Oslo Suscon 2005

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Click the pic for the article, c/o Allen!
(Original forum unavailable, sorry)*

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Undermars, Canadian Arrests

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

I think this is one of my favorite photos that I've gotten for Under Mars. If you'd like to see a closeup, here's one of the guys carrying the dead cow and one of the old guy in the foreground. The picture was taken in Kabul, Afghanistan while Multi 6 from 16 Signal Regiment (I admit I don't know exactly what that means, sorry).

So as many of you probably know, there have recently been a series of arrests of minors and young adults here in Toronto in a “Muslim terrorist” bust… According to the authorities they wanted to blow up the Parliament buildings (in Ottawa), chop off the Prime Minister's head, storm the CBC, demand the release of various Muslim prisoners, and then chop off some more people's heads.

To me the sitation reads like a bunch of stupid kids because from my point of view Canada is pretty nice to Muslims, but I asked an Iranian friend of mine whether I was wrong or not and I guess that in the mind of an extremist (or someone who desperately wants to be an extremist), there's not much difference between America and Canada because they're perceived as allies (even though Canada isn't in Iraq), and there's a larger, generalized enemy of “the West” which is slowly eating away at religion of all kinds.

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Happy 6/6/6

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

I imagine we'll make it through yet another predicted apocalyptic date. That said, all bets are off for 2106, if that still counts as a 6/6/6. Either that'll be the day when we launch into the future and completely discard God as an archaic and forgotten idea because we've sorted our problems out, or it'll be clear that we've dug our own graves, are living in hell, and desperately fight over which false God is the true one. Either way, Satan wins (or at least the stereotypical concept thereof wins).

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Google AdSense Pays Out!

Monday, June 5, 2006

To those of you who've been having trouble accessing BME and so on today, sorry — Cogent appears to have been (“have been” is an “I hope” statement) trouble with their routing in the Toronto area which of course is where we are. Anyway, in the good news department (well, for me anyway), I finally got my first cheque from Google. It's not much money and I haven't optimized Zentastic and the other sites with ads on them (basically everything except the BME-family of sites, because they're not permitted), but I still feel kind of a geeky thrill getting it…

Yeah, so it took me like four months to make $193, but it seems to go up a little bit every day, and I guess there's another one on the way. Woo woo! Hope people who clicked the ads and paid for the ads found it mutually beneficial.

…and now off to my doctor!

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Doodle-doo

Sunday, June 4, 2006

The day's been relatively productive in a relaxing sort of way. I've been so down (doctor tomorrow; I'm going to see if I can get him to risk another manic state because I feel at my best by far when I'm hypomanic) for the last little while that I'm just trying to focus on nice stuff… I finished off The Game (great ending to the book), did some work, programmed a little, wrote the proper specs for “the new BME” and some related projects, did an hour or so of yoga (which sucks a little when your knee looks like this), and cooked some lunch with the limited supplies we have here.

It's chopped garlic, lentils, onion, red pepper, and mushrooms on a bed of noodles done up in a sweet and spicy sauce (a mix of black bean sauce, brown rice syrup, and a lettle yellow thai chili). I think now I'm going to move on to doing some graphic design work and prepping things for ModBlog later this week to try and make the days less high-stress and time-constrained.
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