“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

-George Bernard Shaw

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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • I ended up on this last year as I was exploring the South West. I found it confusing even as a Canadian.

    I then later was confusion when Google Maps told me to go 80 on Hwy 10 in Texas once I came up from Big Bend NP. I thought the GPS was confused. 80 kms on the highway in the US? It was then I realized I wasn’t in Oregon anymore with their 60 mph highways. Texas goes fast and even 80 mph isn’t enough for most people. Even the single lane highways with construction workers was 65 mph work zones in Texas.

    It was the most amount of road kill I’ve ever seen in all my travels. I think at one stage a herd of goats must of tried to cross the highway based on the carnage I came across. I finally understood the reason for the huge bumpers on the front of trucks in Texas now.




  • My new favourite is people talking on the phone while letting off absolute bomb in public washroom stalls, some even on speaker phone.

    My second are those that come in playing their music on phone speaker for all of us to hear their jams.

    Not sure if this is better than those that do it on a nature trails but all groups should be forced to have music speaker phone battles while bears and wolves eat them all…





  • I did install a Sega Genesis emulator on a old laptop during the Xmas break to play some NHL94 and 95 with modern rosters.

    That was a lot of fun. I also installed Pirates! Gold after a day and it was fun to revisit these games from my youth.

    I loved the ability to save stats.

    However after a couple of days I’ve not really played them again since. It only cost $14 for the Sega controller so it was worth the price. I don’t think I could buy 2 beers at a bar locally for that.





  • Laugh as we might just because the health affects are not immediate versus long term doesn’t mean there isn’t ramifications.

    Alcohol will mess you up in the short term and in the long term in more ways than one especially for those that abuse it.

    Oddly one of those ways mimics over consumption of sugar.

    But not to worry just like the culture of alcohol and tobacco had us convinced that there are no health issues at all to worry about, it’s the same mate for those operating on massive rushes of sugar and caffeine in energy drinks.

    They might not appear mentally drunk but rest assured their bodies are…


  • I’ve not been in a McDonald’s in decades. Nice to see? I vaguely recall fountains in there but I’m left wondering how much sugar water does one need? Diabetes in a cup anyone?

    Add what the fluid does to interfere with proper food digestion no wonder so many are so sickly and overweight.

    I wish like financial literacy they taught proper nutritional health that served the public versus the corporations.

    They have these sickly consumers screaming government over reach when they try to curb these products with regulations trying to convince everyone, they are just weak and they should be able to override these rewards centers that have been hijacked in the brain with willpower.

    Meanwhile at the same time these groups then desire the strong arm of the law to come down very hard on drug addicts when they are just another form of a addict but a less severe form that is functioning somewhat.

    It’s a quite the duality to witness. Humans are interesting…


  • I have to wonder what the scar lines from the various transplants and hair tucks would look like.

    I’ve read he’s had a lot done to close the gap and make the George Constanza Ceasar’s crown into a full head of hair. That’s a lot of ground to pull up over. I don’t think it would look so smooth.

    I can’t even imagine how much time he needs to spend each morning to get that thing ready for the public. That’s a lot of hairspray. Combine that with the orange spray tan and the makeup it’s not a 5 minute job.