oh yeah, Alison, sorry for not getting back to you yesterday- by the time i read your message i was already at work. yeah don't worry about the Control Room tape- i've already extracted the quotation i need, but thanks

thom yorke getting chocolate poured over him

more celebs getting fair-trade stuff poured on them... It's an interesting ad campaign if you ask me. showing waste of the very materials you're talking about being wasted and contributing to the destruction of people's livelihoods...

and maybe I'm one of a select few who wouldn't mind a chocolate-covered Thom Yorke showing up at my door... :) but the rest of the images are equally interesting in their absurdity to prove a point and fight for the cause. more info at oxfam and make trade fair

for example... mmm coffee!

I have returned...

the guy's probably a coal miner. And if he's already okay with eating fish poisoned with selenium, he's probably okay with losing his future when the 'global warming' takes away all need of his type of employment. Never mind the fact that it really is global climate change, and that we're suffering from it right now with our long, dry fall; and his cousin the farmer is losing his land and livelihood at a record pace because of it. But hey, if he wants to keep his head buried in the sand, who am I to tell him otherwise?

fucking moron.

and hey, if he's not a coal miner, he's a forester, and foresters should actually know better, maybe because they've realised how much of their own hunting land has been cleared and rid of it's prime game, or maybe because they've noticed strange growth trends of the new tree stands... so he'd better be a coal miner, because I like to give the foresters some credit, and he'd just blow that for all of them.

I too love alberta. I love living in REDmonton too, as a matter of fact. It makes us just that much different than all those know-it-all yahoos everywhere else (not saying everyone everywhere else is a know-it-all yahoo), and I really do love that. not that I can actually change that man's mind until it's too late for him... (unless...)

I never said it was new news, I just said it was an interesting collection of headlines... Americans wanting to leave/do you want to leave/ cheap overseas flights...

on another topic, what do you all think:
is ecoterrorism a hate crime?

don't get me wrong, I'm not condoning ecoterrorism, but I just want to know what you all think, whether it's gone too far or not. See this link for more. And really, can we make parallels between ecoterrorism (whether it's tree spiking or sugaring the gas tanks of bulldozers in new developments or whatever else) and what happened to that Jewish school in Montreal (fire bombing of their library months ago) - which people actively call a hate crime? Can we? Can you? Let me know what you think.

At the risk of starting Alison on a rant, I thought this letter in the Journal was hilarious:

Nice search function Par...

In other news, I think the heat isn't working in our apartment - that is unless someone set it to a balmy 11^o

Okay - I need to rant. No one has to read this. It's 2:02 in the morning of the day one of my papers is due. The prof has moved the deadline back three times already - for the benefit of the entire class, not just me but I've certainly taken advantage of the opportunity to procrastinate. So it's past 2 in the morning and I'm just flogging this paper to death. I mean it couldn't be much more obvious that I really have nothing to say about the topic and I can't find any interesting secondary sources to go off on a tangent about even just to eat up some word count. Each of the sections is turning out to be half the length it needs to be and I'm just padding it with crap. It's so terrible I am embarrassed to hand it in. And I've handed in some real crap when I need to. Fuck. At this point I should just start a new fucking topic, but I really don't want to start again tonight and I really really don't want to hand this in any later than tomorrow.

Okay.

Actually I believe that's GHz, as the prefix giga is "G" and the unit hertz is "Hz"... bitches.

Also, I'd suggest "red-hat-man," but that may be a little too obvious.
And it's w00t, not Woot!

oh wait... I think I just got it.

You meant gHz, right? My bad. I'm slow today.