Eastern Canada J walking

I'm in Montreal now and I've always like how everyone j walks here. If you tried that in Edmonton you'd end up getting a $150 ticket, that's bullshit. It's just because the cops don't have enough real criminals to bust

Ottawa

I'm in Ottawa right now, it's the first time I've visited and I like it. It reminds me of Edmonton, just more cultured. I love the fact that you can hear more than one language being spoken when you walk down the street.

Sex With Dog

Occasionally I check how has visited my blog through a sitemeter. Anyways someone florida searched Sex com cachorro (Sex with dog) into a search engine and my page came up. I guess this is the most popular site about sex with dogs, but that's not saying much.

Alberta Plants

Here's a list of plants you can grow in Alberta. It's quite an interesting link.

http://www.theurbanfarmer.ca/plant_profiles.html

How about that Oilers Sharks series by the way. They are some of the most physical hockey games this year. So many big "clean" hits. I think Torres might be a little crazy. Go Oilers Go!

Ethanol

Ethyl Alchohol, we love to drink it, so why not put it in our cars. I just read this article about the introduction of ethanol as a fuel source.

It talks about new cars in Brazil and how they run on either ethanol or gasoline. I bet you thought hybrid technology was the next big thing. No, but maybe a hybrid that runs on ethanol!

In Brazil they are producing ethanol from sugar cane, which is the same way they produce the liquor Cachaca. Ethanol is a renewable resource and it pollutes less than gasoline. It is more pure than gasoline so it's only biproducts are CO2 and Water. Theoretically the combustion of gasoline has the same bi-products. But in real life gasoline is poorly refined and produces carbon monoxide and other pollutants.

*Ethanol blended is a marketing scam, like Eminem*

Canada could do a similar thing, ethanol can be cheaply produced from grain (the Russians have been doing it for centuries). And GM could sell us the same cars that they are making in Brazil.

No cards

No cards, no cards, bank machine over there. That's what a guy told me the other day at the restaurant. I didn't have any money in my account so I had to cancel the order. But as I walked out I started thinking.

Why doesn't he take cash? What's the advantage of that? Tax Evasion. He doesn't accept cards because then he would have to report all his earnings to the government and pay tax on it. Then I thought about the bank machine, it was one of those pay 2.50 extra models. Take a couple bucks from the costumer

If I took the money from the bank machine I would have had to pay 2.50 extra plus my banks fees of 1.50 to help him evade his share of taxes.

It's like getting fucked over twice.

Mexico and the War on Drugs

Check out Mexico's new approach to the war on drugs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/29/world/americas/29mexico.html

Sassy

Is it just me or do north american girls get sassy when they play Shakira songs?

New Mix

I've made a new mix and put it in a zip file in the music folder. It's called Vitrola.

http://www.ualberta.ca/~derekw/music/

If you burn it to a cd, I suggest putting normalization on at 95% because the volume levels of the track are a bit different.

If you have an Ipod, PLAY THE WHOLE TRACK. I can't stand that, here's a good song...15 seconds later...oh check out this one....10 seconds later....no wait this one is the best......

Tsotsi

We went to see the Inside Man last night. I've always like Spike Lee joints, I'd have to say my favourites are Summer of Sam and Bamboozled "Feed the idiot box, feeeed the idiot box."

Although, we accidentally walked into the wrong theatre. 20 minutes in we figured out that Denzel Washington wasn't going to appear. Maybe the fact that noone was speaking english should have cued us in. I found out later that the film we were seeing was called Tsotsi and the people spoke Zulu, Xhosa & Afrikaans. Man, African people are so linguistic advanced, I had no idea that they were switching between several languages. There were even english words, that must have been part of the Afrikaans. s' good s' good was a common phrase.

Anyways the movie was amazing, one of the best movies I have seen this year. One thing I liked was that it was a movie about Africans in Africa, instead of a movie about foreigners in Africa. Constant Garderner was good, but I'd rather see a movie based around African people.

bad terminology

Words like third world, first world, developed and developing are bullshit. People spout them out like they know what they're taking about but really they are just ignorant. First of all the definition third world implies that a country is neither aligned with the West (USA, etc) or the Soviets. It's a term from the cold war, so pretty much it is outdated and doesn't mean anything in today's world.

As for developed and developing, they're BS as well. Not even Europe and the USA have stopped developing, the may have run out of land to exploit but there is still room for development. Developing on the other implies that someday these developing countries are going to live like people in "developed" nations. That would pretty much be the end of the world, the amount of waste and inefficiency that takes place in developed nations could not be sustained worldwide. What is development anyways? I consider female prime ministers like Chile's a sign of development. The majority of "developed" nations haven't reached that point yet (Well Canada if you consider Kim Cambell taking the fall for Brian Mulroney). People refer to Brazil as a developing nation but have you seen GM cars that run on either alcohol or gasoline in the states yet? Don't worry they be arriving soon.

