I'm watching a disaster movie this afternoon. This one is a volcano movie. Its the standard story, mountain is about to blow its top but everyone is oblivious. A small group of people who understand are doing a Chicken Little shtick, but as usual it falls on deaf ears until its too late.

These two people are stuck up near the peak of the impending eruption. The lava flows have begun and they're being chased down repeatedly bad alternatives. We just had the very cliche, cross a river of lava on a tree that conveniently spans the crevice through which lava flows. (Just as an aside, couldn't they just ONCE be less cliche about it, and make the plucky survivors build their own little bridge over the lava?)

I mention all of this to ask a question. Which, I suspect, will tie into the Star Wars movie I'm hoping to see soon.

How long would it take to die, if you fell in a pool of molten lava?

Please put me down in the, Kate Beckinsale fan, column.

Can we please do something to make sure that Will Ferrell isn't allowed to have a musical number in all of the comedies in which he appears?

Okay, I gotta say something. There's no way I can let this stand without making a comment.

Joni Mitchell is how you close your show!?! Come on! After 100 years of existence, with all the greatness, and talent that we've produced, we close our centenary show with Joni Mitchell!?! Yeah, she had a hit or two but please!

I'm offended. I'm shocked even. We could have covered any one of a number of different achievers. We've exported everything that we ever discovered had talent.

I can't even think straight.

Joni Mitchell!?!

Blog Poll Of The Day:

Which Quentin Tarantino movie was better?

Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill

P.P.S.

What does P.S. stand for?

P.S.

I hate when I type 'know' when I intend to use the word 'now'

It was raining.

I rode my pedal bike.

The clothes I was wearing were not water resistant.

Rain soaked me to the skin.

I did not die.

Blog Question Of The Day:

Is it called soy sauce because its made of soy or because its intended to make soy products edible?

I wish to try an experiment.

Amongst the 19 dozen thoughts I've had today, I had an idea for something interesting. I'm sure you've all experienced the phenomenon of that new song coming on the radio, and instantly liking. Like all songs though, eventually you get tired of it. What about if you took that idea to its extreme. Pick a new song from the radio, something you really like. Listen to it, repeatedly, until you were sick of it.

For this people, I will need some help.

One, what should the song be?

Two, what is your guess for the number of repeats, until it is irritating?

Blog Survey Of The Day:

What is a word that you wish you could use in a sentence, on a more frequent basis?


Grant's entry = synonym

Blog Wager Of The Day:

Will I develop a stress-induced headache today?

Odds to be laid, after an examination of bets placed.

G&M Word Of The Day:

Palooka

Blog Question Of The Day:

If you've seen Reservoir Dogs, is it even possible to listen to Stealer's Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You without thinking about the cop getting his ear cut off?

I have a question.

First we have to ask, can the average farmer in Canada earn a decent standard of living, under the current economic model? If we are to believe the lobbyists, we must accept the premise that farmers don't get what it is worth to produce food. So, if we follow the chain of dominos that fall down, then we arrive at the conclusion that, the cost of food in the grocery store is not dependent upon the chain that brings it to market.

And if we accept all of that, does it ever make you wonder whether the fact that beef is more expensive that chicken isn't purely arbitrary?

Blog Question Of The Day:

Have you ever done sit-ups because you were bored and couldn't think of anything else to do?

Blog Question Of The Day:


My new house?

Thoughts?

I would just like to go on the record, one more time, about how I hate Word and all things Microsoft.

What is wrong with this dam program!?! Maybe I'm crazy but what I want to do should NOT require all this screwing around.

I have a specification, that I wrote IN WORD. I formatted it nicely, the way I wanted it, so it had the look of a tabulated spec sheet. I had headings, and minor indents, to show features for each part, of a multi-part equipment specification. It looked exactly the way I wanted, and should have been ready for insertion into any document.

Word, in its infinite, god damn, wisdom, decided that this was all wrong. It removed the indents from some entries. It changed my font sizing and bold-facing. It screwed up my margins. And to truly cap off the experience, it dynamically changed my mind for me, when I tried to fix its damn mistakes.

I HATE MICROSOFT WORD!!!!!

Blog (Serious) Poll Of The Day:

Should I make an attempt to see the new Star Wars movie on opening weekend?

Okay, so what's the deal with one-way streets?

I'm driving around downtown Regina on Friday. Not the busy, commercial streets like Albert, Broad or Victoria. I'm on the little, dinky side streets. They are so inconsequential that I can't even recall their designations. I think they were numbered, like 12th Ave.

And these little, unimportant streets are one-way. WHY!?! What possible purpose could you hope to achieve by making backwater, unimportant downtown streets one way? There's no traffic! I'm driving around and sure, there are some signs, but you could put it on the honor system for all the traffic that there was. Leave them the easy way, two-way, and stop confusing people. One-way streets just get on everyone's nerves.