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I stopped by Jim's Pizza house last week. Next door at the GMAC realty office a sign was up that Marco Di Quinzio was the top agent for 2011 for units and sales in that office. Congratulations Marco. My parents worked with Marco back in 2010 when they sold their house. It was a very positive experience and Marco worked with their requirements as being old and poor health and was able to sell the

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Some discussion from our government lately about increasing the age for OAS to 67. It's a change which is long overdue. Should have been put in place a generation ago. At $38 billion a year we are certainly already spending a lot just on seniors - 3 times the entire military budget. The thing about OAS. That's for seniors who find themselves broke with no savings and no income. These same

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I recently read Sunset Park by Paul Auster. It was an interesting book. It is set basically in the present time, 2008. The hero is Miles Heller, the son of a New York publisher and his mom is a name actress. Miles abruptly leaves the family 7 years ago with a year of college left. He bounces around America doing different low end jobs. He does not contact his family during the time away. The

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So it's 2012. I got thinking that means it's been 5 years now since 2007. That blip report that US subprime mortgages were defaulting at a 16% rate, way up from the usual 7%. Then the 2 bear stearns hedge funds blew up. and, well then everything else since then that happened. Still not back to normal or close to back to normal five years later now. I remember sitting at Jack Astor's for a work

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I finished another book it was Daughter of Kura by Debra Austin. It was a good book, well written. It's the story of a young girl named Snap set half a million years ago in Africa. The author skilfully weaves together known archaeological evidence to tell a believable and compelling story. In the book they don't yet have speech and use sign language to communicate which helps put the reader into

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I was surprised to hear about proposed changes in the upcoming DSM-V [1] [2] [3] around autism and aspergers. According to the ATV piece Saturday and the links. The criteria to diagnose autism is being sharply tightened. Aspergers is being eliminated as a diagnosable disease. Let's discuss them separately. From the ATV report there was a study back in 1994 and even then half of the children

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Per Steyn there are reports of some of the men, including crew members, using their size advantage to jostle and push their way ahead of women to get to the life rafts. Well what do you expect in a culture where the captain himself scooted off early and left his crew and passengers to fend for their own lives, in some cases unsuccessfully. At some level this seems wrong, at least untraditional.

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It was hard to believe when he first appeared on the campaign trail. This old fossil Newt Gingrich shows up and what's he doing? Now he's surging and does he really have the right stuff to be president? First of all it's not too "unlikely" that he can win. After what happened 4 years ago America elected a black man, a community organizer, an unknown first term senator, as president. So Newt

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So America doesn't want the Keystone pipeline. What a crock! Here we are attempting to create thousands of high paying industrial blue collar union jobs in both countries in construction, manufacturing, transportation, engineering, services, etc. and America turns up their nose and says no. Hard to believe. If America is supposedly so concerned about terrorism you would think they would want to

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It was weird the first week back at work. I had trouble sleeping all week. I wasn't tired going to bed, and was waking up during the night and not getting back to sleep quickly. On the Thursday I awoke around 1:30 and I don't think I got back to sleep, or not for much if I did. Finally gave up and looked at the clock: 5:30. Screw it got up for the day. I was surprisingly alert and untired all

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As I've written before Greece is unworthy of bailout and should have been left to default on its debts and been kicked out of the Euro. This is what the German taxpayers and savers money is being used to pay for. This is a sampling of headlines just from today. pedophilia is a disability and eligible for government disability pension anarchists take over radio station. In the article note that

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I deleted my facebook account. No drama or anything, facebook just wasn't fun any more so I decided to move on. Last fall I went through an exercise cutting my friends from about 150 to 125 or so. However I found my news feed was still clogged with people I don't know, people I don't like, people I don't care about. That and the endless blocking of apps. So that's that. I haven't missed it or

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Continuing the zombie theme, I finished up World War Z by Max Brooks. I borrowed it from my nephew and read it over the Christmas break. It was a good and fast read. It was nice to be able to get through it in chunks over the break although I neglected some other activities I'd meant to do, oh well that's what vacation is for. The book is the chronology of the zombie war from the earliest

