Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

The actor who played G’Kar on Babylon 5, has died at age 59 of lung cancer. He had also appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation as a Romulan, and in The Fugitive as a one armed murderer. A reunion of the origional B5 cast now would be difficult with both Dr. Franklin and G’Kar’s actors dead.

I watched the rebroadcast of the Olympics closing ceremonies, and CBC switched to different shots of the stage as a protester or drunk person ran up to the podium before Jack Rogge was speaking. There was only one microphone after he tore it away when he was dragged off the stage which you could see in the rebroadcast if you knew what to look for.
Who the man was with, I have no idea.

Update: Here’s a media mention. CBC Sunday Report also did a segment on the prankster who tore off the microphone.

Bode Miller a US alpine skiier went to the games to have fun, not to “win medals” as he revealed in an interview. And the USA wonders why they didn’t do as well as they expected they would? Miller didn’t even, “get drunk the night before races.” Well shucks, that’s good to know.
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Don Knotts died on Friday. He played Barney Fife on the Andy Grifith Show

Samantha Burns linked to me since I wrote an article she published.
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"While the average expected Valentine's Day spending on gifts for others
is $92.59 per person, Canadians are more concerned with showing appreciation
than with extravagance." - Source Pollara

But in Sask. the average guy spends only $60 on his sweetie on the big day of romance. I’m happy to have brought that average way down. Birthdays and Christmas are the “big” gift times, or just any time for a little gift.
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Who’s better Barbie or Ken?
Ken’s better, because even though he’s unable to remove his underwear, at least he has room for his internal organs.

What would it take to get you into a glittery dress and a bra? $1 Million Dollars, and it would have to be at Halloween.

Compare your IQ to a Simpsons character, and which one do you think has an IQ closest to yours. My IQ would be closest to Principal Skinner’s, and to compare myself to another Simpson’s character, I’d choose Homer because there is no way I could come out dumber, because I am so smrt.

If Puff the magic dragon flew by your window tomorrow night and invited you to a party in his cave with the teletubbies and Catherine Zeta Jones, would u accept and why?

I’d have to say no, because I don’t like the teletubbies, and I’d be concerned that Jones’ husband Michael would get jealous.

CBC was saying “our hockey hopes went down the drain”. Err, we won GOLD in women’s hockey, the men don’t count for all of hockey. It’s a shame the loser men hockey players will get more press than Cindy Klassen who’s won her 4th medal, a gold today. The second place in that race was also Canadian, and we got a Gold in ski sprint as well.

CBC as I reported earlier, is cancelling This is Wonderland, but you can fight their choice and sign this petition. Wonderland is my favourite CBC drama, and it’s a hoot too, so hop over and add your initials to the petition please.
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Someone lost their camera in Hawaii, or did they have it stolen? It seems it was taken by a Canadian family who decided to smuggle it into Canada and keep it after telling the victim what they did!
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CCD inventors were honoured this week. According to CBC News, “Willard Boyle, a Canadian scientist who helped invent the light-sensitive chip, accepted [the prestigious Charles Stark Draper Prize] in the U.S. on Tuesday. Boyle and George Smith will share the $500,000 US award for the invention of the “Charge-Coupled Device (CCD), a light-sensitive component at the heart of digital cameras and other widely used imaging technologies,” the U.S. National Academy of Engineering said.” Those other devices include the Hubble Space Telescope, and orthoscopic medical instruments. “Boyle and Smith came up with the idea for the device while working at Bell Laboratories in 1969. ‘It was after maybe an hour’s work,’ Boyle recalled. ‘We went over to the blackboard and we had some sketching there. We went down to our models lab and made one.’”

This story went on Slashdot’s frontpage tonight.

I planned out more of my Summer trip to Ontario and the Maritimes, last night. The Canada Pass for Greyhound that lasts for 10 days is my best option, and it’s only $379. I’m flying back home in July on Air Canada from St. John’s.

Marjory at the Provincial Library won the Sask. Smartest Radio Listener contest this week. What significance does Shilo have to Saskatchewan? Well 100 years ago during the period of 1905-1911 American blacks from Oklahoma settled in Shilo, SK to escape racism in their home state and made one of the first black settlements in Western Canada. Of course there were already many in Nova Scotia, Ontario and elsewhere in Canada.

Unipage is a free program that might replace Adobe Acrobat one day.

Gormley’s 60 seconds I mentioned the other day.

National “Be Glad You’re not Cheney” Week. Let me guess, during the week, the population will be encouraged to bag a lawyer to trim the herd down to a less litigious size? Lawyers running across the freeway after ambulances, have bcome a major safety concern around some parts. An open season might be just what nature needs to put things back into balance.

I drove home to Yorkton from Wood Mountain Sunday, ending up for supper in Moose Jaw with my friend. We went to Wayne and Lavern’s and stuffed ourselves on the buffet which was Italian themed today. I ate pizza without a fork and knife even, to much surprise, but hey it wasn’t falling apart because the pieces were small enough. I filled up in Melville on ethanol blended gas, running on a very low tank when I rolled into the Mohawk. And I added a spider plant to my fish’s water which will spruce up his bowl a little bit.

