| Has been 3 years since I posted anything...
busy blogging on coffee.bc.ca and believe it or not...
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| Coming to your town. In a Times-Colonist report this morning, Victoria, B.C. Canada will be a locked down camp the evening of Canada Day.
What does this mean? Well, according to the newspaper item, you are not to transport alcohol (in pretty much any form) between hours X and Y through a corridor or a series of corridors and Manned barricades in the city of Victoria, B.C. Canada.
What this also means is that civil liberties will be suspended for this time period.
What it meant to bus riders and pedestrians last year (and the year before) is that you could and would be stopped and (illegally searched) by designated officials. Illegal search and seizure my friends.
That means if you are crossing town and minding your own god-damn business (with a bottle of Pinot Noir in your pack-sack) you can be illegally stopped and illegally searched…
if you are walking.
if you are taking a bus.
if you are riding a bike.
if you are driving your car and your wine is in your trunk.
You can say no to this attack on your charter rights.
You should say no to this attack on your fundamental rights.
Canada Day is about freedom, liberty and destiny…
It is not about illegal search and seizure.
So. If you live in Victoria B.C. Canada and want to freely move about on Canada Day… at any time of the night or day…
Remember: You have a right to! | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| In a remarkable turn of events, I have just been mailed a list of future gas prices in the Victoria area.
This is truely incredible. It appears to have come from an industry insider… an obviously confidential document… describing sceduled price increases for the Victoria area right down to the decimal point…
Wow. Check this out readers:
May 25, 2007 – 131.5 / gallon regular
May 31, 2007 – 134.9 / gallon regular
June 7, 2007 – 136.9 / gallon regular
June 21, 2007 – 142.5 / gallon regular
Geepers. I could go on… but it would not be in my best interest to reveal more… this document uncovers what the gas prices in Victoria will be through the summer right into September.
I would be putting my life in danger by telling you what the gas price will be in the first week of September.
On a more serious note… CAA insiders claim that these all too obvious pre-long-weekend gas price increases are more than a little suspicious.
Cathy Hay, senior gasoline market analyst at MJ Ervin and Associates in Calgary, said most gasoline markets are pretty close to peak prices and the notion that gas prices jump prior to a long weekend is an urban myth.
An urban myth huh? Right..
Right… | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I work as a technician at a local University. Sometimes I need to parachute into tense situations where technology has failed…
Yesterday I was sent me into a classroom (in session) with
specific instructions to cut into a cable
and replace the DC Plug with an Audio Plug.
Anyone with any electrical or electronics knowledge knows that cutting into anything live is usually a bad idea.
I advised my contact person that it was probably not a good idea
but I went anyway –
Off I went to a lecture in the Womens Studies faculty
...in full swing. Trust me. Facing 35 or 350 sets of eyes with the clear intention of solving a tech problem in less than 5 minutes is challenging at the best of time.
Sure enough, there was some kind of power cable on the top of the counter that I could not identify.
The room was near dark as the class was in progress
with the Video Data Projector on and about 3 or 4 people talking to a class of about 35 ladies.
As I fumbled around the a/v cabinet, I realised that this
cable on the counter top was indeed NOT an audio
cable. I had no idea what it was or what kind of voltage was waiting to bite my ass.
Annoyingly, every 2 minutes or so, someone in the group would
introject: WHEN the audio problem is solved, we
will continue with the AUDIO presentation…”
Within about 15 minutes I was able to find and isolate
the audio cable in question (it had been stuffed into the
tech cabinet and force plugged into the back of the DVD player
RCA input!) The class was back in business and I quietly excused myself to limit the interuption to the learning process.
I think in the future, under circumstances like these, I will put off these kind of re-wiring tasks til the classroom is illuminated and safely cleared out. It is just better for everyone. We used to do service to VDP’s while classes were in progress – but it is just too dangerous. The very thought of dropping a VDP 15 to 30 feet from the ceiling to the floor or onto the head of a student is just too much of a risk to take.
Anyway. I got the job done today.
Ironically, the classroom topic being discussed was
about how useless men are and how poorly they treat
women.
Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| There is talk starting to circulate that the U.S.A. may use nuclear weapons against Iran. Anyway you slice it, this is utter insanity. Knowing that, you are probably thinking that America would never just come out and drop bombs on just anybody. Well, lemme jog your memory about American foreign policy over the last 50 years.
The following is a list of countries the U.S. has bombed since WWII. Now I know what you are thinking: These countries needed to be bombed to protect the World from terrorism, fascism, communism and socialism. You know, to keep the World free from tyranny and opression. Right. Maintain World Peace through perpetual War. So. Here you are. 26 countries. Millions of lives snuffed out. Enjoy.
* China (1945-46)
* Korea and China (1950-53--Korean War)
* Guatemala (1954)
* Indonesia (1958)
* Cuba (1959-61)
* Guatemala (1960)
* Congo (1964)
* Peru (1965)
* Laos (1964-73)
* Vietnam (1961-73)
* Cambodia (1969-70)
* Guatemala (1967-69)
* Grenada (1983)
* Lebanon (1983, 1984 -- both Lebanese and Syrian targets)
* Libya (1986)
* El Salvador (1980s)
* Nicaragua (1980s)
* Iran (1987)
* Panama (1989)
* Iraq (1991 to present)
* Kuwait (1991)
* Somalia (1993)
* Bosnia (1994, 1995)
* Sudan 1998
* Afghanistan (1998, 2001-02)
* Yugoslavia (1999) | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I have not been here so long...
actually blogging on coffee.bc.ca
as well as on the main site coffecrew.com
just testing to see that this still works. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Security: | | | Subject: | 25 bands.. | | Time: | 01:23 pm | | Current Mood: |  bouncy |
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| 25 bands seen.......
01. Skinny Puppy (1986)
02. AHA (Expo 86)
03. X (OAP HALL)
04. Black Flag (OAP HALL)
05. The Subhumans
06. DOA/The Stiffs (1978!)
07. Los Lobos (OAP HALL)
09. Uncle Wiggly (Numerous)
10. Robert Cray (Harpos)
11. Charlie Musselwhite (Harpos)
12. Clarence Gatemouth Brown (Harpos)
13. Savoy Brown (Harpos)
14. Skywalk (Harpos)
15. David Cassidy (Harpos)
16. Duran Duran (GM Place)
17. NEOS/Pink Steel/Infamous Scientists
18. Rush (1979)
19. Cheap Trick (1980)
20. Talking Heads
21. The Jam (Vancouver 1986)
22. Boomtown Rats (Victoria)
23. Nomeansno (numerous)
24. Bad Intentions (My band)
25. 54-40 (x3) | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Joy Division - She's Lost Control | | Security: | | | Subject: | Ding Dong.. | | Time: | 04:16 pm | | Current Mood: |  rejuvenated |
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| Ding Dong the pope is dead.. ding dong.. the pope is dead..
yea - I can say that cause I am catholic..
what boggles me is the number of
young women that adored this old goof..
he did not seem to like women much..
-anti family planning
-anti choice
seemed to want to keep them in the dark ages..
and yet, all these female pope lovers..
bizarre..
ding dong.. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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