The new government budget went down today, and all I'll say about it is that the Department of Finance is offering it as a podcast.
"Once the podcast is on your computer, you can listen to or watch it there using your favourite media player, or transfer it onto your portable media player and experience it on the move."
I imagine the experience is quite intense, what with the fiscal responsibility speeches and PowerPoint presentations.
I want to start a new bit of office lingo around here, a new codeword for a particular piece of equipment: the "Bottled Tongue."
An example is here, being a bottle that you fill with water and use to moisten and seal lots of envelopes.
You obviously shouldn't use your real tongue to lick and seal the huge number of large envelopes that a tax firm sends out every day this time of year, so you use the Bottled Tongue.
The official Gran Turismo™ 5 Prologue site is up.
CBC News: Castro steps down as Cuba's leader after 49 years
"U.S. President George W. Bush expressed hope Tuesday that the end of Fidel Castro's presidency will launch a transition to democracy.
""What does this mean for the people in Cuba?" Bush asked rhetorically at a news conference in Rwanda during his trip to Africa. "They're the ones who suffered under Fidel Castro. They're the ones who were put in prison because of their beliefs. They're the ones who have been denied their right to live in a free society.
""So I view this as a period of transition and it should be the beginning of the democratic transition in Cuba.""
I wonder if oil was found in Cuba...
The phrase "sock it to me" appears a total of two times on all the pages that Google can see under the Government of Canada's domain, gc.ca.
"How to put a MAME console inside a TARDIS? Yes, that's a question all right. Should be easy right, what with the TARDIS being bigger on the inside than the outside."
I want to have "Because I Said So" power. I want to have the kind of authority over people's lives that are restricted to authoritarian regimes, tax offices, and average parents. Then things will start getting done, Because I Said So.
Make the buses and trains run on time, Because I Said So.
Get your job done, Because I Said So.
Don't shoot me, Because I Said So.
At Canada Olympic Park later this month there will be all kinds of festivities commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 1988 Winter Olympics.
And all I'll say about this is: blow out the cauldron already! It's been 20 years! We know this city hosted the Olympics! Buses don't need the snowflake on them anymore! Olympic Plaza is now a den for crackheads! Stop hanging on to past glories, Calgary, and let go! It's Vancouver's turn now! Live with it!
