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Not Hockey
Feb. 24th, 2010 09:41 amI'll be one of the few Canadians not watching hockey this evening... The family has tickets to Short Track at the Pacific Colosseum tonight and Friday night.
This is the big day
Jun. 20th, 2009 03:06 amIran is "all in" today. This could go very bad, very quickly. Apparently people are using Twitter to say goodbye to friends online. People hoping that if they hold their Koran the goverment troops or secret police won't attack them openly.
Tiananmen 2.0
Jun. 15th, 2009 02:59 pmI am not a twitter person; unlike Stephen Colbert, I have not yet twatted. However I can't help watching various twit feeds of the chaos that's going on in Iran right now...
This is from someone who just managed to get through the filters and create a twitter account, just to report about something going on outside his house. I just happened upon it randomly watching monitter.
And nothing since then.. Has this guy been arrested? Is he helping other people from getting arrested? Is it some guy in Wisconsin with nothing better to do? No idea.
I remember watching a vid from a couple of days ago on BBC... Police dragging a protester away, only to bolt themselves when the mob rushed them and started throwing stones after them. That felt strangely good to watch.
This would be easy to simply watch and cheer for, but people are starting to get hurt and die. All kinds of conflicted feelings to deal with...
Let's hope we don't see tanks on the evening news any time soon.
one of us is injured and we have doctor - we cannot go to hospital now as plainclothes are at all hospitals
This is from someone who just managed to get through the filters and create a twitter account, just to report about something going on outside his house. I just happened upon it randomly watching monitter.
# Just got a call from my uncle who runs two election districts, he says the voting is a fraud. (24 minutes ago from web)
# He was told to report the voting for the president now matter what the results really were. (23 minutes ago from web)
# A situation is starting outside of my house! (21 minutes ago from web)
# People are starting to meet in the street (20 minutes ago from web)
# I'm going outside and ask what is going on. (18 minutes ago from web)
# The police are trying to take government employees out of their homes and arrest them. (13 minutes ago from web)
# The people are stopping the police. (12 minutes ago from web)
And nothing since then.. Has this guy been arrested? Is he helping other people from getting arrested? Is it some guy in Wisconsin with nothing better to do? No idea.
I remember watching a vid from a couple of days ago on BBC... Police dragging a protester away, only to bolt themselves when the mob rushed them and started throwing stones after them. That felt strangely good to watch.
This would be easy to simply watch and cheer for, but people are starting to get hurt and die. All kinds of conflicted feelings to deal with...
Let's hope we don't see tanks on the evening news any time soon.
Giving this a go
May. 1st, 2009 11:22 pmBeen a bit disgruntled with how things were handled on the LJ side of things... I like the idea of picking up my entire journal and moving it here.. but I think I want to see how stable things are here first.
If you aren't following the news:
Apr. 12th, 2009 10:39 pmAmazon are being total dicks. In that they're deeming all LGBT content as "adult" and removing it from their ranking system. Boycott at 11.
Hopefully somebody gets fired tomorrow. Otherwise I'm quite happy to stick with Chapters here in Canada.
EDIT: One of the better articles following the story.
Hopefully somebody gets fired tomorrow. Otherwise I'm quite happy to stick with Chapters here in Canada.
EDIT: One of the better articles following the story.
A mini anime update...
Just finished watching Natsume Yūjin-Chō and Zoku Natsume Yūjin-Chō.. pretty awesome. Sort of like Mushi-shi if it took place in a modern high school and Ginko didn't know his place in the world yet. With super kawaii nyan-chan neko-kun power spirit kitty! My daughter is watching this as well and enjoying it thoroughly.
However, I've just started watching a series I'd been putting off for a while, and I'm completely hooked. Planetes is about a future where space debris is a hazard to life and future development, and the lowest job on the social scale is actually suiting up and being an astronaut to pick up all the garbage.
