Thursday, March 1, 2007

Winter Storm Warnings

5:00 pm, Thursday March 1st, 2007.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Dear Mother Nature.

Sure this idea maybe born from the fact that I can’t get out of my office parking lot right now, but I have a firm belief that we have officially upset the balance of nature, and you’re fighting back.
Is it a coincidence that a winter storm arrives during rush hour in the biggest city in Toronto? Really? A coincidence?
I say nay!
You, Mother Nature, tired of the exhaust that is fuming during the afternoon rush, have decided to fight back by screwing those who drive!
The insanity of this idea might be masking the reality that I AM SO FUCKING PISSED OFF AT THE WEATHER RIGHT NOW!!!
You’ve really, really disappointed me. A lot. Excuse the profanity, but fuck you snow. Fuck. You.


Mother Nature you’re a PMS’ing bitch. Whassa matter? You can’t handle a little CO2? You need your precious ozone layer? Please allow me to borrow a motif from George Carlin/Bill Hicks:

Give me all that pollution shit. Since when is life supposed to be easy? Life is a battle from the day we’re born till the day we die. Flu’s, Viruses, Cancer. This is our battle for existence. Those fuckers are going to wipe out millions, and we’re totally not going to be able to fight back. Internal constitution, not money, not penis length, not guns, but internal constitution is going to be the determining factor for who lives and who gets left behind.


Fuck terrorists, how many people do they kill a year? A few hundred, a few thousand? There are 6.6 BILLION people on this planet. We could have a major catastrophe, loose 100,000 people, and we’d make up that population loss by lunch time because we’re growing at a rate of about 200,000 people a day. 200,000 people. A day. It would take less than a week for us to make up the loss of a million people.

It took until approximately the beginning of the 19th century for the population of the earth to reach 1 billion. You wanna know how long it took us to go from 5.6 billion to 6.6 billion? 10 years. You want to know where I’m going with this. In the last 10 years we’ve added 1 billion people to this planet, and most of them are on the streets driving some cars. And all of them are outside right now sitting, emitting Carbon-fuckoxide.


We’ve fucked ourselves. And you wanna know what might save us? Porn. That’s right, internet/VHS/DVD/magazine/1800callmebaby porn. Let’s gets some fucking porn out there so people stop procreating and let’s get them masturbating a little more and then maybe in 10 years we won’t be completely screwed with so much traffic and so much “we’re killing the planet with our cars.” It’s like (and I can’t believe I’m quoting these guys) the NRA says, guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Cars don’t kill the environment, people driving cars kill it. And we’ve got 300 million of those ‘people’ in North America getting around in cars. Man of the Year my ass Time Magazine, more like Killer of the Century. Imagine if animals could talk or vote, we'd totally be removed from our post at the top of the food chain.

Oh, and fuck you major oil and gas companies for this ‘gas shortage’. If I wanna drive around to McDonalds at 10 pm because I have a hankering for a double burger and fries, I don’t need to be worried if I’ve got gas, or where I’m going to get it. Just give me my gas and shut the fuck up about shortages, or I’m going to have to start seriously looking at alternative sources of fuel (i.e. ethanol) and I might start growing my own tomatoes instead of getting McDonalds.


To sum up, the weather is really bad in Toronto, especially for the drivers; to top it off I don’t have enough gas to sit in traffic for 2 hours so I’m really pissed off. I didn’t sign up for this.

Fuckity fuck fuck fuck.

Sincerely,

Pessimistic S.O.B. with a sense of entitlement.

“The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race. The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation. They are the precursors in the great army of destruction, and often finish the dreadful work themselves. But should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and tens of thousands. Should success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels the population with the food of the world.”
– Thomas Malthus

ps. snow is pretty.

