By following this link you can watch the new Commerce/Management building at my alma mater being built. In 4 years, when my MBA finishes up, I’ll get to visit it.
Good thing too; I never want to set foot in the rickety old management building again. I spent 4 years dodging the waterfall that came down the middle of the building when it rains…
From The Toronto Star: now the Swift Boat Veterans are airing another ad, one that says you shouldn’t vote for Kerry because “Do we want to vote for a guy who was loafing about doing nothing with George W. Bush back during the Vietnam years?”. I must be missing something, ’cause I’m completely baffled. Your guy served and was decorated in the war, but for a few months we’re alleging he might have come back and been in the general vicinity of our guy, who skipped the whole thing entirely, so you should vote for our guy.
Here’s an analogy (mine, not from the Star): two men are walking down the same street and see a house on fire. One guy runs into the house, braving fire and smoke, risking his life. The other man hides behind a car. The man who ran into the house rescues the entire family, returning to face the fire time after time while the other man cowers and pretends to see nothing. The brave man, after rescuing the last person from the house, walks over and stands next to the coward for a minute or two, then goes and talks to fireman and reporters about what happened.
Several years later, both men run for mayor. Close friends of the coward who lived down the street from the house which burned — but were not present and did not see the brave man in the burning house — take out an ad saying that we should not vote for the brave man because he may have talked to the coward for a few minutes by the car.
If Americans don’t vote for Kerry (or worse yet vote for Bush) because of these ads, then they’ll deserve the global reputation they’re garnering of being stupendously ignorant.
Slew
We’ve watched a whole raft of movies this weekend, some good and some disappointing:
Good, boring, good, self-indulgent and not horrible, in that order.
Oh, and although it’s slightly creepy because she’s only 21, I’m a little smitten with Annabella Piugattuk from The Snow Walker.
The CBC is issuing their list of the 50 essential songs of the last century. I’m not sure how they came to the conclusion, but it’s an interesting list. No doubt there are howls of protest going up across the country…or would be if anyone watched.
Just picked up our tickets. We lucked out by being 9 boxes off the lottery, and got all our first choices. Here’s the lineup:
Of course, some of our second choices looked great too…and now I’m wondering why we made them second choices. Oh well. That’s what Zip‘s for. Anyway, these were our #2s:
Our first 2 movies are this Friday. I’ll start posting the next day.
This morning someone had left their Porsche Carrera 2 – stalled, presumably – in the middle of the the intersection of Church & Bloor.
Sometimes I wish I had a camera phone.
Box 10, baby. Box 10. Since we’re in #19 we should get all our first choices. Sweet.
Just watched Outfoxed (imdb | rotten tomatoes | buy it). There are no surprises in the movie, it’s obviously very opposed to the Fox approach to News, and casts Rupert Murdoch in a bad light in general. Hoop-a-dee-doo. Everyone knows Fox is completely biased, and their claims to be “fair and balanced” are laughable.
Now, it seems there are requests underway to bring Fox News to Canada. At first I was all for it — let’s let Canadians watch Fox News all they want; they’ll stop once that inevitable feeling of nausea strikes — but now I’m not sure. That is, I think they should still be able to broadcast in Canada, but I firmly believe that they should not be able to call themselves a news channel. The CRTC should monitor it, and every other network with a serious news broadcast, and force them to report objectively. Of course, this won’t be perfect; we don’t want bureaucrats watching each station, holding stopwatches to see which party gets the most airtime. Instead, typical organizing principles of news gathering bodies should be observed; if they’re not held to, the network loses the right to call itself a “news” organization. For example, any “news” organization where edicts are issued from upper management to the news department, research and on-air talent directing the tone and message of what’s reported would lose the ability to call themselves an objective news reporting organization.
I guess it follows that, since overly political broadcasts aren’t allowed outside of election ads, that network might lose its license. So be it. Do what you profess to do or be exposed as liars. Lying liars, in this case.
Envelopes have been dropped off. Box 19. And now…we wait.
Step 3 done. We’ve decided on our 1st and 2nd choices for all 10 films. Dropping off tomorrow.
Skirl | Dan Dickinson 