Monday, August 25, 2003
VARIETY IS A TABLOID WITH LETTERHEAD
1) WEEKEND BOX OFFICE ESTIMATE August 22 - 24, 2003 1. FREDDY VS. JASON (NEW LINE).........$13.5 Screens: 3,014 2. S.W.A.T. (SONY).....................$10.8 Screens: 3,014 3. FREAKY FRIDAY (BV)...................$9.4 Screens: 3,204 4. OPEN RANGE (BV)......................$9.4 Screens: 3,058 5. THE MEDALLION (SONY).................$8.2 Screens: 2,163 6. PIRATES OF CARIBBEAN: CURSE... (BV)..$7.3 Screens: 2,648 7. SEABISCUIT (UNIV)....................$6.3 Screens: 2,404 8. AMERICAN WEDDING (UNIV)..............$5.6 Screens: 2,534 9. UPTOWN GIRLS (MGM/UA)................$5.6 Screens: 2,567 10. MY BOSS'S DAUGHTER (MIRAMAX)........$5.0 Screens: 2,495 Full list available Monday afternoon at News Stands Everywhere.
Saturday, August 23, 2003
Kitchener Waterloo Home/Link Page to Local Riding AssociationsIf you can't stand the heat, get out of the KITCHEN. I'm running in Kitchener Waterloo, and the N.D.P. national caucus can suck my huge raging cock.
Wednesday, August 20, 2003
"In the beginning, the earth was without form and void, and darkness moved upon the face of the deep. Inn the beginning god created man and woman. Woman and Man we created them. Dark followed light and light followed dark and the beginning and the end was the first day. One was one and two and was thus three and four. Four were are and will be five sixes. And on the sventh day three days remaind. And In the beginning god created the heavens and the earht. And in our own image we created it. And the earth was without form and void, and darkness moved across the face of the firmament. The firmament was void and one and two, and was thus three and four. The sixth was is and will be the end and the beginning of the fourt, and the beginning and the end were the second day. "The AOLer TranslatorIN TEH BGINNG TEH EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM AND VOID AND DARKNES MOV3D UPON TEH FAEC OF DA DEP!1!1!111 WTF LOL IN TEH BGINNG GOD CREAETD MAN AND WOMAN!1!1!1 OMG WTF LOL WOMAN AND MAN WE CR3AETD THAM1!!!! WTF LOL DARK FOLOWAD LIGHT AND LIGHT FOLOWED DARK AND DA BGINNG AND DA AND WAS TEH FIRST DAY!11!1!1 ONA WAS ONE AND TWO AND WAS THUS THRE AND FOUR!1!!! OMG LOL FOUR WERE R AND WIL B FIEV SIEXS1!1!!11 OMG AND ON DA SVANTH DAY THRE DAYS REMANED!1!1 WTF AND IN TEH BGINNG GOD CREAETD TEH H3AEVNS AND TEH AARHT!!!! OMG AND IN OUR OWN IMAEG W3 CRAAETD IT111! OMG WTF AND DA EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM AND VOID AND DARKNES MOV3D ACROS TEH FAEC OF DA FIRMMENT!111 OMG LOL TEH FIRMM3NT WAS VOID AND ONE AND TWO AND WAS THUS THRE AND FOUR!!!!! OMG LOL TEH SIXTH WAS IS AND WIL B DA 3ND AND TEH BGINNG OF DA FOURT AND DA BGINNG AND DA AND WER3 TEH SECOND DAY!!!1 OMG
Tuesday, August 19, 2003
It's interesting that before the blackout Internet Exploere home page was a direct link to the Ontario Government Canadian Newswire Page, and that now it defaults to excite.ca and gives me a bad gateway error. But it's not THAT interesting. I've switched my homepage to google to eat up some American bandwidth while all Canadian blackout survivors get their essentiall services back online. A note to Queen's Park security: just because the building is "closed because of the blackout" doesn't mean that the government is not functioning, or that people approaching the front doors should be diverted to one of the side entrances. State of emergency or not, procedural protocal be damned, the work week is monday to friday, and citizens who want to walk up the front stairs and enter the facility should always be welcome. Jackbooted thugs in office now.
[Info4] Jails top ombudsman's concerns: "Clare Lewis"
On reading the above linked article, I retract any kudos I extended to Bob Runciman.
Monday, August 18, 2003
Ministry of Public Safety and Security Kudos to Mr. Runciman on the skill and determination of the white-hat hackers in his information services Ministry.
Government of Ontario, Canada / Gouvernement de l'Ontario, Canada has their main web portal back up. Don't overload thier servers, or Ernie will jump out of the front page of the National Post and punch you in the nose. What a fnording headline.
