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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Apts
New place is up and running. It's nice. You'll be invited over shortly.
Bad news: I have free cable. Worse news? Mystery Channel is free-previewing this weekend. This means almost 24 hours of Law & Order variety hours and naps (/no work being done).
Please visit me.
Sincerely,
Hana
Friday, February 22, 2008
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Big News Day
It was a big day in political news. Si?
Conveniently from www.wikipedia.org
- Pakistan Peoples Party wins a plurality in the Pakistani general election following delays caused by a state of emergency and pre-election violence.
- Toshiba announces it is ceasing production of HD DVD equipment, conceding the high definition format war to the rival Blu-ray Disc format.
- Fidel Castro (pictured) announces his retirement as the President of Cuba.
- Bank Julius Bär secures a permanent injunction against the domain registrar for Wikileaks, forcing the website offline.
- Kosovo's parliament endorses a unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia; response from the international community is mixed.
- The British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, announces plans to nationalise the Northern Rock bank following credit problems caused by the subprime mortgage crisis.
- Václav Klaus is re-elected as the President of the Czech Republic.
Conveniently from www.wikipedia.org
Friday, February 15, 2008
Ice Cube Tray
http://www.worldwidefred.com/frozensmiles.htm
The reason there's all these random posts is that I've started emailing stuff to the blog instead of posting (hassle due to the conflict of separate google accounts).
This should be tagged with:
For the apartment
Just for my reference, since I'm not about to login and tag it.
The reason there's all these random posts is that I've started emailing stuff to the blog instead of posting (hassle due to the conflict of separate google accounts).
This should be tagged with:
For the apartment
Just for my reference, since I'm not about to login and tag it.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Why'd the chicken cross the road?
Why did the chicken cross the road?
DR. PHIL:
The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on 'THIS' side of the road before it goes after the problem on the 'OTHER SIDE' of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not
taking on his 'CURRENT' problems before adding 'NEW' problems.
OPRAH:
Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems,
which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.
GEORGE W. BUSH:
We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road.
We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not.
The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground
here.
COLIN POWELL:
Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the
satellite image of the chicken crossing the road...
ANDERSON COOPER - CNN:
We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we
have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.
JOHN KERRY:
Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am
now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about
the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against
it.
NANCY GRACE:
That chicken crossed the road because he's GUILTY! You
can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.
PAT BUCHANAN:
To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.
MARTHA STEWART:
No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was
going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs
when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any
insider information.
DR SEUSS:
Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a
toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not
been told.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY:
To die in the rain. Alone.
JERRY FALWELL:
Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the
plain truth?' That's why they call it the 'other side.' Yes, my friends,
that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay
too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination
that the liberal media white washes with seemingly harmless phrases like
'the other side. That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as
plain and as simple as that.
GRANDPA:
In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the
road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good
enough.
BARBARA WALTERS:
Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be
listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming
story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to
accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.
ARISTOTLE:
It is the nature of chickens to cross
the road.
JOHN LENNON:
Imagine all the chickens in the world
crossing roads together, in peace.
BILL GATES:
I have just released eChicken2007, which
will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important
documents, and balance your check book. Internet Explorer is an integral
part of eChicken. This new platform is much more stable and will never
reboot.
ALBERT EINSTEIN:
Did the chicken really cross the road,
or did the road move beneath the chicken?
BILL CLINTON:
I did not cross the road with THAT
chicken. What is your definition of chicken?
AL GORE:
I invented the chicken!
COLONEL SANDERS:
Did I miss one?
DICK CHENEY:
Where's my gun?
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Canadians prefer to watch sports, not participate: StatsCan
--> Why are we suprised?
Aging society becoming less active
Last Updated: Thursday, February 7, 2008 | 11:13 AM ET
The Canadian Press
A new study says that when it comes to sports, at least, Canadians like to watch.
The Statistics Canada study found that barely three in 10 Canadians aged 15 and over participated regularly in at least one sport in 2005, down dramatically from nearly half in the early 1990s.
The report estimates that 7.3 million people, or about 28 per cent of the adult population, participated in some form of sport.
That's down substantially from 8.3 million, or 34 per cent, in 1998, and 9.6 million, or 45 per cent, in 1992.
"Many more of us were spectators," says the study, released Thursday. "In 2005, an estimated 9.2 million adults were 'involved' in amateur sports as spectators, a 20.3 per cent increase from 1998."
Furthermore, the sport Canadians liked best to play was rather more leisurely than the one they used to prefer. Golf replaced ice hockey as the most popular sport in Canada in 1998.
By 2005, almost 1.5 million adult Canadians were golfers, three-quarters of them men. Hockey drew 1.3 million. Other sports — in order of popularity, swimming, soccer, basketball, baseball and volleyball — all drew between 500,000 and 800,000 participants.
The study found the decline in participation was widespread, cutting across all age groups, education levels, income brackets, both sexes and almost all provinces.
Teenagers aged 15 to 18 had the highest participation rate but that, too, declined to 59 per cent in 2005 from 77 per cent in 1992. "The downward trend in sport participation does not necessarily mean that Canadians do not engage in physical activities," said the report. "Many exercise regularly through various physical programs or classes, while others enjoy jogging, gardening or other such activities."
Aging population participates less
The study blamed the aging population for much of the decline. In 1992, people aged 35 and over represented 60 per cent of the adult population and about 36 per cent of them participated in sports, it said. By 2005, two-thirds of Canadians were in this age group, and their participation rate was down to 22 per cent.
"Society is aging and becoming less active," said the report. "Only 17 per cent of Canadians aged 55 and over participated in sports, well below the proportion of 25 per cent in 1992."
Other factors included family responsibilities, child-rearing, careers, lack of interest, and participation in other leisure-time pursuits such as watching television and surfing the internet.
For many, a time crunch is to blame: 30 per cent of non-active Canadians reported lack of time as the major factor for their physical inactivity. This proportion jumped to 45 per cent of those aged 25 to 34, "a group that was probably busy raising young families and pursuing careers," said the study.
Among older non-active Canadians aged 55 and over, 28 per cent indicated that age was the biggest factor. Almost a quarter of them reported health conditions, while another quarter cited lack of interest in sport. "Canadians spent an average of only 30 minutes a day on active sport," said the study.
"The rest of the day was spent working (paid and unpaid work), participating in civic and voluntary activities, sleeping, having meals, socializing, reading, surfing the internet, watching television, going to the movies and participating in other entertainment activities."
Biggest drop in sports participation in B.C., Quebec
The study found participation in sport declined in all provinces between 1998 and 2005, except Prince Edward Island. The biggest declines occurred in Quebec and British Columbia.
A third of Nova Scotia's population participated in some sport, the highest provincial rate.
While active participation declined, the study found indirect involvement in sports on a voluntary basis actually increased. The number of amateur coaches reached 1.8 million, or seven per cent of the population, in 2005. This was up from 1.7 million in 1998, and more than twice the 840,000 in 1992.
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
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