Thanks P!

Wow, who said anything about destroying universes. Geez, the violence. Tony still has to do tours through Par's anyway. Can't run tours through wreckage. Or do they?

Alison, it's always good to consider emergencies.

okay... two things:

1. When creating one's monthly budget, what expenses should one expect? All I can think of thus far is bus fare, gas, food/bar, books, and clothes. Yes, I read enough books that it might as well be a part of my actual budgeting. But anyway, I don't have to pay rent, so what else is there?

2. MARY, do you have someone interested in buying your Sarah Harmer ticket, or should Jess and I be finding someone else?


Alright, and not really a "thing" to be listed, but something interesting nonetheless. There's a new book out Travelling with Che Guevara: The making of a revolutionary by Alberto Granado... and apparently a movie too directed by Walter Salles called The Motorcycle Diaries I'm probably 1/5 into it, and it's really good. It's really good as a travel story, regardless of one's ideology, but it's also pretty neat to see how the ideologies are getting meshed within the travel stories. More than anything, it's making me want to travel... to escape this monotonous continent and get somewhere less money-grubbing. Don't get me wrong, I love Alberta, Edmonton and Canada... I love most of the places I've travelled on this continent too, but the mindset is too constricting and embarassing. Perhaps I'm just reacting to having hung out with some incredibly worldly and exceptional people this weekend. And... someone from Saskatoon who swears he's met me before, and looks semi-familiar to me too... but that's beside the point. So many people there were just plain phenomenal. I want to go where they've been, and where they're going. One girl's headed to North West Africa for two months, and I was salivating. must save money... (hence the budget) Anyway, yeah, if any of you actually knew I was going, Winnipeg was awesome - not that I saw the city... but because of the aforementioned people.

Exactly what Taylor said, what universe? The Multiverse must be infinite if there are dimensions that contain a Grand Arms Panzer and other large mecha variants. You can't destroy anyones universe, read PKD's book UBIK and you will see that it can only be destabilized or resatbilized and that is all. So go get your cans of UBIK and stay sane!

Which universe? Or wait, are we talking multiverses? I think VALIS has been talking to me in my sleep.

You think you know Phillip K. Dick (y'know: author of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" aka Bladerunner)? You don't know shit. Read this really short bio on Phillip K. Dicks' life here. That man clearly had some major psychological issues; so much so that reading about it is just plain bone-chilling. Weirdest shit I've ever read in a long time. Thank-you wikipedia!

Your universe is next!

What next rail guns? Any other science fiction weapons we can make into real weapons?

Gotta stay on message.

Bush says don't forget about Poland. Time to find a new country not to forget about.

Paul Allen's Spaceshipone Donation: "more than $20 million." Well, that paid off in a hefty 50% return (at best.) In consolation, though, he does give millions to a variety of 'good' causes, other than winning prizes.

Yay! Real weapons of mass destruction, anti-matter weapons, courtesy of the US Air Force. (Get it? Mass destruction? Hey, I thought it was funny.)

so... I watched part of the presidential debate with a room full of environmental activists... it was hilarious. We got to see the part where Bush declared that Iraq had actually attacked the states first. Followed by Kerry correcting the president by saying that it was Al Quaeda who had attacked the states... and Bush said "of course I know that Al Quaeda attacked us..." it was too funny, and the look on Bush's face was priceless. We laughed so hard. You almost don't need to have sound to know what's going on.... although all the wadn't (instead of wasn't) was pretty fun to hear from Bush... he's a bumpkin at best.

Either way you look at red and blue... they're both flag colours on top of party colours... everything has to be about patriotism too, remember? fuck it's just too funny. They're visually interchangeable except for height and tie colour, and so are the wives. The women both wore pretty much identical outfits. Apparently it wasn't about image, it was about the words... and man were the words funny. I wonder if they phoned eachother up to ask what they were wearing... or maybe they have people who did that for them...

Sorry, Tony. The hurricane thing was fun while it lasted, though.