So….hypnotic… [Flash required]
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Got this in an email from a friend, and thought it was a much better approach than the standard jeering and booing.
Subject: Fw: turn your back
Hi guys and girls:
You know that this year, as in previous ones, the Conservative Party will participate in the Pride Day Parade. Usually, they get booed and what not by the people, but we were thinking of doing something more symbolic:
When you are watching the Parade this year and you see the Conservatives approaching, remain silent, turn your back on them and let them pass by. No applause, no insults, NOTHING. Do not even look at them over your shoulder. Invite people around you to do the same.
That’s what they want to do with us in Parliament, turn their backs on us, so let’s make them feel the same, ignored, left out. Let’s give the media a nice picture: Conservatives members and supporters parading among a forest of backs and a loud silence.
Please, do it, show them how you feel. And pass this e-mail along to as many people you might think could participate in this.
P.S.: Of course, when the Conservatives are gone, remember to turn around again and enjoy the rest of the parade, hahaha! Happy Pride!!!!
Last night was an unsuccessful round one of me versus the D-Link
wireless router belonging to my friend Leesh’s parents. Normally,
Leesh’s husband, my old University buddy George would handle this, but he lives in New York. I’m all too happy to lend a hand to my best man’s in-laws.
For the technically inclined, it keeps timing out before getting an IP
address from Rogers Cablesystems’ DHCP server. I know it’s not a
problem at Rogers’ end, because the ‘net is accessible if you simply
run cat-5 directly from the cable modem to the computer works. The
firmware in the D-Link is up-to-date, too.
Earlier this year, I hooked up a Linksys wireless router to my Mom’s
Rogers cable broadband service without any problems; it just worked. I may bring mine over to Leesh’s parents’ place this Sunday and see if it works.
By sheer coincidence, I have a free trial of Roger’s cable braodband
service at my current house. I’ve taken the D-Link home to noodle with
it in the meantime.
Speaking of cable modem difficulties, those of you who are familiar
with the nuances of swearing in Quebecois French will probably enjoy this
recording of an irate cable modem subscriber unloading much bile upon a
poor tech support rep at Quebec cable provider Videotron [576KB, MP3, language warning if you speak Quebecois French]. Even if you can’t understand a word, this guy’s mile-a-minute delivery of venom is priceless.
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Hugh Always Nails it on the Head
You do read Hugh McLeod’s business card-sized comics on his blog gapingvoid, don’t you?
Click the the comic to see the entry in which it appears.
Click the the comic to see the entry in which it appears.
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Visitors
Since my landlord lives in London, England and my apartment is in a
house in downtown Accordion
City,
he’s paying me nicely to place classified ads and show the place to
potential renters. I enjoy schmoozing, the apartment is quite nice and
the applicants have largely been trios of very charming young women,
so
it’s no great hardship.
Thus far, the visitors are all responding to a posting I made in the
Craigslist, in which I point to this blog and specifically
entry with a lot of photos of the house.
A number of them have gone on to read other parts of the blog, as at
least half the visitors have congratulated me on my engagement. One
even enjoyed the Worst Date Ever
series of stories!
The best line to come from a potential renter thus far came from a
young woman, who took a peek inside my closet, saw its contents and
exclaimed “Look at you, Mister
Clothes!“
Here’s a poster that’s been making the rounds in a neighbourhood just a
little bit northeast of downtown. It’s subtly but bum-clenchingly
creepy:
I wonder if the person who posted this poster is Indecent Proposal sleazy or Single White Female nutty.
(By the bye, did you know that Single White Female 2 — a made-for-TV movie — is in post-production? As FARK.com would put it, “Hollywood is out of ideas.”)
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Balut!
[via I Got Two Shoes] Hey, a Filipino delicacy plays a role in Fear Factor!
I don’t normally eat the stuff — I only do it to freak out non-Filipinos. But other dishes like bopis (shredded fried pig lung) and dinuguan (pig blood stew)? Tasty, and will earn the respect of anyone into Klingons!