Turkey in radical revision of Islamic texts

I am so incredibly jealous of you, Jesse...

some of my friends went to Sasquatch last year and said it was AWESOME.
so, so, SO jealous...
alas, one needs money to do fun things like that.



and yes, count me in on the listening party too... whatever name it's got.

Hells yeah for the listening party! though that sounds boring, we need a better name. hmmm. I'll get back to you on that one.

I'm goin to sasquatch baby!!!! All I've gotta do now is buy tickets, get the time off work. figure out how I'm getting to the gorge and how I'm gonna pay for it. but thats all minor details!

While I'm on a posting spree, it seems, might as well mention this: Stelmach wants full report on oilsands moratorium:

The Alberta Conservatives will not decide for months on a request . . . to halt development leases in three huge and environmentally sensitive swaths of the oilsands region, Conservative Leader Ed Stelmach said today.

The request threatens to pit Stelmach's commitment to environmental protection against his campaign mantra of not "touching the brake" on energy development, although he repeatedly dodged that question as the final week of campaigning towards next Monday's election began.

...

"Governments do not control the economy," Stelmach said. "The last time the economy was controlled by a government was back in the 1980s and it was the federal Trudeau Liberals... we're not going back to those dark days.

Industry giants including Petro-Canada, Imperial Oil, Husky Energy and Suncor Energy support the request for protected conservation areas in a January letter to the Alberta government by the Cumulative Environmental Management Association. The letter asks that the government not sell oilsands leases in the three areas until at least 2011.

The first sentence of the second last paragraph of a CBC report about a medical study, quoting the author:

"The upshot of this research is that there isn't a one-size-fits-all approach," said Baldwin.

Doctor knows best: take-charge patients have poorer outcomes
Patients who choose to be highly involved in their medical treatment actually fare less well with chronic health problems than patients who defer to their doctors, finds a new study.

It's always nice when code you haven't change for weeks suddenly decides to stop working. Ugh.

Also, further to this bitch about operating systems, even better than sneaking updates on you at shutdown is waiting to configure those updates until you startup again.

How long did they spend designing Vista, anyway?

Damn! I was just remembering that conversation about Glencross we were having this weekend.

In terms of making the playoffs, ok they do have a 1.2% chance of making the playoffs, but at least they have a chance of making the playoffs, and from the team's history, that might be all that they need.

I continue to be amazed at the frequency with which Curtis Glencross's name appears on the scoresheet from Oilers games. Admittedly, I haven't taken to watching them in their entirety in a while. Anyone want to shed some light on this interesting development? I wonder if he doesn't get traded this week. (Or perhaps open up some other pending free agent to be traded.)

Also, for those who still hold out hope (looking at you, Gauthier), from a post on BoA, here's a site that calculates your team's odds of making the playoffs: SportsClubStats.com.

The Oilers are at a sure-bet 1.2% right now. According to these calculations, they need to go 14-5-1 over the last 20 games to even have a 0.5% chance of making the playoffs.

Well don't really want to post up the nostalgia song I usually post when talking about but the past, but you know what it is.

Anyways, time really doesn't wait for anyone, it is a scary though that we've been graduated for 8 years already. Heck my brother is going to his 10 year reunion this year. Wether we do something or nothing at all time keeps marching on. So live life, that's about good of advice I can give you.

I just had one of those perspective-inducing moments.

I went for a walk in my neighbourhood and not only did I find a prime saskatoon picking spot for next summer (there were dried berries on the bushes, apparently people aren't taking advantage!), but I think I walked past the guy I had the HUGEST crush on in high school... and I really didn't recognise him. I recognised his mom... which led me to think that it probably WAS him, with the same nice curly dark brown hair, and new glasses... But anyway, it got me to thinking - here's the perspective part - it's been TEN YEARS since I lusted over him in highschool... ten years since I developed that paralysing crush... thankfully I'm not paralysed any more, but holy crap... and then that I didn't recognise him.... it made me laugh.

TEN YEARS!


and here's the real kicker, we've been out of highschool for nearly 8 years now. whoa.