timouse

This can easily be converted into a drinking game.

ding! ding!

the upside being that if harper wins, by the time you worked it out you'd be too plowed to really care.

happy birthday!

ever since hearing saxamophone on the simpsons i find myself putting the extra syllable into most words. is there a simpsons reference in your screen name?

just got back, and it was really well set-up and organized. no cookies this time though

i love small towns...

that's brilliant!

thanks...although i think anyone playing would have a full card within 20 minutes of turning on the tv

I went a few weeks ago with my wife and (almost) 12 year old daughter, and we all thought that it was an excellent exhibit. Fascinating, and at times mind-blowing. Probably the most enjoyable exhibit that I have ever seen in a museum, science centre, etc. We spent about 3 hours going through the exhibit, and did see it all, but we hit the saturation point, i.e., we couldn't absorb any more information. It would have been nice to check it out over two or three days, but that's not practical and would be expensive. It is also set up so that once you are in the exhibit you can't leave and then re-enter, and there aren't bathrooms, fountains, etc., in the actual exhibit area. So even spreading it out over a day isn't doable.

Having said that, I highly recommend this exhibit, especially for people that are into anatomy, the human body, etc. Human anatomy, biology, etc. has never really interested me that much, and I still thought that it was a great exhibit.

Peace, Mark

glad to hear you went too, mark. niffermouse and i went a couple weeks ago, we bought the books if you ever want to check it out in more detail.

it was amazing. the exhibit itself was beyond cool...to be able to actually see what it is inside you that moves when you stretch, and to finally see exactly what my diaphragm is and why it is that my belly moves when i breathe really deeply.

at atimes the people watching was more facinating than the exhibit itself...just to see the way people responded to what they were seeing...what really struck me was the matter-of-fact way that most people dealt with it...there were lots of younger kids around the night that we went and they all seemed pretty nonplussed about it. i think i would have been totally freaked at the same age. maybe a lot of them have already seen bits and pieces of people's insides flying around in video games and are desensitized to it.

very highly reccommended. i think it's on until some time in february. if you get a chance, go for sure. the audio commentary thing is worth the extra $5, get the more scientific one. they have 2 different versions of the commentary...we got one of each, i found the regular one to be a little too folksy and "aw shucks" for my liking.

so who did you vote for?

i voted green as they are the only party that even comes close to resonating with me ever since the rhino party disbanded. also, our conservative incumbent is a shoe-in so any kind of strategic voting was a bit pointless.

it's metric music!

"The rewards are enormous. Everything will sound like Captain Beefheart."

ill be voting for damn sure. probably a heady blend of lib(even though i dont want to' date=' but hey it beats harper) and green[/quote']

How do you intend to vote for both the Liberal and Green parties.

how does that go? vote early and vote often.

Vote strategically and then make a donation to the Green Party - "kill two birds with one stone" (not exactly an environmentally sensitive metaphor I know)

You're vote only gives them $1.75, but you get roughly 60-70% of political donations back in a tax credit, if you really want to help them - give 'em $50 or $100.

Be smart.

i'm trying

from what i can tell, our conservative incumbent has a lock on this riding...i would rather use my vote to support the one party that has actually come out and spoken some kind of sense through the run-up to the election. all mr martin has done is run round and tell me how bad harper is, all layton seems to be doing is telling me how bad martin is, and harper makes nice talk about tax cuts and social engineering. the greens meanwhile are actually talking about their platform, and are not just a one issue party.

if i were in a riding with a tighter race, i might think about strategic voting...as this election seems to be a foregone conclusion round here, i'm free to vote my conscience...

What does the story in Kitchener look like with Mr. Albrecht, I wonder.

from from the Liberal Party web page...

Harold Albrecht - Kitchener-Conestoga: Yesterday, Conservative candidate Harold Albrecht, known for his controversial views on gay marriage, was hustled away from reporters and into a banquet-hall kitchen yesterday where handlers refused to bring him out. "He's in a meeting,'' a Tory official insisted, pushing a door closed as Albrecht stood next to empty dish racks.

from Saturday's Globe and Mail...

Right-wing groups in the United States have been urged to avoid crowing about the likelihood of a Conservative victory in Monday's election for fear of scaring off potential voters, according to a leaked e-mail written by the leader of a prominent American conservative group.

