Something’s Freezing Over

Well, it’s snowing in April, and the Conservatives are in power. Tim Horton’s has IPO’ed, I’ve got an art exhibit,...

Film Review: SlipStream (1989)

Apparently there are no less than 5 different “Slipstream” films listed in IMDB, one of which (1967) was written and...

Fun with Murder

Here's a little fun exercise that examines people's motives for killing. This was a test used by a famous American psychologist to test if one has the same mentality as a killer. Many arrested serial killers took part in the test and answered the question correctly. Read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down to the bottom for the result. For bonus points, identify the "famous American psychologist" who allegedly created this test. "A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met this guy whom she did not know. She thought this guy was amazing, so much her dream guy she believed him to be, that she fell in love with him right there, but never asked for his number and could not find him. A few days later she killed her sister." Question: What was her motive for killing her sister? [Give this some thought before you answer?)

Canadians live in cabins and drive dogsleds to work

I’m at 1842 this morning, listening in on a conversation between the clerks (servers? coffee-house people?) on some of the...

The weather outside is frightful

And, while it’s warm inside, I’d hesitate to say it’s delightful. Actually, the weather looks a lot better now than...

Let’s play “Count the Fallacies”

Heh. I’m wiping away tears of laughter from Orbifold’s post. Let’s play “count the fallacies” on an X-tian fundamentalist tract...

Driving “The Wedge” between science and people

This is pretty weird, interesting, and depressing all at once. The very cool newspaper, “Seattle Weekly”, printed in full a...

Layton’s got my vote back

Like I promised. But I’m warning him… Bang, Zip! Straight to the moon, Jack! Actually, the election outcome was pretty...

Zuckervati Soapbox – with scrubbing bubbles

Those (if any) who read my journal will know without a doubt that I am a liberal. It’s fairly easy...

“Kong” spectacular, deals with unavoidable racial themes

I finally got out to see this film. More specifically, I finally convinced R to go see the film, and...