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 Well 2011 is swiftly drawing to a close. I've been thinking about 2012 some. Up until last summer things had settled into a fairly steady state for the last couple of years. Alas, that era is ending and a new chapter is beginning. There was a series of financial setbacks starting fall of 2011. On another front let's say that there's a higher probability of other changes this year; the highest

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I finished another book. It was Dead City by Joe McKinney. It was another zombie book. This book is the prequel to Apocalypse of the Dead which I read a couple months ago. Dead City takes place over a single day. It is the account of a San Antonio police officer Eddie Hudson dealing with an initial report of a disturbance in a neighbourhood which turned out to be zombies. They didn't know that

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So recently some more finger wagging from Jim Flaherty about Europe debt. in addition to earlier comments [1] [2] and others. What's the point of this anyway Jim? What are you trying to accomplish here. It's not like Canada with a $1 billion a week of federal borrowing and an irresponsible commitment to increase federal health spending by 6% per year forward as far as the eye can see is any kind

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I noticed the Paul Dewar youth scheme go by. It was standard NDP. Lots of spending. Lots of bureaucracy. Lots of unconstitutional federal intrusion into areas of provincial jurisdiction. No discussion of where the money will come from. Any discussion of youth in Canada should discuss that youth in Canada are becoming extinct. What I mean is the low birth rate. 1.58 per, Canada is slowly going

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What a disgraceful, disgusting decision. Students banned from attending their own team's hockey game. How can there be a high school hockey game without the fellow students being there?! What is this bullshit? So what if there were some individual fights in the past? Deal with the individuals in that case. You cannot have high school sports without student attendance. That is an absurdity, a

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I had some stuff to do this morning. I got up at 7 which was early for me on vacation. Got moving and dropped car at mechanic at 8:30. They said it would be done around noon. I went over to first choice for a haircut which was next door. But they were not open until 9. I stopped by CAA to ask why I hadn't received my regular card yet. They pulled it up and quickly determined they had my street

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I finished up work for the year Friday. It was busy that last week was in every evening through Thursday. Nothing planned, I just didn't have any reason to take much vacation during the year so it just ended up being used here in December. Still nice to be on break I've done this end of year vacation a number of times over the years. I joined twitter. Felt like trying it out. It's pretty good so

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The most over-regulated people in the world have just had a new rule added. In Nova Scotia ski helmets are now mandatory. Disgraceful! Of course we are embarrassed to be the only jurisdiction in the world with this rule. Useless NDP. What do you expect? I can only hope the NDP government is one-and-done. We got by for over 250 years in Nova Scotia without the NDP and I hope it is that long

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For the last couple of weeks I've been seeing some strange email bounces. Usually on Sundays. It is an email apparently originating from my own Yahoo mail account to a list of about 10 people. The email list is people I interacted with a long time ago so many of the emails are stale and have been bouncing. One of the people on the email list is one of my own email accounts! It's strange because

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So Halifax council arrogantly rejected $400k from Molson to sponsor the oval. Terrible decision. The beer companies sponsor all kinds of all inclusive events including natal day. So now our choice is for the taxpayers to come up with $400k or accept a crappier oval experience. Let's look at what big beer has done for sports in Halifax and Canada: built the replacement building for the Montreal

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Some interesting and related stories lately around western government debt. Italy has to pay 13.4% to borrow. It's 13.4 annual if you take the 6.5% 6 months and roll it over in full for 6 more months. So the bond market seems to believe there's about a 1 in 8 chance that if you lend Italy money today for 1 year then you will get stiffed. Part of me wants to take that action, 13.4% return on a

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I heard Atlantic Lotto is interested in interactive tv gambling. Sounds dodgy to me. So I guess the idea is that during commercials people will flip over to some ALC gambling channel and take a few slots spins for real money during the commercial break using the remote control? Maybe if you're settling in to watch Hockey Night in Canada flick over to the ALC gambling channel to make some zero

