Congrats, Jess. I wish I had a job... uh, that paid me more money than I spend in a given four month period.

And, as a final thought on my rant, I guess my point is that the outcome punishment is bad if you're, in your example, trying to eliminate the cutting down of trees. But clearly I am not as wise as Colin Campbell.

How tantalizingly close we are... last night I unloaded about a hundred or so boxes of Nintendo Wii from the purolator plane. I'd better be able to get one as soon as they're on sale, I mean, am I not responsible for everyone getting one now?

So, in case any of you are wondering, the value of a BA is exactly $1/hour. (I just got a job and they're going to pay me an extra dollar an hour because I have a degree.)

In regards to the hockey injury decision - according to Karen Blixen who wrote Out of Africa (an autobiography of the time she spend farming in Africa, which differs greatly from the movie of the same title) the Kikuyu's (a tribe in the area) punishments for crime depend on outcome, not intent. So, if you lie in wait in a man's home and slit his throat, you will be punished the same as if you were cutting down a tree and it happened to crush a passing stranger. Usually some sort of transfer of resource was involved (ie a number of livestock), and the reasoning was that the family's suffering would be equal in either case, and so should their compensation.

Wow. Off the Hook: League decides not to suspend John-Michael Liles.

What really surprises me is this justification from Colin Campbell:

"The history of the player shows this isn’t something he’s done time after time, and there was no serious injury to Ryan as far as the knee.

The time of the game, this was not an instance where he was trying to get Ryan back for an earlier hit. It was just the play itself. He was trying to stop Ryan from getting past him and scoring a goal."

Had the hit by Liles put Smyth on the surgeon’s table for knee surgery, he would be looking at a suspension. It didn’t and he isn’t.
...

Campbell got it right."

Good news, Alison.

TV Links

pardon my language... all is well again... i found it!!!

shit, fuck, bloody well damn it all to hell, i think i lost my usb key.
please be in the truck... i do not want to have to phone Grande Prairie... fuck.

Hello internets, I've missed you. It's ok, I'm back now. Lets just cuddle for a while ok? ok.

-*Cancelled*-
Movie Night
@ Jess' Place
19:00 hr

Feature: Casshern

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Enjoy.

-*Cancelled*-

Edit: 18:38 hr
Sorry, we'll have to save this for another day.

DEAR ANDY (& Co.) IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING PLANNED OUT ALREADY FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY YOU SHOULD COME TO THIS PARTY WE'RE THROWING:


THE CONCEPT IS PEOPLE TELL THEIR MOST AMAZING STORIES AND THEN AT THE END OF THE NIGHT THE CROWD VOTES FOR IT.
AND I KNOW YOU, GOOD SIR HAVE AWESOME STORIES TO TELL. YOU COULD BE RIGHTFULLY CROWNED BEST STORYTELLER OF THE CITY