Attention all Yoga or Tai Chi types. We are filming a video on a new exercise movement technique similar to yoga and tai chi on the weekend of the 20th. We will be filming up on Nose Hill most likely.
Is anyone interested in being on camera? Training will be provided and you will receive a copy of the DVD as part of the deal.
I can be contacted at bryanhunt @ corviddevelopment.com for more information.
Is anyone interested in being on camera? Training will be provided and you will receive a copy of the DVD as part of the deal.
I can be contacted at bryanhunt @ corviddevelopment.com for more information.
Calgary police responding to a call of a "violent crime" fatally shot a man Thursday night in a southwest apartment building. They then discovered the body of a woman inside a suite.
Officers were following up on a 911 call about a "violent crime" at the Karima Towers in the 1500 block of 26th Avenue S.W. at about 9 p.m., said duty Insp. Chris Butler.
When police arrived, they were confronted by a man police said was very agitated.
"Shortly thereafter that male was shot by one of our officers and he succumbed to his injuries at the scene," said Butler on Friday.
He said after officers secured the scene, they found the body of a woman inside a fifth-floor apartment.
"It appears she was deceased by the time our officers arrived at the scene, although our investigation is still in the very early stages and that will be determined in due course," said Butler.
Officers from the homicide unit and the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team are investigating.
(http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/st
Should Tasers have been used in this incident? Was deadly force necessary? Discuss.
Officers were following up on a 911 call about a "violent crime" at the Karima Towers in the 1500 block of 26th Avenue S.W. at about 9 p.m., said duty Insp. Chris Butler.
When police arrived, they were confronted by a man police said was very agitated.
"Shortly thereafter that male was shot by one of our officers and he succumbed to his injuries at the scene," said Butler on Friday.
He said after officers secured the scene, they found the body of a woman inside a fifth-floor apartment.
"It appears she was deceased by the time our officers arrived at the scene, although our investigation is still in the very early stages and that will be determined in due course," said Butler.
Officers from the homicide unit and the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team are investigating.
(http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/st
Should Tasers have been used in this incident? Was deadly force necessary? Discuss.
In my attempt to find a women's magazine that's actually readable, I've had several recommendations for the titles Bitch and Bust, but I can't recall having seen either of them in any of the stores I've visited recently. Have any of you seen either of these magazines, and where?
Following up on my last post in this comm about dresses...
Does anyone know if Sears or the Bay might have crinolines? My web-fu has turned out to be insufficient to find such things, but I (sorta) need one for Saturday and don't have a lot of time to call around first. I'm in the Banff Trail area, so if you've got any suggestions it'd help, as I have no freakin' clue.
So, it comes down to you ladies. ;)
Thanks!
Does anyone know if Sears or the Bay might have crinolines? My web-fu has turned out to be insufficient to find such things, but I (sorta) need one for Saturday and don't have a lot of time to call around first. I'm in the Banff Trail area, so if you've got any suggestions it'd help, as I have no freakin' clue.
So, it comes down to you ladies. ;)
Thanks!
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via boingboing, this Daily Show clip features "Dick Morris, Karl Rove, Bill O'Reilly, and others complaining about the media's unfair treatment of Sarah Palin, along with earlier video clips of these folks dishing out the same garbage about other women, including Hillary Clinton."
Train down: no delays. Picked up by Mom's cousin, do some visiting at their place after checking in.
Saturday AM: Cousin on my dad's side meets us for breakfast. I have the two pancakes and a slice of ham-- which is what I had each of the three mornings two years ago when I finished 4th. This was two weeks before the blog started. Colon decides to punt everything loose... at least I don't have to concern myself with that over the remainder...
Turns out there's an anime convention down the street. All these people in costume and character. And they call us nerds?
Up to the playing room (on the 6th floor) and check in, pay Siri for the Calgary entry (I'll get my commuter fee back if Mom signs up) and check pairings. Due to recent misfires I'm in Division 2, and due to last minute adjustments/ drops beyond what can be re-arranged, there's a bye in the division.
( The ugly part first )
4-5 plus the bye at the turn, loss of 32 to 1559.
Part Two and the showcase games to come.
Saturday AM: Cousin on my dad's side meets us for breakfast. I have the two pancakes and a slice of ham-- which is what I had each of the three mornings two years ago when I finished 4th. This was two weeks before the blog started. Colon decides to punt everything loose... at least I don't have to concern myself with that over the remainder...
Turns out there's an anime convention down the street. All these people in costume and character. And they call us nerds?