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The government continues to move too slowly to abolish the long gun registry. Along the way there is a recurrent theme that the media reports and then irresponsibly fails to challenge. The issue is always something like some police chiefs association supports the registry because it reduces crime or makes police safer or some such noise link, link. Of course they never back this claim with real

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I joined CAA this weekend. I went down on Saturday morning and the office was open. It was $92 taxes in for the basic membership. After what happened with the dead battery I realized it would be a wise precaution to have some coverage. The vehicle is 6 years old with over 150,000 km so it's kind of old vehicle insurance. I hope the 2005 Honda Civic can continue to run well for 2-3 more years.

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I've never really agreed with the Dr. Conrad Murray trial. It's not a crime to be a bad doctor. There's a saying "doctors bury their mistakes". I think the prosecutors are attempting to score on Jackson's fame. Sure it looks bad. After all Dr. Murray only had one patient to look after. It was a man in robust enough health to be embarking on a gruelling world tour. From the trial it appears Dr.

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I didn't realize until recently Pat Buchanan is online. There's a name from the past. His writing is pretty good. He uses an interesting style. He has toned down the rhetoric from the past and his posts come across as more academic. Layout out facts and arguments and letting the reader draw his own conclusion. Pat was part of a great era on The McLaughlin Group. I think that show is still on but

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I had a surprise over the weekend. Saturday night after the kids hockey game I started the car and ... nothing. Turned the key and dash lights came up but nothing else. Luckily there was a guy in a truck in the parking lot gave me a boost. That got me home but then on Sunday morning again no start. So I knew I hadn't left the lights on or something as I was extra careful Saturday when I parked.

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This is something that came up with me. I often buy a 4L jug of milk. I noticed that sometimes the milk goes bad before I finish it and I end up pouring some of it out. So I thought I might buy 2L milk instead. Then I saw the prices: 4L milk: $5.69 2L milk: $3.99 which leads to the practical math problems. 1) how much (in litres) of a 4L jug can you pour out and still be better off than

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I read another book recently. It was Pirate Latitues by Michael Crichton. It was good. It was just a few days to read it. I hadn't heard of this Crichton title before. It turns out it was published after his death in 2008. The manuscript was found among his papers. I wonder how much more work the author was planning before sending it to his editor. The book was polished but I suspect Crichton

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The usual bogus lawsuits. Mom suing kids for parent support. This lawsuit is bogus. The reason child support exists is because children cannot go to work to support themselves. Thus their parents are responsible to provide for them until they are 18. At age 18 they are considered adults and are considered capable of going into society to support themselves through their own labour. Now the

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My work with the Halifax periodontal is now done. I was in for the final cleaning and check up. It went pretty well except having to give them another $500. I won't miss that part. Despite some coverage from benefits it was still pretty expensive. I hope my regular dentist doesn't have any more specialist recommendations up her sleeve after this and the wisdom teeth. My teeth feel all right and

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So Anwar al-Awlaki  has joined Bin Laden in the hall of shadows. Good riddance. Some bleeding hearts have expressed concern about the killing of an American "citizen" overseas by the US military. Screw them and their complaint is bogus. Ronald Reagan was right in his famous quote about terrorists "you can run but you can't hide". While it made a great sound bite, it was more subtle than that and

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Continuing the zombie and light reading theme, I read another book recently. It was Apocalypse of the Dead by Joe McKinney. It was pretty good, I read it in a few days. The story takes place around 18 months after the initial zombie outbreak in Houston after a major hurricane. In the first outbreak the government sealed Houston and much of the coast behind a large wall with a sea quarantine. In

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So after some emails on the blinds from yesterday. It turns out the  person didn't have a car and it was hard to get to Clayton Park by bus. So nothing against the neighbourhood or anything. After some emails it was determined she is in highfield park. I was going to Dartmouth on Saturday so that was only slightly out of the way. I suggested to meet at the parking lot in Gallery1 but she said

