Wacky News Dept.(II): Turkmenistan bans beards after successful car radio clampdown. Woohooheeehoohoo.
Month: February 2004
Wacky News Dept.: Does the Pope really think Bush is the Anti-Christ? Scroll Down to Find Out. Thank God for Left Wing Protestants!
America
America is grey line on the horizon beyond Wolfe Island to the south east as viewed from the mouth of the Little Cataraqui River. The highlands, beyond Watertown, in the south-east of Jefferson County, New York, fifty some miles away, rise to 1,500 feet and form the western edge of the Adirondacks.
Gutenburg Numerals
figure that if I spend about 12 hours I will be able to find a full set of uppercase, lower case and numerals from the Gutenburg Bible and revert this into a 15th century blog. Any uncertainties can be resolved though alt tags.
Two, Three, Six and Seven
How does that look?
, I’d say.
Recreational Grief?
This is an interesting item from the BBC:
In his report, Conspicuous Compassion, author Patrick West said people were trying to feel better about themselves by taking part in “manufactured emotion”. Describing extravagant public displays of grief for strangers as ‘grief-lite’ Mr West said these activities were, “undertaken as an enjoyable event, much like going to a football match or the last night of the proms”.
This is similar to my problem with movies – the group emote. Abstractions from reality.
Thomas
Training my children to aspire to industrial park design.
Home Awake
Being the only one in the house not sick or three, I am the only one awake this afternoon. I find myself listening to Acts of Volition Radio show #6, watching the sunny melty day outside moving on, wondering whether it would be so wrong downloading Counterstrike for moments like this, surrounded by the snoring, communicating only with headphones and screen.
[Four gerunds and a gerundive in one sentence…wow.]
Call Centres At Risk
With all the other news last week, one that may affect the Maritimes as much as the US ban on beef imports is the proposed effective ban on US firms using call centres located in other countries. In the heady 90’s many politicians in the East lunched out on the concept that call centres were IT jobs…something akin to pumping gas being part of either the oil or auto parts industry sector.
Still, a job is a job and export dolalrs are better than local ones if you want economic growth. Ruk had a great thread about the issues surrounding these employers a few weeks ago. Here is a list of the Nova Scotian call centres. How many depend on the profit margin from US work to stay open?