Up to the playing room (on the 6th floor) and check in, pay Siri for the Calgary entry (I'll get my commuter fee back if Mom signs up) and check pairings. Due to recent misfires I'm in Division 2, and due to last minute adjustments/ drops beyond what can be re-arranged, there's a bye in the division.
( The ugly part first )
4-5 plus the bye at the turn, loss of 32 to 1559.
Part Two and the showcase games to come.
- Location:the verbiedome
- Music:traffic
There's now a device that can download all the data off your cell phone, so don't leave it unattended or loan it to anyone you don't trust unless they remain within eyesight. via Schneier.
Top Story On John McCain Run Out Of Obligation
NEW YORK -- Although his lack of charisma and charm has lately prevented the Arizona senator from grabbing front-page headlines, the tenets of journalistic objectivity made it necessary today to publish a top news story on Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
According to the newspaper's editors, the decision to run the story came after they realized that they had not printed a cover story about Sen. McCain (R-AZ) in a number of months, despite the distinct possibility that he could become the leader of the free world for the next four to eight years.
[...]
According to the newspaper's editors, the decision to run the story came after they realized that they had not printed a cover story about Sen. McCain (R-AZ) in a number of months, despite the distinct possibility that he could become the leader of the free world for the next four to eight years.
[...]
My friend is getting married on the East Coast in two years. She's picked out the dresses for myself and the Briesmaids, but the designer doesn't sell in Calgary, only Vancouver.
She suggested we get them made, but is it really cheaper than buying from a salon? Can anyone recommend a seamstress that they've worked with who does a good job?
Thanks.
She suggested we get them made, but is it really cheaper than buying from a salon? Can anyone recommend a seamstress that they've worked with who does a good job?
Thanks.
a bag or cover of some sort for boogie boards. We're heading to Mexico and want to take our own boogie/body board but would prefer to pack it in a bag made for it.
Where in town can I pick one up?
Thanks!
via this /. item, editing traffic on Wikipedia presaged both VP choices.
via Photoshop Disasters (which overall has been pretty disappointing compared to what I'd hoped when I originally encountered it), this certainly is a disaster of some sort, although whether Photoshop or why-didn't-you-Photoshop is hard to say.
So on the one hand, Crying Game. On the other hand, no Adam's apple.
So on the one hand, Crying Game. On the other hand, no Adam's apple.
Yup, I'm giving Google Chrome a try, and it's the underlying technology that's detailed by their comic that has convinced me to try it.
So far, so good. It's clean, it's neat, and it's fast.
It took me a couple tries to get the Flash plugin working, because the first site I went to that uses Flash had me using the default installer from the Adobe website. However, the second site I went to had Chrome prompt me to use its own plugin, which then worked.
I'm coming from an IE7 background, although I've played with Firefox, Opera, and even Safari for Windows, but neither of them convinced me to switch. I will have to get used to fact that the right click "Open link in new tab" option is now the first entry and not the second, as I use that command a lot.
Some features that have yet to be added:
This is after my 30 minute first impression, but I'm already strongly considering making Chrome my default browser, even though it's only a beta.
As icing on the cake, Google has released Chrome as an open source project in order to push browser technology forward, and is hoping the other browsers will take up the challenge to copy these new features (each tab on its own thread so that one bad tab doesn't bog down the others), as well as come up with something better.
Looking in the crystal ball of the future, I would guess that Chrome may spell the death of either Firefox or IE, and it's most likely going to be Firefox. IE8 is around the corner, and unless Microsoft's engineers have solved the same problems that Google's engineers have solved, then IE8.5 will be coming sooner than expected. Firefox will have to scramble to catch up as well, and perhaps lose a little weight in the process.
Oh, and I approve of the new browser name. :)
So far, so good. It's clean, it's neat, and it's fast.
It took me a couple tries to get the Flash plugin working, because the first site I went to that uses Flash had me using the default installer from the Adobe website. However, the second site I went to had Chrome prompt me to use its own plugin, which then worked.
I'm coming from an IE7 background, although I've played with Firefox, Opera, and even Safari for Windows, but neither of them convinced me to switch. I will have to get used to fact that the right click "Open link in new tab" option is now the first entry and not the second, as I use that command a lot.
Some features that have yet to be added:
- A show picture command in the image context menu to force a reload of images that didn't display the first time.
- A way to add words to the internal spell checker (a nice feature, by the way).