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I did some tech support last weekend. An older gentleman I know. He asked me if I could look at his laptop. He described it as the screen wasn't coming up. Since it was a laptop he just brought it by my place as I have a small monitor to attempt hook up and I have my own wired internet so I could keep this PC open and Google stuff if I needed to. When he dropped by it was a bit better. Windows

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I caught season 1 of the Walking Dead recently. It's another one of those cable series. It was pretty good. Only 6 episodes. Season 1 takes place outside Atlanta and features the time of the zombie outbreak / takeover and how a band of survivors from a small town manages. The central characters are two of the deputies from the small town and the wife of one of them. The wife and one deputy

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I finished another book. It was Ghost Country by Patrick Lee. I was looking forward to this after reading the first book in the series The Breach. It was pretty good. It only took about a few days to read it. The story picks up two years after The Breach ended. Travis has left Tangent and gone back to obscurity as a warehouse worker with a new identity. Due to an urgent crisis Paige from

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wow a rare statement of clarity from our own Prime Minister about the biggest threat to Canada. It's nice having a majority and being able to finally speak the truth and no longer having to accommodate the likes of Justin Trudeau and Taliban Jack Layton. I can see Harper's point considering Islam had an active and dead serious plot to blow up parliament and behead him. Here's the thing. They

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I remember where I was that morning. In the upstairs dungeon at Core Networks writing code. There was a blip, an odd story flickered by the Yahoo news feed, that a cessna plane had hit the world trade center in New York. Soon the real story emerged and we sat around as it unfolded that terrible day. An enterprising young programmer hooked up a cable tv feed to the meeting room tv. There was an

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So now it's really September. Post labour day, schools are geared up, July/August silly season is done at work with 25-50% of staff out on a given day. Will be steady until December. Starting to notice a bit cooler in the evening. I remember I used to like September years ago. Maybe I cared more about the NFL starting then. Now I find it a bit sad, the passing of another summer over too soon.

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It's just a waste of time and taxpayers money adding more video cameras in Vancouver. Seeing as there are still no arrests from the riot three months ago. Gathering more evidence will just give the government workers an excuse to "study" more data and delay acting even further. It's already probable that if any token arrests for show do occur the criminals can just say, pretty much correctly,

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10 weeks after it happened and incredibly there are still no charges laid from Vancouver riots. shameful. In Britain within a week the courts are running 24 hours a day and already over 1000 charged. Like I said below, rioting pays.

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I had a follow up dentist appointment today so I took a vacation day. The dentist went ok it was follow up to part 2 of the periodontal graft, the right side this time. Except for a final follow up visit in October that's finally done now. I guess next will be the long deferred visit to the optometrist but that can wait a bit more I need some relief after the car repair and this dentist. I'm glad

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I had my car in the shop this week. Last time in the mechanic reminded me it was time for the timing belt. At 150,000 km its as long as it should have been left. So I got timing belt and the stuff that is also usually changed at that time: water pump, other engine belts. He also did a bearing repair. All together it was over $1100. ouch. This is the first time in a while I've had significant

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I finished up another book. I read A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. It was ok, good in parts. It's basically the history of science and the history of humanity. He talked about geology a lot in the first sections. At 478 pages I kind of wished his "short history" had been a bit shorter. It was a bit of a slog. It's hard because the subject is of course vast. Still with a bit

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Toronto, Vancouver, and London. Three of the wealthiest cities in the world.  Also the site of recent riots. So what to make of all this. There seem to be some emerging trends. contemporary rioting is safe and fun. in the G8 rioting is like the high tree-go, a six flags roller coaster, skydiving, bungee jumping. there's thrill, excitement and an illusion of danger but overall it is actually

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I saw Captain America in the theatre this week with my older son. It was a good movie. The theatre was around half full on a Thursday night. Which is about how I like it, I prefer to see movies when they've been in for a while. I noticed a few movies this summer. I missed Bad Teacher but that was kind of a borderline DVD anyway. Horrible Boss looks good plus Planet of the Apes and Conan all look

