tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71250382011-12-14T18:58:53.461-08:00Canadian politics and other things that make me mad.RFDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00369596312782498787noreply@blogger.comBlogger1091100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125038.post-25969248808805989902009-05-08T08:23:00.000-07:002009-05-08T08:31:43.019-07:00

If you get into an argument with someone regarding some fact and it turns out you are wrong, here is what you do.Place a wager on who is correct. I like $20, people seem to go for that.Hop on your computer and hit wikipedia.orgSearch for the topic in question and press the "edit" button.Change the entry to match your side of the argument. Tell them to look it up in wikipedia.collect your

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Tuesday April 7th, 7:50pm I head out into my garage to stomp on some of those evil creatures. Turning the garage light on causes them to scatter so I act fast. This time I get 7 of them. I head back into the house and continue watching the Canucks game. I can't really concentrate on the game as I try to figure out why I have so many of these wolf spiders in my garage and how I can get rid of

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Rogers has been sending me a weekly bill for $0.00 outstanding on an account I canceled months ago at work. Since it is Friday I thought I would play their game a little bit and I mailed them a response. The Bill: My Response

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Canada Post, once a key agency in the development and success of Canada has outlived its usefulness in its current form. Before email, before faxes and even before the telephone, mail was an important communication tool. Soldiers communicated with friends and family during wars using the postal service. Postmen took pride that no weather condition would keep them from delivering your mail.

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It's been a long time since I posted as I have been very busy, more on that later. Since our BC government has been kind enough to give everybody $100 for what is called the "Climate Action Dividend" I would like to suggest some things you can do with your windfall: Here is my top 10 ways to spend your $100: 10. Paper plates and plastic cutlery. Stock up for those days you don't feel like

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I had my first trick-or-treater show up today, and what an ugly creature it was. She was on the side of my house, crawling really slowly. I managed to fight the urge to run and hide long enough to snap off a few pictures of her. I have seen some huge ugly spiders in my day, but this is the biggest I have seen outside of the pet store. And who are these people that want to keep spiders in

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I received an email today from a friend regarding a new trick criminals are using for carjacking. What they do is pick a target vehicle in a parking lot and place an 8.5x11 piece of paper on the back window. When the unsuspecting victim gets back in to their car they will start the engine, put the car in reverse, look out the back window and notice the piece of paper. When the victim gets out

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Wikipedia defines the fanboy as ...an individual (usually male; the feminine version fangirl may be used for females) who is utterly devoted to a single fannish subject, or to a single point of view within that subject, often to the point where it is considered an obsession. Fanboys remain loyal to their particular obsession, disregarding any factors (often including logic) that differ from their

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Blood, lots of blood fills the opening scene of the Bionic Woman Premiere. I am suprised by the amount of violence without the standard warning. Michelle Ryan plays the Bionic Woman. Jason Smilovic is her boyfriend. Miguel Ferrer brings a Dr. Macy-esque character to lead the team of researchers that put the Bionic Woman back together.The story will be familiar to comic book fans or fans of

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Seriously what is Russia up to? First, they arbitrarily decide that the North Pole is theirs. The North Pole is part of Canada. Everyone knows that Santa is Canadian, his address is:SANTA CLAUSNORTH POLE HoH oHoCANADARussia did at one time own a piece of North America, but they sold it to the USA. I don't think the USA is interested in returning Alaska. Russia decided to plant one of their

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Special guest writer: Paul "cheeky chops" DavidMy name is Paul, I just turned two. Ever since I can remember I have loved watching cartoons and eating microwave popcorn. Today my Daddy told me that the popcorn we have been enjoying is actually very dangerous to my health. The nice buttery smell from the popcorn can destroy my little lungs. When people started getting sick , nobody deemed it

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I am starting yet another site, this one devoted to Debating and Arguing at 6UV.net. I am looking for people to argue and debate with on any topic. I will take the contrary position to whatever topic/opinion you have and debate it out. Readers of 6UV.net can vote for the winner of each argument on the site. If you are interested in an debate, leave a post in the comments with your topic and