Words of advice for young people.
Idea copyright William S. Burroughs (RIP) and Nova Lark Music. Form the Island Music CD "Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales."
People often ask me if I have any words of advice for young people. Here are 25 simple admonitions, arranged in groups of five, to help you understand Candidate Ferguson.
Rules of giving.
1. Give with your right hand.
2. Charity is the holiest form of giving.
3. If asked to give quarter, give a quarter, no more.
4. Charity is not sympathy.
5. Empathy trumps sympathy.
Rules of receiving.
1. Receive with your left hand.
2. Take back only half of what you give.
3. Expect nothing in return.
4. Always read the receipt.
5. As an old junk pusher once told Burroughs, “Watch whos money you pick up.”
Rules of loving.
1. I’d rather do a day's work for a day’s minimum wage paid cash at the end of the day than spend most of my day pretending to work in exchange for a credit card, a bank-owned car and taxed domicile.
2. Don’t mix business and love with anyone you don’t trust.
3. Never get involved in a boy/girl fight.
4. Don’t stand for physical abuse, unless you enjoy that kind of thing.
5. Universal love trumps self love.
Rules of writing.
1. Ignore the writing machina, evoke your soul on the page.
2. Don’t be afraid to play with punctuation.
3. “Freeform” poetry is not poetry. Being neither verse nor rhyme, and lacking the craft of prose, it’s simply egotistical word masturbation.
4. Don’t offer empathy to the mentally ill. Write them firmly “I’m not paid to deal with this horseshit.”
5. Being a writer is no excuse for being an asshole.
Rules of governing.
1. Do whatever you want when you’re alone.
2. Don’t assume that evoking clauses allows you to trump statements that precede the clauses.
3. Organize staff into groups of three, divisions of four, and decision-making groups of five.
4. Those with families are more fit to govern, while those without are more fit to lead.
5. Good governance implies due diligence.
Idea copyright William S. Burroughs (RIP) and Nova Lark Music. Form the Island Music CD "Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales."
People often ask me if I have any words of advice for young people. Here are 25 simple admonitions, arranged in groups of five, to help you understand Candidate Ferguson.
Rules of giving.
1. Give with your right hand.
2. Charity is the holiest form of giving.
3. If asked to give quarter, give a quarter, no more.
4. Charity is not sympathy.
5. Empathy trumps sympathy.
Rules of receiving.
1. Receive with your left hand.
2. Take back only half of what you give.
3. Expect nothing in return.
4. Always read the receipt.
5. As an old junk pusher once told Burroughs, “Watch whos money you pick up.”
Rules of loving.
1. I’d rather do a day's work for a day’s minimum wage paid cash at the end of the day than spend most of my day pretending to work in exchange for a credit card, a bank-owned car and taxed domicile.
2. Don’t mix business and love with anyone you don’t trust.
3. Never get involved in a boy/girl fight.
4. Don’t stand for physical abuse, unless you enjoy that kind of thing.
5. Universal love trumps self love.
Rules of writing.
1. Ignore the writing machina, evoke your soul on the page.
2. Don’t be afraid to play with punctuation.
3. “Freeform” poetry is not poetry. Being neither verse nor rhyme, and lacking the craft of prose, it’s simply egotistical word masturbation.
4. Don’t offer empathy to the mentally ill. Write them firmly “I’m not paid to deal with this horseshit.”
5. Being a writer is no excuse for being an asshole.
Rules of governing.
1. Do whatever you want when you’re alone.
2. Don’t assume that evoking clauses allows you to trump statements that precede the clauses.
3. Organize staff into groups of three, divisions of four, and decision-making groups of five.
4. Those with families are more fit to govern, while those without are more fit to lead.
5. Good governance implies due diligence.
Saturday, August 16, 2003
While I haven't taken most of them some interesting links to various code blocks, code keys and code generators can be found at~darklock.
This post is strictly personal. Anyone annoyed by poetry or romance should tune out now.
50 Things You Should Probably Know About Me
Hardika gets the credit, with files from my beloved.
1) I didn't cause the blackout.
2) I didn't do anything to help keep the blackout from happening.
3) I'm going to end this sermon with a poem, so again, if you're looking for my origional work, there's none of it to be found here.
4) I'm going to mention the name of the political party I'm running for as the fiftieth item on this list.
5) I won my white feather today.
6) As far as I know, both nuclear facilites in the GTA core are at non-critical states.
7) I believe what happened may have been simmilar to the three mile island incident that occured in the sixties.
