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Well it was a great long weekend, and even better if you were not stuck in your car trying to get around Caronto, The Ford Nation,… Seriously, didn’t Rob Fraud Ford say he was going to fix this traffic gridlock thingy that was causing all the car drivers major grief?  Look don’t get me wrong, I own and drive a car in Caronto,… although I am trying to do it less and less.  Why?  Simple, you can get around this city faster on bike than you can by car, proof of this was getting down to Ashbridges Bay for the fireworks show.  Mark and I outstripped the car traffic easily.  We got from the High Park area to Ashbridges Bay in about 25-30 minutes.  After the fireworks, we got out of there and home while people who drove were still driving to get out to main road.

Anyhoo, I managed to get a few pictures of fireworks and one of the CN Tower doing a good impression of the UFO from ELO.

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Other reasons to reduce your car use and cycle include

1. I have loss more then 15 pounds in the last 3 months
2. You save money in gas
3. Rule #1 and rule #2 Less Gas, Less Ass
4. You’d be amazed at what there is in this city, and you’ll never see from your car.
5. You will piss off Rob Ford by merely being on the roads of OUR CITY

I know I haven’t been blogging much lately,… but I really have a good excuse for it,… actually it is more of a series of excuses caused by one event in my life,… but the excuses are for another blog post,… one that will do it justice.

Anyhoo,… I have been out biking around Toronto, mainly at night.  I have started to pack along my Nikon D80, now that I proper bags that fit my bike.  On my ride last night I was coming back from Tommy Thompson Park and I was passing Cherry Beach and I saw a music video shoot.  It was the band Low Level Flight (not that I ever heard them before)  Don’t know what song they record for, it didn’t sound too bad.  I managed to get a few semi-non-crappy pictures

I know they are not the best, but since they were shooting a video, I didn’t think they would want a flash going off and I didn’t have a tripod.  So I pushed the ISO to 1600 and tried to hold as steady as possible.

On Facebook  Post rapture looting is place to call first dibs on the good stuff.  Me, I’m calling First Dibs on Castle Loma in Toronto and the Island of Cozumel, but hey, I’ll let people come and visit for free

Thoses who know me, or at least my writing (the poor quality, terrible speeling , double plus bad gammer and my absolute pride in being so crappy), will want to put their coffees down, swallow any food you’re eating,… Ok?

I try to check my spam folder on The Wingnuterer daily, to make sure no valid comments have been spammified or in case there is quality SPAM.  I usually get the penis enlargement, and back link spam-whores; but this one was really good

Writers Wanted

We need internet writers desperately. After reviewing your website, we decided we want you on our staff. We pay $35-$50 hourly. Our top rated writers are pulling in over $91K a YEAR, writing part-time.

They WANT ME?  Zorpheous? I guess this is about as serious as the brick-string penis enlarge device that other spammer was trying to prompt, eh?  Hey do think any of the Blogging Tories are working this place?  It would explain the quality of crap that they pump out,…

Ok, look guys, I have certain standards to maintain here, admittedly they are low, but working for comment base spamming company the cons people into writing for them with promise of big money actually falls below those standards.

Now, please frak off and go stick your head in a pig.

Ok, so we have Bev Oda Scandal were the Ministers Office alters the meaning of document so that it means the complete opposite to what the original document approved. CHECK!

Now have several CPC appoint Senators Charged in 2006 In and Out Scandal.  CHECK!

Then yesterday a Canadian Court rules in favour of  Election Canada’s Appeal about the Criminal Charges in the In-And-Out Scandal, CHECK!

And now we learn that the latest election poll has the CPC up at 43% support?  WTF, seriously, WTF!!!  Did FOX News North start broadcasting earlier of something?  Oh,…. that’s right,… Harper and CPC are spending millions and millions on pre-election negative advertisements.

