According to today's Bulletin, Feds VPI Sai Kit Lo resigned after having been overruled by the board of directors.

Sai Kit, you see, was opposed to the (newly English-ified) Women's Centre's upcoming staging of The Vagina Monologues . Apparently he considered this issue one worth a strong moral stand.

In contrast (?), Boing Boing reports ( Read more... )

Apparently the advisory is lifted, so that's good. The Record followed up with a much better story-one that gives a better idea of what actually happened (again, that link will die tomorrow).

"Things happen," said Khamatti Seergobin. "You can't be upset about everything. They're working on it. They'll get it done."

"Ithasn't been a really big ( Read more... )

Ugh. Local news media pisses me off sometimes (link will disappear tomorrow). This isn't particular to any particular locality. The formula's the same everywhere. It's all crap. Case and point:

Marie Ianni, who lives at 690 Glen Forrest Blvd., said she and herhusband Rodolfo woke up at 6 a.m. to find that the water supply totheir house had ( Read more... )

Goddammit, Steve, I don't care about the goddamn iPhone or whatever it is. I can't get EVDO EDGE and even if I was in Toronto (and never wanted to leave), I don't particularly want to be repeatedly raped month after month by Bell Rogers to get it. Get on with it.

Okay, that's a lie too. I can get EDGE, but I'd still have to pay Rogers $100/ ( Read more... )

I know. People don't really care about local politics. I care. But I know it's hard to get worked up about water and sewer issues unless people are dying of e.coli. Or transportation and public transit issues unless buses are exploding on the streets. And I know it's hard to get any sort of decent information about candidates or issues or ( Read more... )

Ha ha ha! Eat lake effect, losers!

... I really have to get my roof done...

Edit: Okay, now that the storm actually has a death count, "losers!" doesn't really seem tactful. I apologize.

I've been giving into my avoidant tendancies lately. Hafta put a stop to that. Gotta get out of the house this weekend...

A couple of my coworkers help run the Waterloo Hi-Tech Hockey League. It only stands to reason, then, that when rumours surface that RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie is buying the Pittsburgh Penguins, they'd be the people CKCO would go to for an interview.

Apparently Jim doesn't even play in the league, really. The reporter was trying to get them to ( Read more... )

On the front page of the Record last week was the story of 4000 mice that had been handed over to the K-W Humane Society. I made a donation, because I can, and because these are well-meaning local folks in a bind. The Record wasn't exactly clear, though, on what was going to happen to the mice. Just that they couldn't be adopted unless the ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if it says more about me or about society at large (I'm going with society) that when I see things like this, I seem to be more concerned about what the insane reaction to the event will be than the event itself.

I guess 'cuz I kinda expect the occasional isolated, horrendous, senseless and cruel acts from people. I hope that ( Read more... )

When William Herschel discovered Uranus (quiet, you! Actually, he wanted to name it after King George III, but that was probably a bit too political for the scientific community), it kicked off a flurry of speculation that there might be other planets as yet undiscovered. When they ran the numbers, they figured there were unaccounted for ( Read more... )