8) I triangulate blackout ground zero somewhere in upstate New York, but that's just using dead reconing techniques that I usually don't even think about on land.
9) I am willing to join the first batallion, but believe I would be a far greater service in the Navy than I would in either the Airforce or the Army.
10) I believe that Canada should focus less on manipulation and control devices for low-orbit trans-atmospheric shuttles and more on human-machine-human protocal droids.
11) I am 24, and will be a quarter century old come November Eleventh. This fact scares me enough to make me cry sometimes.
12) I used to hand polish brasswork on steel-hulled square-rigged brigantine.
13) I have been know to spend weeks in seclusion writing prose. Not code, not script or HTML or control characters disguised as object oriented computer languages. Prose.
14) I have fewer than fourteen typewriters, but not many fewer.
15) If given the choice of three glasses, I will chose the glass with a gold rim, because I understand that the heavy metals I injested while serving my jail time are now slowly killing my left kidney. I want my corpus delecti to be worth something to my children.
16) Like most executives who have to deal with periods of stress, I require a number of perscribed medications to stay alive.
17) There is nothing I hate more than blisters on my feet. I believe some Templar brothers from the burning times can attest to that.
18) For every hateful emotion I am sent, I try to respond with three empathetic ones.
19) However, like all men, I do have breaking points. When I get very very angry I walk out back to the firing range and burn through and entire 100 rounds with my single-shot pistol. My spread tends towards the upper right, and I miss the target about 1% of the time, but I'm able to go through 100 rounds in about four minutes that way.
20) Once I get "in the ring" I like to rapidly change hands and rapidly shift crouching legs.
21) I've never raped or murdered anyone, although I will pillage until rationing at home is eased.
22) When hunting for snipe, I can land a kill shot at 100-feet with a probability of 3 in 4.
23) I've never gone hunting, but I do hope to one day kill a ten-point buck moose. I'm not sure if there is such a thing, but as I mentioned, I've never gone hunting.
24) I try not to objectify women.
25) I also try not to objectify people.
26) I've never actually graduated from a chartered University. I believe that I will be convocating at the University of Waterloo in October, but I delivered my notice of intentent to graduate after the registrar's office had "shut down for the August 8th long weekend."
27) Most of my English writing education stems from watching bimbos and mimbos at Ryerson try to act like Newspaper Men.
28) I did go to Cambridge for a week, looking to study love, but actually studying poetry.
29) Like any good sailor, I know how to cut through all the granny knots used to improperly reef a sail and get the ship into a safe port so the crew can party Amsterdam-style.
30) I do carry non-prohibited weapons in the street sometimes, because I've been the place where people who carry prohibited weapons are, and I'm never going back.
31) My computer was trespassed against two days ago.
32) I tried to find the office of the privacy comissioner when I was in Toronto today, but acording to the sitting government that comission has be "outsourced" and the comissioner was not at the building where his official office is.
33) I've been warned not to run in this election by both of my parents, and they both looked very fearful while reading me their petitions. If this happens again I will be empathetic, but also upset.
34) I also get upset when I try to flag down three cabs in a row on the main street of my home town and they won't stop for me.
35) I'm not writing this list entirely unedited. I will be going back and putting in HTML commands for line breaks once I get to the end.
36) The three things you'll always find at my home or my riding office are grains, clean water, and a computer.
37) You may not use my computer. Ever. This is not a simple threat. It is a warning. I use custom-crafted data hexes that invoke the name of abbadon himself when people try to hack me.
38) I have cursed people. Not hexed, but cursed. I know that I may ask for no absolution or quarter, but I am seeking dispensation with my entire being.
39) In the Golden Dawn tradition I would probably rank somewhere in area of Adeptus Major.
40) I'm ready to committ the next seven years of my life to the people of the Kitchener Centre region or the people of the Kitchener Waterloo region.
41) My I.Q., if you care, is 146.
42) I've never successfully completed an E.Q. test.
43) My favourate author is Rex Stout.
44) I've stolen many library books in my time, but my goal is to return them all before I die, and I keep the stolen books off my top and bottom shelves.
45) When I was in jail, I preached the gospel of John while studying the Pentituch.
46) The Long Walk, although written under the pseudonym "Richard Bachmann," was Stepehn King's masterpiece. Most of his other stuff is just pulp, but makes for great long horror movies.
47) I like Waterloo more than Kitchener, both of them more than Cambridge, and all of them more than Toronto. I also like Canada more than I like The United States of America.
48) I like to write to the sound of a different drummer.
49) I'm not homosexual, although I have been accused of buggary simply because I do charity work for a HIV/AIDS awareness charity.
