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We Eat With a Fork and Spoon, Tabernac!

(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:

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Toronto Ruby Users Group Hackathon Tomorrow

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!

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Getting Down to Business

“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…

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Trickle-Down Economics, Visually Explained

I’m busy today, so in lieu of writing, here’s another amusing photograph for you to enjoy:

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Bikini Girls of the Apocalypse

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.

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More Rapture Material

Here’s more supplementary reading for those of you who enjoyed the photo I posted earlier.

The best (and most amusing) introduction to the Rapture comes from the comic book tracts of John T. “Jack” Chick. A sample of his Rapture tract, Here He Comes! appears below; click the image to read the whole thing.

Excerpt from John T. Chick's rapture tract, 'Here He Comes!'

If your house or apartment has an intercom at the front door, you can use the Rapture to deal with pesky Jehovah’s Witnesses like I did.

Before the Da Vinci Code, there was the Left Behind series of books, the story of a scrappy band of people who didn’t amke the cut for the Rapture but are now preparing for the Second Coming. I bought the first book second-hand at Avenue Victor Hugo Books’ “Going out of business because we don’t know how to run one” sale and will read the rest of the series someday when I’m in the mood for some junk lit and the ultimate deus ex machina. For a review of what the books are like, check out this Salon article, Fundamentally Unsound.

And finally, because I hate to see you leave this blog empty-handed, I give you a handy PDF file titled 14 Things to Do if You Have Missed the Rapture [108KB PDF file]. Me, I plan to rent a lot of videos and never return them.

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Sign of the Times

(In case you’re not up on the eschatology of the more whacked-out branches of Protestants, here’s the Wikipedia entry on The Rapture.)