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Passwords are the single most important aspect of computer and internet security. You always want to have a complicated password that contains upper and lower case letters, numbers, and special characters. The problem with a password like LmI_I87-j9 is you will not be able to remember it, so you will write it down on a post-it note and stick it under your keyboard. As soon as your password is

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The recent incident described here has re-started the debate about when the Police should use lethal force. The RCMP were called to an incident where a man decided he should hit some cops in the face with a chain, knocking one of them unconscious. The man was shot dead by officers after he hit them. Obviously there is an investigation into the shooting since a man was killed and we need to be

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I have have a new Motorcyle Stunt Blog set up at www.cranksnapper.com, to go along with my Car Donut Videos and Human BeatBoxing video blogs. The premise is straightforward: I find fun videos in the appropriate topics and post them on these blogs. They are great sites to waste a few minutes on as I have already done the searching and found the cool videos for you. All you have to do is sit

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"Sometime around lunch depending on traffic" is when tech support told me to be expecting the field technician to replace our failed hardware. I have also heard unfulfilled promises such as "We'll call you back" and "We are trying to resolve your issue, sir" so I am not holding my breath. Three days now without service and VOIP is quickly becoming an unpopular solution to our long-distance

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At my office we use Glopex for our long distance calls over VOIP. Yesterday I had my first experience with them since their service simply stopped working. The first thing I did was go to there website and click on "support". The support page is useless. I called the number on top of the page and followed the prompts to get to support. The hold music is set so loud that all you can hear is

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Released in 1991, the 16 bit SNES brought us cartoon-quality graphics and 3D video game worlds. A replacement to the NES Zapper came in the form of a bazooka and it was by most accounts a huge disappointment. Other than the failure of the bazooka, the SNES was a smash. Even if the graphics are poor compared to today's systems, the fun and replay value of the old Super Nintendo games can't be

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I finally saw the Transformers movie last night and it was as great as I had hoped. Before the movie started there was a teaser trailer for a movie made by Bad Robot Productions that had no title, simply the date 1-18-08. A quick search this morning led me to some sites that indicate the movie has the code name "Cloverfield" and it is supposedly some kind of monster movie. The trailer starts

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John Edward He makes a living convincing grieving people that he can talk to their dead family members on his show Crossing Over. His studio is full of hidden cameras, microphones, and actors to help him with his little magic trick. After 2-3 hours of taping, the show is edited down to a small fraction of the studio time making it almost seem like he could possibly be getting messages from the

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We made it, the flood threat is over. The weather was and will continue to be agreeable to a slow snow melt which will keep the Fraser River below dike level. I am sure many residents (including myself) are relieved.

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The Fraser River peaked at 6 meters over the weekend.The cooler temperatures kept the Fraser below the dikes and we managed to avoid a flood. While the flood season will not be over until the end of June, things look really positive. Unless the weather turns really hot or really wet on us, the river will not peak above the dikes during the snow melt now.

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Currently, the river sits at 5.8 meters.The river is now predicted to only reach 6.5 meters this weekend, which is great news. At this level, we shouldn't see any problems with flooding. Residents in unprotected areas will remain on alert for the month of June, so we are not in the clear yet. The situation does indeed look at lot better though.

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The river is currently at 5.8 meters and is still expected to reach 7.5 meters this weekend.

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The Fraser River is currently at 5.5 meters and is still expected to rise to over 7 by the weekend. Everyone outside of dike protection is being given evacuation notices. Now the question is not "Will there be a flood?", but "How much will it flood?" City crews have completed the work on the dikes and are now placing gravel and sandbags at strategic places near the dikes to minimize possible

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The Fraser river is currently at 5.2 meters.The river could get as high as 7.6 meters this weekend depending on the weather. Rainfall in the upper Fraser area will determine how high the river actually gets. People that live in areas unprotected by dikes will be flooding this weekend, and city crews are monitoring the dikes for problems daily. On a more positive note, the cooler weather has