My project this week might be to finish the assembly of a model Zero airplane, but I think I don’t have the tissue covering that will be needed. I remembered to grab the dope [glue] but no paper, unless it’s in the box still. Painting will have to wait for another time when I either find the right stuff at home, or find a model shop with the right paints, in Yorkton or online. After about 12 years, it seems unlikely that the tube of glue will still work for the bit of assembly left, although I do have carpenter’s glue on hand which ought to work well on balsa wood. And the tool most important that I will need to improvise on, would be an xacto knife. I think my swiss army knife is sharp enough and ought to do the trick if I have any more peices to cut out.

Poor crazy baseball player. Daulton was a player against the championship Blue Jays of 1993, in the World Series. It’s sad to see someone so famous, so delusional, unless he’s that way just to “convince” others of his doomsday scenario for some unknown purpose. Sure I might be advertising a foil hat for pets on this webpage, but that doesn’t mean I actually THINK that the government and aliens are reading kitty’s mind. Although I have told Springfield, IL through WMAY radio that I do think that, but they knew I was kidding.

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I watched “Catch Me If You Can” [8/10] tonight, and found it to be really entertaining. I also learned how to make a wireless router work on dialup, I just needed to set the Windows sharing IP address as the DNS server for the router, and presto the webpages worked on the wireless laptop. I taped “Cast Away” yet another Tom Hanks movie and will watch it [again] later. I first saw the movie in 2003, when I was traveling North America, and it was in the tape collection of a friend in Oregon.
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In my post titling gimmick, I seem to be combining the themes of the post into one sentence. It makes for interesting reading when I go back over them later, thinking to myself, “what in the heck is that about?”

Happy Birthday on Feb. 17 to Michael Jordan, Richard Karn [Al from Home Improvement], Luc Robatille of the Kings, Denise Richards, and Renne Russo. And Clair and Evan too, since they know who they are.
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“But Lisa, that’s the beautiful part of the plan… When Winter comes the apes freeze to death.” You’ve just been subjected to an obscure Simpsons quote with Principal Skinner outlining the town’s plan to control one pest with another predator animal. It seems Australia forgot to make its toad-killing Winter backup plan.
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The Feb. 9 2006 Western Producer has an article about my hometown:
Clay mine possible in southern Sask.
Subscriber Content
A proposed $15 million kaolin mine near Wood Mountain, Sask., could be the first step toward revitalizing the community of 20 people.
Unfortunately it’s a subscriber magazine though, so the body of the article is hidden to us. The part that I do know is that the mining operation is based in Georgia USA where kaolin comes from in spades. They’d like to use a railline to transport the white chalky clay, but CP Rail plundered Wood Mountain’s branch line years ago, and the only steel still in the bed is the occasional lost spike, and 1km of stranded track running through the village of Wood Mountain where the municipal government took a legal stand against the CP pirates. If the mine does get rolling, no thanks can go out to the RM of Old Post, and the Sask. NDP who let our ecologically friendly infrastructure be ripped away without a fight. It was torn out less than two decades after the federal government used Canadian tax dollars to upgrade the quality of steel in the rails. Guess who got to profit when the high quality rails were taken away, and your hint is it wasn’t the Canadian taxpayer.

Have a look at a kaolin deposit near the highway that I think should be left alone since it’s such a neat formation. There’s a photo of it on woodmountain.ca but I took it almost 10 years ago with a poor digital camera, so the sky has a false colour.

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I was in Moose Jaw today and saw the two Tunnel tours. The Chicago tour was more interesting to me than the Chinese tunnels, mostly because one was glamourous with funny acting from the male tour guide, and the other was about racism against Chinese immigrants. At one point I saw a wood stove in the Chinese tunnels that was nearly identical to the wood stove in my parent’s kitchen [which they don’t use as anything but decoration]. In the Little Chicago Tunnel, a ’20s barmaid took the tour group to a secret door and told a little boy the secret knock of “four knocks”. Well we didn’t get in right away because the kid knocked about 10 times. Then we almost all were shot when the barmaid slipped up and asked the guard to “take care of us”, then corrected her mistake before he went to get his Tommy gun.
The most interesting thing I learned on the tour was that the Tommy gun was invented for the Great War [WWI] as a trench spraying gun, but was never used for that, then was hardly sold because of its poor accuracy. Capone bought some for about $2000, and history was made.
When the guide once asked what we were all there for, and I excitedly spoke up, “Booze!” that prompted giggles from some ladies near me. I also got asked to look into the secret hideaway fireplace to “check that no one was coming”.

While I was in “The Jaw” I had a tour of Palliser Regional Library headquarters, including their dog trick course downstairs from the library. Lunch at Mr. Sub, a -30 drive past the abandoned hospital and CCSchool, and watching “My name is Earl” TV show, and “Kinsey” [7/10] rounded out the weekend vacation in “The Jaw” with my friend. I then drove home to Wood Mountain and had rabbit stew for supper, and ruhbarb-strawberry pie for dessert.