Anyways I'd like to suggest some better terms. Over wealthy and not as wealthy, draw the line in the sand where you see fit. Hmmm...maybe Overconsuming nations and underconsuming nations is better.

safari

"Harper, why can't you dress like me and Vincente here"

Express Yourself

I think it's important to express your emotions no matter how insignificant they may be. For example I was in Hub mall this morning getting a sandwich, I waited at this one place for a few minutes while the guy in the back was paying no attention to me, finally I said Hi and he took a another minute or so to come to the till. I ordered what I wanted and he said in an unfriendly way that it would be a few minutes. He went in the back to make it and I though "Wait a minute this is the worst service ever," so I just went to another restaurant. Totally insignificant but I felt good that I didn't tolerate poor service.

Then I was calling about a job add in the paper, I called and asked how many hours a week it was and he asked how old I was and I said 24. He said abrubtly that it was too young. When did age become a requirement for courier jobs? What about work experience? I wasn't impressed so I prank called him. How childish! but it felt great, if I didn't do it I would have walked around all day irritated.

Telling you what you want to hear

The internet will pretty much tell you want you want to hear. If you type "dangers of marijuana" into google, you'll get a ton of pages outlining how bad marijuana is. If you type "benefits of marijuana" you'll get another ton of pages telling you how good it is. Niether side has any worthwhile information, they're full of so called studies done with only 10 people. Very few people have studied the plant without alterior motives.

Another problem is that there are so many types and growing methods of marijuana that it is virtually impossible to draw any conclusions. Bottom line: It's a plant and should be grown 100% organic, any additives can cause health risks. This applies to everything from carrots to advocados. Lastly, the only way you can be sure what your smoking is to grow it yourself.

Site Meter

If you haven't noticed at the bottom of the page I've installed a little site meter. It's pretty much told me that noone visits my site. haha. But I'm going to do a little experiment. I've had about 30 visits in the last month. Now I'll see I can double that, how you ask? Search engines...

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Statues and Monuments

How come North Americans don't like stautes and monuments? If you visit a European or Latin American cities they are filled with statues and monuments. Guys on horses, military generals, bust of past presidents and monuments of historical dates? North Americans don't seem to big on this kind of stuff. It could be the European and Latin American cities are older, but really Latin American cities aren't that much older than North American ones. Maybe it's english? I wonder if there's lots of statues in England? Maybe we just don't care about our history. I'd like to see more of these.

...Sigh

...sigh...Things were so much simpler when Britney and Justin were together.

100 minutes

Why do directors think they have to make 2 hour movies for them to be good? I've seen enough sagas. Seriously if your movie isn't about the colonization of the Americas or the Ming Dynasty it shouldn't be longer than 100 minutes. It could be my attention span, but I've sat through 3 hour flicks before, they just need enough nature scenery.

I'm imagining the self rightous hollywood director right now. High on coke, all excited about his shitty film except for the fact that there isn't enough guns. It needs more guns and let's make all the bad people ethnic. Immigrants are the downfall of the USA, lets show that in every movie we make.

Hollywood! Entertain me, Pleasssssssee I'm begging you.

Peyote Study

Here are some interesting excepts from a Harvard study on the use of Peyote.

After five years of research, Halpern and other McLean researchers did not find any evidence of brain damage or psychological problems in church members who frequently use peyote, which contains the hallucinogen mescaline.

In fact, they found that members of the Native American Church performed better on some of the neuropsychological tests than other Navajos who do not regularly use peyote.

Test results for 61 church members who have used peyote at least 100 times were compared against those for 79 Navajos who do not regularly use peyote and 36 tribe members with a history of alcohol abuse but minimal peyote use. Those who had abused alcohol fared worse on the tests than the church members, according to the study.

16 Blocks

I saw a special screening of 16 blocks last night, so I feel olbliged to give a review. Ok, you gotta understand that this is a totally different role for Bruce Willis. Instead of being a young bad ass cop who has to save the day he is a washed up old cop who has to save the day. Wow, I'd say it's more of a character change than when Robert Deniro did Awakenings. As for Mos Def, I liked him better in Spike Lee's Bamboozled or when he was an underground lyricist. The plot, well its a rollercoaster ride of emotions. It switches between waiting for the movie to end and laughing at how bad american movies are these days. If you've seen Assualt on Precinct 13 or Hostage then you've already seen 16 Blocks.