Conservative Brochure #2 – Update

As promised, I let the brochure of evil soak in vinegar1 – and not just overnight, but for a full 24 hrs! And you know what?  It didn’t look much different than before I put it in the vinegar!  But apparently the vinegar did some work on degrading the fibres of evil, of which this […] →Read more

I am awesome

And not just awesome. Fucking awesome. It says so on the internets:  http://drbethsnow.isfuckingaweso.me/ Props to Miss604, on whose site I saw the awesomeness that is isfuckingaweso.me →Read more

So I got *another* Conservative brochure in the mail…

… perhaps they heard that I no longer had the first one and felt that I needed another. This time, I figured I would burn it: Burn FAIL!  The damn brochure, which one would think was made of paper, wouldn’t burn. So I decided to try again, this time with a little help from our […] →Read more

Buckley’s Mixture Looks Like Semen

My throat hurts like a mofo.  I was fine yesterday, but I woke up feeling like someone had taken sandpaper to my throat. I drank water. I drank tea. I drank more water. I even choked down some dreaded Buckley’s Mixture. I continued to drink water. I played a hockey game1. And I sucked on […] →Read more

The best line in the English federal leaders’ debate…

… goes to Jack Layton for saying to Stephen Harper: “Where’s the platform, under the sweater1?” Is anyone else dismayed by the fact that Harper has not issued his party platform? How, exactly, can you run an election campaign without letting the public know what your plan is?  Even more mind-boggling than that is: polls […] →Read more

The Canadian Federal Election 2008

As the election1 approaches, I’m starting to get a little frightened. Polls are suggesting we may end up with a Conservative* majority. George Strombo invited all the party leaders to be interviewed on his show, The Hour.  Not surprisingly, Stephen Harper has REFUSED to go on the show.  Harper appears to be frightened by the […] →Read more

Children Love My Footwear

Last week I was walking through Children’s Hospital and a little girl, maybe 2 or 3 years old was staring wide-eyed at my feet.  She then pointed and yelled at the top of her little lungs: “LOOK!!!  BOOTS!!!”  “Yes,” her dad said, “The lady has on very nice boots.” Today, I was sitting in the […] →Read more

Stephen Harper is a Dick – SPIKE

Watch as someone on stage with Stephen Harper faints and Harper shows no compassion, no human emotion whatsoever: [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.706302&w=425&h=350&fv=flvbaseclip%3D2769726] more about “Stephen Harper is a Dick – SPIKE“, posted with vodpod   Robot, much? And why didn’t I see this in the news? UPDATE: VodPod FAIL!!! Using VodPod to embed the Harper clip isn’t […] →Read more

UBC Learning Conference 2008

I’m at the UBC Learning Conference. And I’ve been taking my notes here in WordPress to publish a blog posting at the end of the day. Inexplicably, WordPress just ATE the first 1.5 hrs of notes.  Gone even from the revision history. Not impressed. Now it’s part #2 of the Learning Goals session: Francis Jones, […] →Read more

Who Doesn’t Love a Graph With a Spike?

My Hockey Hotties post seems to have taken on a life of its own!  The first sign of this was when a whole bunch of people I didn’t recognize left comments on that posting. I mean, I know that there are always a lot of people who read a given blog regularly but don’t comment, […] →Read more