"Canadian voters have been led to believe that American conservatives are scary and if the Conservative Party can be linked with us, they can perhaps diminish a Conservative victory," Paul Weyrich, president of the Washington-based Free Congress Foundation, wrote Thursday in an e-mail forwarded to other conservative leaders.

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper was also accused yesterday of trying to muzzle his socially conservative candidates in the final days of a campaign in which he has worked hard to make Canadians feel comfortable with him and his policies.

"Candidates who [made] Canadians so uncomfortable with the Conservatives in the last election . . . they haven't gone; they're still there. They're just in hiding," Liberal Leader Paul Martin said at a rally in St. John's. "I don't know where they are. Maybe they're all in some kind of a safe house, biding their time, watching Jeopardy!"

Mr. Weyrich said in his e-mail that he had been called by Gerald Chipeur, a Calgary lawyer and outspoken backer of socially conservative causes, who said that Liberal-leaning news media in Canada were likely to phone U.S. right-wingers "in the hopes that someone will inadvertently say something that can be hung around the Conservatives."

Mr. Weyrich suggested to recipients of his message that "if the Canadian media calls, please do not be interviewed until Monday evening, at which point hopefully there will be reason to celebrate."

Mr. Weyrich, a veteran spokesman for the U.S. right, said in an interview he could not "verify" the e-mail. When it was suggested this was a non-denial denial, Mr. Weyrich snapped, "You can make of it whatever you wish."

Contacted in Calgary, Mr. Chipeur refused to comment on his contacts with Mr. Weyrich and hung up the phone.

Mr. Martin pointed to Cheryl Gallant, Rob Anders, Rob Merrifield and Harold Albrecht as Tory candidates whose views have been absent during the campaign. He noted that Mr. Albrecht, an outspoken critic of same-sex marriage, was removed from the sight of journalists at a Conservative event in Kitchener, Ont., on Thursday and ushered into a banquet-hall kitchen where organizers insisted he was in a meeting.

Gay-rights groups have complained for several weeks that new Conservative candidates who have previously opposed same-sex marriage have been prevented from saying so in public and from revealing their views on their websites.

Mr. Harper ducked the issue yesterday. "Our candidates are campaigning in their ridings, they are going door to door, they are working very hard talking to local media and I am very pleased with their efforts."

Mr. Harper's argument was not helped by reports that he met secretly last Saturday with Ms. Gallant and a small group of her supporters in the Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke riding. Ms. Gallant's candid statements on social issues include her 2004 comparison of abortion with beheadings by Islamic terrorists.

The meeting, which was reported by The Eganville Leader newspaper, took place in Cobden, Ont., after the Conservative Leader decided to take a bus rather than fly between North Bay, Ont., and Ottawa.

Media were put on a separate bus, which did not stop for the get-together with Ms. Gallant and was never told about it.

Mr. Weyrich's e-mail was sent to an assistant who was asked to forward it to other right-wing groups. It made its way through two e-mail groups of right-wing sympathizers before landing at the New York Observer, which published it on its website.

Mr. Chipeur, a leader in the fight against same-sex marriage, backed Mr. Harper's 2004 leadership campaign and is Alberta chair of Republicans Abroad, a group that promotes the party among U.S. expatriates. Mr. Chipeur is a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen and attended the 2004 Republican national convention in New York.

Mr. Weyrich, 61, is a long-time conservative activist and commentator. In a column written in 2004, he argued that free speech was dead north of the border because it was "no longer permissible in Canada to preach that homosexuality is a deviant lifestyle. That is now hate speech. A minister or priest risks jail by preaching what is in the Scriptures."

"The culture has really collapsed there as it is about to collapse here," he warned, saying that if a liberal did not win the 2004 presidential election, as was the case, it could come in 2008.

that arlo is a class act.

Sorry to hear dude, the comos works in strange ways, but things always turn around.

Spending some time at home to sort out your thoughts, can be a good thing to get you back on track. Everyone needs some time off.

indeed. not to mention that this is the worst time of the year for that sort of thing. it's cold and nasty out, and daylight is at a premium...

my personal tharapy involves pyjamas, chronic and a steady diet of the simpsons...

as my grandma used to say, this too will pass.

i would also prescribe a trip to kw on the 28th. rock & roll fixes everything

welcome aboard...can we call you conk instead?