50) I would like to be listed on the ballot as "Owen Alastair Ferguson" and I am running for the People Power Party.
REBEKAH:
REBEKAH SAT BY A WELL IN UR: A CARAVAN STOPPED, AND ELIEZER, SERVANT OF ABRAHAM, ASKED FOR A DRINK OF WATER. HE ALSO ASKED HER TO RETURN WITH HIM WITH HIM AND MARY ISACC, LONELY AND BROODING OVER HIS MOTHER'S DEATH. WOULD SHE GO? SHE WENT. PARTLY SELFISH, THAT. SHE KNEW SHE WAS MARRYING MONEY. REBEKAH WAS BEAUTIFUL, VIVACIOUS, CALCULATING. YET SHE WAS A GOOD WIFE. SHE COMFORTED ISACC, DISPELLED HIS LONELINESS, AND HE CAME TO LOVE HER WELL ENOUGH TO LIE ABOUT HER, TO PROTECT HER, IN EXACTLY THE SAME MANNER THAT ABRAHAM HAD ONCE LIED ABOUT SARAH. SHE GAVE ISACC TWO SONS-JACOB, ESAU. SHE LOVED THEM BOTH, BUT JACOB WAS HER PET. SHE TRICKED HER AGED HUSBAND INTO GIVING HIM THE PARENTAL BLESSING WHICH BELONGED TO ESAU. ISAAC MUST HAVE HATED HER FOR THAT. ESAU RAGED. REBECKAH REPENTED, BUNDLED JACOB OFF TO LIVE FOR A LITTLE WHILE WITH LABAN, TILL THE STORM BLEW OVER. SHE LOVED TOO NARROWLY. SHE WAS SHREWD, TACTFUL, UNSCRUPULPUS, CRUEL. SHE IS DIED FRUSTRATED, HECKLED, EMBITTERED.
Ref: Gen. 24:15 ff., 25:19 ff., 26:6 ff., 27:1-28:5 - From "250 Bible Biographies," which is no longer on my top shelf.
(.//.) I love you R.V.K
50 Things You Should Probably Know About Me
Hardika gets the credit, with files from my beloved.
1) I didn't cause the blackout.
2) I didn't do anything to help keep the blackout from happening.
3) I'm going to end this sermon with a poem, so again, if you're looking for my origional work, there's none of it to be found here.
4) I'm going to mention the name of the political party I'm running for as the fiftieth item on this list.
5) I won my white feather today.
6) As far as I know, both nuclear facilites in the GTA core are at non-critical states.
7) I believe what happened may have been simmilar to the three mile island incident that occured in the sixties.
8) I triangulate blackout ground zero somewhere in upstate New York, but that's just using dead reconing techniques that I usually don't even think about on land.
9) I am willing to join the first batallion, but believe I would be a far greater service in the Navy than I would in either the Airforce or the Army.
10) I believe that Canada should focus less on manipulation and control devices for low-orbit trans-atmospheric shuttles and more on human-machine-human protocal droids.
11) I am 24, and will be a quarter century old come November Eleventh. This fact scares me enough to make me cry sometimes.
12) I used to hand polish brasswork on steel-hulled square-rigged brigantine.
13) I have been know to spend weeks in seclusion writing prose. Not code, not script or HTML or control characters disguised as object oriented computer languages. Prose.
14) I have fewer than fourteen typewriters, but not many fewer.
15) If given the choice of three glasses, I will chose the glass with a gold rim, because I understand that the heavy metals I injested while serving my jail time are now slowly killing my left kidney. I want my corpus delecti to be worth something to my children.
16) Like most executives who have to deal with periods of stress, I require a number of perscribed medications to stay alive.
17) There is nothing I hate more than blisters on my feet. I believe some Templar brothers from the burning times can attest to that.
18) For every hateful emotion I am sent, I try to respond with three empathetic ones.
19) However, like all men, I do have breaking points. When I get very very angry I walk out back to the firing range and burn through and entire 100 rounds with my single-shot pistol. My spread tends towards the upper right, and I miss the target about 1% of the time, but I'm able to go through 100 rounds in about four minutes that way.
20) Once I get "in the ring" I like to rapidly change hands and rapidly shift crouching legs.
21) I've never raped or murdered anyone, although I will pillage until rationing at home is eased.
22) When hunting for snipe, I can land a kill shot at 100-feet with a probability of 3 in 4.
23) I've never gone hunting, but I do hope to one day kill a ten-point buck moose. I'm not sure if there is such a thing, but as I mentioned, I've never gone hunting.
24) I try not to objectify women.
25) I also try not to objectify people.