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Just sitting around for a bit waiting for the kijiji buyer for my mom's sewing machine. Moved one yesterday and hopefully will get this second and final one sold in the next few minutes. I bought a book case on kijiji yesterday. It was a about a 5 minute drive away. It was in good shape for $15 and already assembled. Good enough for my purposes. It was time for some new book storage space. I've

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Maybe Casey Anthony and Guy Turcotte can go partying together now. The Turcotte verdict is a dangerous outcome. The precedent seems to be that if you are upset about something then you can kill and then not be responsible for what you did. Well the door is open now most murders can be couched in similar context. It's shameful with Turcotte considering the innocent, defenceless victims. A

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I went to church yesterday for an occasional appearance. While there the minister's wife said she was going to do the sermon although her husband the minister was originally planned to. It turns out he had been at the emergency the day before, July 2, and was still not feeling well. The emergency visit was telling. They sat there for around 6 hours Saturday evening, got no service, and left

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I watched another movie that had been on my list recently. It was American Beauty. I had heard of it in the past then it comes now and again the last 2-3 years on the forums. The hero is a 42 year old man whose sleepy life and sexless marriage is jolted awake by a series of events. His dreary but high paying office job is threatened by a corporate downsizing, high school daughter brings around

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Since I paid off my car I've been taking the amount that used to go to car payments off each cheque and putting it into a new savings account. After a couple months I noticed something. I was getting as much interest in the President's Choice savings account each month as I was getting in the TD savings account each month. I use the TD account to save for bigger stuff I want to do or get in the

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A couple weekends back I was downtown on a sunny Sunday. I took this picture of the Central Trust II building. Still the jewel of Halifax architecture.

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pic and possible id of an arsonist torching a police car suspicious sale offer of possibly looted Chanel merchandise from a riot attendee police car trampler. love the spelling and grammar on the linked video. like Darren a proud product of the BC public education system

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Very well done Boston Bruins. They just took it away in games 6-7. A talented and character team that overcame a lot to win it. Well I guess everyone has heard of the riots after the game. Here are my comments. first of all there is no difference between the Vancouver and Toronto G20 riots. None at all. It's the same perps, criminal opportunists, ne'er do wells, trash and lowlife, drunks,

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Remarkable that Vancouver got to here. They score 8 times in 6 games, have their own goalie yanked 3 times (well he should have been yanked in game 3), and still they managed to somehow win 3 of the games. Are they the team of destiny or is their luck about to run out? Like Boston going into game 6 I don't think the Canucks are in terrible shape going into #7. Back home they have been invincible

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Well I did have a bit more to say about the linked cheating post below. It's pretty clear what he should do given only 28 years old only married two years no kids oh yeah, and that other thing she cheated on him So yeah, ditch her and her new boyfriend and good riddance to her. But whatever. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. Husband has decided to take her back

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The announcer just said the Boston power play is 5 for the last 105. hmmm that's about 4.8% success rate. Now at regular strength the Bruins are getting around 3 goals a game. Now 3 / 60 is 5%. But it's actually higher as they aren't even strength the full 60 minutes. My point is the Bruins score more frequently at regular strength than they do on the power play! So mathematically their

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I stayed up late the last two nights getting through this epic thread about a guy who discovered his wife is having an affair. cliffs here. this is a compelling, riveting, wrenching roller coaster of a read. so if you click through be prepared to want to read it through! I've got more to say but I'll post it in a few days in case some readers do click through I don't want spoilers or to

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Some more good news on the investing front recently. At work my employer has extended RRSP matching to 5%, up from 4%. It was advertised in advance and I signed up for it from day one. As I've written before 100% employer matching is an incredibly good deal for the employee. I basically get a 100% return on whatever of my own money I put in due to the matching, plus the extra income tax refund,

