Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

Can you see the double rainbow in this one?

In this photo you can see my sunflowers, beats, dill, spinach (going to seed sadly), zucchini, and radishes with plenty of seed pods to pick for my crop next year.

This afternoon I took part in a Skype phone conference that was recorded, and is being processed into a downloadable MP3 file (podcast) for your enjoyment (and possibly education). The topic was Bill C-61, the so called Canadian DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), which is much reviled in the blogosphere, on Facebook, and possibly across Canada in the “offline” world as well. The bloggers who took part in the conversation are listed here:

Dr. Sam Trosow

Scott Tribe

Mike Park

Saskboy (Me!)

Devin Johnston

UPDATE WITH LINK:Devin will have the podcast posted later on Saturday, so check it out there! I’ll have the link later, but I’m going outside on this beautiful day (and I have a lot of excitement to burn off due to the Green Party MP announcement).

The Greens have broken into Canada’s government. Finally.
They will be in the debates now, or I’ll eat my hat…tip.

Hat tip to 1337hax0r.com

I saw the Jolly Roger on Regina’s mighty shores! I didn’t tremble any though.

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Friday night Jesse and I watched “Shake Hands With the Devil” [9/10], a chilling docudrama about modern genocide as seen by Canadian peace keepers in the 1990s. I’d seen the first half of the movie on an Air Canada flight in January, and got to see the whole thing now. I have yet to see Hotel Rawanda, another movie about the hundreds of thousands of people killed by ethnic violence in the tiny African nation.

I’d like to think performing “community service” would be as easy as promoting community events on a blog (should my massive, worldwide, evil criminal dandelion sowing cartel ever be discovered):

The German dancers are hosting a fundraiser Steak\Schnitzel night right at the German Club. Tickets are $15.00 per ticket and include your choice of steak or schnitzel, potato, salad, garlic toast and a beer! :) We are going to do a bunch of door prizes, have raffles and 50\50 draws as well. “EVENT” for it on Facebook.

It’s Friday Sept. 12th 2008, right at the German Club (in Regina’s core, 1727 St. John Street), meal served between 6:30-8:30 and doors open at 6:00pm. (Note: purchase ticket by Sept. 8 please.)

There will be a big mix of people…elderly people, people my age, people your age and a mix in between. I think it is going to be lots of fun. Could possibly be some dance performances as well. And yep…there will be jag shots…I mean..it IS the German Club!

A slightly embarrassing, but also hilarious thing happened to me today. I went to an ice cream farewell party for some coworkers today, and asked for a fudgesicle. It was super thick, not like the standard kind that is barely thicker than the popsicle stick. Apparently it retained its lack of heat very well, because I went to bite the top off of it like I do with my regular fudgey & icey treat, and my lips closed eagerly around it to catch any drips… and became stuck. Very stuck. Painfully stuck.

My first thought was, I had better not panic and rip my lip skin off. Just wait for it to melt off in a couple seconds. A couple seconds passed, but my lips remained just as frozen. I tugged gently to no avail. Since both of my lips were sealed on a smooth ice cream treat, I couldn’t blow on them to warm the area up. I tried pushing saliva at my lower lip with my tongue. Success, my lower lip was free after about 30 seconds.

By then, the 3 women standing around me talking had noticed I was in some distress. I considered going to the bathroom to run water over my lips from the sink, to get it off instantly, but I didn’t want to waste the ice cream. And it would melt off eventually, right? Wrong.

Well, not completely wrong, because it did come off about a minute later after I was carefully tugging, while blowing as best as possible through my nose onto the ice cream, trying not to drool through my free lower lip, or refreeze it to the death trap ice cream. If I had injured my mouth by freezing it, indoors, in August, do you think Occupational Health and Safety would want to know about it?

“Ighn sawwy, I cant talk wight naw, I roze Igh ‘outh on ice crean. Need ‘orkers conkunsation.”

Ice cream 1. Saskboy 0. But I did eat it for the last laugh.

If you don’t like horror and zombie movies, don’t look at this:

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Hat tip to Brem

I was really impressed by Dion’s lunchtime speech today (aside from his ESL grammar of course). He certainly was showing some charisma, and was putting Harper’s games playing in context for the media. It’s clear that soon again Harper’s Conservatives will attack Dion and Green Party leader May for a “backroom” deal in their respective riding contests, but Harper is willing to wheel and deal with Dion over the PHONE on the fate of the current parliament!

CTV has the video.

It’s not hard to see why Dion scoffs at Harper’s claim that other parties are preventing parliament from working. The Conservatives are the ones who are preventing parliament from working, because it’s busy weeding out Conservative corruption (In-and-Out, Cadscam) and ethical problems (10%ers, Bernier). Scott provides a link to why an early election call is preposterous if Harper wants to save face.

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Yesterday was quite different. After I had the afternoon off anyway, and no plans, I called up some friends and we went 5 pin bowling for a couple hours. I averaged about 176 after 44 frames, with a couple of >200 games. My car appears to be sucking gas, so either a Grand Prix sucks (likely) or someone is siphoning my tank and that’s why it gets just 18MPG in the city driving I’m doing. I could almost see the needle going down yesterday while driving between the library and bowling alley. Then it went back up again. Accuracy is not important in gas gauges, just as it isn’t for toner cartridge level meters or progress bars.

We wrapped up the night of cooking an unintentionally vegetarian (almost vegan) meal partly from my garden (and mostly from Superstore) at my place, with “Mission Impossible III” [9/10].