26) I've never actually graduated from a chartered University. I believe that I will be convocating at the University of Waterloo in October, but I delivered my notice of intentent to graduate after the registrar's office had "shut down for the August 8th long weekend."
27) Most of my English writing education stems from watching bimbos and mimbos at Ryerson try to act like Newspaper Men.
28) I did go to Cambridge for a week, looking to study love, but actually studying poetry.
29) Like any good sailor, I know how to cut through all the granny knots used to improperly reef a sail and get the ship into a safe port so the crew can party Amsterdam-style.
30) I do carry non-prohibited weapons in the street sometimes, because I've been the place where people who carry prohibited weapons are, and I'm never going back.
31) My computer was trespassed against two days ago.
32) I tried to find the office of the privacy comissioner when I was in Toronto today, but acording to the sitting government that comission has be "outsourced" and the comissioner was not at the building where his official office is.
33) I've been warned not to run in this election by both of my parents, and they both looked very fearful while reading me their petitions. If this happens again I will be empathetic, but also upset.
34) I also get upset when I try to flag down three cabs in a row on the main street of my home town and they won't stop for me.
35) I'm not writing this list entirely unedited. I will be going back and putting in HTML commands for line breaks once I get to the end.
36) The three things you'll always find at my home or my riding office are grains, clean water, and a computer.
37) You may not use my computer. Ever. This is not a simple threat. It is a warning. I use custom-crafted data hexes that invoke the name of abbadon himself when people try to hack me.
38) I have cursed people. Not hexed, but cursed. I know that I may ask for no absolution or quarter, but I am seeking dispensation with my entire being.
39) In the Golden Dawn tradition I would probably rank somewhere in area of Adeptus Major.
40) I'm ready to committ the next seven years of my life to the people of the Kitchener Centre region or the people of the Kitchener Waterloo region.
41) My I.Q., if you care, is 146.
42) I've never successfully completed an E.Q. test.
43) My favourate author is Rex Stout.
44) I've stolen many library books in my time, but my goal is to return them all before I die, and I keep the stolen books off my top and bottom shelves.
45) When I was in jail, I preached the gospel of John while studying the Pentituch.
46) The Long Walk, although written under the pseudonym "Richard Bachmann," was Stepehn King's masterpiece. Most of his other stuff is just pulp, but makes for great long horror movies.
47) I like Waterloo more than Kitchener, both of them more than Cambridge, and all of them more than Toronto. I also like Canada more than I like The United States of America.
48) I like to write to the sound of a different drummer.
49) I'm not homosexual, although I have been accused of buggary simply because I do charity work for a HIV/AIDS awareness charity.
50) I would like to be listed on the ballot as "Owen Alastair Ferguson" and I am running for the People Power Party.
REBEKAH:
REBEKAH SAT BY A WELL IN UR: A CARAVAN STOPPED, AND ELIEZER, SERVANT OF ABRAHAM, ASKED FOR A DRINK OF WATER. HE ALSO ASKED HER TO RETURN WITH HIM WITH HIM AND MARY ISACC, LONELY AND BROODING OVER HIS MOTHER'S DEATH. WOULD SHE GO? SHE WENT. PARTLY SELFISH, THAT. SHE KNEW SHE WAS MARRYING MONEY. REBEKAH WAS BEAUTIFUL, VIVACIOUS, CALCULATING. YET SHE WAS A GOOD WIFE. SHE COMFORTED ISACC, DISPELLED HIS LONELINESS, AND HE CAME TO LOVE HER WELL ENOUGH TO LIE ABOUT HER, TO PROTECT HER, IN EXACTLY THE SAME MANNER THAT ABRAHAM HAD ONCE LIED ABOUT SARAH. SHE GAVE ISACC TWO SONS-JACOB, ESAU. SHE LOVED THEM BOTH, BUT JACOB WAS HER PET. SHE TRICKED HER AGED HUSBAND INTO GIVING HIM THE PARENTAL BLESSING WHICH BELONGED TO ESAU. ISAAC MUST HAVE HATED HER FOR THAT. ESAU RAGED. REBECKAH REPENTED, BUNDLED JACOB OFF TO LIVE FOR A LITTLE WHILE WITH LABAN, TILL THE STORM BLEW OVER. SHE LOVED TOO NARROWLY. SHE WAS SHREWD, TACTFUL, UNSCRUPULPUS, CRUEL. SHE IS DIED FRUSTRATED, HECKLED, EMBITTERED.
Ref: Gen. 24:15 ff., 25:19 ff., 26:6 ff., 27:1-28:5 - From "250 Bible Biographies," which is no longer on my top shelf.
(.//.) I love you R.V.K
