It just occurred to me that today is V-E Day, the day in which the Allies formally celebrated the ass-kicking of Nazi Germany and Hitler’s reduction in rank from dangerous megalomaniac to overused rhetorical device in arguments and gag character in a few Mel Brooks films.
For you budding history buffs, V-J day takes place a little later on this year: August 15th.
Well, now we know what your hands look like if you stay underwater for a week: like Keith Richards! Case in point:
(For those not familiar with Quebecois colloquialisms, “tabernac” is an all-purpose swear word. It is derived from the term “tabernacle”; in Quebecois French, many church terms are often used as profanities.)
The story about Luc Cagadoc, the Filipino boy in Montreal who was punished for eating his lunch Filipino-style with a fork and spoon, has been discussed widely amongst members of my immediate and extended family. It’s also caught the attention of the media on both sides of the Pacific and the Akbayan Citizens Action Party in the Philippines, who marched in protest at the Canadian Embassy in Manila:
Here are some links to stories covering the shameful spoon-and-fork incident and the protest:
What the spoon-and-fork movement against the rat-bastards who run that Montreal school needs is a mascot. I cannot think of anyone more appropriate than the great superhero, The Tick…
After all, his battle-cry is most appropriate:
The Toronto Ruby User’s Group is having its first Hackathon tomorrow at the Tucows offices. Tomorrow’s goal is to implement the functionality of libarchive and libtar as both a pure-Ruby version and as Ruby/C bindings to the libarchive and libtar libraries.
The hackathon will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Tucows offices (96 Mowat Avenue, near the corner of King and Dufferin). Ruby local hero Austin Ziegler will provide the pizza; Yours Truly is the Tucows host. If you’d like to participate, sign up on the wiki!
“Let’s get down to business,” says the old ad for men’s underwear shown below. I really hope my upcoming employee review doesn’t go like this…
I’m busy today, so in lieu of writing, here’s another amusing photograph for you to enjoy:
Rapture/End Times blog entries are like Lay’s Potato Chips…you can’t eat just one! I promise, this is the last one of the day.
For further reference, see the Immanentize the Eschaton entry of Wikipedia.