And oh my goodness they've nailed the physics nearly perfectly. This show does not pay lip service to Newtonian mechanics, and there's no magic technology like jump gates to get you places quickly.
Add to that it's a pretty decent drama too, and the story actually appears to be linear and non-episodic. I love the artistic style and the characterisations.. and a minor point usually lost on most future anime, the characters are from countries all over the Earth instead of just Japan.
My quick overview doesn't do it justice, but the opening credit sequence is absolutely full of win. For anime+space buffs, this is a must watch.. basically a quick anime overview of the history of rocketry and spaceflight:
The Hwacha, Goddard launch and V2/London bombing frames are damn nice touches. I can't tell who the old guy is between the Hwacha and Goddard launches.. is it Tsiolkovsky? (EDIT: Yes! It is Tsiolkovsky! The diagram in the back is one of his rocket diagrams). I like the Sputnik/Laika/Mercury/Ham frames and then later a Vostok (presumably Gagarin's flight)/Apollo 11 sequence. Bonus points to anyone who can identify the older stuff... Looks like there's some "history of Chinese rocketry" in there, but I can't quite place it.
Opening scene (in English) to give the show some context
EDIT2: While reading up some more on Tsiolkovsky I found this beautiful quote he wrote 98 years ago:
Just finished watching Natsume Yūjin-Chō and Zoku Natsume Yūjin-Chō.. pretty awesome. Sort of like Mushi-shi if it took place in a modern high school and Ginko didn't know his place in the world yet. With super kawaii nyan-chan neko-kun power spirit kitty! My daughter is watching this as well and enjoying it thoroughly.
However, I've just started watching a series I'd been putting off for a while, and I'm completely hooked. Planetes is about a future where space debris is a hazard to life and future development, and the lowest job on the social scale is actually suiting up and being an astronaut to pick up all the garbage.
And oh my goodness they've nailed the physics nearly perfectly. This show does not pay lip service to Newtonian mechanics, and there's no magic technology like jump gates to get you places quickly.
Add to that it's a pretty decent drama too, and the story actually appears to be linear and non-episodic. I love the artistic style and the characterisations.. and a minor point usually lost on most future anime, the characters are from countries all over the Earth instead of just Japan.
My quick overview doesn't do it justice, but the opening credit sequence is absolutely full of win. For anime+space buffs, this is a must watch.. basically a quick anime overview of the history of rocketry and spaceflight:
The Hwacha, Goddard launch and V2/London bombing frames are damn nice touches. I can't tell who the old guy is between the Hwacha and Goddard launches.. is it Tsiolkovsky? (EDIT: Yes! It is Tsiolkovsky! The diagram in the back is one of his rocket diagrams). I like the Sputnik/Laika/Mercury/Ham frames and then later a Vostok (presumably Gagarin's flight)/Apollo 11 sequence. Bonus points to anyone who can identify the older stuff... Looks like there's some "history of Chinese rocketry" in there, but I can't quite place it.
Opening scene (in English) to give the show some context
EDIT2: While reading up some more on Tsiolkovsky I found this beautiful quote he wrote 98 years ago:
To place one's feet on the soil of asteroids, to lift a stone from the moon with your hand, to construct moving stations in ether space, to organize inhabited rings around Earth, moon and sun, to observe Mars at the distance of several tens of miles, to descend to its satellites or even to its own surface-what could be more insane! However, only at such a time when reactive devices [rockets] are applied, will a great new era begin in astronomy: the era of more intensive study of the of heavens.
Flash Games
Mar. 12th, 2009 01:55 pmBible Fight. Biblical Mortal Kombat action! Jesus vs Moses! Eve vs Mary! Who will deal the finishing blow?!!
QWOP. Definitive reason why we don't use keyboards to control our legs.
QWOP. Definitive reason why we don't use keyboards to control our legs.
Yes, these audio clips are real (though out of context...)
Barack Obama is tired of your motherfucking shit
Holy Constitutional Crisis, Batman!
