The Midori Adventures: Day One

The bus ride to Halifax from Fredericton is a long one, and mostly uneventful. The most exciting thing that happened was on the switchover in Moncton. That's where I witnessed a worker loading new luggage on the bus. As I watched, he tossed a box with a big green FRAGILE sticker into the bus. It fell off the stack and bounced back to the ground. So he picked it up and flung it back in, where it did the same thing. He dribbled the fragile box in this way for quite some time, which is making me rethink bringing my printer back with me to Ontario on the plane. Eep.

( We arrived in Halifax a half hour before Midori's first workshop. )

Dink Lump

Yup. It's time to divest my tabs of all their trimmings.

MPs to vote on future of gay marriage law: "Harper promised the free vote after coming under pressure from socially conservative and religious elements inside his party, who oppose the law and say it could lead to polygamy." Oh nooooes! If people can be gay and get married, soon that will mean that multiple people will marry each other in a big old Gordian knot of wedded bliss! What's the problem with group marriages, anyhow, as long as everyone in the group's cool with it? It's not like there isn't an old Biblical precedent for it either, fundies (thanks, balthcat)!

Charmed woman marries cobra in India: At least she only married one snake. Marrying two would be immoral.

Pilot Fights Black Snake Stowaway on Plane: Yup. Snake on a plane.

Grandparents ordered hit on family: "Police said they initially offered $100 to an undercover sheriff's deputy to kill their son's wife, their 10-year-old granddaughter, two step-grandchildren, ages 14 and 16, and the family dog." Only $100? And for their little dog, too? Oh my.

The Synthetic Dream Foundation: I rather like their free industrial mp3. I'll have to check out more of their stuff.

The Purpose Driven Life Takers: "Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission - both a religious mission and a military mission -- to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state - especially moderate, mainstream Christians. Your mission is "to conduct physical and spiritual warfare"; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice. You have never felt so powerful, so driven by a purpose: you are 13 years old. You are playing a real-time strategy video game whose creators are linked to the empire of mega-church pastor Rick Warren, best selling author of The Purpose Driven Life."

Chocolate generates electrical power: Putting waste to use sounds good to me.

Would-be robber asks bank how to do it: Bathos! Yay!

Killer Workout: Are gyms, not mosques, the main breeding ground for Islamic terrorists?: Look out. I'm on my way to being a terrorist. And on that note, I'm getting ready to do my daily workout.

Hey, Frederictonians!

I want to do something tonight, and f00dave is busy doing readings. Anyone have any plans I can squeeze my way into?

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