Err,… so,… are we keeping the water efficiency programs or not?  I have no idea, there seems to be a fat in that answer, maybe Jabba the Ford should think of saving time and money by using less weighty answers to simple question.  For the entire gravy soaked answer with all the trimmings see the question and hefty answer here

What It Sounds Like When Rob Ford Answers Questions at Council

Ya, I’m fat too, cue the Weird Al music.

Now I’m not Rob Fordzilla fat, but I am packing a few extra pounds.  I have been trying for about the last six months to loose weight, and it is not an easy thing to do.  A few years ago I managed to quit smoking and the inevitable happened.  So just last fall I started getting serious about exercising and I rediscovered cycling and I continued to keep it up until mid November.  Then it got too cold, I didn’t have the right gear for winter riding and it got dark way to early (try to find decent and inexpensive lights for cycling, good lighting rigs are expensive).  I just can’t get into going to the gym, it feels like I’m hamster on treadmill,… it just isn’t me.  I want to be on my bicycle and today feels like spring, but this is February and this is Canada,… which means winter will back,… frack!

Spring can’t come soon enough for me,

Short Term ForecastUpdated: Fri, Feb. 18, 2011, 11:27 EST

	Friday AfternoonAfternoon: 12:00 PM - 5:59 PM	Friday EveningEvening: 6:00 PM - 11:59 PM	Friday OvernightOvernight: 12:00 AM - 5:59 AM	Saturday MorningMorning: 6:00 AM - 11:59 AM	Saturday AfternoonAfternoon: 12:00 PM - 5:59 PM
	Sunny	Few flurries	Few flurries	Scattered flurries	Variable cloudiness
Temp.	9°C	0°C	-5°C	-5°C	-4°C
Feels Like	-	-8	-14	-14	-12
Wind	W 45km/h	W 45km/h	NW 40km/h	NW 40km/h	NW 35km/h
Humidity	64%	64%	54%	58%	63%
P.O.P.	10%	40%	40%	40%	30%
Snow	-	less than 1 cm	less than 1 cm	less than 1 cm	-

That loud popping sound you are currently hearing is the sound of thousands of Canadian Islamo-Fascist, Rightwing Fear Mongers Heads Exploding,….  why?

Canada to lend aid during Egypt’s time of strife

Deepak Obhrai, Canadian parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs, said Canada will stand ready to offer assistance, with the ultimate goal being the creation of stability in Egypt.

Anyways, what happened to Mr. Harper supporting Mubarak and all that good stuff?  Is he taking lessons on flip-flopping or what?  Does this mean we are now funding the Muslim Brotherhood?

I can’t wait to hear what Glenn Beck has to say tonight “It’s a military, Islamo-Marxist Coo-Dah-Tah and those Socialist-Commie Canadians are funding them, it’s the end of the world,….“  I don’t think there will be enough chalkboards to hold Beckerheads loonie raving tonight.  I just loves these people, they so crazy.

Seriously though, why are rightwing nuttersall so pro democracy when it came to bring democracy to Iraq and Afganistan, but now in Egypt it is bad.  Oh, I get it,… Democrazy required millions of bombs to be dropped and then the country invaded before “Real” democrazy can break out and flourish and spread,… The tree of Lieberty must be water first,…

damn, my bad, so silly of me

Back in the summer of 2005 I got involved producing a video that dealt with the Gurmant Grewal tape scandal.  Several weeks ago I was out with Mark from Section 15 and we were discussing the older days of blogging.  Some how Buckets of Grewal came up and Mark asked me where the video was.  I didn’t know,… lost on one of my many hard drives.  Finally after weeks of searching I found the final production file, still have not found project files (still looking).  Anyhoo, I uploaded to Youtube.

Now it is found and forever on the Internets

I am a long time Jethro Tull fan.  It is a little known fact that I use to play the flute, I even saw them in concert back in the 80’s.  I love the range of music that Ian Anderson and the band play, anything from heavy rock to folk music.

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Ring out those Solstice Bells People, and have a very merry and safe holidays