Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

Sunday night I watched “I Am Legend” [9/10] and really enjoyed it. Many people I talked to said it wasn’t good, but I stayed away from the previews (I only knew one plot turn) and it was all good, even with an intermission to get photos of the International Space Station and space shuttle Discovery as they zoomed over Regina. Find out when they fly over your city/town/farm.

-ISS is the faint dash in the centre. The white dot near it is a hot [dead] pixel on my 6 year old Canon PowerShot S30

-Discovery followed a minute behind, it’s the fainter dash to the left of centre.

A man walking down the street saw my friend Jesse and I standing in the middle of the Central Park baseball infield, and Jesse told him we were about to see the space station. The estimated time was a little off, but it showed up before I looked like a fool for dragging Jesse and a stranger into an open space to sky-watch. A couple walked past as the ISS was zooming out of sight, and saw it too. Then the woman noticed the shuttle overhead. They sounded in awe that it was almost 400km away (close to 340km right now). It was farther away than Saskatoon, yet it was visible as if it was a plane, and it’s only the size of a mansion.

And Canada is on Mars now. See the wordmark on Phoenix here.
And Canadian..bagels..in..spaaaaacccce! Watch for Canadian Pigs In Spaaacccce next. Canadian bacon probably, as the Americans would call it.

==

And I ended up holding on in the top 10 political blogs in Canada with some rather well known bloggers. Yay PageRank 5! Seeing as I’d have to have about 10 times the significance to attain PR 6, It will be next to impossible to crack the top 3 with Kate, Matt Good, and Steyn. Plus, Robert J. has taken the step of adjusting the position of blogs who have inflated positions due to PageRank anomalies.

==

John Murney has another detail of the outcome from the Saskatchewan Liberal Association’s grassroots rebuilding. The party members there graciously let me attend and say a few things about what’s keeping people away from party membership. I think many people of my generation don’t see any advantages to being a party member (of any party) and in fact see serious drawbacks from participating in the political process. Long workshops (that get started late), could even be a significant downside, even if they are a necessary part of party life.

I’ve seen a message go out on Facebook and appear from a couple of my facebook friends now, which is obviously a virus.

“You guys gotta to check this out, this nifty little website tells you exactly your secret crush: http://who-is-your-match-SPAM.info”

Even if it’s not a virus, if a message like that goes out to your friends with or without you knowing, there’s something wrong with it. There are few exceptions, but when I see .info, I think “virus”. Sorry Stageleft :-D

==

I watched “Scream 2″ [5/10] on Monday night. It felt pretty much like a rerun of the first. I also borrowed some CDs from the RPL, after I discovered where they were, on the 2nd floor. I hadn’t been up there before.

Today was a good way of spending a day. For lunch I ate with my cousin, and Huffb1, Jadon, and Dani at the Park Cafe for a little SaskBlogs party.
The afternoon disappeared, and I went to supper at Passage to India (very fast service, and great food).

After supper my friend and I saw “Smart People” [8/10] at the Galaxy. It had a lot of intelligent humour, sort of rare for a Hollywood movie. After going home for the night I watched “Vacation” [8/10] with Chevy Chase. And now I’m part way into “Splash” [5/10] which I’ve also seen before, but not for decades.

Having an XO laptop might change the way I blog. I’ve “live blogged” twice today. Maybe it just seems that with a wireless laptop you can blog even while things are happening away from your “main” blogging station.

This meme is based loosely on April Reign’s 10 Reasons meme, and Scott Tribe’s 6 Things meme. It’s the only meme in the world where the only unchanging rule is that you make your own meme rules. My bonus rule is that I need to be as immodest as possible while making this list. If anyone has a problem with the content of this list, see rule 1.

1. I made it.
2. It has on it what I want to write and usually what I want to read later.
3. The length is perfect.
4. The font size is ideal for my eyes.
5. I thought of this meme before you did.
6.
7. I can skip entries in a list to save time.
8. I can end lists early to save myself work.

10. I can come back to a completed list and add more if I want to.
10.5 I don’t have to pick sequential or whole numbers, and the total in the list doesn’t have to match what’s in the title of the meme.
11. I can decline to tag someone to continue this, but I can also re-tag someone who has previously tagged me, thus making it a tag-loop-of-doom, bringing the Internet down in a recursive loop of introspection and repetition.

I tag Scott Tribe, Jon Swift, 1337 Hax0r, Megan, Miss Cellania, and Zhu. They must tag 3 people each, or else David Hasselhoff will be afflicted with another drinking problem, Stephen Harper will remain in government for 20 more years, Kentucky will morph into the genesis of the new Soviet Union, and China won’t get to host the Olympics ever again.

Tagees are also encouraged to modify their prophecies of doom, for those who they tag, should they not choose to accept their mission.