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Well another Victoria Day weekend has passed. It was an ok weekend. got talking to my son's friend's dad who I've known a few years. we agreed it isn't like the old days camping and partying this weekend. but that's what it is. we had our era and we have to yield the stage for the next group, just like the groups before us moved on. there were some interesting may run. 1989 in Kedge was a good

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I went bowling last weekend. It was a good time. I went with my older son and his friend. We went to Bowlarama in Bayers Road. I hadn't been bowling in a while, around a year. I did well for myself finishing strong with a spare and strike on the last frame. Made a 90 which I'd never done before. I told the kids some stories about the old days back in high school the midnight bowling at

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That turned out about as well as could be hoped for. Harper majority. The Bloc wiped out good riddance. Ruby Dhalla and C-428 gone won't be missed. So with a majority what's the plan? Here's some suggestions. First 30 days repeal the long gun registry. We want it g-o-n-e gone. That's like day 1. repeal Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act link. better yet repeal the entire act and

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Today I join the world celebrating the death of Osama Bin Laden. Good riddance! Sweet finale too. American steel over the left eye and tossed into the ocean afterward. Typical of his ilk. All those people he calmly and unflinchingly sent to their death over the years; then when his moment came he died like a coward, hiding behind a woman's skirt as a human shield. He died without honor.

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It's pretty certain the next government will not be another Harper minority. They didn't make this minority fall and force this election to achieve that. So it will be either a conservative majority or some type of liberal-ndp-bq coalition. I voted conservative no surprise I'm sure to readers here. So we will see what happens tomorrow.

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Been a bit crazy at work this week. When I arrived this morning 62 unread emails in my inbox and that's just the unfiltered messages, there was a bunch more shunted off to folders. Was down to around 15 unread when I left today. First time I recall ever came to work when I'd been in the previous day with over 50 emails. -- So Ben Bernanke gave a press conference. Here's some questions I wish

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A couple more math problems came to mind the last couple of days. I'll let them sit a couple of days and answer in the comments. 1) With spring weather arriving I got thinking about coastal cities like Halifax and inland cities like Fredericton. Here's the problem: In Fredericton the winter is colder; and summer is hotter than in Halifax. Is there a time during a year that the temperature is

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Wow France got in a fight. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/un-french-forces-ivory-coast-fire-rockets-strongman-20110411-014952-996.html sure it was the Ivory Coast but along with the recent laws on being covered in public there may be hope for that nation. Besides coffee and tims, prices are going up everywhere grrr. over $50 to fill a Honda Civic. $2 for bread. $3 for doritos. getting hammered

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I don't see what the fuss over Bruce Carson is. So the guy was convicted of some stuff in the remote past. It's not the Canadian way to hold it against him afterward. He served his sentence and then it's time to move on. What would the critics have him do? Be a bum on Spring Garden Road? Go back to crime? There's no reason not to hire a rehabilitated criminal for almost all positions so what's

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Over on facebook I picked up that there was a fight at Gaetz Brook jr high on Wednesday. A carload of Graham Creighton jr high toughs came out looking for trouble and found it. First of all Carole Olsen still needs to go. By siding with the bullies in the first place in the original Ken Fells incident she has undermined Fells and apparently created a culture glorifying the dominant bully at

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There were a couple of stories involving Halifax universities on ATV recently worth commenting on. Nice move by SMU to get funding for women's hockey. It was a beautifully played bluff by SMU. That team wasn't going anywhere. The reality is hockey is expensive. Men's hockey and men's football have corporate support and if the fans will support it then women's hockey is also deserving of

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I recently watched the first season of cable tv series Californication. A guy at work watched it through one weekend and he thought I would like it. He was right it is pretty good. I'd never heard of it until my friend from work got talking about it. It's the story of a semi famous writer Hank transplanted from New York to Los Angeles. His ex live in who is the mom of their 13 year old girl has

