Raptors Win Opener

It's on!

Robot Versus Pirate Versus Ninja

Yesterday i innocently posted the Ninja Parade video.
Immediately i received a comment of the ever popular "Ninja vs Pirate" conversation.
A conversation i've posted on this blog at least once before, June 2006: Ninja Versus Pirate.

Seeing as that is where this conversation is going, and how this topic is descending... i might as well throw some fuel on the fire:

Popular Mechanics is running an article right now titled Robot Boats Hunt Pirates. The article is easily as interesting as it sounds, maybe more so.

/i am reminded of last weeks Toastmasters meeting, where J.K. explained to us during his table topic the secret training process of ninja's, as it related to his small children. You would have enjoyed being there, i did.

Ninja Parade

Parades are good.
Ninja's are good, too, i think.


Ninja Parade Slips Through Town Unnoticed Once Again

/This is satire. it is supposed to be funny... and not true. Satire is a good thing, sometimes.

/Thanks for the link C.H.

7 days

7 days without a blog post.
Life goes on...

The Link: Monty & Caffeine

Attended the Link this morning.
Link is church, but not like any church i imagine you've attended before. Maybe you have, maybe not.

To start with, when i arrived, a good man brewed a fresh americano coffee for me. For real. I think i know coffee, this one wasn't just good, it was fantastic... mmm Caffeine.

Then, to make the morning even better by leaps and bounds (and it worked!), Pastor Mike used a video clip from Monty Pythons for the sermon illustration.

Youtube has a copy of said clip. Watch and enjoy. Then remember we saw this clip this morning... at church.

(!--- EDIT) this below clip is NOT what we watched at the Link this morning. The clip is funny for sure, just not what Mike used as his sermon illustration. The illustration was the first minute or so, when Arthur approaches the castle for the first time... which transpires just before this clip fits into the movies continuity.
The link should now work too... meh, hypertext. The youtube video box is now GONE. oops.
(end edit ---!)

/Off to watch the Quest for the Holy Grail (i have the 2001 re-release, if you were wondering. This version contains an additional 24 seconds of material that had not been released before (even tho it had been released before, who am i to argue).

2007 Market Award

The Medicine Hat & District Chamber of Commerce held their Small Business Awards Gala tonight.
The Medicine Hat News were proud sponsors of the 2007 Marketing Award.
Cancarb was the other nominee. I suspect it was a tight race for the judges... in the end tho, Classic Communities was called on as the winner of this prestigious 2007 award.
I had the opportunity to accept the award, smile for the photo opp and say a few words tonight at the banquet. That was fun. It went well enough. i didn't slur my words... and all the butterflies flew in formation. That helps a lot: Thanks Toastmasters!

Blackberry Pie

I received an email today, from a distraught blackberry user. The email said, in a nut-shell:

“Get RID OF HEADER!!!!!!

Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device”.

/ten bonus points if you can guess who sent that note.

Heh. The graphic signature that Kris at Classic had designed for me makes a mess of blackberry users being able to read my emails.

The work that we do here is entirely to time sensitive to knowingly risk something important NOT being transmitted, or received as intended. I don’t ever want to do that to any of you.

I wonder if major events &/or natural disasters might be averted entirely merely by doing away with the graphic signature (as ego boosting as I might find it!).

It’s almost as if technology itself is stating “say no to graphic signature files on your emails, and say yes to a better, more productive, more peaceful life… You can do it!”

So, as of today, and until I need an ego boost of my own, I have answered the sirens song: The graphic signature has been retired… make mine text based. Mmmmmmm blackberry pie.

Ciao,

Jace Anderson

Links: Brent, Tawm & Steve

My father asked me for a link to the Brent & Tawm Rosendal blog. Here it is: Brent & Tawm are in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

i mentioned to that Mouse of Danger that he might enjoy the banter at another politico site i frequent. For his benefit, and yours if your surfing the web, here is a link to Steve Janke's site: Angry in the Great White North. Visit "Angry" for discussions about news and the issues of the day, predominantly federal politics (which as everyone already knows, are always a good time)

Mayors Breakfast

The civic election is done, and tomorrow morning will be upon us soon.

The Medicine Hat & District Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Sunrise Rotary Club (my club) are hosting the Mayor's Breakfast.

It's almost time to have breakfast with the new mayor. Good times.

2007 Civic Election Results Medicine Hat

48 of 48 Voting Stations Reporting.
47.46% Voter Turnout.

