Randomization

During my way to work in the morning, there is a section of highway with about a hundred or so lines across the one lane. I'm about 90% sure that it is a paint testing patch for the white and yellow lines we all love to see on the highway. Can we just take a second to appreciate road paint? I know they have to repaint every year, but if you were to use house paint, it would be weekly. Whenever I see a crosswalk that's been specially painted for something, it's usually mostly faded in a month or two. And line paint is going on a shitty, dirty surface. Sure, the cracks and crevices allow for a spot where the tires can't hit, but still. Just sun, wind, rain and rubber going across that surface all day. Put that shit on your house and you'll never have to paint it again. I wonder how the pigment fades on that stuff compared to a house paint though. It only has to really last for a year or so. House paint needs to last much longer. But the house paint isn't being dri...

I recently talked about George Carlin after watching him recently. Funny guy, not nearly as funny as I remember from the short clips I had always seen. I watch some comedians from time to time so it was inevitable that another of those guys popped up. This one is more recent than George Carlin and someone I remember being around when he was big: Jeff Foxworthy. We've all heard his main bit, If you *blank* then you might be a redneck. In fact, famously, Pilot and I used that bit as our speech for our sisters wedding. And they haven't divorced yet. That can only be due to the amazing speech we put out. I had never actually saw one of his routines though, just clips of that main bit. So, when one of his more recent shows popped up, and I was alone to prevent embarrassment of watching it, I clicked play. It wasn't bad. But it wasn't good. Definitely for that older generation, which he knows. He didn't do the redneck bit, but told a story from his life about stepping on ...

I've been going back and forth all week between three ideas for this blog. At this point, I've forgotten two of them. So, that means you get the most recent idea: Nazi's, Colonialism and Slavery! Listening to Behind the Bastards the other day. The first was a bit about Oskar Dirlwanger, a guy who is in the running for most evil Nazi. Like, the SS wrote him and his company up for being too violent to the Jews in Poland. Hitler was evil, but he thought what he was doing would make a better world for his people. This guy was doing just for the love of it. Luckily, he's one of the Nazi's that got what was coming to him. Captured by the Polish resistance. First night in jail they brought in a 16 year old boy would just beat him till he was tired. He was beaten every day into unconsciousness for a week or two till he died. I'm not one for violence or the death penalty, but he still got off too easy. Also, he just looked evil. Think, Grand Moff Tarkin. Some of the epis...

We're getting old. Our favorite musicians from the 90's are now played on the oldies stations alongside our parents music. And musicians we like are covering some of those songs as salutes to that old music. Recently, Opeth and Between the Buried and Me both have done some covers of classic hits. This is a little funny since both bands are old bands on the block, but whatever. Opeth did a cover of a song called Would? by a little known band called Alice in Chains. BATM did Jellybelly by The Smiling Polit---I mean Smashing Pumpkins. They look to be part of albums with an assortment of artists doing tributes to each band. So I assume there will be more coming out. It's kind of funny where I sit on the covers though. I've talked before about a concert I went to that had the band 3 and BATM as the openers for Opeth and Dream Theater. We got there late though and just saw Opeth and Dream Theater, the only two bands I knew. I've regretted not seeing 3 ever since I listene...

So it’s my turn to make a block again lots of ideas of what to make but I thought why not try and be like my brother over at pilot’s world and do it with my voice so far not going great hasn’t been any periods yet got common there which is all right but yeah could be better. I think there goes a period. One of the things is that I’m just using the keyboard from the Google keyboard I’m sure there Or voice to text options that cost more money, but I just want to use this free one. It’s all about accessibility for the average person. OK, I'm switching back to keyboard. The technology is miraculous but it still needs some work. I'm sure if I were to pay for one it would get a lot better. Or even if I just used it more and learnt all the ways to make it add a period and what not, but I'm just trying to get a point across. Accessibility is not always very accessible. I don't consider myself a person with a disability. I'm mostly healthy, can walk, read, listen, etc. I als...

Little bit of a later post today. I had a "training" session all morning. It was Indigenous Awareness Training, which I could argue wasn't really training, but just telling people not to be douchebags. I was a little worried that it was going to be super boring. I've been in things like this before where they are trying to whip through it really quick and generally just saying "Indigenous people need you to say sorry" but not really saying anything else. I was pleasantly surprised with this one though. The guy doing the training started the company over 20 years ago and said they basically took the Aboriginal 101 course from the University and cut it down to a 4ish hour presentation. He just talked about Indigenous history the whole time, making sure to add the stuff you didn't learn in high school. He is a Metis guy as well so we got lots of First Nations and Metis content. He mentioned Inuit, but by his own admission didn't know much about them and...

August 3th. The ol' Saskatchewan day. Any reason to take a paid day off gets a thumbs up from me. It may come as a surprise to my primary reader and brother, that I was born and raised in Saskatchewan. I've lived here all my life (aside from a month in BC that hardly counts) and I can't see myself leaving. Not that it isn't without it's problems. I've seen ads to come work in Ireland or become a teacher in New Zealand and yeah, that's tempting. I've got family here though and I doubt the jobs would pay enough for me to come back and visit much. I know my niche in Saskatchewan pretty well though and am more or less happy in it. I never even thought I'd move north of Regina, but here I am. There's always plenty to see around here, if you want to look. Forests, hills, flat areas, lakes, rivers, deserts. Everything but the mountains. And oceans. and probably other things I can't think of right now. More outdoorsy stuff to do than I'd ever be ...