gah,

i know i say this every time, but NEVER AGAIN will i procrastinate like this...

everything is done... but i'm such an anal-retentive moron that i really destroyed my own personal life these last few days... no nothing except paper writing and presentation making... grr...

and now that that's all done, guess who gets to mark student papers and exams! whee! i feel like drinking...

Along the lines of xkcd, I guess:

Sorry about the outage there, folks. I forgot that they were upgrading the server.

Someone want to punch these coordinates near Medicine Hat into Google Earth?

50° 0'38.20"N 110° 6'48.32"W

Giant head listening to an iPod?

Yeehoo! That's great Andy! Together I think we got the whole geekiness of the internet covered.

I may be overstepping my bounds here, but

Wii Blogger FTW!!

Really, Andy, instead of "I finished second and may get some sort of prize", you've got to say "I'm the best launch-day Wii-Blogger in the World!" It's all about the spin...

Congrats, buddy.

Executive Producer Ben Karlin quits 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report':

Mr. Karlin routinely shuttled the two blocks between Mr. Stewart’s studio in Midtown Manhattan and Mr. Colbert’s, sometimes traveling by scooter as one show ended its taping and the other began.

“Ben has been doing this a long time,” Mr. Herzog [president of Comedy Central] said. “It’s a grind. Four nights a week. Forty-some odd weeks a year.”

Mr. Herzog added: “I couldn’t stress more that it’s all amicable.”

Judging from the coverage on Global (as an aside, is there really no one else covering this? anywhere? internet? radio? Is Lynda Steele the best person they could find?) it looks like Dinning will finish first on the "first ballot", but Captain Vague's pretty solidly in second. Based on what I've heard, that means that he's going to come up the middle and win on the "second ballot".

(Speaking of which, I wonder why Global's implying that there would be an interval to count the "second ballot" of the preferential system. When you're tabulating the first-choice votes, wouldn't you enter in the second choices at the same time? It would mean that you could have run-off results, well, instantaneously. Strange.)

As for the, uh, nerd, maybe it's because he's got that kind of image that I like him. It really seemed like it was, as Rick Mercer describes, the underdog taking it from the establishment candidates. I disagree with his actions on the dubious Québecois "nation" issue, but he seems like a solid figure -- to contrast with his predecessor. For the moment, I like what I hear from Dion, and I'm hopeful that a good relationship with Gerard Kennedy and some taking of the advice of Howard Dean about being a national party will make the Liberals a positive choice, rather than just "not-the-Conservatives" as they have been for the past couple of elections.

(One last thought: could the Conservatives play worse music at their convention?)

i'm happy with Dion... let's just hope he does stuff in this portfolio... and not that it's a major issue on here, what's wrong with choosing the nerd?


and alberta??
from CTV posted 20 minutes ago:
"With 34 of 83 constituencies reporting Saturday night, Dinning and Ed Stelmach are tied at 36 per cent. Ted Morton has 28 per cent."

this could get interesting... though, it depends on whether they're counting urban or rural constituencies thus far...

Rick Mercer:

The Liberals went into this convention with a host of choices. They could have gone with a battle-tested politician, a former athlete, a world famous academic or a food bank founder from the West; at the end of the day they choose the nerd.

That’s pretty Canadian.