meant to blog my way across canada, will write a post when I feel confident of my cognitive faculties, Im not in quebec, been spending a lot of time drinking, thought rarely getting drunk. all for free though. Not dead, talk to ya soon.
Itunes: Reel big fish: Beer
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So at present Im finishing packing, “not finished, still have work to do…. The pre-spice mass..”
Nothing photo worthy yet, photos prolly wont be posted till I get there as my camera cable is packed, oops.
Itunes: The Killers - Mr. Brightside
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This is my obligatory new years post, Hope everyone has a very happy, safe, and if your into it, inebriated, new year. For those of you who dont know, Im off on the 3rd and am thinking about a flickr account so I can photo document my journey across the country. who know stay tuned, im out.
Itunes: Sloan - Underwhelmed
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So in 10 days I leave for quebec, me and gary will head east pick up bob then were in for the long haul. We have not yet found a place to live (if anyone knows where to find a 3bdr apartment in sherbrooke speak up) Me and the girls have done our gift exchange already as Mal had to take off the other noght to see her family. They bought me Will Ferguson’s Hitching a Ride With Budah and a sudoku book, I also recieved copious amounts of candy. I bought them a really nice dish set for thee condo theyre moving into. Packing has started right now I have 6 boxes packed. there contents are as follows:
1 CD cases
2 Programming books
3 Linux/Unix Security/administration books
4 Trade paper back sci fi
5 Misc texts & references
6 Traditiional literature and misc
All I own is books, Kyla says this is kind of sad. I beg to differ, what are your thoughts.
Itunes - Weakerthans - Diagnosis
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As the US Patriot Act Nears the end of its abismal term The Bush administration is trying to have it renewed for another 5 years, The senate has rejeted a number of provisions of the patriot act (Slashdot) due to their infringement on citizens liberty. As I understand it, If a compromise is not reached by 12 31 05 the patriot act will be nothing more than a dark chapter in the history of the US. Happy Holidays everyone and a very happy new year to our neighbors to the south.
Itunes: Juliana Theory - Piano Song
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never mind the title, Its from the hhg2g. I appologize for the brief hiatus but I’ve been attempting to install linux on my ibook which went really well with ubuntu except the pre alpha airport extreme driver only works with the 2.6.15 version of the kernel which is only works with the dapper pre release as it has not been back ported… But I digress. Nothing new happening here, got my registration package for bishops yesterday, what a backward ass system. Anyway Happy Holidays Everyone.
iTunes: Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy - Quintessential Phase Episode 3
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People who know me, know full well that im not a patriot, I don’t belive in patriotism as I believe it fosters a ‘holier than thou’ attitude, which is strongly evidenced on either side of the 49th paralell.
Now don’t misunderstand me, I love Canada I think its a great place, canadians by no stretch of the imagination have a hard life. For those of you who dont know (and I ask those where have you been?) we are in the midst of a federal election campaign and this one is shaping up to be nothing more than a contest of who can sling more mud in the others eye.
We have four major parties (snicker)
Liberal (Grits) current ruling party with majority
Conservatives (Tories) official opposition
Bloc Quebecois (Block Heads) they are canada’s federal seperatist party
NDP (Democrats?) somewhere left of the middle
Now ignore the last two as the block heads as ive stated are fighting for a soverign Quebec and the NDP dont get much in the way of support(sadly)
So its between the first two and there campaign promises are ridiculous.
Stephen Harper, who from herein shall be reffered to as fisheyes, is the tory leader. Fisheyes wants to cut the gst over the next few years down to 5%, a tax cut for the rich and barely noticeable even to them. He also want to abolish the term marriage with regards to gay couples, instead calling them civil unions. Also he addmitted on radio that he would sell out to privatized health care if it meant less suffering, an understandable position but at least have the apperance of integrity, dont say your fighting for public health care then say its okay for you to support privatised health care cause it’ll end your spouses suffering, There are thousands of people waiting waiting for hip replacements, mri’s, operating tables for what ever reason.
I give you my standard salute, “Fuck you fisheyes”
Paul Martin is a little smarter or at least he appeared to be until recently. He announced a promise for a 1% reduction in income tax for low and middle class incomes, a change for the possitive. The liberals have done reasonably well as the governing party in canada but Paulie pulled a bonehead move aimed at wooing the Toronto and Vancouver electorate. He’s going to make ownership of handguns illegal. Of course its not that simple but thats what it boiled down to, and let me ask “anyone remember the billion dollar gun registry?” paulie there both major border cities no one would have blaqmed you if you said you were going to increase the powers of our crippled border gaurds? how bout starting with a seperation from revenue canada, whatever changes you made there we wouldnt be worse of than out neighbors to the south. You may have one a few votes in those riding but was it worth sacrificing the rest of canada to the hellspawn that is fisheyes? Oh and fuck you and your Lawful Access Initiative
Most of this is ancient history to all of you or at least is reasonably familiar but I felt the need to post and to rant, I am saited, for now.
I urge you in the interst of a canada free from direct american influence, Dont vote for fisheyes, he will sell us out alot faster than Paulie will. And if your looking for someone to tell you how to vote, go with NDP, no tax cuts but more for your money, set election dates, abolishion of policy apointments, debt relief for students.
Itunes: Mad Caddies - Shaving Your Life
Tapi
today marks the 445 birthday of the Royal Society
Itunes: The Smiths: Heaven Knows I’m Miserable now
Life is good. Im curious as to whether or not this is an intrinsic value possessed by life.
Anyway I have found and consequently purchased a truck and visa upped my limit which means the previously mentioned probel dealing with fixing and selling current vehicle and finding a new one are next to non existant, more or less all thats left to be done is wait; ohh and packing is good too.
I was recently offered a job as a part time sysadmin for a couple linux boxes, or so this is how it was described to me, in reality I’ll be copying a couple websites from one IIS machine to two seperate virtually hosted fedora 1 boxes probaly contained within one machine. In addition I will compile a few programs and run them then write scripts to make sure they stay running and are easily accessable, ie: idiot proof, I could live with this if it was a living but being as that the guy just wants me to set them up and hope they stay in good repair by themselves. Hes kinda like a teenager with his first car (or me with my 5th ;) )
I’tll be more money in my pocket, Oh forgot to mention he wants me to setup various game servers mod his apache setup and setup crontabs without root access, just an afterthought that might amuse those of my readers who are reasonably technically adept, ie geeks/hackers.
41 days or some such number till I am planning on leaving.
w00t.
Itunes - Modest Mouse - Dark Center of the Universe
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no i didnt read it but you dont get much further west than victoria least not in canada, that and its about 12:30am
my life is purely uneventful at present, trying to get the whole Quebec thing settled I should really work on that learning rudementary french thing might be difficult to find a job otherwise. anyhway just dropping a line letting the few (by which i mean 0) people who read this blog that im not dead.
Im going to get Ice cream!
Itunes: The Killers - Jenny Was a Friend of Mine
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