I’ve had a realization. (I was going to type “epiphany” but I don’t think it’s that big)
I don’t live in a community. Well, technically I do. There are houses with people and families all around me. From the loud neighbours with the rebllious young daughter next door to the quiet family with a few young boys on the other side, to the apartement buildings on the other side of the street filled with singles and couples who can’t afford to rent a house (or who knows, are saving up to buy one as I am foolishly not doing).
But I don’t talk to them. I don’t even know them and wouldn’t even recognize them if I saw them elsewhere. They have nothing to offer me, and that’s a shame.
I want to live near people with interests that don’t bore me. Family, kids, paying the mortgage? Bah. I need to live near people I can have a conversation with, that I can make plans with.
This idea has been percolating in my mind since I saw a news article in a local paper about Bell bringing fiber-optic internet into Chilliwack. Of course the idea of that much bandwidth got me drooling and my mental gears started grinding thinking about how I could somehow get in on that. My first thought was a communal purchase by the neighbourhood, split up over the block. Of course I then remembered who I live near and discarded the idea.
But then tonight that idea came wandering back and I started thinking about those people around me and how we don’t fit in, and how great it’d be to actually live by people I could at least propose such an idea to. I don’t know if such a place exists, but now I’m really in the mood to find out.
Check this out. Ok, it’s not really a surprise, but we’ve finally got confirmation from people that were brought to Gauntanamo as POWs and then released that they were being tortured.
Which is against the Geneva Convention. The same Geneva Convention that is protecting YOUR SOLDIERS, America. The reason you follow it is so your men and women don’t have the same done to them, so not only is this a moral outrage but a threat to the men and women you send into combat.
This is sickening. Tell me again why the US is the good guy here? What is happening to your country that a vote is coming up and the polls are giving the edge to the coporate-stooge president that condoned this?
As mentioned earlier, Mel, Dave Schneider and I finished our 12 week Body For Life programs about a month ago. Since then we’ve all sort of taken the time off. Dave & I played road hockey a few times, but the weather kept us away most weekends. I’ve gained a few pounds back, but the biggest change in the time off is my energy level, which has really dropped, and I miss what I had before.
So Dave & I renewed our gym memberships and went in to do crosstraining today, and plan to do it “every day” from now on. Of course, that means “every day we can spare the time” but it’ll be at least four days a week, and probably six.
The difference between my performance at the end of Body For Life and now is pretty big. My heart rate shot up almost immediately when I started the 20 minute crosstraining run, and I had to go pretty slowly to keep it down near my target heart rate. It was still better than the first time I got on the crosstrainer at the beginning of BFL(Body For Life) but I’m really looking forward to getting my wind back. I’m thinking it shouldn’t take long though, and after that, I’ll be just shedding off the pounds.
Ok, so earlier on I was telling everyone to go see Shaun of the Dead. And you all did, right? And wasn’t it great?
Well, it turns out that Simon Pegg (”Shaun”) and most of the rest of the SotD cast are from a British sitcom called Spaced. Once again, through the wonders of the Internet I’m able to watch it. I’m only five episodes into the first season and I’m loving it. As soon as this gem is available in a Region 1 DVD, I’m adding it to my (yes, huge) collection. Until then, here’s the Region 2 DVD on Amazon.co.uk for you to look at.
OWNED.
In case you can’t read the forums (say you’re at work) here’s a screen cap of the post in question:
Saw Team America: World Police last night and nearly pissed myself laughing.
Literally.
I hate having to leave during movies to go to the bathroom and normally I’m pretty good at holding it in when I’ve “gotta go”, but I was laughing so much I had to make a quick pit stop.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone seem to be able to do no wrong. I’ve loved every movie they’ve ever made and South Park is still great.
I’ve known Walter for at least seven years now. We’re great friends and have worked together on some great projects, and in many ways he’s my design mentor. He’s always been better at the “design” aspect of the web than me, and I’m better at the usability/friendliness/organization aspect. Together we’ve done what I think is some pretty kickass work.
This last year Walter’s been working on another project, and it’s finally ready to go public. His ten foot by eight foot by two foot, seven hundred pound three dimensional artwork (it wasn’t really ’sculpted’ so I’m not sure what the full term is) is complete and we’ve put together a web site to showcase it. The photos just don’t show off how cool it really is. Walter has really outdone himself this time, and shown that his incredible creativity isn’t limited to just the digital.
(for those not in-the-know, that’s The Humanitarian, my Superman-inspired City of Heroes character)
Superman never made any money
For saving the world from Solomon Grundy
And sometimes I despair the world will never see
Another man like him
Man, I’m really surprised by how this is hitting me. I was 10 when the first Superman movie came out and, of course, loved it. I still remember seeing Christopher Reeve on the Muppet Show later on, and we all know how crappy my memory is so that says a lot.
Then I grew up and realized that he was just an actor and the movies weren’t really that great.
Nine years ago he had his accident and was paralyzed. Shortly thereafter I realized what a hero he really was. He could have become introverted and just lived his life as painlessly as he could have but instead he found a cause to fight for. Sure, the cause was his own, but it never felt (to me, anyway) like he was being selfish. Instead it felt like his injuries had merely spotlighted where he should be putting his efforts.
Alone I’m thinking
Why is superman dead
Is it in my head
Wow, William Shatner has really impressed me with his new album Has Been. No, I don’t have it (yet) but the site for it is fucking brilliant. Load it up and let the Flash play through selections from the album along with interviews with Bill himself beforehand.
It’s got that great sort-of-tongue-in-cheek-but-totally-serious-too thing that Shatner has perfected at this point in his career. BRILLIANT.
Oh, and the new Green Day album “American Idiot” is fantastic as well.
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