- Support for Microsoft Silverlight (which'll have to be written by Microsoft). A lot of the internal plumbing of Chrome appears to be inspired by Microsoft .Net (such as compiling the Javascript to native machine code before running, and managed memory / intelligent garbage collecting). Silverlight is still in its infancy, but promises to bring the rich UI of desktop applications to the web in a way that's much more flexible than Flash. It also promises to give us a more MovieOS experiences, like WPF applications will give in Windows.
- Click and drag of my mouse's scrollwheel doesn't do a fast scroll of the web page, although the scrollwheel itself will scroll.
- Mac and Linux versions aren't out yet, but at least they're forthcoming.
- The WYSIWYG text editor that I use for my websites isn't showing up.
- More to come...
This is after my 30 minute first impression, but I'm already strongly considering making Chrome my default browser, even though it's only a beta.
As icing on the cake, Google has released Chrome as an open source project in order to push browser technology forward, and is hoping the other browsers will take up the challenge to copy these new features (each tab on its own thread so that one bad tab doesn't bog down the others), as well as come up with something better.
Looking in the crystal ball of the future, I would guess that Chrome may spell the death of either Firefox or IE, and it's most likely going to be Firefox. IE8 is around the corner, and unless Microsoft's engineers have solved the same problems that Google's engineers have solved, then IE8.5 will be coming sooner than expected. Firefox will have to scramble to catch up as well, and perhaps lose a little weight in the process.
Oh, and I approve of the new browser name. :)
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patrissimo: A brief history of the future of human liberty. Interesting and scary/depressing at the same time.
patrissimo: A brief history of the future of human liberty. Interesting and scary/depressing at the same time.We have as long as it takes the military to develop effective combat robots to win our freedom.
After that, we're done.
[...]
We have at most 15 years to tear down the regimes which would abuse the power of state through automated, mass-produced oppression. We must prevent policy being implemented by robotic mass-produced depersonalized political and social violence against the general public. That's what robots will do in the hands of governments, because what governments want is machines to implement their policies by violence. That is what they are paying to develop, and that is what they will get: automated enforcement. We have one generation to stop this.
[...]
The Pentagon is pouring money into robot war right now. They clearly see the need for it -- after all, a population in Iraq armed with only rifles and improvised bombs has ground the American military machine to a standstill in many ways.
[...]
The Iraqi people are demonstrating the Second Amendment. It turns out to work pretty well: 18 million people have turned out to contain a large enough population of stubborn bastards who will not submit to US authority to make the country more-or-less ungovernable for years.
[...]
So the response to this Second Amendment type problem at the Pentagon is to fund the development of weapons systems which are capable of defeating the Iraqi population, with their rifles and improvised bombs, so that the next population that chooses to resist the US military can be swiftly and effectively defeated. What this effort will do, if it is successful, is defang the population, overthrow the protective effect of the Second Amendment, and unbalance the Constitution (or what remains of it) permanently. It is the one blow that the Constitution cannot recover from: bad laws can be unmade, and unjust men can be hanged, but once the technologies to upend the Constitution exist, it is indeed finished.
After that, we're done.
[...]
We have at most 15 years to tear down the regimes which would abuse the power of state through automated, mass-produced oppression. We must prevent policy being implemented by robotic mass-produced depersonalized political and social violence against the general public. That's what robots will do in the hands of governments, because what governments want is machines to implement their policies by violence. That is what they are paying to develop, and that is what they will get: automated enforcement. We have one generation to stop this.
[...]
The Pentagon is pouring money into robot war right now. They clearly see the need for it -- after all, a population in Iraq armed with only rifles and improvised bombs has ground the American military machine to a standstill in many ways.
[...]
The Iraqi people are demonstrating the Second Amendment. It turns out to work pretty well: 18 million people have turned out to contain a large enough population of stubborn bastards who will not submit to US authority to make the country more-or-less ungovernable for years.
[...]
So the response to this Second Amendment type problem at the Pentagon is to fund the development of weapons systems which are capable of defeating the Iraqi population, with their rifles and improvised bombs, so that the next population that chooses to resist the US military can be swiftly and effectively defeated. What this effort will do, if it is successful, is defang the population, overthrow the protective effect of the Second Amendment, and unbalance the Constitution (or what remains of it) permanently. It is the one blow that the Constitution cannot recover from: bad laws can be unmade, and unjust men can be hanged, but once the technologies to upend the Constitution exist, it is indeed finished.
I recently upgraded to FF3, and just now submitted a form over plain HTTP and was mildly surprised not to receive the "you are submitting over an unencrypted connection" dialog. Over to about:config, where I discovered that security.warn_entering_secure, security.warn_leaving_secure, and security.warn_submit_insecure had all been toggled to false!