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The Fraser River has peaked at just above 5 meters for the day, it will be rising more tomorrow.Smithers and Terrace are now seeing some flooding and many other areas including Chilliwack are on a Flood Watch. The water is going to continue to rise and areas such as Greendale will be flooding on Wednesday. Farmers in Greendale have been notified that they should move their livestock to higher

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The Fraser is up to 5 meters as of 7:45am June 4th. The Fraser is expected to rise to 7 meters by this weekend and some low lying areas at sections of the river with low dikes will experience some flooding. The weather forecast this week is calling for light rain which shouldn't have too much of an impact. If the rain turns heavy, the river could get even higher this week. Crews will be

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The Fraser has begun to rise quickly due to the hot weather in the interior. It is expected to peak around 6 meters on Wednesday. At 6 meters, the dikes are considered full, but most of the dikes are 2 meters taller. A lot of rainfall or increased temperatures can dramatically increase the height over the following weeks.

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Global TV reported last night that the Lower Mainland may be on flood alert as soon as the second week in June. The Fraser River is expected to reach 6 meters shortly as well. 6 meters is considered above bank full condition and water could begin coming over the dikes into unprotected areas. The Fraser River has risen back up over 4 meters and is expected to continue increasing until it is near

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The river is staying at low levels due to the lack of snow melt in the interior.The Progress is reporting that we will not see any flooding in the next two weeks, but we are not in the clear as 80% of the snow is still sitting in the mountains waiting to melt. We just have to hope it all melts slowly.

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The Fraser has dropped to 3.6 meters due to the cooler temperatures and lack of rain. The weather is going to heat up quite a bit and increase the rate of the snow melt where we will see the levels rise again.

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The Fraser River level has stayed steady this week at 4 meters due to the cool temperatures in the Interior. The temperature is supposed to rise in the next two weeks both in the Interior and locally. The city is giving away free sandbags to residents that live in the flood zone, you have to fill them yourself though. If you live in Chilliwack outside of a flood zone and are interested in

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According to an article in the Chilliwack Progress we are safe from flooding for the rest of May. The cool weather has caused a very slow snow melt this year. That's the good news, now the bad news; the abnormally slow melt this year has left us with more snow in the mountains than we normally have by this time and we are looking at a big rise in the temperature for June. The first week of

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The crazy weather today has caused a significant fluctuation in the level of the Fraser River. The level is currently 3.6 meters, but was as high as 4.4 today. Hopefully the rest of the weekend is mild allowing the slow and steady snow melt we need to keep the Fraser low.

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The Fraser has been slightly rising due to the increase in temperature, but this weekend is supposed to be much cooler with light rain. This should slow the snow melt and cause the water levels to drop.

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The warm weather caused a slight increase in the height of the Fraser. The weather forecast for the next week is cool with some rain which will keep the snow melting at a slow pace. Some tips for Chilliwack residents: Label your breakers/fuses. It will be really handy to know which breakers turn off your basement if water starts coming in. Labels can be very helpful when you are knee-deep in

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Even with the near record-high temperature yesterday, the Fraser river is still at 3.4 meteres

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The Fraser River level dropped this morning to 3.4 meters. The temperature is going to get up pretty high today, possibly to 27 degrees. This increase in temperature will cause a raise in the levels this evening, but the rest of the week will be much cooler. I spotted city crews working on the bank of the Hope River near Menzies sealing up the dike.

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There are two town hall meetings this week to provide information about flood preparation. The first is Wednesday May 16th at Sardis Sr. Secondary and the second on May 17th at Evergreen hall, 9291 Corbold st. Both of these meetings we be providing roughly the same information so you only need to attend one if you would like some information regarding the current situation and plans. You can

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Here are a few links that contain helpful information regarding the threat of flooding in the Chilliwack area: Emergency Grab and Go bag checklistChilliwack flood protection information page Weather.ca - Chilliwack

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If you want to keep tabs on the height of the Fraser River, Environment Canada has a website that gives near real-time information on the Fraser water level. Click here to get to the site. You will have to accept the disclaimer, set the province to British Columbia, and chose the Fraser River at Mission station. The graph shows the current level of the Fraser and the past week's levels. At 6

