“We depend too much on coal” — @MayorMandel #p2syyc; glad someone said that too— Chris Turner (@theturner) May 29, 2013 .@MMandryk IEA says we have ~3 years left (worldwide) to stop building coal power to avoid 450ppm. SaskParty renewables investment is poor.— Saskboy K. (@saskboy) May 29, 2013 The Leader-Post
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Aboriginal Students Centre Launch at UofR
The expanded space for the ASC was launched on Thursday in the RIC building. Many dignitaries were on hand. Shawn Fraser was rep’ing the City, and gave a short and sweet 2 minute speech. Everyone else was a bit more verbose, but all heartfelt and excited by the newly christened
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Forward Together #UofR: Buffy St. Marie – Live Blog
Buffy St. Marie tackled the subject of Aboriginal peoples’ self image. What has been the basis for it? In many cases in popular culture, it’s from philosophers in Europe who never met the First Peoples in their life! #Buffy event at #FNUniv is almost full 10 min to start. http://t.co/TNO8jZ4K0a—
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wab Kinew at UofR Minifie Lecture
On Tuesday I tried to live blog Wab’s lecture from my smart phone, but the WiFi or something else wasn’t working right. The lecture will be online soon, and is on Access Communications coming up very son on Friday and again on Sunday I think I heard. Check it out,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Transportation: Where to go, and how to get there in #YQR
– Most of my speech as heard in the video above, and posted to my Regina politics blog: I’m very pleased to have been asked to speak at Campion College about transportation issues. I got my Computer Science – co-op degree from here a decade ago, and I never imagined
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Oiled Up
There’s a suspicious situation uncovered at the UofR, by CBC. IPAC, the CO(2) CCS project was audited, and there were apparent conflicts of interest in how some of the money was spent. The report stopped short of saying there was crime, but implied there was the possibility of it. Only
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: V-Day Bellydance Flash Mob
Here’s an interview to explain what this flash mobbing was all about. More women joined the mob after my video recording stopped… There’s an encore at a mall tonight at 7:30; watch the videos for details.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Medical Tricorder
I got to use a device at lunch-hour today that had aspects of a medical tricorder, the near magical medical scanning devices used first by the fictional Dr. McCoy on the Starship Enterprise. This modern, non-invasive scanner can look at skin and detect signs of diabetes, giving the user an
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #IdleNoMore University of Regina Round Dance
Cadmus Delorme started off the speaking without a mic (and was audible!). Here he is with some amplification. Let’s amplify his message over the Internet, also. The noon hour finished up this way: It’s my third Round Dance of Idle No More. Here’s the second, on Albert St. Regina kicked
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Workin’ For The Money
I always find it so interesting to see people making well in excess of $100,000/year. I really have to stretch to find ways to spend it all in my imagination. Feels a bit like Brewster’s Millions. There are some jobs where I think it’s acceptable to make well more than
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Regina Related Video
Electric car infrastructure finally in place along the Trans-Canada Highway! == University of Regina Cougar Cheer Team wins nationals again.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: SaskPower: At Least 13 Years Out of Touch
I’m sorry Canada, and the world. I’ve tried to convince my province’s public utility that there are huge benefits from dialing down the reliance on coal burned electricity, but they won’t listen. They haven’t even removed or updated a shockingly out-dated “Solar” page on their website that lists information that
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Geist on Copyright vs. Internet
An interesting, long lecture from Canadian copyright expert Michael Geist, given at the U of Sask. recently.
ADDED: Here’s a little on open government, as presented at the U of Regina
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Commodity In the Real World
Now @JephMaystruck is reppin' the book Brandwashed by Martin Lindstrom – solid read #SYPElunch— Jackson Middleton (@KiltedBroker) September 19, 2012 Everything in our world is a commodity – everything is either bought or sold and will be recommended or not. #SYPElunch— Jackson Middleton (@KiltedBroker) September 19, 2012 I read Jackson’s
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Immigration
Working on campus: allowed. Work a shitty job at Walmart for two weeks, and declare the income: deportation. It’s the reality that international students face in Canada. Those students placing their hopes in the hands of Jason Kenney, are going to need that church for a while. Here’s a timely
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Open Possibilities
Fourteen years ago last night I was laying in a new bed, on my own as an adult in the wider world for the first time. Besides my worry and wonder about the coming school year was my nostalgia and longing for the previous Summer months when my Grandpa was
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: As Close As We’ll Get
SaskAdapt.ca feels like waving the white flag, but it is an important website, and a project at the UofR. It’s also the closest we’ll get to an admission from the Sask Party government that climate change is real, and is a grave threat to our people (and every living thing
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Good Thing It’s ^Not Pollution, Eh?
– Research and Innovation Centre at UofRegina; site of “clean energy” investment by Shell and other fine fossil fuel financiers. One of the more ridiculous logical fallacies that climate change denialists use is that carbon dioxide can’t be pollution because it can also be breathed by plant life. It’s really
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Who Owns Creations
One of my most popular videos is one of Richard Stallman answering my questions about the proprietary nature and danger of iPads and cell phones. YouTube linked me to this other interesting video where an early Radio Shack laptop is visible. It ran on AA batteries, and I used it
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