To [Commentor on a friend's feed regarding their disappointment the letter from the Vancouver Queer Film Festival on the subject of BDS, where this commentor was claiming that BDS was anti-Semitic and unethical]

I do not agree with your analysis. Here is my take on it.

Historically, embargoes, sanctions and boycotts have been not been effective at ( Read more... )

 Holy smokes this whole "running a start-up" thing costs a lot of money. I can't think of another way to do it though. I just hope there's not some cheaper alternative that will seem glaringly obvious in hindsight.

A bunch of goals. In no particular order. With externally-imposed deadlines noted

1. Finance The Switch (March 31st 2014)

2. Finance The Vegan Roadshow (April 30th 2014)

3. Finance Monsterhearts (January 2015)

4. Actualize Project Basilisk (August 2014)

5. Run for city council (September 20th-November 20th ish 2014)

6. File for court with Greg Hughes ( ( Read more... )

This dream synthesized:

- years of lucid practice,
- a progression on gender
-an overdue return to the sci-fi elements common to my dreams.
- some issues that have been turning over in my mind

It occurred in a late morning that followed a night of stress-related insomnia.
    I feel proud to have had it.

Dreamer's commentary in red.
          Waking ( Read more... )

Dear Canada Revenue Agency ( Read more... )

My last attempt to sleep on a piece of wedding cake for three nights (in the hopes of divining my future in romance and/or marriage) resulted in a vivid dream of joining a five-person/four-gendered hub-mind.

(To deliberately bring about a dream is a practice known as "incubation")

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Ordering things in Nelson makes me cranky. Of an on over the last two weeks, I have looked everywhere for a Dremel rotary tool and attachments. This is the dominant brand of basic, basic hobbyist device. One clerk realized he didn't have any, then tried searching online, without knowing how to use a search engine. In the end, only Wal-Mart has them ( Read more... )

Vending, and everything to do with it, is a pain in the ass.

Following up on /last/ year's resolution, I've been tracking my expenses. Save for electrolysis (I can undo the effects of the wrong puberty for only two painful hours per week, plus swelling) and running a fledgling metal business (buy infrastructure now, make a profit after 2.5-3 years of operations), I would be well under the poverty line. But / ( Read more... )

...not all of which will be accomplished in 87.5 hours of time per week (plus 59.5  hours of sleep, 14 hours of basic personal care and cooking, and 7 hours of what-happened-to-the-time? for total of 168 hours in a week)

• Work - 54 hrs/week
  
  • Sculpt metal through KSA studio - 46 hrs/week
    
    • Prep Pride-related merchandise
  • Ankors documetary - 5 hrs/week (until ( Read more... )