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Aug 102010
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sees no administrative barrier to resuming gay marriages. (Marcio Jose Sanchez, Associated Press / August 6, 2010)
Schwarzenegger, Jerry Brown urge resumption of gay marriages – latimes.com
Overheard at UBC pool changing room: [two hot guys sharing a locker] “so do you want to put your stuff on top of mine?”
This does not make the Kalev happy:
Just saw this in an email from Shoppers… was relatively small and not-quite-hidden.
This is the current value of Shoppers Optimum points:
This is the new plan:
And this is the analysis of what we’ll all be losing:
Feb 252010
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/gmail-labs-graduation-and-retirement.html
I don’t even use the features they’re “retiring,” but by all means, keep something pointless like “Back to Beta” around. *shakes head*
Jan 062010
I think this is maybe one of the funniest things ever.
Dec 072009
Defying Gravity star sues: I’m not gay, Wikipedia!
Now granted, I know it must suck to have someone keep trying to convince everyone of something about you that’s fundamentally untrue (I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt) but really? You need to sue someone editing your wikipedia page? Isn’t that a little overkill?
And you’re just asking for the “doth protest too much” response. Wouldn’t it be better to just ignore it?
Dec 012009
…you thought UBC might be getting a tiny bit more leftist, I get this:
Wow, he don’t know me vewwy well, do he?
I started to see UBC-attending people joining one of two groups a day or two ago: impeach or don’t impeach. My left-wing and SSA friends were opposed to this impeachment—so my default assumption was that I was likely going to be too.
Basically, from my brief read of the situation, certain members of AMS Council protested to the UN that the ridiculously high tuition fees faced by not only UBC students but post-secondary students EVERYWHERE in Canada were a human rights violation. Okay, that may be a bit of stretch but it’s certainly a good idea for one of the biggest student unions in the country to be protesting high tuition fees.
Apparently this does not sit well with other members of the council, who are crying foul and saying the two “offenders” didn’t have the right to speak for council. Of course, that’s total bullshit: the reason for crying foul is that the other members don’t actually want the AMS to be saying bold things about the ridiculous state of post-secondary education costs in BC. There’s also the likelihood that various AMS council members have different political leanings, too, but beyond that, I think any good student union should be advocating for better access to education. At the very least, they shouldn’t be wasting time trying to impeach some of their members for having an opinion they disgree with.
But you know, shame on anyone who says anything bad about rampant neoliberalism! I mean, students ought to be paying the entire, full cost of their educations—what do they expect, a free lunch? Because only the rich deserve an education, it’s true. I mean, poor people are stupid anyway, so why help fund something that might help lift them out of poverty? If there aren’t enough poor people, who will work in our service-based economy for next-to-nothing wages so the capitalists can continue to rob everyone blind?! The OUTRAGE! Education: it’s a privilege (of the rich), not a right!
Nov 302009
My landlords felt it was prudent to warn me that when I get back from my holiday back home in Vancouver (Dec 16 to Jan 4, so make sure you get in touch so we can hang out!), there probably would be snow and that it was very unusual to have no had any so far this year.
I thought that was quaint, as if I spend my entire life living in their basement and never venturing out, let alone asking other locals if the weather has been typical or not so far. I am Mole-Kalev!
Anyway, apparently it’s not just somewhat unusual to have no had snow so far—it’s VERY unusual. 162 years worth of unusual. And while I may regret this, I have to say “nyah nyah nyah” to Beth and other Ontarians (and non-Ontarians) who seem to have been secretly rubbing their hands in glee at the thought of my impending deep-freeze. They don’t seem to realise that I’m probably going to be able to deal with the cold better than the heat and *ICK* humidity of the summer. (And the horrible, horrible bugs… I swear Vancouver has a very small bug population, overall.) But now it’s not simply me cawing over the fact that it’s been pretty, well, ordinary in terms of winter here so far—there’s proof that the fact that Kat, Athena, Maureen, and I have migrated here from Vancouver has had a noticeable and rather remarkable impact on the weather. That’s right: in 2 more hours, it will have been the first time in 162 years it hasn’t snowed in November in Toronto. And even if there are a few flakes, it’s highly unlikely to be what they call “measurable” snow fall, which while it might not make this November one for the record books, it’ll definitely make it one for the highly unusual books.
And that, my friends, is what they call the luck of the Vancouverish.
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