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happy birthday velvet! celebrate your ability to travel and describe it for the rest of us.

indeed. a very impressive take on a very good tune. thanks for posting this!

we hauled butt out of bed around 2:30 and again at 3 and watched from outside for ten or fifteen minutes until we worked out that we could use jennifer's spotting scope from inside the livingroom window. well worth getting out of bed for

happy birthday jay!!

the "homeless dogs" photos are heartwrenching. the "dogs who look high" photos are hilarious.

happy birthday!

That one only works to tweak pre-adolescent girls. Still very effective' date=' though. Freud never goes out of style.[/quote']

i would like to proposed a "unicorn amendment" to Godwin's Law.

i'm all for charitable giving. Christmas became a much more meaningful holiday when i was able to ratchet down the consumerism angle.

Kiva does an awesome thing making micro loans to developing world entrepreneurs.

World Vision does a lot of good but they are clearly Christian and have a higher overhead than many similar organizations.

USC Canada is in the same game, but as Unitarians they are so barely religious that you won't even notice.

My favourite is Heifer International. They are committed to sustainable agriculture, and are doing stand up work all over the planet.

merry christmas, freaks!

He's still got it .

And it's nice to see that he still uses that favourite tagline of his - "Well, this isn't at all surprising...".

Or, conversely, good people?

(I actually prefer Gandhi's way of framing it - there aren't bad people per se, just people locked into bad [i.e. violent, coercive, etc.] ways of doing things - for which a tweak of conscience is the best and only solution.)

utah phillips riffs about coercive combinations being the biggest thing to deeply screw up society. government, police, even your job and the landlord/mortgage company, these things are all coercive and as gandhi said lead good people to make bad choices.

the good news is society is untenable and unstable and will be collapsing for your amusement soon. until then, seek voluntary combinations and learn how to get by without government. 2012 and the big whatever will be here before we know it :chug:

http://www.openoffice.org/

will get you to a point that you can open and edit stuff (other than docx or xlsx files - damn you micro$oft!)

hope that helps. good luck!

skelter ^^^ had some good advice too, i would try open office first though.

separated at birth:

happy birthday!

"make plans for today, and maybe for part of tomorrow."

happy birthday!

Hoping for clean test results for you BR. So sorry to hear about this.

what she said.

"Why do movie celebs think that they can be in a band?"

Give me a thousand more failures for just one more of these:

Sometimes Booche can be sooooo right.

yep.

happy belated birthday!

Here's a favourite quote of Julia's, from A Mighty Wind: "I suffered a lot of abuse as a child...mostly musical in nature..."

oh my, that's a good one.

Public Forum: Farm leaders on the impacts of the corporate biomass-grab

Friday, November 26

7:00pm – 9:30pm

Jean Lesage Auditorium

Room B-2285, Jean-Brillant Building

3200 Jean-Brillant St, University of Montreal

“The rush to grow ‘biomass’ for fuels and industry will be worth $1/2 trillion – but won’t feed people, or stop climate change.â€

Featuring:

* Iderle Brénus, leader/organizer, Mouvement paysan Papaye, Haiti

* Camila Moreno, environmental lawyer, Friends of the Earth, Brazil

* Ibrahim Coulibaly, farm movement leader, COPAGEN, Mali

Traduction simultanée sera fournie sur place. Please bring ID for translation devices. Free Admission. No registration necessary.

Corporations are rushing to grab and convert plant matter – called “biomass†– into fuel, chemicals, power, and other profitable commodities. They are using high-risk genetic engineering technologies to accelerate this grab. The result is an emerging global “biomass economy†that threatens to eat up our crops, forests and other plant life.

Just as the demand for corn ethanol led to higher food prices and hunger, the massive biomass-grab will have devastating consequences for people and our environment, here and in developing countries. What are corporations using “biomass†for? Join us in Montreal to find what the “earth grab†will mean and how people in Canada and around the world are fighting for our future.

brian, i can't imagine what must be going on in your life right now. you and julia came together through this board, and you are surrounded by people who love you...

This Saturday night he will be playing the community hall in Eden Mills. call 519 856-1188 for ticket info.

Sunday night at Trinity St Paul's he will be part of a Nick Drake tribute show.

http://exclaim.ca/News/canadian_stars_align_for_nick_drake_tribute_night_in_toronto/