Oh yeah curling!

No dramatic post but I'll let you guys know whats going on... We played our first playoff game. we seeded 2nd overall in the C pool (there were A,B,C and D pools). The people above us in first was that team we hated (we lost to them, and they argued with me ect). Anyway, it was a pretty good game. The people we played with were easy-going and fun and the game was really close. It was surprising because last time we played, we killed them like 11-0. This time in was tied 5-5 going into the final end. And we managed 2 points to win. So over-all it was an exciting game.

So thanks to all you lucky people that got to watch that exciting game! We love having you people out to support us! Oh wait... none of you came and watched... again...

Ed, Beck, and everyone else who wants to play AA, download Qtracker from the AA website. It does a whole lot of good stuff and lets you find other players.


Hurrah

So yeah Paras, I thought this waterbottle was yours, but I guess it isn't... oh well, free waterbottle for me, unless someone claims it, heheheh

and do I have to vote? those darn voting booths are so far away......

so... first off, Par, what does "continued with the bizarre carriage returns" mean?
I want to know what other people are saying about me... or at least get what I do know defined.

secondly, the 90's weren't just dance music, although that definitely stands out in everyone's mind. Think music from A Night at the Roxbury with Chris Kattan (and is it Wil Farrel?)

You have to remember that the 90's gave us grunge too. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains... the "Seattle Sound" that was then copied by every poser out there, and who do we remember? the Seattle bands. Fat lot of good it did the posers.

and thirdly (yes, "secondly" had TWO paragraphs, get over it.), the whole environmentalist traitor thing is nothing new. Bjorn Lomborg did the whole field a disservice when he published the Skeptical Environmentalist, based entirely on bad science. There are no two ways about it. But he still did damage. Still, it's people like Patrick Moore that make people's blood boil. He talks (in interviews) about how he loved sitting on his boat in still water just enjoying everything and yet in the same breath pronounces salmon farms as wonderful and bio-engineered crops as a good source of income for poor farmers (bullshit! it produces a chemical dependency as they're bred so that things like Roundup work wonders on them. Monsanto pays big bucks for this technology. India isn't big in GE yet because they can't afford to). Okay, anyway, enough. Sorry for the rant, but those people drive me bonkers. Maybe it's an extension of the "if you're not socialist when you're twenty, you have no heart, and if you aren't right-wing in your middle age, you have no brain" thing that made him switch. maybe he wasn't really an environmentalist, and just liked the publicity/adrenaline and finally came to his "senses" or a run-of-the-mill midlife crisis when he realized his rrsps wouldn't carry him through. sell out.

and one last thing. (so, fourthly, I guess) Please vote. Voter turnout is next to nil on this campus, and it'd be pretty darn good if we could do something instead of sitting around and complaining all the time. Who knows, with the way the ballot is this year, what you choose might actually make a big difference (eg "none of the above").

I'd say the 90's was definitely defined by the dance music (ie. Dance Mix '95)
I'd give Percy a copy of that, and the Leo's minidisk of 90's dance music.

And what's that supposed to mean? I was in the 90s...somewhat. I was probably in it just as much as all of you were!

Conspiracy!!!

Can't go too long without a post...

All right, so I was lazy on Sunday and was watching a bit of a top ten Worst Musical Acts of the 90s and I got to thinking, what defines the sound of the 90s? We all know that 80s sound all too well (many radio stations have resorted to bombarding us with it.) But what defines the 90s? To put it another way, suppose you have to introduce Percy (sorry, Percy, but it's too good of an example) to the sound of the 90s. What makes your list?

By the way, the top 5 worst of the 90s were:

1. Michael Bolton
2. Billy Ray Cyrus
3. Michael Jackson
4. Chumbawumba
5. S Club 7



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Oh yeah, after the whole netminding thing (thanks for the word, Beck) - netminding being the practice of cleaning up one's message board at the start of the month - I was planning to write a summary. As far as I can tell, though, there are only a few things to note:

• Albert ranted a lot, changed aliases a lot, attracted aussies to the site
• Alison ranted a little, continued with the bizarre carriage returns, and almost figured out how to post pictures
• There were penguin batting competitions, discussions about Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson, Lego pirates, America's Army and curling matches . . . and that was just Beck.
• Pink pirates
• Fernie
• Personality Tests
• Water on Mars
• Thunderpants, Big Fish, and Bubba Hotep
• and last, but not least, those crazy singing monkey things!:
  


There. Your life in the past month has been summarized. Now go forth and... do ... something. So decrees and the related Omnimedia corporation.

The Rainbow Plucking Orgy

Good pics Ed...
I wish I was still there...

Fernie trip pictures posted on my web-space:

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