Posts Tagged "Canada"

Cute little history of Charlottetown, stole off twitter from Paul Alan ( local radio host) who retweeted it. Love...

Having so much fun with the temperatures these days. Today it was up to 17 degrees or something crazy? I got to ride out to Kensington to meet Lindsey with the dead car, and early to church on Sunday, and today for breakfast (as of writing this, Nov 30th). My goal is to ride in December, maybe even January… not sure I’ll get that far into winter but if temps keep up I’ll get another few rides in.   What is different about this season for riding is that there is sand on the roads from the snowfall we had. Which means its much easier to break the rear tire (without burning all the rubber off it). The intersections especially are great, just the perfect time to twist the throttle and kick the back end out as you drive around the corner. So...

Daylight saving time (DST)—also summer time in several countries[1][2][3][4][5][6] including in British English and European official terminology (see Terminology)—is the practice of temporarily advancing clocks during the summertime so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn.[7] Modern DST was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson.[8] Many countries have used it since then; details vary by location and change occasionally. So I get DST, allows more sun in the afternoon and therefore evening then ‘normal’. I get that. But why do we need it? I think we should shift ’9 to 5′ to the average sun up and...

A good CBC doc was on yesterday about facebook security, privacy, and crime in general centered around Doc Zone – Facebook Follies I’ve long since taken the majority of photos off facebook, initially because I believed that they owned the photos and rights once they were up. I’m not 100% sure on that but I’m not taking any chances. And with all the personal information like phone numbers, emails, addresses, full family names and such, I’ve also removed some of that. For instance I often use bogus birth dates just to keep the misinformation out there. So who cares if your personal info is on facebook right, people can look it up on the internet on canada411.ca and access freely available information from government agencies and all...

So we buy store bought bread with lots of chemicals that keep it ‘fresh’. We buy processed meats, canned fruits. Every once and a while, like for thanksgiving we have fresh baked bread, real fruit, a new variety of vegetables and we think, boy, this fresh food is amazing. We consider it a treat. Not a necessity, or a healthy choice, or a cost effective purchase. Its a one off special occasion sort of thing, we buy the fresh bread for the company thats coming over and the fresh fruit bowl for the inlaws. And we’re killing ourselves eating all the chemicals in the food, preservatives, synthetic things that are no good. Food full of salt, sugar, all the wrong kinds of fat. If we all think about what they ate 100 years ago, fresh bread, fresh...