Hello, I’m a Mac…

Halloween may be a couple of days away, but thanks to our ward’s Trunk-or-Treat last night, we have already been swarmed with children begging for candy.  In case you cannot tell from the picture above, Theresa and I went as Mac and PC.  I think we did a pretty good job, but the “Best Adult [...]

RELLS’ Bells

For anyone who has been reading my blog since the very beginning (Sept 2006), you may have noticed one particular topic that frequented my early posts but are completely absent from my current ramblings.  That topic is softball, and I’d like to mention it once more today.  Since we last visited the North Grounds Softball League, I [...]

Encourage Your Friends to Vote

Want to encourage your friends to vote?  Try sending her a customizable video through this website.  It is probably the funniest thing I have seen in 17 months.  Click here to see the video I customized and sent to myself, and then send it to your friends.  Seriously HILARIOUS.

For the Seven-Year-Old Socialist-American

Barack Obama has faced numerous rumors and attacks.  One persistent idea is that he is a Muslim.  I really appreciated Colin Powell’s response to this rumor:
“[Obama] is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? [...]

Broken Social Scene + Land of Talk

    

Last night, I was able to see Broken Social Scene live in Richmond.  BSS is definitely one of my favorite bands, although I should probably not even call them a “band,” since they are more like a constantly-expanding loose collective of musicians from various other musical groups that come together in various configurations to record their albums [...]

Which quadrant are you?

Probably because of my coverage of both the US and Canadian elections, I recently was asked the question of how do the Canadian and American parties compare to each other on the right – left axis.  Based on politicalcompass.org, the simple answer would be thus (listing the parties from left to right, Canadian parties in [...]

The Results Are In

Congratulations to the Conservative Party of Canada, for winning the election this year, but too bad that you weren’t able to grab that Majority.  Better luck next election, which, by the way things have been lately, should occur mid 2009.
And Congratulations to Linda Duncan for winning(?) in Edmonton-Strathcona, the only non-conservative MP in all of Alberta.
I must [...]

Giving Thanks

Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving everyone.  Right now, I wish that I was still north of the border, so that I could be participating in the excess consumption that accompanies this holiday, instead of here in the Library.
One question I always get from my American friends is whether Canadian Thanksgiving is just taken from the American tradition of the [...]

Rock the Vote

Just a reminder that everyone should get out and vote when the time comes, as did Theresa and I in the upcoming Canadian election.  Will Steven Harper’s Conservatives be able to grab that elusive majority government?  Or will Dion’s Liberals pull out the upset?  Can the NDP capitalize on left-leaning voters unsatisfied with the Liberal [...]

The Nights in Rodanthe

There are two kinds of vacations: on the first kind, you run around doing lots of activities like sightseeing and amusement parks; on the second kind you don’t do anything.  Our trip to the Outer Banks last week was the perfect trip of the latter type.  After two years of visiting the Outer Banks during [...]