afford it, it's not available (no OB-GYN around the corner in a place like Namibia!), men won't use condoms, religious barriers...man, the UN can't figure this out of all organizations?
True, unlike most manly computer moguls out there, you never see too much of their wives. OTOH, it is possible to see too much on Mrs. Cowpland :-) Man, what she was wearing to that ball with the gold breastplate. Too weird!
Hmm, I'll have to go home and check it out. It had a colour insert from the movie. The reason that I picked it up (mostly) was that it was a UK paperback...hey, send me an e (gonzocanuck@hotmail.com) and maybe I can lend it to you if you like.
OTOH, I found the novelization of TRON in a used bookstore the other day for $1.50. It was incredibly good, I liked the book adaption a whole lot better than the movie!
I liked Neuromancer, Burning Chrome (the best, I think!) and Mona Lisa Overdrive, but I really, really hated Idoru. It got a lot of good press, but when I read it (I skipped to the ending after more than halfway through) it seemed so *incredibly boring*. I could see how eventually the two characters were going to meet up in alternating chapters, but it was so long and drawn out. Possibly the best part was the Japanese sex hotel :-) Was I missing something? It seemed like such a drag after reading the three above.
Further, let's not forget that the pollen from their GM corn kills Monarch butterflies. C'mon, the stuff is toxic and just plain scary!
And let's not forget that Monsanto, back in the 70s, manufactured flame-retardent baby clothing treated with TRIS and tris - known gene mutagens!
GM food is just a plain bad idea. No one knows what these plants are going to do in the long run. Why aren't are governments not more involved? Why not the public? Nuclear power was a undemocratic decision - is this to be the same with GM foods?
I think if they started doing that I would kill myself. That would be the last straw - the Great Combine will have officially rolled over us, shredding up the last of our humanity, dignity and consciousness.
I agree. No way does it cost that much! Canada managed to do it quite nicely in the seventies, and do you know why? The govt printed a ton of booklets, and pamphlets. I still have one helpful cooking one, that explain that a quarter cup of butter was about two finger widths :-) not to mention passing out free measuring spoons :-) Everyone else did it handily. And are we metric nations not better for it? Why be one of only four countries (the other three are small island nations) to use Imperial and get with the program!
instead of 6, 12, 18, 24, 32...??? And if you can't remember the units, just remember this:
Keith (kilometer)
Hit (hectare)
Darren (decometer)
Making (Meter)
Darren (Decimeter)
Cry (Centimeter)
Mommy (Millimeter)
And yeah - during the first world war, Canada had internment camps for Ukranians too. A very short stick, if you ask me.
I like the top post, all countries have their hang ups. We're all oppressed. But I can honestly say I'm glad to live in Canada. Your more likely to be stabbed to death than shot.
Funny to see that word. I know this is a bit OT, ;-) One of my faves.
but has anyone ever watched a cartoon called "Blazing Dragons"? It's the brainchild of Terry Jones and some other guy. The dragons go on a
search for the Holy Quail, end up with a kale, and a very holey pail
Some people take them very seriously you know. If you look in the back of Western Horseman, or any kind of cattle mag, there they are - golf clubs and canes made out of a ex-bull's reproductive parts. Plus, you can even get the purses, but on a ittle stand. I have no idea what you would fill them wit
h - candy???
LOL I get the shakes when I bid on something and it's down to the last min or so. But I'm not addicted. I only check once a week...you can spend way too much $ on it! Not to mention time :-)
I decry both chains of newspapers in Canada. Southam is bad, the Sun is even worse. The Calgary Sun is so mired down in some misogynistic age, that they have a Bible thumping woman hating columnist called "Tom Humble". Bah! Their pictures are bigger than their stories. Sad, sad,
but oh, how many will be crushed by the mighty thumb of Conrad Black?
OTOH, my brother is a math whiz (I almost failed!)
and is a bookkeeper. I'm into HTML and Javascript.
I didn't speak for a long time either...maybe till I was eight, I never actively engaged in conversation (we got a pair of birds and then after that I couldn't shut up!)
Perhaps I'm just introverted to the extreme. I prefer to read and spend quiet time programming and designing.
I am told that left-handedness is the result of a difficult birth, and that most lefties are somewhat brain damaged, tho I'd to think that! It's true I "zone" people out, but that's because I need to concentrate...
School may have been another factor. I was lousy in gym, and math especially. I was in the "slow" group in Grade 3 - you can't imagine how demoralizing that can be to a little kid! And I tended to be ignored a lot, just because I was in my own little world half the time
I think it's a lot of things...and of course we're all not normal...sheesh!
The idea is that the mag is subtitled something like "a survivor's guide to wired living". Yeah, it's tough being plunked in the middle of all these whiz-bang things, but c'mon, a V-chip??? What's so hard about that?
I find parents today pretty sad. I know it's a hard job, but I'm tired of the neighbour's kid "expressing himself" with a carton of eggs (on our house).
But then you know, this was in the Simpsons all along - you know the one where Sideshow Bob is trying to kill Aunt Patty (or Selma) and Bart uses hand puppets to explain the concept of natural gas explosions.
I agree, it's only to make people secure. I'm still worried about nuclear plants and weapons tho. Despite an inflated safety record, human error is the most common cause of nuclear accidents. Not to mention disgruntled, un-unionized employees...oops! better check my fridge for plutonium in the cheese (The China Syndrome)
The Ladykillers? Every time I see this movie, I just about lose it. It's as sideslapping as The Party. :-)
I liked that one too, but then it just got too weird and made less sense.
I have several collections of letters written by many authors. One of them is (natch) Hunter Thompson. He was carbon-copying his letters from the time he was a teen. What a fascinating read! Now how many people keep their email like that?
Taking the time to go thru letters and cards is fun and reminds us that we're human, rather than hi-lighting and hitting delete delete delete
OTOH, I'd take spam over regular junk mail any day. I'm sick of those crappy two-bit pizza places that have to advertise in green in pink!
A friend of mine who had five part-time jobs in the tax year had to pay almost $1100. Gee, any idea why the guy had so many jobs in the first place?
I like the idea of protecting Cdn culture, but we don't need the CRTC. If the music is good, people will listen. OTOH, CBC, spare us your crappy sitcoms! Documentaries and news and hockey is what you do best. More Daniel Richler and Avi Lewis (but forget Ralph Benmergui, pleeeeez)
I'm lucky to live in Alberta, which has no PST, just GST...I can only pity ppl in the maritimes - that's like, 20% PST + GST.
made this the startup screen for a computer in my high school's computer lab.
The next day an "out of order" sign was taped to the monitor. The lab attendants usually wrote the reason on the bottom edge of the paper, so I leaned in to read what had been written there. It said, "Will self-destruct." "
Oh lord, this site is *too good*! Can you imagine???? (well, yes, I can, I've been there too!)
Web stuff is what I do. When I get home at night, one of the last things I ever do is surf the web! Now if I did, well, that would be a real addiction!