I doubt it. It's free publicity for KY Jelly...

"Avoid dry humpback with KY Jelly!"

i just about made coffee come out of my nose laughing. that's brilliant.

needs your support.

fuck fear voting.

thats all.

seconded. as funding is tied to popular vote, everyone who goes green this election guarantees that the Greens will have a stronger presence in the future, and who knows, may actually be allowed to participate in the next Leader's Debate.

Which brings up a mostly unrelated question...how is it that the Bloc, a party that is fielding candidtaes in one province, is allowed in to the debate while the Greens, who are running candidates in every riding, are not?

Only two more sleeps. The parties are going full tilt today. All the final polls have been, or are being, released today ('cept maybe SES ... I think they are publishing tommorow).

Any final thoughts? Last words?

yes.

vote quimby!

simply put, the single best bassist in the scene.

tough to put down a band that brings the groove/funk, layed down by a top notch rhythm section.

not to mention, kent isn't no slouch on the guitar.

exactly the sort of raving that i was talking about...kinda makes me sad that i can't go...

hope the folks that make it tonight have a blast!

"sorry to say it but, i don't care what a bunch of drug addicts pretending to be all about music think. i'm solely interested in music, thats why i go to shows, thats why i think dancy boring unoriginal jambands are terrible, because i'm actually listening."

awesome!

are you sure you didn't mean [color:purple] awesome?

fwiw, some of the best music i've heard has been by "dancy boring unoriginal jambands," most of whom are in fact neither boring nor unoriginal.

ultimately everyone is entitled to their own opinion. DJEd, if you have truly given bands like jomomma a shot and find them not to your taste, that's totally cool. as my grandfater told me, "if everyone liked the same thing they'd all be chasing your grandmother." however, as a fellow musician, to trample what they are trying to achieve is a little harsh.

just my $0.02.

while i can't make it to jomomma tonight, many of the folks in this scene have raved about them, and i look forward to seeing them one day and making up my own mind...

No TicketBastard! But don't worry Tim. You still get to pay a ransomesque service charge. You just pay it directly to Massey Hall.

Click here to buy Toronto tickets.

Click here to buy Ottawa tickets.

This time he's bringing Abe and Gordon Titcomb as usual, but also the "Masacree Band"???

Yeehaw!

yeehaw indeed!

i've just alerted the mice, i'm going to wait a bit to give folks a chance to think about it.

this is way cool...the return of arlo, plus a chance to (finally) meet you in meatspace!

doubly cool. thanks for the heads-up!

woo hoo!

thank you mr mountain sir. i will get on this right away, hope to see you there!!!

edit to add...i just visited ticketbastard and they claim that TOronto is not on sale yet.

sm, did you get tickets thtough them?

Anyone know where I can get some egg nog?

i have a sealed container in my fridge dated january 13th. i'm scared to move it. say the word and it's yours

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caught most of this on the History Channel last night...it's a documentary on LSD from a Canadian perspective. The documentary largely focused on Humphrey Osmond and his colleagues in Weyburn Saskatchewan and their experiments in the early 60's with LSD. After trying the drug themselves, they began to administer relatively high doses to alcoholics and later to schizophrenics, and found that poarticularly in the case of alcoholics, they were able to sort themselves out after a few sessions and see what it was in their life that troubled them and drove them to drink. Osmond claimed almost a 50% sucess rate in treating alcohol abuse with LSD.

Osmond and his colleagues went on to design a centre for schizophrenia research, incorporating design elements that they had discovered during acid trips in order to make a more pleasant environment for patients. This led to a whole new approach to building design, and there are now several post grad environmental design programs that incorporate a lot of their work.

Some of the early news footage concerning acid were mind-boggling....i hope they re-broadcast it, it was well worth watching.

anyone else see this??

thank you jeebus for US term limits on presidency.

the only thing that sustains me when reading things like this is the knowledge that Shrubya will be out on his ass in a couple of years...2008 can't come fast enough

that's nibbler-ific!