A basket made of stealth and holding zones made all of the elbows of the people who were waiting for their lunch meal at the cafeteria slide ever so slightly northwards.
A lunch meal at the holding zone had a basket made of the elbows of people who were stealthily sliding northwards while slightly waiting in the cafeteria.
If I hadn't swallowed the entire envelope made of cheese, a red-winged blackbird's feather and a toe nail clipping from a Minke whale, I'm sure that I would be in a better position to have an opinion on a more topical topic.
In other news, a slobbering poultry donation expert played chess against a moderately flatulent blocky iceberg named Jesse. The spectators at this event, well, most of them anyhow, did remember to brush their teeth earlier that day.
Celebrate! It is Tuesday!
A wallet, a shelf and a bottle of profundity walk into a bar.
An enigmatic, a burrow of wealth and a pinch of celestial lint walk into a bar.
That a bunker under the Sun would keep the ideas from riding a horse would be the least likely of an event that were it to have begun before it started, the time play would lapse while doing laps.
I'd have voted for the ceiling to be raised by one and two/thirds of a picometer.
How small is a picometer? Why don't you ask the tip of a pin.
The US presidential election yesterday pitting dem Kamala Harris against felon Donald Trump resulted in a Trump win. I do not understand the electorate that supports the buffoon.
In terms of the Russo-Ukraine war I can see Trump siding with Putin in a disadvantageous deal to Ukraine that would end the war. Yes, it would be great for the war to end, but not at a dear cost to Ukraine.
In terms of addressing the reduction of GHGs to address anthropomorphic climate change, Trump goes by the 'drill baby drill' strategy which will push our global environment to repeated environmental catastrophes.
In terms of economics he is an incessant proponent of tariffs, which so many economists have indicated would simply translate to a tax on consumers as the tariff payers will simply increase the consumer cost to pay the tariff. The end result is inflation. Also, he is purported to have in mind to cut taxes for the wealthy people doing nothing for the lower four quintiles.
In terms of trade with Canada; it is unclear, though, in 2026 the existing free trade agreement between Canada, the US and Mexico is due for revision, and it is likely that Trump will want to eek out of the new deal unreasonable concessions with Canada and Mexico.
In terms of immigration he has promoted the idea of taking 10 million 'illegal' immigrants out of the country. This may easily include legal immigrants that Trump and his peons deem deportable due to race. Of course this will tank the economy as a majority of the people he wants to deport do the jobs that other Americans would not do, like work in agricultural or slaughter houses.
In terms of misogyny he has already done the damage by adding to the Supreme Court enough judges to strike RoeWade. I have heard that two judges are set to retire during Trump's mandate meaning he could add two more Trump judges rendering the Supreme Court but a Trump stamp device.
Trump is old and is already showing signs he is losing acuity; his running mate JD Vance does not show as presidential by any stretch, so that is hardly a welcome panacea.
News article about the government of Canada having chosen a consortium to build a new passenger rail service from Quebec City to Toronto with various major stops in between. We will only get the choice of consortium in the next week or two, but what was leaked was that the plan now is to have high speed rail along this corridor with the goal of 300kph stretches. Apparently the consortium who proposed this said that doing the high speed will come under their estimated budget of 80B$ that was first thought for the high frequency rail project.
This news excites me as it is many years over due to get high speed rail in Canada; we are behind so many other nations in this respect. For sure the populations of Toronto and Montreal warrant this new passenger service.
A major obstacle is that presently the federal minority government is unstable and actively teetering, and it looks like, based on popularity polls, that the Conservative party would form our next government and in past Conservative governments, rail projects such as this would be cancelled.
I just hope that once the project starts, that it moves quickly. Also, I hope that, though it is over long distances, that it goes automatic and driverless, so as to lower operational costs. I also hope for Ottawa's station, that the train stops closer to the city. I also hope for Montreal it stops at Central station and in Toronto at Union station, where there are already Via Rail stations and there are big transit hubs.
Anyhow, I will be following this closely; well, as closely as I can from someone not at all involved in it.
In my youth, before I was married or even engaged, perhaps in the few years after high school when the occasion would have permitted, like at new school year events at the post secondary education places I studied, or, social events at the school. Or simply in school hangout areas or hallways. If I could go back and if I had the courage, I approach a solo girl, a pair of girls or a group of 3-5 girls, introduce myself with my first name and ask if I can ask them three questions with an option for a fourth. Using only three questions hopefully reduces any reluctance to participate. Being at the school ought to also let the girl(s) feel safe. I would look at the girl(s) and based on what I see ask three of any of the questions below, and that the optional fourth question is also from the list. If they pick the optional fourth question, once it is done ask one at a time if they want additional questions. Between the second and third question I would mention that of course at anytime, the girl(s) can ask me any question about anything. If they ask me why I am doing this, it is to practice and improve my social skills and comfort.
I would not ask the girl(s) their names at the outset, if we managed to get to a question 5, that is when I would ask for their first name(s). In the groups of 2-5 I would make a concerted effort to pay attention to each of the girls equally and to concentrate strongly the remembering of their names. If it went really well and we reached 10 questions, I would have my eleventh question ask if any of the girls would like to exchange contact information with me.
Atmospheric rivers in southwestern BC
Elections in British Columbia, then New Brunswick, then Saskatchewan, then the USA.
Climate Activists on Jacques Cartier bridge this morning.
Dream of a GPS wrist watch.
Counting to eleven, three times.
There was a news report yesterday that the provincial government here is going ahead with advanced notice MAID for dementia affected people by the end of this month, irrespective that the federal government has not updated the federal criminal code. The health minister has worked it out with the justice minister that under this new method of using MAID the doctors or nurse practitioner involved who actually performs the MAID action is not to be prosecuted.
This is good news for me as it seems that many years from now this will be how my life will end.
Book group tonight; two guys of which I am one, all other are women. Inner critic - wow, the women, all of them commiserating how difficult it is to live with their inner critic. Other guy voices he doesn't think he has one; I silently agree that I don't seem to have one either.
There is no voice within me telling me that I am insufficient, or that I ought to react in a revengeful way, or that I am an imposter, or that I ought to be better.
One of the women mentioned how there is always a gap between the thing that happened and the response we give to it but that she is sometimes unable to jump into that gap to pick a response, and instead, allows immediate amygdala control to supercede any frontal lobe response. I on the other hand have widened that gap such that it is omnipresent.
Not all of the items on my list of things to do on weekends are made up of containers of white rice.
Categorically made of hemp and arm-lengthed dust, the laboratory made only a handful of mistakes, all of which were minimal, had no effect on the experiment and could easily be overcome by alternate plans that had been pre-prepared.
In the world of politics, someone voted for something.
In the world of sports, someone scored while another team lost.
In the world of electricity, someone got shocked.
October is a month that has in it a number of days that matches at least one or two other months of the year.
On the October 2019 Hema-Quebec calendar there was a photo of Laury, a volunteer. In the photo she was quite pretty and had a smirk that gave me the impression she knew something about me, thought it was kind of funny, but hadn't yet decided if she would share it with me.
I read a news report that Ontario Premier Doug Ford is looking to build a 40-70km tunnel under the highly congested highway 401 in Toronto. He is first asking for a feasibility study.
When I first heard this on the radio I immediately had an emotional reaction of how idiotic this idea is. Building more roads has shown, over and over, that they relieve traffic in the short term but in the medium and long term produce what is called induced demand. The more roads there are, the more cars there will be.
If the billions of dollars spent on the tunnel were spent on vastly improving public transit and bike lanes; this would be the way to alleviate traffic on the 401.
