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Countdown’s Best Persons Hits Close to Home
Aug 16th
So, watching my Countdown as I always do and it was time for the Best Persons segment. First up was Whole Food’s CEO using Republican talking points against US Health Care reform.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I think Barack Obama is a coward for not trying to bring in single payer — It serves Canada so well to have everyone insured through progressive taxation but it just irks me that Whole Foods CEO John Mackey calls Obama’s cop-out plan “socialism” and a step towards “government takeover of health care.” Tort reform and the creation of a competing government option isn’t socialism nor is it take over. Phooey. Steven Harper would jump on the opportunity to introduce private options for health care in Canada. The long and short of it is I don’t know what to do with my Whole Foods habit now. A boycott? Maybe. Signing back up for SPUD? Absolutely.
And if the first point wasn’t bad enough — and it was very bad (I tend to pause Countdown when I get frustrated because of the show — which is a lot) — out comes SFU as the World’s Best Person on Countdown. Apparently our creation of a grade worse than “F” has caught the mighty Keith Olbermann’s attention. Enough said, just watch the clip.
Mark and I were talking on Skype so he can vouch for my almost terrified reactions — unlike the glee expressed whenever Canada is mentioned on The Daily Show.
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TweetDeck the Memory Hog
Feb 1st
TweetDeck the memory hog
TweetDeck, a simple twitter client based off of Adobe Air manages to gorge itself on over 200MB of memory, and have a VRAM footprint of over a gig? What the hell is up with this? Are all Adobe Air applications this much of a pig?
What really gets me is that my nightly build of Firefox (Called Minefield) comes in a respectable second in footprint with 25% less memory usage.
I’m floored, yet this explains why TweetDeck frequently becomes unresponsive with the Spinning Beach Ball of Doom!
Gloucester Docks
Jan 25th
Last week I visited Gloucester for a job interview… here are some of the pics
Gloucester Docks a prospective workplace
More Gloucester docks
Imagine this full of huge merchant vessels
This Personal Reality of ours…
Jan 24th
While Andrew spent his time merging our blogs I spent my time working out how many votes the UK political parties would get based purely on twitter followers. Suffice to say it wasnt a happy outcome. But this blog is! Welcome to our joint world of crazyness coming at you sometimes from both sides of the pond, sometimes from just one.
Nokia’s Calling
Dec 15th
Seemingly my tiny knowledge of the Finnish language has finally paid off with an In to Nokia’s Business Systems team.. Though the manager’s English… I don’t quite get it.. But Whatev’s Fingers crossed, they like what I can give them.
Apartment Hunting in Vancouver
May 10th
To all those trying to find an apartment in Vancouver: be prepared to be hunting for a while. I’ve been looking for an apartment in some capacity since January, and I’ve yet to find one. Seriously. And it’s not like I’ve got unreasonable demands such as granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, and a whirlpool tub with separate stand-up shower all for under $1000.
Nope, all I’m asking for is an apartment with a living room, a bedroom, a bathroom, a kitchen, decent flooring, clean walls (I can paint out of my own pocket), natural lighting, unobstructed 7 foot minimum ceilings, and a landlord who understands the Residential Tenancy Act. (Though I’d like to point out that I had an apartment — yet I lost it because the person whom I was depending on to be my reference chose not to answer the phone because it was a “weird number” and thus made me lose the place of my dreams — remains to be another post regarding mobile etiquette.)
Ideally this place is close to transit, and within the Lower Lonsdale, Main Street, Commercial Drive, or Burnaby Heights neighbourhoods.
I think over the next few days I’ll post some ridiculous stories about the hell I’ve gone through to find an apartment in Vancouver, and some of the incredibly weird demands and requests I’ve received from landlords prior to renting/viewing.
