Apple Sheep – fall in! The next exceedingly incremental step of the latest Apple generative tech monolith is available. Blah blah blah better video, better camera. But hoo-boy, if you like the Ipad(3?) then just wait till the ipad(s?) comes out. I would have focused more on the generative
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Where Did Pierre Poutine Get The Script?
“He didn’t come up with the same script in 30 ridings.” Exactly. In both official languages. That suggests organisation. On the other hand, I didn’t know Andy Prescott was this guy. I certainly hope he wasn’t involved (as he maintains). Andy’s one of the more likable ones.
Continue readingknitnut.net: French parrot needs translator
As you might recall, my double-yellow-headed Amazon parrot, Kazoo, came to me at the age of 13 from a Francophone family. Although she has a fairly limited vocabulary, she’s a very, very expressive bird. She can say Hello like a harried mother, or like a kid getting home from school,
Continue readingChronicles of a Pure Laine: Canadians and Canadian movies
Last week was an important one for the Canadian movie industry. The 32nd Annual Genie Awards, honoring Canada’s greatest, was held Thursday. As expected by many, Québécois movies did rather well.Among the many recipients, one particularly caught my attention, Starbuck. It’s the story of a perpetual adolescent who discovers that,
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Dundernomics 101: Public Sector Employment Numbers #nlpoli
In an interview with CBC’s David Cochrane, Premier Kathy Dunderdale said that the public service has grown by more than 2,100 jobs in the past eight years and that total employment in the public service is about 9,000. Well, not exactly. That depends on what you consider to be public
Continue readingChronicles of a Pure Laine: Canadians and Canadian movies
Last week was an important one for the Canadian movie industry. The 32nd Annual Genie Awards, honoring Canada’s greatest, was held Thursday. As expected by many, Québécois movies did rather well.Among the many recipients, one particularly caught my…
Continue readingChronicles of a Pure Laine: Canadians and Canadian movies
Last week was an important one for the Canadian movie industry. The 32nd Annual Genie Awards, honoring Canada’s greatest, was held Thursday. As expected by many, Québécois movies did rather well.Among the many recipients, one particularly caught my attention, Starbuck. It’s the story of a perpetual adolescent who discovers that,
Continue readingAdmitting to lesser sins
The Liberals in Guelph admit they were behind the robo-call that called the Conservative candidate out as being anti-choice, and say that yes, they should have properly identified it as coming from the Liberals. But, they say, that it was in response to “lies” being spread about Frank Valeriote, and that it
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Will any of this stuff ever stick to Alberta’s Teflon-coated premier?
Finance Minister Ron Liepert, centre, lets a couple of oil drilling contractors know what he thinks of their political judgment. Alberta politicians may not be exactly as illustrated and may not always come in threes. Below: Gary Mar, Doug Griffiths and Alison Redford; Don Herring of the CAODC. So far
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCon: Where’s Waldo? Who’s Poutine?
Canada’s short-lived version of Where’s Waldo, is now closing one chapter in the morning, to open a new phase of the search. Will Pierre Poutine finger their co-conspirators, and spill the curds about the whole electoral fraud scheme? I’m guessing that is unlikely to happen, so it will be up
Continue readingFusing and Musing: Image of the day…
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Continue readingFusing and Musing: Poem of the day
image source An Almost Made Up Poem I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny they are small, and the fountain is in France where you wrote me that last letter and I answered and never heard from you again. you
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: more on alberta mla extra pay and the privileges & elections committee.
Alberta MLA's at a meeting of the Privileges and Elections Committee. More information has been relvealed about controversial $1,000 monthly payments made to Alberta MLA’s for being members of a committee that has not met for three years. Retiring Edmonton-Gold Bar Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald revealed late last week that
Continue readingwmtc: they’re all civilians. they’ve always been civilians.
A U.S. soldier is accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan people. Civilians, we are told. As if all the Afghans and all the Iraqis slaughtered by US bombs, raids, drones, guns, white phosphorous, and torture were something other than civilians. The US has been waging two simultaneous wars against civilian populations
Continue readingA Special Sunday Night Lullaby
AllTheLovelyThatFits MusicalityVille This showed up in my mailbox the other day. Thirty-eight thousand gold stars. At the very, very least. .
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: The Liberal Post
The Liberal Party is like a newspaper, regardless of whether there is news or not, it has to keep coming out claiming something important has happened because if it doesn’t it will go under. Just like newspapers have to print every morning, regardless of whether there is any real news,
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Turkey-head
For years I have confused Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, with Rowan Atkinson, AKA Mr. Bean. When I have written about the profoundly disappointing lack of leadership in the English church over the last decade in regard to gay marriage — and how this has split the Anglican congregation as
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCon: Poutine Hot and Fresh on Monday
Monday morning is going to eat Pierre Poutine for breakfast. If that doesn’t make sense, you’re not following RoboCon closely enough. Poutine is the alias of a person in Guelph that has conspired with someone who gave them access to the phone numbers of thousands of Canadians who were undecided
Continue readingArt Threat: New video of Michael D’Antuono’s art
Last month I posted an interview with Michael D’Antuono. A few days ago he sent me the above video, which is a beautifully narrated piece which outlines the background of his newest portrait series, Corporacy. An excellent watch.
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