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Well it's Friday. Quebec school employee in porn movie. I would think what she does in her own time is her own business. I suppose it could be a distraction at the school if the principal was too weak to manage the teenage boys but that's his responsibility. Perhaps a back office job where it wouldn't be a distraction to herself and students would be in order. But in the mean time no reason for

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All right, no jail time for the great man Lawrence Taylor. Sweet! some of his comments in the espn story are classic. "It's the world of prostitution," he (Taylor) said during the Fox News interview. "You never know what you're gonna get. Is it gonna be a pretty girl, an ugly girl or whatever it's gonna be." "You can only ask," Taylor said. "I don't card them. I don't ask for a birth

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I don't know why USA is so keen to intervene in the situation in Libya. It is especially insensitive as this is the 150th anniversary of the Republic of Texas declaring independence from the United States. Followed by the illegal civil war and invasion of Texas. Imagine if other nations had intervened back then. Why would USA get involved in this matter?

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So what to make of Egypt, Libya, etc. It reminds me some of 1989 when the Eastern Bloc communists fell rather quickly. Unfortunately I don't have as much optimism for the emerging post-strongman era in the middle east. I'm not sure what to expect will come out of it. Maybe not a lot of good for us here in the west. I remember the good old days back in school in like the 80s. Pretty much every

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I'd been meaning to go down and donate blood for a long time. Notwithstanding the annoying and persistent phone calls from the blood service. It had been a while. That card stuck on my fridge, December 2009 last visit. It was a bit easier in the past they used to come out to a clinic where I lived. They also used to set up at BIO when I worked in that building. But there's a new positive

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I noticed it was March today and I realized I hadn't even been down to the skating oval. That's pretty bad. I did go down tonite though. It was really good. I'm glad I went. I should try to get down there once more this season. I hope they can find a way to bring this back next winter. It was chilly out tonite but not terribly cold. I stopped in Quinpool road McDonalds after for a free

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A guy I used to work with is married to a math teacher. Once in a while I would send him a math problem I'd thought of that might be interesting to high school math students. I noticed he isn't on my facebook friends any more. I guess he deleted his account or just deleted me as a fb friend. oh well he'd been among my first 20 or so friends back in like 2007. If he deleted me then no biggie. I

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My trusty old Canon Pixma ip 3000 died on me Sunday. I printed a couple pages early in the evening. Then later I turned it on again to print another page. But nothing happened, no response when turning it on. It was an old printer, it came with my old computer which I bought over three years ago. At it was around three years old then. So pretty good lifespan for a printer. That was a great

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I went to church this morning. I'd been thinking about it yesterday. I got to bed at a good time last night and got up and went this morning. I'm not exactly a churchgoer. I last went there some time last summer. I was going to go one day in January but it was snowing and slippery that morning so I just skipped. But it's good in a way to be able to still go once in a while. Not much different

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After my recent sale on sportlots and this OOT thread on card collecting I checked up on the sets I'd been working on in the past. It turns out there were listings on sportlots on all of my cards outstanding on the 1978 and 1979 o pee chee baseball sets. They were all from the same seller. It was a guy in Arizona. He was good the cards arrived quickly and the quality was good. Shows what the

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I reached a milestone over the past weekend. I finally unpacked the last box from my move last August. It was a few pictures which I've now put up on various walls. I had to make a trip to Canadian Tire for the stuff to hang them but it wasn't real hard to do. So that's finally done. It took a while since I moved in August. Getting the pictures up was about the third post move project. I had

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So now there's a possibly lawsuit driven attempt to bring up the tired old - discussed to death issue of the Vancouver Olympics luge track. At the time the top lugers had it right. That track was indeed dangerous for amateurs and non-elite lugers. That was the real problem. This IOC politically correct "no country left behind" mentality that has led to the rise of underqualified exotic athletes

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I'm looking forward to the super bowl as usual. It could be a good game. The Steelers are the wild card who knows which team will show up. They were terrible at times against both Baltimore and the Jets but also so strong at times they still managed to win. They will need to be more consistent through four quarters to beat Green Bay. The Packers offense looked unstoppable at times but the

