resistance to persistence

I’m not saying anything, but this seems to make some sense. At least it helps me rationalize the end result.

Data originally from http://www.chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm

Via Gothamist, Toronto now has its own news flow, Torontoist, [rss]. I’ve been waiting for this for a while. It’ll be good to keep up on the Toronto gossip and news.

Ol’ Dirty Bastard

ODB passed away over the weekend. A great rapper, with some funny lyrics. Not your normal rhymes. Today would have been his 36th birthday.

Well, my blog must be getting quite popular on search engines. I returned from the weekend to find 341 blog comment spams. I’ve got a pretty good spam control setup, with an IP tarpit as well for WordPress, but I think I’ll have to move to a more aggressive comments posting system. Any suggestions for Wordpress installations? Add a comment…while you still can.

sorryeverybody

I’m shocked and stunned. I couldn’t have imagined the election would have gone that way. I’m not an american citizen and can’t vote but just the feeling of the frenzy around Kerry and the amount of negativity there is towards Bush I thought for sure Kerry was going to pull off the win. I’ve never been so into US politics as I was for this election.

Now that there’s another 4 years of Bush, I’m really worried for the US. I’ve read so many articles about people wanting to flee the US and move up here to Canada. One of my good friends has dual Canada-US citizenship and he moved to Boston a few years back for work. He told me before the election he was seriously considering moving back if Bush won. Concerns over foreign issues, debt, etc have him and a lot of friends not wanting to be in America. Now with the Canadian dollar gaining so much ground on the US dollar, his savings are loosing value daily.

The failure of separation of church and state under Bush as well as his religious views on abortion and stem-cell research drive me crazy. At least California’s proposition 71 passed which gives $3-billion to stem cell research. I want the ball rolling on that for personal reasons.

The world is not happy with USA. I’d previously read an article before the election that only 3 countries in the world were in favour of the USA’s foreign policies.

Polls taken last month showed that if the world’s citizens were given a vote in the U.S. election, only Russians and Israelis would have chosen Mr. Bush. Most nations strongly opposed him.

Bush’s war on Iraq, defocusing on OBL, oil contracts to Haliburton, foreign policy, it’s all infuriating. Many predict a draft in the near future even though Bush said he wouldn’t. Let’s see who flip-flops now. What will the future hold? Hopefully it won’t be as bad as imagined.

Let me say it was very busy. I was arranging my best friend Ben’s stag party (with the huge help of others) so there was a lot going on. Saturday started with a van rental that never happened, which I had to pick up at 7am on Sunday morning instead. An afternoon of touch football in the rain. An evening of drinking and debauchery. 15 guys who came out dressed up as nuns and we dressed up Ben as the pope. It was hilarious. We went to Devil’s Martini for drinks and partying. The pope and nuns were a hit and got a lot of attention. Stayed up way too late, got too little sleep, but I just didn’t want to leave the party. An amazing time.

Ben thought the weekend was over and he could relax for the day. No such luck. At 9:30am we raided his house, wrapped him in saran wrap, threw him in a van with 10 guys and hit the road for Buffalo (minus a few pitstops for people loosing the contents of their stomachs). A few hours later, we were sitting 1st row, 50 yard line at a Buffalo Bills game dressed as the Pope and his band of nuns yet again. The crowd loved it and we played it up as much as possible. The Bills pulled out a huge win and we got on the Jumbotron at least 2 times. Interviewed by a newspaper and made the front page. Click the image below to see the full front page of the paper. I’m the second nun from the right (am i praying?) looking back at the Pope.

Outstanding quotes from the weekend:

• “Sister please put the Pope down, again.”
• “Give me ten Hail Mary’s and a how’s your daddy and God’s confidence will be restored.”
• “I need to take a Papal piss.”
• “Have you seen the Pope’s shaft?”
• “Walk it off….we’ll be back to pick you up.”

I’ve posted the photos I took with my camera phone from the football game.