Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

Are you having trouble telling if the politician is serious or not? If you’ve watched the hacks they put on TV in the last decades, you probably will.

beanisacarrot:
“This is from A Current Affair, an Australian current affairs programme. It concerns an oil spill which occured on 21st July 1991 off the coast of Western Australia when a tanker called the Kirki lost it’s bow. The performers are John Clarke (Senator Bob Collins) and Bryan Dawe (interviewer). Clarke & Dawe had a weekly segment on A Current Affair, where they’d do a topical spoof interview. They’re now doing the same thing on The 7.30 Report.”

“Towed outside of the environment.” Brilliant!

Here is information on the long-ago discovery of this comet.

- I think this is the comet I photographed. I’ll know after a clear night where I can see all the stars around it.

E. Holmes (London, England) was a regular observer of the Andromeda galaxy (M31), so he knew the region very well. On the evening of 1892 November 6, with skies that were not very favorable, he finished making a few observations of Jupiter and some double stars with his 32-cm reflector, and then decided to take a quick look at the faint companions of Mu Andromedae and the nearby galaxy M31 before quitting for the night. Upon turning the reflector toward that region, he saw what he thought was M31 enter the field of the finder, but when he looked through the eyepiece he saw something different. Holmes said he “called out involuntarily, ‘What is the matter? There is something strange here.’ My wife heard me and thought something had happened to the instrument and came to see.”

Updates here. Some details here.

MY BETTER PHOTO HERE.

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Open Office is going to be the standard word processing suite in South Africa. That adds to the growing list of countries that are ditching the proprietary Microsoft formats and their interoperability nightmares. What’s nice about the SA decision, is that business are welcome to develop competing products and sell them. So Open Office is king now, but if they fail to innovate, a better company can build on their legacy.

On Monday I gave an interview to Mr. Jackle at “Ink” a publication for the UofR Journalism school. He was interested in new media, such as facebook, and how well blogging contributes to the democratic process. I’m going to look for it within the next month.

He asked for me to estimate how many blogs there are in Canada, and I said I couldn’t even begin to give an accurate guess without defining tricky parameters and possibly months of research. There are over 200 bloggers listed in Saskatchewan on the Sask Blogs Aggregator though.

Find me an energy analyst who says that the price of oil will again fall below $60/barrel, and I’ll show you an idiot analyst. Why is it that with a resource that is a sure bet, we’re expected to subsidize interest in its extraction and sale? The answer is: Lobbying from Big Oil.

The Green Party of Saskatchewan is on the right track. We don’t have to price ourselves out of the business going on now, but while other places in the world will lose their resource within possibly 20 years, it won’t hurt to have a long term investment tucked away in our Saskatchewan soil, for when oil is worth $200/barrel.

Who would oppose making our children richer than, well, todays oil tycoons?

I think John Murney has the campaign outlook summed up pretty well, to this point. The Sask Liberals are in play as a contender for seats this time, because unlike the 2003 fear and smear campaign the NDP ran well enough to win in a shocker, they just don’t have the fear working for them now. Their fear campaign was partly uncovered by blogger and SFL bigwig Larry Hubich, and the smear campaign revealed by forum poster, and no longer anonymous troll “famouspipeliner”, Jeff Potts.

In 2003, there was a sense generated by the NDP, that if people didn’t vote for them the Sask Party would take office. This time in 2007 there are so few people who don’t realize the Sask Party is going to win, that the NDP are no longer seen as the natural choice to provide a majority government defence against Brad Wall’s team of political reformers. There are exceptions who must have ignored the plight of anyone on a wait list, or driving on a highway other than #1, #11, or West #16.

With years of failed NDP initiatives under Calvert’s belt, long time NDP supporters have to be wondering why they wouldn’t choose a socially progressive and successful business man, David Karwacki, to lead the opposition against Wall’s enigmatic rise to power. David has come out strongly in favour of not-for-profit medical care, so it doesn’t mean that the only party that ensures equal care for all people in different income levels would be the NDP. The Sask Liberals have offered that for quite some time. They pay attention to what is working elsewhere, too.

What’s with the red tape holding up this awesome new CANADIAN vehicle. Why isn’t Buzz going to bat for this Canadian auto maker?

Company founder Ian Clifford says Canadians haven’t heard much about the car because Ottawa won’t let him sell it here.

“We’re getting road blocks thrown up in front of us every attempt down the road, and it’s getting to the point now where we’re almost giving up on Canada,” said Clifford.

The car is considered a low-speed urban vehicle with a regulated maximum speed of 40 km/h. It’s designed for areas where speed limits are 50 km/h or less, such as city core or neighbourhood-type driving, said Clifford.

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The ZENN car has met all the regulatory requirements in the United States, the same regulations adopted by Transport Canada in 2000.

Why can’t we buy it here, when Mexico and the States can? This is an outrage if there is no reason for Transport Canada to suspect the car isn’t safe. Maybe the government is safety paranoid after letting poison dog food and Mattel toys into the country from China, but we’re talking about a Canadian auto maker here. If you lick or eat the ZENN, you deserve to get sick. Anyone who licks their Ford, GM, or Chrysler ought to pay the price as well.

UPDATE: Look in the comments, TC has approved the ZENN.

The Star Phoenix printed a summary of the 8 parties registered in the province at the start of the 2007 provincial election.

48 hour notice has been given.

I wonder what implications this has for students half way through the semester? And also will this impact the election in any way?

A little background.