I’ll just let the headline speak for itself this time: No more polygamy with girls under 18, says sect. Well, um, that’s good. You mean to say they were doing this in the past? Read the story for some details about one of the stranger threads of Canada’s multicultural quilt.
It’s my secret desire (well, not so secret anymore I suppose) to become a tram or train driver. That would be so nifty cool. Only problem is that I would have to get myself hired and sponsored. I doubt they’d want to do that when there are fifteen year old kids willing to do the job for free.
Passengers said the boy, who police said had a “tram fetish”, treated them to a commentary and described sights along the way.
Excellent! Good on ya, kid! Keep it up! You rock my little tram-riding world.
Every so often I begin to think that we, as humans, are pretty good at knowing things. We’re smart and clever and are understanding a lot of what goes on. Then I read a book on quantum mechanics and realise we’re all still just making it up as we go along. This article in The New Scientist is a great reminder that we still have absolutely no idea how some fairly fundamental things about the world work. We know they work because we’ve seen them, but they’re unexplainable. And I like that.
Everything from the placebo effect, to the fact that the Pioneer space probes aren’t flying in the directions they should, to signals from space and cold fusion (remember that?) are discussed here. It’s gratifying to know that there are still huge chunks of the universe that we have absolutely no idea about, and that wonder and curiosity are still alive and well.
As much as I love my Toshiba VideoBall, the quality and brightness is somewhat lacking. I brought it with me to Australia, and had to buy an enormous power brick so that I could use it with the non-Japanese power here.
Anyway, the wonderful Tom’s Hardware published a lengthy, detailed report on how to build your own video projector with some amazing possible resolutions. Essentially, it involves attaching an LCD monitor to a standard overhead projector and going nuts. I’m so going to do this once the house happens.
Jurgen dot ca salutes Grant Robinson Name. His creation Montage-a-google is way super cool. You’ve gotta have Flash 7, but you’ve already got that don’t you?
Here’s one of the beer I’m drinking right now.
I’ve always thought there are certain similarities between Bush II and Adolf Hitler (now THAT is an opening sentence, gentle reader, to be afraid of!). It’s not logical that the entire German population would support and rally behind someone they thought was a dangerous madman. “Gee this guy’s evil, let’s keep him in power as the leader of our country!”. No. The Germans of their time must have actually thought he was a pretty good guy. After all, the trains ran on time. Towards the end, I’m sure some of them caught on, but it was too late.
So here we’ve got Bush II. No other article I’ve read has even come close to showing the Hitler connection as well as this Common Dreams article from this February. One can read the first half as starring either Bush II or Hitler. All he needs is a Leni Riefenstahl.
There’s been a dramatic increase in the number of posts to jurgen dot ca lately. I know that because I’m the one who’s been doing them. I slowed down a bit there because everything else in life has been speeding up lately.
I’m looking for a house
No, I didn’t lose one. And yes, I know there are lots of houses all over the place. I’m looking for a particular house that we can rent for a few years. It’s gotta have a good kitchen and central heat. It’s also gotta be handy for the trams, be south of the river, have three bedrooms, two bathrooms, two living areas and cost less than $500.
I’m a Gentoo user
The main server at work died two weeks ago, and I’ve been frantically getting things back to normal there. When I first built it, nearly 18 months ago, RedHat was the only thing available. Robby and I did this over one weekend, and I, for one, was surprised it lasted as long as it did. This time, I did it with Gentoo 2005.0, and it took a day to be up and running again. I really like Gentoo. It’s by far the most sensible Linux distribution I’ve used. There are parts of it I prefer to FreeBSD, if you can believe that. Zut alors!
Work’s also getting fairly full-on
Without getting too much into office politics, things have been pretty full-on there lately. There’s a clearing of deadwood happening, which means more work for everyone. We’ve got to start working smarter, not just harder. This means more work piled on my little IT department, and few resources with which to do this work. At least I’ve got myself a kick-butt programmer guy now (hi, Matt).
So tonight’s a bit of a catch-up. I’ll be posting stuff I saw over the past few weeks, and getting back into the habit of typing into this little box here. Thanks for sticking around, gentle reader.
Something no server room should be without: your very own felis catus. Someone was kind enough to post a review of their model.
Showing a sense of humour for the first time since Jesus wowed crowds with his long-running and critically acclaimed “standup comedy from the mount” series, the Catholic church elected Eggs Benedict XVI as their new leader.
“With the failing health of John-Paul, it became obvious that the Pope is merely a figurehead, so we felt it appropriate to acknowledge the fact,” a red-faced Cardinal told jurgen dot ca in an exclusive interview.
The new leader, after being cooked and cooled, will be vacuum-sealed in plastic, and put on display at the Vatican Canteen. Replica leaders will be sold for �5.50 as part of the breakfast menu, 5am until noon, Monday-Saturday. Rumours that “John-Paul vegetables” would be offered as a side dish were flatly denied.
Seems that US telco Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg is unclear on what his mobile phone customers want.
“Why in the world would you think your (mobile) phone would work in your house?” he said. Ummm … because I don’t live in a lead-lined bunker?