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Wow I was shocked at what I saw in the Chronicle Herald today. Real journalism. That paper may find relevance and survive after all. I'm talking about the Nathan and Justin Rehberg series. Up until now the political correct orthodoxy is that the Rehnberg's are to be treated basically as skinheads who targeted the Lyon-Howe household because Howe is black. The true backstory has been either

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Today I did something I hadn't done before. I worked from home on a regular work day. It snowed overnight with more forecast for today. So no point really going in for a couple of hours just to have to rush out when the snow started again around noon. So the three of us in my group all just worked from home. I've used remote desktop before and it's a great invention. In the past it was usually

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Unusual event over the weekend. I got an order on Sportlots for a baseball card sale. After a good start selling 1-2 orders a month for the first few months I hadn't had an order since March last year. I guess my area of interest is thinly traded. I thought maybe I was deleted or blacklisted somehow, although my feedback has been positive. I sold a 1973 o pee chee Jerry Koosman for $0.75 to a

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What to do about Belhassen Trabelsi. Let's look at it this way. He has $1000 million. He's in Quebec and wants to stay in Canada. Quebec needs $400 million for a new arena. There's no extradition to Tunisia anyway so perhaps for a strategic goodwill gesture to his new country such as building an arena for the community of Quebec to enjoy he would still have plenty to live well on and spend in

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Good news on my power bill. My rate got adjusted from $146 down to $79. Same thing happened at my last apartment it went from $50 to like $6 and settled in around $25. I expect it will settle around $100 a month here too. The adjustment didn't account for the winter months since I've only been here since August. I must watch less tv or something since my rates tend to be lower than previous

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So Margaret Trudeau has a book out. First off any and all discussion of Margaret must begin with this. Jean Chretien was a good prime minister. His wife refrained from sleeping with Mick Jagger.ok now that's out of the way. I didn't read her book and I'm not going to spend my time or a royalty for her on it. I did hear from this book that she says she's bipolar. Maybe it was already somewhat

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Is Gino Odjick in shape? Can Georges Laraque be available? How about Tie Domi. The Penguins need to bring in someone to restore order out on the ice. The brazen running of Crosby, cheap shots behind the play, has gotten out of hand. This goes back at least to game #7 of the stanley cup finals rematch. They should have brought in Jody Shelley or Todd Bertuzzi when they were available.

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Another disgraceful story. So now the CRTC has decided we can't listen to money for nothing any more. This was a global #1 hit in 1985, a vintage year. Now they are being revisionist and trying to rewrite history from a militant politically correct stance. Screw you CRTC you bunch of little faggots. How dare you try to impose this new rule on the people of Canada today. This is a bold

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There seem to be more news stories lately involving folks getting into confrontations with the police - story out of Mexico some Canadians say they were roughed up and the woman raped - Ottawa story some woman fought a bunch of cops for some reason, lost the fight, now she's suing - the usual anguish from the Toronto G20 some people are upset how their arrests were handled blah blah blah So

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Lot of news coverage about Target buying Zellers. I don't have a lot to add. I once worked for Zellers back in like around 1993. I needed a job back then so I've always been a bit grateful and tried to choose to shop at Zellers some of the time. Interesting it worked out to about $8 million per existing store which somehow seems like a premium. I'll miss Zellers but with Target there will still

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I was driving to work the other day past the new BMO Centre arena. I was in there before and it is a nice place. So the outside electronic message board is up and I drove past an announcement that helmets are now mandatory in public skates. Sheesh! what a joke, a disgrace, an embarrassment. We've had public skates in Canada for about 100 years and we didn't need helmets. Why is a new rule

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The contractor came by my place last Friday and fixed my Dell computer. It's working properly again. He replaced the motherboard and the video card. Just in time since I didn't have a display. I'm glad to be back online; under warranty too so didn't even cost me anything. Dell was very good about the warranty work. Thorough too with follow up. They called me to check that the tech had made an

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