For the substitute teacher.

Fun fact of the day: over 60% of the world's lakes are in Canada, thanks to the deranged drainage system (hey, I didn't make the term up) of the Canadian Shield as the result of glaciers receding.

Caza says Smart Canada gets 10 to 15 calls and e-mails a week from Americans. But DaimlerChrysler has no plans to sell the French-built car in the United States.

The Smart's Canadian success and it's absence from the U.S. market is more evidence of how drivers in the two countries have taken different forks in the road, says DesRosiers.

The entry-level auto segment - from subcompacts like the Smart to cars like the Toyota Corolla - make up 40 per cent of the Canadian market and growing.

"In America it's 22 per cent and declining," says DesRosiers.

The large luxury-sports segment - which includes the biggest SUVs - make up about 10 per cent of Canadian sales, compared with 27 per cent in the United States.
Smart car in Canada

The "The Smart appears to resonate even in oil-rich Alberta." was kinda amusing.

Well, you know. Relatively speaking.

It was one of those rare moments where the talk-show host Jon Stewart disappeared and there was an actual, real, earnest discussion between him and Hitchens that was refreshingly truthful. If only all the debates about this issue were this honest.

Here's another source for that video, if you're so inclined.

"Daily Show" & "very serious" ?

You want to watch the Daily Show tonight. You want to see Jon Stewart and Christopher Hitchens in a very serious debate about Iraq.

Go now. You have half an hour (well, 45 minutes until the interview, I figure). Or download it from here.

So i said i will post more details about this saturday.

This Saturday
I will be out there friday night, so whenever you want to show up.
#23 Weekend Estates
Jackfish Lake
963 3076

Directions:
Take Hwy 16 or 16A, whichever one suits you. (Ed.: West)
Turn Left onto Secondary HWY 770, this is after the two highways converge, and slightly past the overpass to whitecourt.
Travel this road for 10km, you should pass Mink Lake.
Then 3 hills afer mink lake, you will turn right onto a dirt road. There will be a brown Jackfish lake sign on the highway(770)
Pass the public beach and head down a small hill.
At the bottom of the hill, turn left and go to the end of the cul-de-sac and the house is there.

I hope you all can make it

if you need claifications on directions
let me know. But you will need to call me out at the lake 963 3076

good one Adrian - this is my impression of Eubanks laughing his ass off:

seismic evolution: a mispelling. It should actually be "sizemic evolution". a reference to the growing size and hence laziness of their core audience in America.

Anyone know what a "seismic evolution" is? (Or, care to define it for kicks?) A warning: it came from a movie studio exec.