Ah, another Friday and another day of work. Some thoughts and ponderings.
While visiting my mother for her birthday last night, I heard again how my father is really into online poker, speficially Texas Hold 'Em. Turns out he was in a tournament and placed 15th out of 1200 entrants. He was describing his last hand to me and I could only nod and pretend I knew what he was talking about. Time to learn about Texas Hold 'Em cause I already know the poker hands and their ranks. Regardless, we now have some good ideas of what to get him for his Christmas and Birthday gift (his birthday is Dec 28th so we sometimes combine gifts).
On the way to Greenbush Kim expressed her frustration with politics and politicans to me. Roughly paraphrasing, it does not seem to matter who we elect into office because it seems they do whatever they want when they get in there anyway. I suspect its a frustration shared by many Canadians and responsible for the continuing low voter turnouts in the past few elections. If the government were serious about "renewing democracy" the first place they should start is with the current power consolidation in the PMO instead of the MP's hands.
Sauce Reader has been crashing on me more often lately, like once a day. It comes right back up after a few seconds but its worrisome since the developer of the program has closed its doors. I may be looking for a new blog roll reader in the future. Sigh.
I'm a member of the Science Fiction Book Club and this month's catalog has a special offer for a mini digital camera for $8. I couldn't resist trying it out so I made an order last night and should get it in a couple days next week. It was described as 100 pixels which I hope is wrong because that would mean a 10 pixel by 10 pixel image right? That's like the size of this letter 'O'. (If it is true, I'll have a huge laugh at myself which would be worth the eight dollars). I'll let you know how the toy turns out.
Have a good weekend!
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