North of 49

Winter is over but the students of Quebec are still discontent and as usual Main Stream Media  give the bare minimum of facts. Matter of fact the only fact seems to be that tuition's had to rise and the students didn't like it. So typical of news today where the story is generally still born from a lack of nutrition and that would be facts and possibilities. If you take in only the headlines then you probably think that these students should buck up and realize that the cost of everything has gone up and you'd think being students they'd know that: if the government needs money to grab they will take it from the least vocal taxpayers...the student, kids and the elderly. Without reading anything I see what the fuss is about. Without looking to deep I see that this is big and right now I wish I knew French. I haven't read a word not one  word and I think I see their point. If it is not what the students are saying then this is completely my opinion but...

I wondered many years ago as to how we got to where we are as a species. I have had like most of you snippets of ideas some through my own deduction and some from second and third parties. All of it made no sense in that there seemed to be no reason but by chance for this planet to have just the right mix of what is needed for life. Here we are standing shoulder to shoulder in what we perceive as individual bodies and a majority of us believe that these bio mechanical units are unto themselves solitary in a crowd. There has been a surge of shared knowledge in quantum physics in the last 20 years. From these discoveries I see a wonder that is beyond our earth bound bodies conception. What struck me years ago as images of atomic particles and crystaline structure were being made available was the repetion of patterns. The wonder of what we percieve as chaos and order following after each other as the human ey...

Well something I never really thought about has come to me today! I went through the archives of this blog and started to connect a space in time with blog posts.  Not because of the subject matter so much as the mental picture of me alone in a dark here or there typing something that no one would ever read relating to the things happening in my life at the time. Can you beat that? I blog in jammie pants! thanx Deb 4 the photo. Hmmmm which brings me to another thought. Moments ago I had 110+ posts but the blog started to be read about 30 posts ago. This means a few really good posts are not going to be read by the current viewers. Yet there they are, these posts that create a history, a record of stuff that I have thought or felt for the past 2 years or maybe a bit more. Lots of it is just cryptodoodling, some of it has been mind expanding for myself and maybe I have caused at least a few to ponder. In the end the thing I never thought would be is, the blog matters to me...

So it has been a month of Netflix! One would think I have enough experience to make a solid comment on the pros and cons of a brilliant idea. Will I keep it? Is cable gone, a thing of the past like my polyester shirts, bell bottoms and the console TV? Weeeel yes and no. I find that Netflix is all that I need for entertainment but that's me and not you. They have enough foreign content to keep me interested and they seem to have a reasonably deep catalog, I found films that I did not expect to see along with the stuff you do expect. A smattering of British comedy with a layer of French romantic comedy topped with morsels of indie productions on a strong dramatic base. English titles are broad in the genres covered along with dozens of TV shows but as I said before it is not big on new releases. Oh well! I am one of those leeches who hardly ever go to movies and only buy dvd's from the discount bin so new releases are not a big deal. Again that is ...

So from a request we get a shit load of work to do. The Occupy Movement.....what are they up to? This will be something I have to research, damn you Jesse Byrne. Today is the 9th of May on the 11th I leave for Lethbridge let's hope I get some stuff down if not posted by Saturday morning. The movement is still going but it has become stale to most news outlets so unless you are trolling the web you aren't hearing or reading much about the clashes and standing of ground, yet it is happening. There  veiled by profit growth stats and requisite pay raises for the captains of industry and hidden behind the dull glimmer of barely improving employment figures are the little battles of this quiet riot. My first impression of this second summer is that there is fuel that has not been yet poured to the fire. More on that later The folks who are occupying the Gill Tract which is administered by the UofC Berkeley are being sued. A court injunction has been given but so fa...

almost just like new! Ah I have been on hiatus letting my mangled thumb heal and truthfully it has been a major PITA to type with a splint on one hand. Hopefully that is all behind me now the joint is fuzed and the pins are pulled. It is so nice to have a nearly usable left hand. Now I face 6 weeks of rehabilitation to bring my hand and wrist back its flexibility. Enough about my puny injury. While I kicked back these last two weeks I have had views of the little blog explode! I try to ingnore the stats on the blog but when the average views goes from 2 a day to 80 it means a few more people are at least looking at certain pages. For this writer those numbers are more a curiosity than a motivation. But that changes when a reader contacts you.. It has happened only twice but it is what motivates a person not so much to write but rather to write better.  I hope that has occurred. There are a few levels of adulation (for want of a better word)...