SUNDAY’S PICTURE

Fall is definitely here and that means that the one tree in our front yard dumps its leaves earlier than most trees. Usually, I make the trek to Home Depot to buy a large supply of paper bags to put them out for recycling. Starting last year, the city of Brampton decided to do us a favor by vacuuming them up if you put them at the curb. The only problem is they don’t give you a definite day for pickup. They put up vague signs around the neighbourhood saying it will take place “in a few days”. Since I’m travelling this week, today seemed like a good day to to gather them up. Good except for the 30km wind. Chances are that they will end up on the lawns of those around us who don’t have trees that shed. Oh well.



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TECHNOLOGY TOO FAR

My friend from the Netherlands, Jeroen, sent me a link to a Quick Time movie that certainly puts an exclamation point on where our wired world is going. Your inner geek will find it funny, the older person in you will find it scary.

HELP GEORGE W.

After the unmasking of the forged documents that left CBS and Dan Rather with mud on their faces, the ultra conservative group “Yes, Bush Can ’04″ need your help to expose other documents as the liberals lies that they must be.
Included are:
Dick Cheney’s DUI charge
GWB’s 2 DUI charges
The Bush daughters alcohol bust
etc. etc.

To help us all out, they include links to the blatantly false official documents.

Sure it’s a joke, but very well done

PERFECT TIMING

Just a couple of days before I fly to South Carolina, Cool Gov comes up with a Quick Time movie of a remote controlled crash test.

Good thing I’m not afraid of flying. As they say, it’s not the falling out of the sky that kills you, it’s the sudden stop at the end.
(It’s a big file and it appears that the server is getting hammered. If you can’t load it, send me a comment and I’ll provide a link from my server)

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Aldous Huxley

>“At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.”