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Residents of the Fraser Valley have been notified of the potential of severe flooding this spring. Local schools and hospitals have contingency plans for 6-8 feet of water(worst case scenario) which grabbed my attention. I live in a Chilliwack flood zone so I have done some research on how to be prepared. Check out the following sites for some good information: City of Chilliwack Flood

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I have decided to launch yet another blog, the Fraser Valley Golf Course Review. Every few days, I will review a different hole at one of the many courses in Chilliwack and the surrounding area. Since I have Meadowlands golf course completely memorized from playing it so much I have decided to start with that course. I will soon be adding Cheam and Cultus Lake when I get out there to grab a

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I have to share this video of Snoop Dogg at the Anaheim Ducks game. I am a fan of Snoop Dogg, but I am a way bigger fan of the Vancouver Canucks. Too bad we lost the series, next year will be much better. Fo' shizzle dizzle.

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My new website is almost ready. If you live in the Lower Mainland and want to search for a pub in your area, then you need to check out the Pubcrawler.ca bar directory.As you can probably guess there are thousands of bars in BC alone, so if you want to help add them, drop me a line.

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Turns out it was just a Molson Canadian commercial. Not one of their better commercials either. I did laugh when he said "Canadians are interested in marmalade and Roller Derby".

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I keep seeing a commercial, mostly during Canucks games that has some comic that I vaguely recognize asking "Do Canadians really know anything about beer?" His question echoes around some city (presumably a Canadian city) while various people look perplexed and disgusted by the question. The advertisement ends without a company logo or slogan, leaving no indication of what product they are

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Friday was a beautiful day. The sun was shining, it was payday, and my boss and I had to dispose of a bunch of computers. At first it didn't seem like too much fun. We had to carry 20 old, dusty, broken computer carcasses and the same amount of dead/dying monitors. The reason I work in IT is because I am not a big fan of manual labor. Being in IT doesn't normally make for a lot of exercise

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I was on my way to work this morning, enjoying the nice country drive. I have a 10 minute commute that includes one traffic light and two stop signs. It is a very nice way to start off the day when compared to the alternatives. Because the community is rural, there are a lot of school buses that drive along the same route to take the kiddies to school in the morning. I was just passing a

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After 3 years of planning, procrastinating, and discussion, Corey and myself are building our website. The details are forthcoming, but I am not divulging anything yet. For now I will simply describe it as a community-based dining directory. We are using godaddy.com for our hosting, this choice was made solely on the price. At 3.99USD/month, it is very hard to complain. Complain I will

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I used to be locked on to shoutcast when I wanted to listen to some music while online until a friend at work told me about pandora.com. Pandora is based on the Music Genome project which breaks songs down into elements. You type in a song that you like and pandora will keep playing songs that share similar elements to the song you entered. You can give each song that plays the thumbs up or

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The NES was released in 1985 when I was only 5 years old, yet I still remember it like it was yesterday. A gray rectangular box, slightly smaller than a VCR and the two-button controllers were an amazing toy by any of the day's standards. We connected the system, plugged in Super Mario Brothers, and powered it on. It was simply amazing, an arcade system right in our own living room. It

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Rory Fitzpatrick is a $500,000/year defenceman for the Vancouver Canucks that may end up playing in the NHL All-Star Game with the seven million dollar superstars this January in Dallas. The unlikely hero has become a household name due to a Buffalo Sabres fan in NY that decided to take advantage of the NHL.com All-Star Voting site.Steve Schmid started www.voteforrory.com because he is a huge

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The parrot sits perched Atop the green mighty-mite How will it all end?

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I heard about Baitcar.com on the radio and checked it out. It has a bunch of videos taken from our baitcar program that shows actual car thieves driving around and then being arrested. My favorite is the guy who whips out his crackpipe for one last hit after his car's engine is disabled. He continues smoking the crack while a cop with a dog is right beside the driver side window.I think these

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Here is an article about giant prehistoric scorpions that walked the lands of Scotland. The artist's rendition of the beast is awesome, it looks like a giant armored tadpole.