I won't swear to it, but I'm nearly certain that they were set to 'true' (personal preference, I like them that way) before the upgrade. Maybe I blew past the show_once dialog without checking the checkbox just out of habit, dunno. Also fairly sure no one else has used/changed settings on the browser on this computer since the upgrade.
I can't believe they'd do this, so probably I just missed it. Will have to watch more carefully next time -- I still have a computer or two that is running FF2.
UPDATE: OK, I just upgraded from 2 to 3 on my laptop. Before the upgrade I specifically verified that security.warn_* were true and security.warn_*.show_once were false. After the upgrade, security.warn_entering_secure, security.warn_leaving_secure, and security.warn_submit_insecure had been set to false (which is now the default; I think before the default for those was true, which may be the source of the issue).
I won't swear to it, but I'm nearly certain that they were set to 'true' (personal preference, I like them that way) before the upgrade. Maybe I blew past the show_once dialog without checking the checkbox just out of habit, dunno. Also fairly sure no one else has used/changed settings on the browser on this computer since the upgrade.
I can't believe they'd do this, so probably I just missed it. Will have to watch more carefully next time -- I still have a computer or two that is running FF2.
UPDATE: OK, I just upgraded from 2 to 3 on my laptop. Before the upgrade I specifically verified that security.warn_* were true and security.warn_*.show_once were false. After the upgrade, security.warn_entering_secure, security.warn_leaving_secure, and security.warn_submit_insecure had been set to false (which is now the default; I think before the default for those was true, which may be the source of the issue).
I'm looking for a long scarf, preferably something like this
http://www.doctorwhoscarf.com/mine.php
For a halloween costume. (Who says there can't be a female time lord?)
Anyone know anywhere in town where I can get something like that, or who would knit something like that?
http://www.doctorwhoscarf.com/mine.php
For a halloween costume. (Who says there can't be a female time lord?)
Anyone know anywhere in town where I can get something like that, or who would knit something like that?
My son wants to go to an arcade for his 13th birthday. Any recs on a good one with a variety of games including air hockey?
Thanks!
Thanks!
Where can I pick up a foam wig head in Calgary?
Doesn't have to be human-shaped or fancy ... just need somewhere to keep my wig in shape.
Update the next day: I did find one at Value Village! Thanks everyone!
Doesn't have to be human-shaped or fancy ... just need somewhere to keep my wig in shape.
Update the next day: I did find one at Value Village! Thanks everyone!
I just got rickrolled in an elevator at the Atlantis.
Hello Calgary,
I need to learn to use my voice properly before I turn into a complete frog. Therefore, I'd love to take some voice/singing lessons (I also love singing and am a trained pianist). Google has shown me aliamusica and more... but I'm looking for personal recommendations. I need someone who really knows what they're talking about, but would prefer not to break the bank at the same time. Any other speech therapy options welcome as well.
Any personal experiences / rumours / comments / suggestions appreciated! TIA!
I need to learn to use my voice properly before I turn into a complete frog. Therefore, I'd love to take some voice/singing lessons (I also love singing and am a trained pianist). Google has shown me aliamusica and more... but I'm looking for personal recommendations. I need someone who really knows what they're talking about, but would prefer not to break the bank at the same time. Any other speech therapy options welcome as well.
Any personal experiences / rumours / comments / suggestions appreciated! TIA!
Can anyone recommend a place that does less-than-expensive picture framing? I bought two works of art from the Calgary Tattoo and Arts Festival yesterday and they're 22.5 inches x 16 5/8 inches and I can't find any pre-made frames that are big enough.
I don't want to spend $$$$ on it. I know of a few places, but I'm not sure what is uber-expensive and what is not.
I don't want to spend $$$$ on it. I know of a few places, but I'm not sure what is uber-expensive and what is not.
Did anyone see the accident that happened at Dalton Dr and Dalhouse Dr (by the coop)?
I was t-boned by a guy running a very red light.. Just wanted to know if anyone saw it. He's admitted fault to the police but it would be nice if someone who saw it also came forward.
What is with people not knowing how to drive when the weather is crappy? I thought people were supposed to be more careful.
I was t-boned by a guy running a very red light.. Just wanted to know if anyone saw it. He's admitted fault to the police but it would be nice if someone who saw it also came forward.
What is with people not knowing how to drive when the weather is crappy? I thought people were supposed to be more careful.
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