Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )
I have asked you all before who you are and where you might be. Now you can show it on a map of the GX40 Nation from Frappr! Click on the “Ad Yourself” link to the right of the Frappr screen. I’ll figure out how to run an updating version of this map sooner or later.
Let me know where you are or if there are any other widgets we could add to this space.
It turned out to be much colder that I would have expected yesterday given the sunshine. There seems always to be something in the weather on Remembrance Day. We stopped at the Naval memorial downtown and I watched this vet read the plaque as he waited for the ceremony to begin. Click below for a larger image. Another cheery chatty gent, now small and stooped in a dark great coat, wore the black cloth officers cap with a small badge at the front I had seen in black and white films on the wavy navy, those guiding and protecting corvettes of the North Atlantic.
You might wonder why the there is a naval memorial here in Ontario but Kingston was a key naval port of the Empire as this plaque references – and which let to our martello towers.
I don’t talk about products much. I don’t talk too much about food that comes from freezers – but to be fair freezer food is one of the great wonders of the western world.
A hint to all Canada: the new President’s Choice Chicago pizza is really good. It is what it promises. Then, for dessert, there is Creamsicle ice cream from Breyers. It is like a bucket of Creamsicles without the sticks. As Creamsicles are proof of intellegent design in themselves, I am very much in support of the 2 litre format.
I actually eat mostly not from the freezer but when one is going to eat from a freezer to placate the needs of those who are both under five feet and under ten years old these are the things I recommend.
It looks like a fine day for Remembrance Day this year – no lashings of sleet as if often the case.
It is still hard to understand why Ontario is not on full shut down today but it was good to see the kids have a pretty full week of activities in elementary school based on remembrance. I wrote this last year. I suppose I think today more than any other of great-uncle John as a teen ninety years ago in the trenches.
Japan’s fleet sets sail to kill 1,000 whales off Antarctica. Do I care? I think that I do but why?
First, the excuse that this is science could only be accepted by those who could support intelligent design as science:The fleet sailed on Tuesday from Shimonoseki port for the first year of a “research” programme called JARPA-2. It envisages catching up to 935 minke whales and 10 fin whales during the southern hemisphere summer to “…monitor the Antarctic ecosystem, model competition among whale species… elucidate temporal and spatial changes in stock structure and improve the management procedure for the Antarctic minke whale stocks.”
There is a high chance that the fleet of scientists will be successful in elucidating spatial changes in stock structure through killing 1,000 whales. That is pretty much a no brainer. High marks, scientists, high marks.
So I am not against sealing or hunting with guns or arrows let alone fishing with a rod or a net. I eat meat. It comes from animals. I think about bossy over a pot roast – it’s only right. I’d probably chew on a muktuk or other rarer smaller sea mammal as well given a chance and the right dipping sauce. But when it is a whale and not a big harbour flipper-rat or the bleating little sheep, somehow it is different. It’s the Leviathan.
Have I bought into big media’s spin? Which big media’s spin – the pro or the con? Maybe I have just made sure I learned enough to feel guilt but just enough to learn a little less to feel a lot of guilt or actually do something. I do recall a time from before these little guilts mine and the world’s when I was very young and Dad mentioned that he had performed the burial of the guy or a kid of the guy who has invented the harpoon gun shown above.
I listened to the first edition of the new afternoon Radio 2 to 4 show Freestyle as I worked away yesterday and I was not upset at all. New CBC things usually get quite upsetting but this did not.
To be fair, host Kelly Ryan was one of my favorite people in the undergrad gang and I like to hear her brightness mid-afternoon. People will get moany about things like the pop music being played seeing as it is just twenty years since they removed classical music – was it RSVP? – from the afternoons on CBC 1. That’s kinda breakneck whiplashy for Canada.
I hope that Kelly’s news background and interviewing strength will come through more and more especially with their use a technique of no introductions to interviews used on BBC radio which gives a bit of pace. It will find its place.