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Christmas season is upon us, we had our first snowfall of the year this morning, and the The Federal Liberals have been defeated in a vote of Non-Confidence.

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I took this picture the day after Paul was born. I have been getting a lot of compliments on it, so I thought I would expand my audience.

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I was just hanging out with my two month old Paul watching the Simpsons. I was lying on the couch and he was lying on top of me. Paul decided to give me a present; a mouthful of the dinner he just finished eating. While I was brushing my teeth thinking about how this is the grossest possible thing that could ever happen to a person, I remembered an incident that happened to me about two years

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I was browsing through slashdot.org and I found the following post from an anonymous author:Music and other useless entertainment (mindless movies and television shows) are just Meatsinks. These schemes are designed to take hard earned money out of the middle and lower class and move it to the upper class. They are also designed to rob you of your time and keep you placated so that you aren't so

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At one point in our history, the CBC was a very important part of Canada. They gave Canadians access to programming that was unavailable by any other means. They provided us with coverage of World War II, Canadian affairs, and Canadian sports. Now they are redundant and provide us little more than a pit to throw tax dollars in to. The CBC receives nearly 1 billion dollars of taxpayer's money

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Here they are. Lydia, Ruth, Andrew and myself carved our pumpkins tonight. We owe most of the design to Zombiepumpkins.com. The price was well worth it and we managed to carve some very impressive pumpkins. All of the pumpkins were photographed on my 1971 linoleum kitchen floor, which gave off an eerie reflection. Hope you enjoy and Happy Halloween!

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We braved the elements and went down to the pumpkin patch yesterday to pick out some pumpkins. They had a petting zoo, tons of animals, and a pumpkin cannon. The pumpkin cannon shoots pumpkins hundreds of feet in the air and off a cliff. It was great fun to watch. We managed to find a few nice pumpkins in the patch, including Paul's first pumpkin and a funky white pumpkin. This was Ash's

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Looking around the house for more Halloween-ish stuff and what do I find... MIGHTY MITES! I forgot I had these little guys. It isn't really Halloween if you don't have any firecrackers. Illegal or not, these are relatively safe and extremely fun. I got these from my brother at my bachelor party. When Chris is at a party, you can bet firecrackers (or some other mischief) will be involved.

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Halloween is only 13 days away. It's time to start thinking about carving up some pumpkins. First, you need to select your pumpkin. Once you have your pumpkin or pumpkins selected, you must chose your design. If you are creative, you can design your own fancy stencil. For those of us that are less artistic, downloading a pre-made stencil is ideal. Here are a few links that will guide you

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I was looking around my house last night for something Halloween-ish, and I remembered my Hellraiser Toy collection. What can be scarier than demons from hell? These beauties are on the wall in my office/poker room.

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We went down to The Reaper's Haunted Attraction. They feature a haunted maze and the haunted house. The maze wasn't too terribly exciting, but the house was phenomenal. It was full of good scares and had plenty of spooky things going on. Someone watches you and speaks to you throughout the house. The ominous voice manages to distract you and pull your attention away from the masked ghouls

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In honor of the holiest of holidays, Halloween, I have decided to post nothing of any value this month. Instead I am going for wall to wall halloween. I have a full Halloween schedule this month: Tonight I kick it all off with a trip to The Reaper's Haunted Attraction. Next Sunday, we are all off to the Pumpkin Patch. We will spend the rest of the week leading up to Halloween carving

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Here are pictures of some of the pumpkins my wife and I carved last year. Every October we head over to the ol' pumpkin patch and pick up a bunch of pumpkins. Last year we used some stencils downloaded from Jack-O-Lantern.com. Shrek. Wicked Witch from Snow White. Bat-Mouth and Alien. Finally, couple of less-than spectacular Jack-O-Lanterns. Jack-O-Lanterns are not only fun to carve and nice

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It's October. October means two things to me: Hockey season and Halloween. What better way to celebrate both than to carve a canucks jack-o-lantern? Here is my Canuck pumpkin from 2003: And here is my Canucks Jack O Lantern from last Halloween: As you can see, my carving skills are improving. The trick for the appearance of the floating logo is to cut the skin off of the pieces you don't

