Motre 09 May 08
In French, notre means ours, but I don’t think it makes sense. So what if nous means we? The word should instead be motre. Just like moi.
A grim realization 08 May 08
I wasn’t allowed to play video games while growing up, and as a result when I moved out I purchased everything in sight. Dreamcast, GBA, DS, PS2, Wii, PC games…there’s a stockpile worth more than some small African nations. It’s sick, really.
Yet to this date I have hardly ever beat a handful of those games, let alone play them for more than a few hours at a time. They’re not bad games either, and I’m no horrible gamer. I’ve blamed school and work for taking my free time away, but now that school’s over I haven’t even cracked open a game case yet. The only thing I play on a consistent basis is Eastside Hockey Manager, and that hardly qualifies as a game. More like a spreadsheet you fool around with. Then there’s Pokemon, but it’s just something I play with for a few minutes when I’m bored. I haven’t even beaten a kid’s game.
Thus, I think I’ve come to the realization that I’m just not that into video games. Despite my intentions on amassing a nice collection and hoping to spend hours enjoying it, it just never happened.
Suck on this. 03 May 08
It is currently 12:20am on Prince Edward Island, and the only sound that can be heard for miles is that of pop cans being opened legally. I could write a long winded article about how cans and plastic bottles are bad and soda makes people fat, but no one is listening because they are hopped up on their carbonated sugar water. For 25 years, can pop and beer have been illegal on PEI. I maybe wrong, but no one ever died from lack of aluminum can in their life. PEI had a great thing going for them. Glass bottles were safe, environmentally friendly, reusable and it was something else that made PEI a little bit different from the rest of Canada. Why get rid of a good thing?
- Because it is expensive… Things that are not healthy for you should be expensive; perhaps to deter people from buying them. Now that pop is cheap people will consume more pop, raising the obesity rate, diabetes will skyrocket- especially in children thus causing your tax dollars to increase.
- Everywhere else has cans… Insert bridge jumping analogy here.
- Cans are more convenient… Tell that to the people at Siemens Bottling Company who lost there job, to people that now have to drive out of their way to return bottles, instead of taking them to there local grocery store or the people who pick up other peoples litter. At least with a glass bottle, you were less reluctant to throw it out your car window
With the perks of canned pop comes the dreaded dime deposit, nickel return. Say you drink 3 pop a day, that is $109.50 in deposits, but you are only getting $54.75 in return. According to Wikipedia, the islands population is 139,089 people. Lets assume they all drink 3 pops a day (this is a conservative estimate). The government profits $7 615 122.75 a year.
It might take Islanders a couple of years to realize this, but the only people who are benifiting from canned pop are
- Big soft drink corporations like Pepsi and Coke.
- The PEI government, they are loving that extra nickel.
- Dentists.
- Insulin Manufacturers… because drug companies don’t have enough money.
Permissions 01 May 08
CHMOD 777 life
I don’t know why, but I can’t seem to change the file permissions in my Wordpress install. I really should host my own site instead of relying on someone else’s server.
Addiction
I don’t remember who, but either My Grade 12 or 10 English teacher said this about cigarettes:
“[There's no reason why somebody can't quit smoking; You're telling me that your life can be controlled by a tiny stick]“?
I wonder if this is why I don’t get addicted easily, except my weakness toward purchasing technological stuff.
