um, Ed, are you serious?

ECOS (in short) is the Environmental Coordination Office of Students (where I work). We're a service of the Students' Union that works towards tying all interested parties in the campus community together over common goals (faculty, administration, student groups, the student body at large, and the greater community as well) of sustainability and environmental issues that affect us here on campus.

We're working for and in the interest of students to develop programs and projects around issues that they bring up - such as the upcoming waste audit of SUB (to see exactly how much we're wasting, and where we could reduce that waste). As someone put it yesterday, ECOS is on campus to help us reduce our waste, and in turn reduce the things that cost us more in tuition (like electricity, water and materials consumption) so that the money we're paying could go towards more than just the energy bill... like maybe smaller classes, or better/more professors (and within the SU, that'd mean more money to work on projects that affect students, or that will benefit students).

We're also working on projects that have more direct benefits to the student body, through the volunteer opportunities, or the effects it will have. In this area, there are projects like U-Pass development (which I'm actually working with the VP External on), other SU policies, and activities like the Peregrine Falcon Project to put a webcam up in the nest box and share endangered species education with the campus and greater community. We have lots more projects, but I already feel like an advertisement, and I don't ever want to end up "preaching" to my friends (any more than I already have). If you're interested in learning more, e-mail me, or check out our sadly-in-need-of-an-update website: www.su-ecos.ca

shit. i just got served.
anyways, how's 9:20 for the WENZ-DEE showing of Fahrenheit 9/11 down at City Centre sound guys?

oh and here's the showtimes of the other flicks on the "list"

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Cinema 12 11:10 a.m. 2:00 4:35 7:35 10:05
late show: 12:15 a.m. Fri Sat
Movies 12 11:10 a.m. 2:00 4:35 7:35 10:05
late show: 12:15 a.m. Fri Sat

Napoleon Dynamite
Princess 7:15 9:15
Matinees: 2:30 Sat Sun

Though i know it's not really on the list there is one another film worth mentioning, and surprisingly there's only one theatre in Edmonton screening it (fuckin' North Edmonton at that!). perhaps you've already downloaded the EP that shares its namesake? the documentary, "Some Kind of Monster", that follows Metallica during those very recording sessions. Now normally i wouldn't bother to bring something like this up: Metallica (ir)regardless of their past (arguably) really does suck ass both musically and more simply as people, and the one of the directors responsible for this film is in contention for winning some sort of jury prize from Bad Movie Night for his 2000 classic, "Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2" . But asshole subjects and idiot film makers aside the film is made compelling for the same reasons that Wilco's "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" was- recording a record is a fucking nightmare. especially when your lead-singer-principle-song-writer is going into rehab for alcoholism (james, not jeff- though i'm sure the two probably throw-up at similar intervals) and your bassist quits just prior to the sessions beginning...(instead of just kicking his ass out of the band-actually come to think of it there's a lot of weird similarities between the two bands) where the two films diverge is the film's inner social critique- Wilco's mocks the ridiculousness of major label record companies, in essance of unmanagably large multinational corporations, and Metallica's points out the intersections between the absurdity of celebrity and pop culture's rabid fascination with self help psychology- much of the film captures the band during its sessions with their band-psychiatrist (who apparently the label also once assigned to Rage Against the Machine, and good fuckin' lot that did) Sadly as we all know Metallica doesn't break up at the end to form a new band with Axl Rose, or the rest of those guys from Soundgarden (Spoonman!!) but the film certainly suggests that they came damn close. and again like Wilco, that's just a good case of having cameras around when mad shit is going down. and the best part about it is though all of what you see is a real life human drama,when it plays itself out on screen it's just pantshitting comedy - and that's definately a side of Metallica that i can swallow- the pantshitting part.

so yeah one other thing, i haven't actually seen the film yet- so if anyone's interested in going gimme a shout- the only reason i know so much about it is because i read a pretty great article about it in New York Times Magazine- whodathunkit.

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
North Edmonton 12:55 4:00 7:05 10:05

(again, North Side....yikes)

A link for Jere to check out: You've been Served!

Hey Alison, what is ECOS?

hmmm... while I pretty much have got the whole silkscreening technique down-pat (I mean how many people out there have university-level silkscreen training? I didn't think so)... I would still LOVE to get over to that DIY silk-screening thing just so I can see how they do it DIY style. I'm unfortunately trained in the hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars-worth-of-equipment style of silkscreening. I'm DYING to figure out how you do it in your own home for (as a little birdie told me) CHEEP-CHEEP!!!

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Hey Pete

For the Bios, hold delete once the computer starts up, and the temps will be in "hardware monitoring"
For the floppy, there is an individual interface cable that only plugs into the floppy and certain slot on the motherboard, make sure it goes in there. Assuming you're doing that, flipping the ribbon when you insert it (btw, the red wire is for "Pin #1" so try to keep them aligned in the same way, you should be able to find pin #1 on the mobo, but it'll be trial and error for the drive)
For the Internet and Sound, you need to install the drivers on the ASUS cd (in fact I think you'll need to intall all the drivers on the cd, including the "4 in 1" driver package) that should take care of that.

Here's the proggy: http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

Hey Alison, I think it's up to you to take every opportunity that you see in order to rise to power. People like Sharma and Hudema sound like obstacles.

Hey, I know some people are headin' to K-days tonight for he show. I was wondering if anyone was up to go run around K-days and do some rides and see the sights. I know Carli was up for going Wed night since she didnt have work, I was wondering if any other people were up for going. Lemmie know!

so... I get to read the SU web board as part of my work hours... this seems strange.

But... I guess Roman Kotovych was doing some research on ECOS... talking with Anand Sharma and Mike Hudema (because they're obviously the experts on ECOS) and asked them what ECOS was doing. His statement is thus: "I asked Anand and Mike what ECOS was up to, and they both said 'They're doing a lot, Roman.'" well, what were you expecting? I don't think i've seen Anand down here ever... even before I was working for ECOS... and Mike rarely, if ever, stops by... so what would they really know? Please, if ever any of you end up with untold power to decide the fate of things that other people depend upon and/or enjoy, consult with those who know (really know) what's going on before you make any kind of decision. Mind you, at least an interest is being generated.... it can only lead to more accurate information being made known later... much more in-depth than "they're doing a lot," wow.