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I purchased a digital camera from Future Shop 4 months ago. With the camera, I also bought the two year extended warranty. Last week my camera stopped working, it just wouldn't take pictures anymore. I was pretty confident that I would walk in to Future Shop with my broken camera and walk out with a working one. No such luck for me, thus my fun little story begins.I took the camera in on

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An anonymous co-worker of mine, we will call him "Brad", had an interesting story to tell me today. On the weekend he was driving his Ford Explorer to the Mall and having a smoke. Brad proceeded to drop his smoke whilst he was driving. He said that he kicked at the smoke and he thought it went out. Brad didn't think it was necessary to actually confirm that his smoke did in fact go out, so he

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Last night our World Junior team finished off the tournament with a whipping of Russia. They were never behind in the score, out scored opponents 41-7, and only allowed two even-strength goals. I can't say enough good things about this team. They showed a lot of class and made the country proud.

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Canada.com reports that Vancouver is considering a ban on big trucks driving in the fast lane on a dangerous stretch of highway known as The Cut. Brilliant. I will do it one better and call for banning big trucks from the anything but the rightmost lane for all of Highway One. Far too often big trucks drive in the fast lane slowing down traffic. This causes people to try and pass the trucks

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Today is Remembrance Day, the most important holiday of the year. Today we are to be grateful of the sacrifices and courage of the soldiers that have defended everything important to us. The men that fought so bravely were eighteen and nineteen years old, just kids. The lucky ones made it home with the memories of their lost friends and brothers. The rest of them made the ultimate sacrifice

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I have been getting a lot of traffic from google searches about the removal of the ms-search.com spyware so I will provide a little more information on the actual process I used to remove it. I have set up a second site here with the instructions.

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I miss you. More specifically I miss the Canucks. I miss Naslund's wristshot going top corner and the crowd going wild. I miss Cooke skating up and down the ice irritating people, and I miss Ruttuu's Sh*t eating grin. I miss the sound of Jovocop crushing an Edmonton Oiler into the boards. I miss sitting around with the guys watching Brookbank drop the gloves and Salo's slapshot. I miss Tom

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Now that President Bush is re-elected, there are a few outstanding issues that must be addressed:How many of the new voters brought out by Hollywood and the music industry going to be discouraged from voting again since their candidate lost? I am willing to guess that quite a few young voters that came out this year to oust Bush because the Dixie Chicks and Bon Jovi told them to will not be

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This is Ash watching us carve pumpkins. He is a little young yet to have a steaknife for carving, but he helped out. It's pretty obvious that he likes having his picture taken.Earlier that day we went to the pumpkin patch and Ash picked out his own pumpkin. He thinks his pumpkin is a baseball and he throws it around the house. There are some teeth marks on his pumpkin now, but when questioned

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I finally conquered it. After around 10 hours of fighting with Internet Explorer I have removed the worst piece of spyware I have ever seen. I am running Windows XP with Service Pack 2 and my computer is %100 up to date with patches. Even with the most "Secure" Windows ever this little bastard of a program got into my computer.This little program caused IE to redirect to www.ms-search.com

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CBC's "The Greatest Canadian" has released its top 100 and is asking for votes to place the top ten in order. It is a very intersting read about the people that make Canada great (and Don Cherry). My vote goes to Sir John A. Macdonald since he is responsible for Canada being a country. He did many amazing things, but he was not without his quirks: "Newspapers would refer to Macdonald as having

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I want to update this site more often, hopefully once a day. Since my days are busy, I don't always have enough time to write something halfway meaningful. Have you seen something in the news that made you mad? Anything else rub you the wrong way?Send me an email with your rant.If I like it, I will put it up. I am also open to suggestions on topics and or people that need to be bashed on (in

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I enjoy educational television as much as the next geek, and it is sad to see that educational TV is being replaced by pseudo-educational crap and worse. Discovery Channel is my target today, but TLC is probably worse in the grand scheme of things.When exactly did motorcycle construction and riding become the main focus of today's educational scene? American Chopper although far from educational