Dec. 1st, 2008 06:13 pmOK, remember back in mid-October, where Canada had it's own election just 2 weeks before the American one and another Conservative minority was elected?
There was talk that everything would remain civil and cordial and that opposition parties would try to work with the new government. Then they released a mini-budget so unpalatable it was impossible for any of the other parties to accept, under the assumption that the opposition wouldn't be crazy enough to let the government collapse and hold another election just 6 weeks after the last one.
What has happened next is like the entire school deciding to take on the school yard bully aside and beat him to a bloody pulp.
The three opposition parties have formed a coalition... The centrist* Liberal and leftist* NDP, even though they have less seats in the house together than the Conservatives do are proposing to collapse the government and petition to the Governor-General (The Queen's representative in Canada) that rather than hold another election, that they should form a new government, with the support of the seperatist Bloc Quebecois. Dogs and cats, living together.
It's radical, highly unstable, and it just might work. The usually cocky, confident Conservatives are panicking. It's an amazing show.
*Centrist and leftist by North American standards. I know that in the spectrum of world politics our leftist parties are centrist at best.
There was talk that everything would remain civil and cordial and that opposition parties would try to work with the new government. Then they released a mini-budget so unpalatable it was impossible for any of the other parties to accept, under the assumption that the opposition wouldn't be crazy enough to let the government collapse and hold another election just 6 weeks after the last one.
What has happened next is like the entire school deciding to take on the school yard bully aside and beat him to a bloody pulp.
The three opposition parties have formed a coalition... The centrist* Liberal and leftist* NDP, even though they have less seats in the house together than the Conservatives do are proposing to collapse the government and petition to the Governor-General (The Queen's representative in Canada) that rather than hold another election, that they should form a new government, with the support of the seperatist Bloc Quebecois. Dogs and cats, living together.
It's radical, highly unstable, and it just might work. The usually cocky, confident Conservatives are panicking. It's an amazing show.
*Centrist and leftist by North American standards. I know that in the spectrum of world politics our leftist parties are centrist at best.
The fallout has begun: Details about Sarah Palin's lack of basic knowledge about geography, tantrums over campaign staff, bizarre behaviour begin to emerge
The vid, even though it's from the O'Reilly factor, won't kill you (you may die laughing though).
The vid, even though it's from the O'Reilly factor, won't kill you (you may die laughing though).
Swearing reveals character
Nov. 5th, 2008 09:41 am.. and when you swear and what you swear about tells a lot about you.
This just sounds too awesome:
This just sounds too awesome:
The debates unnerved both candidates. When he was preparing for them during the Democratic primaries, Obama was recorded saying, "I don't consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, 'You know, this is a stupid question, but let me … answer it.' So when Brian Williams is asking me about what's a personal thing that you've done [that's green], and I say, you know, 'Well, I planted a bunch of trees.' And he says, 'I'm talking about personal.' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'."
The moment
Nov. 5th, 2008 01:49 am*This* is what I was watching as they announced the final result:
It's something about those poor kids from Spelman College in Atlanta. They seemed to be collapsed and crying rather than just celebrating.
Prop 8 in California is tightening up. CNN's exit polls indicate it might get a lot closer.. even going over to No. Alameda county near San Fran hasn't completely reported yet. Watching it...
EDIT: Damn, looked harder at the numbers, don't think they're going to close the gap. I don't think it will get called tonight.
Not as important, but I was kinda hoping Franken would win his senate seat in Minnesota. That's uber-tight.
It's something about those poor kids from Spelman College in Atlanta. They seemed to be collapsed and crying rather than just celebrating.
Prop 8 in California is tightening up. CNN's exit polls indicate it might get a lot closer.. even going over to No. Alameda county near San Fran hasn't completely reported yet. Watching it...
EDIT: Damn, looked harder at the numbers, don't think they're going to close the gap. I don't think it will get called tonight.
Not as important, but I was kinda hoping Franken would win his senate seat in Minnesota. That's uber-tight.
