Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Random mutterings
I’ve discovered that it really is possible to rack up 7 blood donations in one year if you time it right. I’m about to head off for #2 so far this year. As long as I don’t manage to skip more than a couple of weeks, I’ll be making 7 donations this year. Here’s my schedule:
Cool.
Ok, your turn.
It was probably the cry of anguish from thousands of Canadians after the mens hockey team got shut out by the Russians in the quarter finals on Wednesday.
Bummer.
However, I am pleasantly surprised at how much curling action I’m seeing on TV this year. The Canadian women’s team took bronze yesterday (hooray!) and the men go for gold today. I’m kind of bummed I won’t be able to watch the Canadian men’s team going for gold though (it’s on at 11:30 this morning and I’ll be stuck at work). Guess I’ll have to settle for trying to catch highlights of the game.
Update: The men’s team took the gold!. Woohoo!
Had a very strange dream about patented things. I’m not entirely sure if it was actually a dream, or something I’m remembering from reading somewhere though.
So there I am having one of my ‘fly on the wall’ type dreams watching some guy talk to someone about computer related patents. He’s talking about one in particular, a patent for some kind of network router that he tried to build from the plans in the patent application. For some reason he couldn’t get it to work at all, so he was wondering what other kinds of ridiculous things had been granted patents, but didn’t work at all.
Then I woke up.
Very strange.
Hard to believe that tomorrow will be the 20th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger accident. I was in 11th grade when it happened. I remember walking down the hall from my locker in school when I saw a friend of mine who told me the space shuttle exploded. My first response was naturally disbelief, and it wasn’t until I got home after school that I saw what happened on TV.
There’s an interesting article over at MSNBC talking about 7 myths about the Challenger accident. I particularly like the last sentence of myth 7:
The disaster need never have happened if managers and workers had clung to known principles of safely operating on the edge of extreme hazards – nothing was learned by the disaster that hadn’t already been learned, and then forgotten.