Friday, February 16, 2007

support post


Support local music, artists and their artwork, community events, food drives, children's programs, what you can with what you have, doctors without borders, your friends, microcredit, the roof over your head, the earth under your feet, poets!, a system that works for you, an honest endeavour (large or small), the environment, someone you'll never know, good ideas, and yourself as much as possible.

http://www.microcreditsummit.org/
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/
http://www.mattdurant.com/nycaudio/
http://www.mattdurant.com/nycvisual/
http://www.tanyadavis.ca/poems/the_drums_96.mp3

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

i dub thee

King of Bingo Bango. Or is it Bing of Bingo Kango? Bing of Kingo Bango? I can never remember the lyrics to songs that I might not have heard. If any of you know what song I'm talking about, let me know. Until then, i have a couple of posts. The first is a brief idea I had about a NHL 3 point system. The second is this. Whenever I think of smoking pot again, I remember that I'm not so smart and do things under the influence that make Mike Vick look like a genius.

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Stand up and be seen

This is an old-fashioned tip of the hat to one of the good guys in the NHL, Sean Burke. The Tampa Bay Lightning put him on waivers at the start of the season, and when no teams bit, down he went. Not in the organizations plans for the future, he didn't see much action, relegated to minor league third stringer. He took on the role of asst. coach, and even did some broadcast work for the team. His career was basically over, when out of nowhere, the Los Angeles Kings came calling. I can only imagine what the call between Sean and Dean Lombardi, the Kings GM, sounded like.
Sean has put up more than reasonable numbers for the Kings, a hapless team in the throes of a woeful season. He very well might be the last stand-up goalie left in the league. I remember watching him as a kid play for the New Jersey Devils, taking them within one game of the Cup finals in 1990 against the Boston Bruins almost by himself. It's better a guy like this go out in the NHL, not wallowing in the minors.

Friday, February 2, 2007

old world undergroundhog day

...where are you now?
Studies say people will read more posts if they have less words.

My question is, where the heck can I go put all my savings ($43.54) on the Bears? Is there any way I can mortgage my future on the Bears? If I had a choice between Lions and Tigers, I would choose Bears!
I've been working on a picture for a few hours and it isn't coming up. So instead I'm going to post this, Tecmo Bowl Superbowl XLI preview.

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

The phone is a fine invention.


I'm so glad that the telephone exists. Thank you Alexander Graham Bell (or whoever invented it). I could talk on it for hours, and sometimes do. Day or night, coast to coast, through timezones or ozones, makin' phonecalls is so cool.

What are your thoughts on the vernacular?

Vista (or how I learned to copy from Apple)

Two games at one time tonight, and no PVR for me. Damn it, I saw this night coming a week ago and so I ordered a PVR player from my cable provider so I could record the Raptors game while watching the Leafs game. And wouldn’t you know it? The PVR still hasn’t shown up.

Arg.

Anyways, last night, while watching Leafs-Canes, I stumbled upon Raptors TV showing Celtics-Pacers. Nothing really noteworthy about that, however, the program description for the Celtics-Pacers was kind of weird. So I took out my camera and took a picture.



Dino Radja?!?! Seriously? He hasn’t played in the NBA in what, 10 years? Just so you know that this program description was from last night (not that those things even existed outside tv Guide when Dino was playing), here’s another pic I took with the 1st period scoring summary from Leafs-Canes in the background.



I guess somebody was having fun down at wherever they write those program descriptions. Good on them for reminding me of one of the greatest Croatian Basketball players of all time.

And another note from last night, the Sharks lost to the Dallas Stars in a shootout, but it was the first time since game one of their season that San Jose has gone to overtime. In that time they set a new modern era record (modern era=games with overtime) with 49 straight games without having one going to overtime. And it almost didn’t happen too, Philippe Boucher (of the Stars) scored with 2.2 seconds left in the 3rd to tie it.

Also, the 3 point system for some games still sucks.

Go LeafsRaptors Go.

Oh and about the title;

Microsoft Vista's interface looks totally like the Apple interface. Just like Windows was to Macs, Vista is second generation borrowing of ideas from Apple.