Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )
Out back of the Museum of Science and Technology where you have to park when it is Sunday afternoon and the place is insane with eight year olds, you get to park with the stuff they are working on including this beauty of a railway crane. The photos, they click.
Only one question popped into my mind when I read this:
French scientists who explored the Coral Sea said Friday they discovered a new species of crustacean that was thought to have become extinct 60 million years ago. The “living fossil,” 12-centimetre female that the scientists baptized Neoglyphea neocaledonica, was discovered at a depth of 400 metres during an expedition in the Chesterfield Islands, northwest of New Caledonia, the National Museum of Natural History and the Research Institute for Development said in a statement.
The question, of course, is what does it taste like with a squirt of lemon juice.
Nothing like waking to a manual spammer who has left 47 identical comments on 47 separate posts. The decent spammers, the ones you would kick in the shin rather than higher if you had the chance, post a bunch of comments on one post so they are easy to delete. But no, the Romanian spam sweatshop has a new keener and he wants to comment on separate posts. Anyway, eleven minutes of my life gone but at least the place is clear and tidy again. That is what they say about me: he sure keeps a tidy blog.
The 23-year-old University of Guelph graduate is one of a hundred or so Campus Crusade for Christ volunteers who’ll be visiting theatres across the country trying to get moviegoers to listen to a “Christian response” to Dan Brown’s bestselling book and the blockbuster movie it has spawned. “We’re not out to protest the movie at all,” Mr. Bellingham says. “We think this movie gives us a great opportunity to talk about Jesus Christ.”
Jesus would be pleased. As He was pleased by the swarming to Mel’s movie as some sort of authorized version. Would the time not be better spent shoeing the children and feeing the poor and doing justice as the actual directions given might suggest? Harass movie goers…which letter of the apostles was that in exactly?
Beware of moose, mayhem on holiday drive
More than a million vehicles will hit Highway 400 alone this weekend in one of the busiest — and deadliest — weekends of the year, police say…
I tend to beware of moose every weekend. But this is the holiday weekend that does start off the whole summer thing. We have no access to cottages but will be going to Ottawa to praise our rural overlords in the streets check out the trains at the Museum of Science and Technology. I have never understood why in a country so many thousands of miles across all the Federal museums are in one spot but there you have it. I can see the big trains so I will see the big trains. I will also have to find a statue of Queen Victoria and leave a few nickles at the base. I strongly highly urge you to do likewise just in case.
Two of the council members, Akhtar Mohammad Usmani, a confidante of Mullah Omar and the one-legged former intelligence chief Mullah Dadullah, are also names…
He is also former two-legged. Anyway, nice to see him in a tiny cage.
That is it for today. Dang spammers. Get me on the nerves.
Well, it only lasted two and a half innings and I got soaked but it was OK. I get to get my money back for the tickets because the game didn’t make it to the fifth. Plus, Gentleman potter Gary made me a piggy beer mug in the style and then, before the rain, Fergie Jenkins elbowed Gary out of the way in a crowd so he could get to where he was signing stuff. Willie Fordham was signing his book out in the street and Adam Dunn hit a homer during the pre-game derby way way over my head (as illustrated above) and everyone said “HOLY MOLY – LOOK AT IT GO!!!”.
More photos when I get my head out of the interstate highway system. Gary had lots of questions about you all, particularly the Flea and what he gets up to. I said I am not sure about anything that goes on at the western end of Lake Ontario.
Eight AM meeting across town so I may be brief today. Rainy Friday in May here, by the way. It’s close enough to winter still that you think rain is great.
He said fewer people identify with the classic image of cool than one would expect. For most, the new cool is someone who possesses more “socially desirable” characteristics. “I don’t know if I can blame marketers, or if there is even anyone to blame, but the mainstream got a hold of coolness and turned it into a mainstream version of coolness,” he said. “People now identify passionate and warm as cool, which is almost oxymoronic.”
This, of course, is the leading edge of the new neo-socialist movement that will whip neo-cons off the map from 2008 to 2022. It’ll start with nice, move through additional arts classes in high school and end up in news papers dropping their business sections. Mark my words.
Talking to the BBC, Mr Schmidt also reflected on Google’s decision to adhere to Chinese government censorship rules in order to launch its new site in China. He said the decision was “the hardest the company has ever made” but added that, despite it being heavily criticised, he still felt it was the correct move. Mr Schmidt also believed that competition in the internet search business, especially from Microsoft and Yahoo would drive up prices and increase revenue rather than threaten them. Google appeared to be benefiting from its “limitless growth model”, he said, adding that more users, more advertisers and more content would fuel further demand.
Excellent. More kowtowing to totalitarians and bizarre enununciations on economics please. These are the snippets you cherish after the bubble bursts.
Gotta run. Someone spell check this thing, wouldja?
Time for a readers’ survey to give me an update:
There really isn’t a ball in their hands. The now Small Unit just needed a little squeeze after blowing another game.
I could go into why I tell myself I dislike the Yankees but it is really an arbitrary facade I have assigned to myself. Yet hearing things like Jason Giambi, the DHer who gets to stand near first, blowing a few defensive plays again warms my tiny little heart. Not quite as much as the joy I knew when Partick Roy quit the Habs mid-game after reaming out the GM in front of the entire Hockey Night in Canada audience.
But close.
During this month of mucho mucho busy but in areas that I never discuss, it was good to get that drive in Saturday whence I caught a good if creepyish view of long abandoned Boldt Castle off Alexandria Bay, New York perched on one of the Thousand Islands. Click for a bigger view.
