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.:Monday, October 31, 2005:.
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happy halloween! this pumpkin won second place. it was carved freehand (no stencil!) i got candy. yeehaw!
10:35 a.m.
posted by tre
.:Friday, October 21, 2005:.
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> Shrug <
I've been reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand for the last couple months. It's pretty good... if not a little long-winded. I've gotten to the part where John Galt tells the world exactly what he thinks of them... in a 50+ page monologue. I've gotten through about 5 pages of his monologue so far, and want to just skip to the next chapter, however I fear if I do skip these 50 pages (which also comprise of 25% of the last 200 pages of the book) I'll have missed out on some special message Ayn has been leading up to in the previous 800 or so.
To sum up, in 50 words (not including words with 2 letters or less), what he has to say to the looters of the world:
"You lousy greedy selfish bastards. You've relied on our ability to produce, to think, to innovate, to make your lives easier while plotting our demise through trying to control what we produce, what we think, under the guise of socialism and well-being for all. Well screw you, we're not going to be your stooges anymore. Pull your own weight, put up, or shut up." (And add a "biatches!" at the end for good measure.)
I couldn't imagine in a world that exists in Ayn Rand's head, listening on the edge of my seat, to one man going on for an hour or more about the state of the world and what we've all done to it and what he's done to change it. Even if my life is sucking at the current moment (e.g. starving, no job, etc.)... I'd just want the executive summary and read the manifesto later. But that's just me, and maybe that's her point. Oh well.
Yeah I'm all for details and fleshing things out and all that... but sometimes I just want to know what happens next and all this repeated hammering the point home stuff is just getting in the way.
200 pages to go. Yay. Hopefully will be done before I leave on vacation and then can take light-on-intelligence books with me to the beach. Yeeeeeeehaw.
3:31 p.m.
posted by tre
.:Thursday, October 13, 2005:.
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It's mornings like these when I'm glad it's that time of the month...
Can this only happen to a family that is headed by a man named Jim Bob?
11:21 a.m.
posted by tre
.:Sunday, October 09, 2005:.
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kudos & kvetches
kudos: BCTF going on strike against their imposed contract. While I'm not a huge fan of unions (just wait until I'm part of one, then I'll change that tune...), they do have a point that needs to be heard.
kvetch: comparing this strike action to Gandhi.
kudos: Amy, my hair stylist at Axis, for the sweet ass haircut, with the layers and the sweeping bangs.
kvetch: I forgot how annoying having bangs is. Now I have a renewed use for all those metal hair clips.
kudos: scampbe has started a weblog.
kvetch: three posts in three days so far, is putting me to shame!
kvetch: just realized i stole 'kudos & kvetches' from The Vancouver Courier column, but it works.
12:47 p.m.
posted by tre
.:Tuesday, October 04, 2005:.
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Diving videos!I got a CD anonymously in the mail yesterday from one of the guys who were on the dive boat with Mark and I last Labour Day weekend. I was wondering if he'd ever e-mail me or whatever since I gave him my business card... unfortunately he didn't leave a return address so we can't thank him. Check out Terra1ncognita's Diving Page for the embedded video clips. It may take a while to load cuz there are 5 videos there. Patience please! Here are some pics of the types of wildlife we saw:  
11:20 a.m.
posted by tre
.:Sunday, October 02, 2005:.
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 Score!
Went to a Canucks pre-season game last night... we won 6-2! Hopefully it is a sign of things to come. Also, Simon shaved his soul patch.
Yes.
Pics of that and Salmon Arm pics of my own here. Use the drop-down menu to choose an album. Cheers!
3:02 p.m.
posted by tre
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