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According to the UK-published book "Crap Jobs", I am working in the career ranked as the 3rd crappiest job in the world. The only two jobs rated worse are phone sex operator and ferry cabin cleaner. A little more info here.*sob*

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I always follow the USA's political scene.For a couple of reasons:It impacts Canadian affairs.It has a huge impact on the entire world.I find it very interesting.The upcoming election between George W. Bush and John Kerry has gotten my attention because I know who is going to "win". Yes, I said it, place your bets now. George W. Bush will win. If the polls start to show that he isn't going to

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I have been an avid watcher of the Olympics my whole life. Over the past few Olympics I have started to notice that the games are deteriorating. First off, any sport that is decided by a judge is not a sport. This has been proven in figure skating when Jamie Sale and David Peltier were awarded gold medals due to the fact that one of the judges had decided for whatever reason that Russia was to

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Warning: this post may be considered graphic. It should not offend anybody, but you can't say I didn't warn you if it does.Friday started off great, it was a beautiful sunny day and of course it was Friday. I had pizza for lunch, which anyone will admit is a perfect lunch (except for those carb-conscious folks). After lunch I had to run to the bank, that is when everything went south on me. I was

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CBC reports that now the drug activists in Vancouver want to have a "safe" place for crackheads to get high. Of course, this initiative is sponsored with our tax dollars. The safe injection sites we have now are a waste of money as it is, but at least it can be argued that clean needles are pretty useful to heroine addicts. I am not the most sympathetic person when it comes to helping people

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I am not going to discuss whether or not the war in Iraq was justified or not, the point I am trying to make is that the way the war has been fought will never succeed.The US and its allies went in to Iraq thinking that their army would be welcomed with open arms as they were freeing the Iraqi people from the evil regime headed by Saddam Hussein. It must have never crossed their minds that

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I was running around my back yard in bare feet and stepped on a nail from my old sundeck. It was a pretty big and crooked nail and I was unable to pull it out myself. Anybody who knows me will tell you that I will do whatever it takes to avoid going to the hospital. It just isn't something I like to do. But after twenty minutes staring at this nail in my foot trying to figure out how to

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Paul Martin announced his new cabinet yesterday, and one of the appointees really stuck out to me. Ujjal Dosanjh, the former Premier of British Columbia is now the Health Minister. Maybe I am the only one that remembers, but this guy and the rest of his old party caused so many problems in BC, that we gave the BC Liberals a near dictatorship in Victoria. Near the end of Dosanjh's term as Premier,

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My recent post about the return of my lost wallet was published in both of the local papers in my town. The papers used the titles "Returned Wallet Restores Faith" and "Lost Found and Many Thanks". I have to admit that those titles were better than mine, but they get paid to write and I do it for free. In a final toot-my-own-horn moment, I would like to say that neither of the papers edited a

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The trial for Todd Bertuzzi has been set to start on July 22nd. Everybody knows that he punched Steve Moore in the head from behind. I fail to see how charges were even considered, let alone laid in this case.Professional athletes in all sports know that they are risking their bodies, and careers every time they play a game. One of the reasons that they make so much money is to offset the risk

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Just when you are about to completely lose faith in all of humanity, someone does something to save it. Yesterday afternoon my wallet disappeared. Obviously it is a major setback to lose something so important. Less than an hour after my wallet went missing, a lovely young couple showed up at my door with smiling faces and a wallet. I tried to get their phone number and address so that I

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Since it is summertime, the police are out in full force trying to catch those evil criminals, the speeders. If you are caught driving your car faster than the posted speed limit, prepare to pay between $196 and $450 for it. In a construction zone those fines are doubled. According to the last police officer I talked to, you will not get a ticket for going 10 km/h over the limit, but he would

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In a word: Yes.Referendums are the best way for politicians to hear what their constituents want. They are expensive, the upcoming referendum in Vancouver is going to cost upwards of a million dollars and it isn't about a terribly urgent subject. The issue is whether or not to move the current at large system to a wards based system.Any time the public is given a chance to have a say it is a

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