I just couldn't resist

I stumbled across this on an ubuntu-canada mailing list .... and although 'old news' it is still relevant in our internet world ... where everything is being slapped with a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act - USA) or in Canada the Bills C-60 and C-61 (did anything ever come out of the proposed motions for amendments to these bills?). or our more commonly known 'friend', DRM ... either way, I thought it was quite humorous at this late hour of the night ... or should I say early hour of the morn?

Ha-Ha! I've been Tagged!

Darcy has tagged a group of us in a little 'let's see where these instructions take you' meme.

So this is what I eventually landed on (after doing a little substituting of location names, since I don't exactly keep my pictures in the documents folder .. but locked up safely in Aperture).

And ... here it is!



This picture was taken way back late August when I went on a hike out to Uluksan Point. I initially planned on putting both feet in the water but it was rather chilly and the rocks were kinda slimy and I didn't want to fall in the bay.

So .... I know tag Tina, Kara, Jennith, Alex, Megan and Jackie.

Here are the 'rules'

1. Go to your documents. (or if you are a mac user, go to your pictures folder)
2. Go to your 6th folder.
3. Go to your 6th picture.
4. Blog about it.
5. Tag 6 others to do the same.

It's hard ... being a geek ...

way way up miles above the Arctic Circle. ** changed due to "legal" demands ... infringmemnt my *** :-P




Piled Higher and Deeper Comics (a.k.a. PhD Comics)


I admit it. I am a geek. Not a nerd, but a geek [for a geek vs. nerd definition and a guide on how to tell the difference between a geek and a nerd]. I love my tech toys. But living way up North can be a little painful for a geek like me.

It's not like I can hop on the bus and head to the local Futureshop, Apple Store or homebrew computer center. I miss being able to stop in at those places and play with what ever new tech-toy just came out, to scope out what is coming through the pipes, and to decide what I am going to drool over for the next three months while I save up the $$ to get it.

There aren't too many other people here in the north that get the geeky things in life (at least up here - I can count them on one hand). It's hard to talk geek to anyone, most of the time I just get blank looks and the do I need to know this stare.

My geekdom is pretty limited here. I can look at and research all of the new tech-toys, but I'm a tactile geek - I like to be able to hold it in my hands and see how it "feels" and "works" before committing myself to a relationship.

Even the process of trying to get tech-toys up North is painful. Futureshop, BestBuy and The Source charges an arm and a leg for shipping, Dell can't seem to get a package to you, my local independent computer shop back home wants to charge me UPS rates ... at least Apple half of the time can get things to us up here relatively quickly ... unless they ship it to your southern address instead of your northern address.

Heck, I can hardly even download my favorite technology podcasts ... as they push me over my measly 2GB limit way too quickly. I have no idea what is going on in the world! I don't even know what was said at the last MacWorld!

Yeah, I could just send a list of what I want down south to my mom or some of my other geek inclined friends, but then I have to wait for them to get up to the shops, shove it in the mail, and hope that Canada Post/First Air doesn't loose it in the process.

So, until I make it down south, I guess I will just have to continue my tech-toy withdrawl ... oh, it's so painful .. its like giving up coffee during exam week.

Six Phases of Teaching

This was sent to me by a fellow teacher .... I think I am in phase 5 ... although, at times it feels like phase 6 :-)


PHASE ONE


You are listening to jazz -- Your first day at work is great. Your fellow teachers are wonderful, your classroom is cute, you love your students, and your principal is the best!



PHASE TWO



You are listening to pop music -- After a while you are so busy that you are not sure if you're coming or going anymore.



PHASE THREE



You are listening to heavy metal -- This is what you feel like after ONE month.



PHASE FOUR



You are listening to hip hop -- You become bloated due to stress, you're gaining weight due to lack of exercise because you are so tired and have so much school work to do when you get home, you feel sluggish and suffer from constipation. Your fellow teachers are too cheerful for your liking and the walls of your classroom are closing in.



PHASE FIVE




You are listening to Gangsta Rap -- After more time passes, your eyes start to twitch, you forget what a 'good hair day' feels like as you just fall out of bed and load up on caffeine.



PHASE SIX



You are listening to the voices in your head -- You have locked your classroom door to keep people out, You wonder WHY you are even here in the first place and WHY did I become a teacher!

You know you have enough toilet paper when...

You still have 7 rolls (double rolls at that... so like 14 in reality) left from last years sea-lift ..... and 192 that you still haven't unpacked from your current sea-lift.




Yes everyone, I have an abundance of TP in my apartment. It is just sitting there in the two big boxes that it arrived in, waiting to be dived into (I'm still working on the remnants of the last package of TP from last year's sea-lift ... and probably won't even get into the new stuff until maybe the end of November ... if not December).

So, maybe it's just because I haven't posted anything "north" related in a while, or perhaps its all of the cold meds that I am taking right now... or maybe it's just because I am giddy that I am heading to Iqaluit for the weekend (unless I am stranded in Arctic Bay due to weather) .... for a conference - yes, I am working this weekend.


So readers, I put this challenge out to you - what is the most creative use of TP that you can come up with. Now remember, I don't have any trees up here..... so TP'n the forest isn't an option .... nor is TP'n the poop truck :-) ... or perhaps, Jen if you are reading this and are up to it ... we could make this the next Nunavut Nonsense Challenge? The prize? I'll send you a pack of TP out of the box :-)

Because i've really got nothing else to post about

Well .... nothing much to post about tonight. Federal election was last night, and we gathered ... well myself, Darcy and Monty, together to watch the hilarity unravel on National television. I gave up watching the results around 12:30 AM ... there was still one seat to be decided on .... and guess where that seat was? Darcy on the other hand, apparently stayed up - the social studies trooper that he is - until the bitter end when all 308 seats were finally spoken for. Yeah, I wasn't gonna do that. Harper got his minority ... that was enough politics for me for the night.

And now, that brings me to tonight .... here's some videos ... cause I really have nothing to post about. i've just been sitting here watching 24 Season 2 ... need to get refreshed in all of my 24isms before the season premier in November. Long live Jack!










Oh, btw, Mom, if you are reading this, I didn't leave a copy of The March of the Penguins down south did I?