My living space

Gawd, making panoramas is fun

The Annamoe

I stood 20 feet away from the building and created this pic out of 24 separate shots which is why it curves away left and right

Another lily

Victoria golf course with high level bridge in distance

lily

hahahahahahahahaha

Really?

Engine at Fort Edmonton Park

Elk at Lake Edith in Jasper National Park

Lake Edith

hahaahahahah got this as an e-mail, outstanding

Ths is an Incredible story!




In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in   Kenya after graduating from  the University of Toronto  .  



On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air.  



The elephant seemed distressed, so Peter approached it very carefully. 



He got down on one knee, inspected the elephants foot, and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it.  



As carefully and as gently as he could, Peter worked the wood out with his knife, 



after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot. 



The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments. 



Peter stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled.



Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.



Peter never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.  



Twenty years later, Peter was walking through the Toronto Zoo with his teenaged son. 



As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and 



walked over to near where Peter and his son Cameron were standing.



The large bull elephant stared at Peter, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down. 



The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man.  



Remembering the encounter in 1986, Peter could not help wondering if this was the same elephant. 



Peter summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing, and made his way into the enclosure.  



He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. 



The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Peter legs  



and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.  



Probably wasn't the same fucking elephant.  



  This is for everyone who sends me those heart-warming bullshit stories.

Law Affecting reality

Great talk on how litigation is affecting America

"You can't run a society by the lowest common denominator."

that is so true yet today, our society tries

Advocacy commercial

So on super bowl Sunday, CBS decided to allow an advocacy spot run for a very fundamentalist group called friends of the family . The commercial featured Pam Tebow and her son Tim who is a Heisman trophy winning college football player in the states. Whilst in the Philippines, Pam came down with something and it was recommended she get an abortion because the docs did not believe the fetus would be viable. Pam made a choice and that is fine, she got lucky.

The commercial is very innocuous, but that is not the point, it represents an organization that would like to remove the choice from a woman, what ever the consequences. The organization would like to remove other choices from people too, such as if you are gay. Apparently you are a little less close to god if you attracted to someone of the same sex.

My opinion is that as a guy, I have absolutely no say in what a woman does about her pregnancy, I am a sperm doner, that is what we guys are. The woman has her life irrevocably changed by carrying a fetus. Women do all the work. If a woman carries my fetus to term, I am now responsible for a life, that is where I come in. Until then, it is the woman who calls the shots.

Guys will say that is my baby in there, you know what, if the woman you are with decides not to have your baby, go find some one who is willing too. Convincing or forcing a woman who does not want to to be pregnant to carry to term is not a way to bring a child into the world or keep a relationship together. I have seen the results of that move and it rarely ends well for any of the involved.

hahahaahah

This pretty much says it all about apple products

And this too

mac users

what is with these people?

holy shit

according to them you will be lucky to get a pc to even start.

the fact they are even on the internet proves them somewhat wrong

I could care less what computer you use but when you come and tell me that your mac is so much more superior than anything else I instantly know you have drank the cool aid.

I have worked on both, macs are nothing special, especially not a thousand bucks more special.

As one pundit put it, if they work so well why do they have the genius bars all over the place to fix them and why do they need a help line and there are mac support forums all over the place.

Oh yeah, they are a computer and they crash, imagine that.

Oh that is right, if you own a mac, rainbows fly out of your ass

bit of a cult it is

Hmmm

I was gonna write a post but now I do not feel like it

meh