For the Office of
Mayor Preliminary Results Percentage
BOUCHER, Normand 10551 55.58%
GRIMM, Ted 4471 23.55%
COCKS, Bill 2112 11.13%
BOYD, Stewart 1580 8.32%
MacLEAN, Dave R.B. 268 1.41%

For the Office of
Alderman Preliminary Results
FRIESEN, Julie 9680
HAMILL, John 9134
SCHNEIDER, Ty 8379
KELLY, Graham 8102
CLUGSTON, Ted 7681
DUMANOWSKI, Robert C. 7592
THOMPSON, Jeremy O. 7229
WHITE, Jamie 6141
PEARSON, Les 5964
VARGA, Brian 5834
STAPLES, Betty 5540
SPEERS, Harv 5121
MARTIN, Leslie 4174
GRANT, (Des) Desmond 3502
COWAN, Scott 3152
HOFFMAN, Tyler 2788
OGSTON, Jim 2632
FRANCHETTO, Marco Luciano 1800
HOLLAND, Stu 1456
PATTISON, Carl 1448
McFALL, Fred 1392
TUDOR, Robert 846
BURTT, Richard Frederick 638

/posted here for posterity. (City Hall link)

Escapa 26.797

26.797 seconds!




Click here to see the pic in full size, if you care.


I first got this *Air Force* game Friday afternoon from someone at work. My afternoon was shot from that point on. The game says if you beat 18 seconds you are "doing brilliantly".

I'm not anywhere near *air force* material (120 seconds), but i am doing better than brilliantly, which is gratifying.

This is a good way to pass the minutes while i wait for all 48 polling stations in Medicine Hat to report.

3.03% reporting

I must admit i'm a little surprised that medhatblog doesn't have an "election conversation thread" yet... i'd rather not take over one of their current conversations but, where else could i post that after 3.03% of the vote (1 station out of 48) Norm Boucher has 53% of the popular vote?
How about right here, to start things off:

For the Office of
Mayor Preliminary Results Percentage
BOUCHER, Normand 653 53.97%
GRIMM, Ted 343 28.35%
COCKS, Bill 109 9.01%
BOYD, Stewart 92 7.60%
MacLEAN, Dave R.B. 13 1.07%

Link

Now, KEEP IN MIND this early in the game, it means absolutely nothing... but it will serve as a conversation starter. Once medhatblog opens up the gates. :)

Civic Preliminary Results

Patiently waiting for 8:05 pm.

"Watch for Preliminary Results starting at 8:05:00 PM on Monday, October 15, 2007."

Then, i'm off to medhatblog to talk about it...

Municipal Elections Eve

Tomorrow the City of Medicine Hat elects a new mayor. Tomorrow the City of Medicine Hat elect several new alderman, at the very least. Tomorrow is an exciting day, i for one am looking forward to casting a vote. Casting a vote, and then waiting patiently for democracy to be counted...

Good fun.

LOG!

"It's big, it's heavy, it's wood!"



Ahh, those were the days. Thanks for the reference Jeff!

Fall Era

I haven't left much time for blogging tonight, but i will leave you with one dilemma; From which of the below thumbnail pics should i select and use as my new desktop on the at work computer?







We took era out with some friends for pictures the other day, and had so much fun doing it that Renee & era went out again for more pics. (it's a good thing all the pics are digital, otherwise the developing costs would be astronomical...)

Housing Vital Signs 2007

We shared our Rotary meeting this morning with special guests. We did see most of the aldermanic candidates, as well as Mayoral candidate Bill Cocks. That was nice, but not the special guests i was referring... no, the special guests were from throughout the community, all in attendance to hear first hand how the Medicine Hat & Southeastern Alberta Community Foundation would release their Medicine Hat Vital Signs 2007 Report. (The breakfast was good, as always)

The sub heading Housing within the report had, among other things, this to say;

"Alberta has seen a 19% increase in multiple family residential building starts between 2005 and 2006. In Medicine Hat the number of similar housing starts in 2006 was 545, an increase of 43% from 2005. "

It is good to know that CCL has played a significant part in providing the multi-family answer to the housing continuum right here in Medicine Hat.

P4AH

Blogging has been non existent again this week. i was out of town, attending the Partnerships for Affordable Housing forum in Abbotsford, British Columbia.

Era gets Soul

/Just making sure that era learns his roots... soul. :)
youtube & seasame street are great resources. Heh.