My wife mentioned my alleged bald spot the other night, after I refused to move some furniture for her with sufficient alacrity. She’s not the first to have made note of it. There have been persistent rumours that I have a bald spot just a little back from the very peak of
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Scott's DiaTribes: Season’s Greetings
I’ve been off for a few days enjoying the holidays – I’ve not gone anywhere online – don’t worry Anyhow, to all my political friends, foes, and in between, I hope you had a very Merry Christmas, and I wish you the best for the upcoming New Year.
Continue readingMind of Dan: Site upgrades and changes
It has been a long time since the look and feel of Mind of Dan was updated, and frankly the site as it is now is kind of ugly. That will change very soon. Also since I launched Irregular Climate and especially since Planet3.0 launched, much of what I write
Continue readingZorg Report: Why Can’t Americans Just Not Be Celebrities?
Why Can’t Americans Just Not Be Celebrities? Well, I guess it’s because they don’t have an integrated, mature society in which others care for one another. I often have heard Obama talk about values American cherish, I’ve heard him embrace Reagan and so on, but you just know his heart
Continue readingZorg Report: Why Can’t Americans Just Not Be Celebrities?
Why Can’t Americans Just Not Be Celebrities? Well, I guess it’s because they don’t have an integrated, mature society in which others care for one another. I often have heard Obama talk about values American cherish, I’ve heard him embrace Reagan and so on, but you just know his heart
Continue readingZorg Report: What is with the half-face photo thing for people on webpages?
I really don’t get around much on the web, you may have noted, but now it seems that, everywhere I go—friends, acquaintances, total strangers—they all seem to be putting half their faces on their webphotos. Is this cool? Why? –Perhaps this is like getting a tattoo—a way for deeply conformist
Continue readingZorg Report: What is with the half-face photo thing for people on webpages?
I really don’t get around much on the web, you may have noted, but now it seems that, everywhere I go—friends, acquaintances, total strangers—they all seem to be putting half their faces on their webphotos. Is this cool? Why? –Perhaps this is like getting a tattoo—a way for deeply conformist
Continue readingMind of Dan: Happy Birthday Carl
Thank you for inspiring us
Carl Sagan was born on this day back in 1934
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Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: If I go missing after this Friday, this is the reason why
Elders Scroll V: Skyrim, is due to be released. Some video of the scenery and characters that was released by Bethesda, the maker of the game, has me drooling: If Harper is going to send this country to Hell in a handbasket, as I believe he will, at l…
Continue readingMind of Dan: Sanity is overrated
I seriously wonder about my sanity when I get songs like this stuck in my head
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Continue readingCapital Pride + a Baby Squirrel
I had a great time this weekend at Capital Pride. I've been participating for a few years now and it's fun to see how the Green Party contingent grows each year, and how it at least seems like the crowd is growing every year.
I liked the new ro…
Scott's DiaTribes: Destruction in Goderich
If you missed it from yesterday, Goderich Ontario was struck by a tornado that developed from a thunderstorm coming off of Lake Huron yesterday (Sunday) at around 4 pm EDT. It was a bad one:
Numerous buildings were completely destroyed, with roofs and siding ripped off. An entire residential block had to be evacuated as crews worked to contain a large gas leak. Tragically, one man who was working in the salt mine at the time the storm ripped through was killed..While the investigation in the tornado ravaged community continues, Environment Canada considers the tornado to be rated an F2 or F3 storm on the Fujita Scale with winds […]
Continue readingThings are looking all right, for me
I don’t know about the rest of the planet, though.London is burning from violence. The Earth’s climate continues to change and effect every weather pattern on our globe. Wars continue, unabated by any notion of peace from the core nations of the world….
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: An observation of mine on the weather/climate change
When a cold snap or a blizzard hits the US deep South, those people who are climate change skeptics are quick to denounce “global warming” or “climate change” as being fake, or hooey, or so on.
I’ve not heard that same cla…
Guest Bloggers
With the campaign fully underway I have not had much time at all to write new blog posts.
I'll try to get back in the habit of once a week posts but long gone are the days of four to five posts a week. With that said I'll try to write more oft…
Scott's DiaTribes: ‘It is SO hot out’. ‘How hot out is it?’
We’re in the middle of a Canadian wide heat-wave here (with the exception of the east and west coasts); one of the more extensive ones we’ve had in a while.
I thought it might be fun to do one of those “It is so hot out” threads. The obvious one people can come up with is “you can fry an egg on the sidewalk” (and you probably will be able to on Thursday in SW Ontario – forecast highs are 36-38 deg Celsius, before the humidity), but I’d like to see other examples people can come up with.
IF you’re really creative, try giving the answer in a […]
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: A contrast
During the Olympics, Vancouver folks were very patriotic, yet very civilized in their fervour, as it should be.
A year later, their hockey team loses a 7th game in the Stanley Cup final – a team supposedly representing all of Canada (which I̵…
Scott's DiaTribes: Things that bug me about the Stanley Cup
One thing that really annoys me is banks making commercials trying to gain favour by going all nationalistic and pulling out the “Canada hasn’t won a Stanley Cup in 18 years!”. A newsflash to them and to a lot of fans saying the same thing: this isn’t the Olympics. This is 2 teams representing their cities, not their countries. There are as many Canadians on Boston’s team as Vancouver’s. Last year’s Stanley Cup champions, the Chicago Black Hawks, had the most Canadians of any team in the playoffs. Why weren’t they “Canada’s team?”
Let’s save the fervour of cheering for your country at actual Canada vs USA games at […]
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: And now for something completely different..
I don’t often post a lot on here other then political blogposts, but it’s the end of the weekend, and not much is going on, so I thought I’d post something else (okay, I could talk about the Senate page protesting Harper’s throne speech and getting canned, but several thousand others have already done so).
In my spare time, I am a big fan of Role Playing Games, or RPGS. I’ve played some online, and I play those I like that are home versions. One of the major games I’ve always liked is The Elder Scrolls, which has been coming out from Bethesda Softworks since 1994. They have a […]
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