July 1st is Canada Day!

In celebration of this holiday, I would like to offer up this song of tribute to our Northern Neighbors.

Listen to the Canada Song!

– With all due credits going to Mike, Tom Servo, Crow, and the rest of the gang from Mystery Science Theater 3000, up on the Satellite of Love!

Lyrics to the Canada Song
[Opening Dialogue]
Mike Nelson: And then the drunk guy says ‘I can’t help being an idiot. I’m Canadian!’
Crow T Robot: (laughing) You’re right! They’re so pathetic, Mike.
Tom Servo: (Arrives, dressed in a Canadian Mounties uniform and blowing loudly on a whistle) Enough! There’s been too much Canada bashing for far too long. I say, No More!
Mike: Don’t you mean: ‘No more, eh.’
Crow: Good one man! They are so stupid
Tom Servo: Stop it now! Instead, let us offer our northern brothers and sisters this song of tribute. . .

[Music Starts]
Tom Servo: (singing)
Oh, I wish I was back, in old Canada,
A land which I never shall lampoon.
How I pine for the ice covering Lake Manitoba,
and the Beauty that is Sasquatoon.

Mike Nelson: (singing)
Oh I wish I was stuck in the hills of Alberta,
Drinking beer with some big dumb guy trapping fur.
As he scraped and he chiseled all the moose-dung off his boot,
I would learn that he’s the Prime Minister

Tom Servo: (interjecting) Oh stop that!

Crow: (singing)
Oh I wish I was in the land that gave us Peter Jennings,
Alannis Morrisette, Mike Meyers too.
No I take that back I wouldn’t go there even if you paid me,
Oh Canada you’re a place I must eschew.

[the music continues in the background as the dialog resumes]

Tom Servo: Now, this is not in the spirit that I intended.
Mike: Oh, come on, give in. I mean, after all, they gave us Ed the Sock. And Rush.
Crow: Yeah, what are you defending? They’re such feebs.
Tom Servo: Okay, i’ll try. . .
Mike: Good man!

Tom Servo: (singing)
Oh I wish I was blowing up Prince Edward island,
Going on to bomb Ontario
The destruction of Canada and all of its culture
Is by far my favorite scenario.

Mike: (interjecting with a worried look) Okay, that’s a little strong. You might want to back it down.
Tom Servo: (excitedly talking) No no! you were right, Mike. This is much more fun!

Tom Servo: (singing)
Just where the Hell does Canada get off sharing a border,
With countries far superior to it.
Why you lousy stinking francophonic, bacon-loving bastards,
Your country’s just a giant piece of sh. . .

(is cut off by Mike and Crow before he can finish)

Crow: Whoa whoa WHOA!
Mike: Okay, I think thats enough, I think we punched it. Cambot? Okay, thanks.
Tom Servo: (openly weeping) I’m sorry! I have no sense of proportion; I’m a disgrace to my uniform (cries)
Mike: no no, its that’s okay now calm down. Mustn’t hate. . . Mustn’t hate.
Crow: At least so overtly
Mike: Exactly right. Must disquise our hate, just a little. We’ll be right back. Shh, Shh. It’s okay now Dudley
Tom: Pardonnez-moi! Paronnez-moi!

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From SeLiNa’s site, Lingo Slinger.

The title of one of her posts:

“I’d call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse!”

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Our trailer manufactured home park is on the market, and according to the certified letter we received yesterday, the owners already have an offer from someone.

Tonight, there is a tenants meeting. According to NH State Law (Code A96-G3453, I believe) the tenants of the park must be allowed the opportunity to buy the park at the sale price. We’ll see tonight if everyone is interested. If so, then our little mobile home manufactured home park could go co-op.

UPDATE 1: Well, we did it. We agreed to form a co-op to purchase the park. I was voted interim president of the board of directors until an official vote could be held in 2 weeks. It looks like this is really going to happen. its kind of exciting.

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(Is that supposed to be hyphenated?)

Third post of the day. I’m going for a record.

I redesigned my layout a bit to remove as much garbage as possible from my sidebar. The emphasis is on content, not sidebar.

So why have I done this?

According to studies (of which I have read none), most blog surfers only hit a blog for about 15 seconds or so. If this time is spent trying to wade through a bunch of distracting “stuff”, they won’t spend any time reading content.

Therefore, I eliminate the “stuff” and provide the content. And of course, if anyone is interested in that other stuff, then its still here, its just tucked away a bit.

So there you have it. Any comments?

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Considering that this blog was originally established to keep friends and family updated on my life, I haven’t posted anything about my life in a while, so here goes:

Family
Amber (16): Amber just got her driver’s license on Monday, so now she can officially tool around in that nice car we bought her for her birthday.
Aaron (13): Aaron is glad to be out of school, and he spends way too much time playing video games. But then again, so do I.
Original Cindy (the wife): Cindy has been babysitting and keeping the house up. She is recovering from a sinus infection, but is still on anti-biotics.

Friends
Two of my friends are getting married this weekend. I’m in the wedding party as an Usher (I guess thats what they are called). Tonight we are supposed to be going out for the Groom’s bachelor party, but since we’re all old, there will be no strippers, and we probably won’t get drunk.

School
Taking the summer off from my MBA courses.

Work
Work is work.

So that’s about it. Any questions? Comments?

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Testing out a new WordPress plugin. This video is mildly amusing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhVcBSKncbc

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Favorite Science Quotes

Albert Einstein:
“Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.”

Albert Einstein:
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

Arthur C. Clarke:
“The First Clarke Law states, ‘If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong.’”

Galileo Galilei:
“I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

Henrik Ibsen:
“It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.”

Homer Simpson:
“In this house, we OBEY the laws of thermodynamics!”

Isaac Asimov:
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, “hmm…. that’s funny….”"

Isaac Asimov:
“[W]hen people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.”

Do you have any favorite Science Quotes?

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I want to take a moment to sing the praises of my hosting provider, MidPhase.

I’ve been with midPhase for just over a year now. In that time i’ve had 7 reasons to contact their customer support service. Some of the issues were minor (I needed the path name for an internal application) to major (several email servers had tagged my domain as an originator of spam).

In each case, I recieved a reply in less than 6 hours, and a resolution in less than 48 hours — and last night, at midnight on a Sunday, I got my reply back in less than 5 minutes. This wasn’t an automated reply, it was a real live technician who solved the issue immediately.

In addition to top-notch service and support, I get 15 GB of storage space, 500 GB of bandwidth per month, and a domain name. All this for $7.95 per month.

Overall, I highly recommend MidPhase, and I encourage anyone who is thinking of getting their own domain, or is considering switching, to take a close look at them.

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I’m introducing a new feature to make this blog more interactive.

Its called Ask a Scientist! Here you can ask me any question that you want (via email) and I will post your question and my answer.

Click on the Ask a Scientist link in the sidebar

DISCLAIMER: I’m not a scientist, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express.

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I have enabled gravatars on my blog. The default one that I added is way cool!

But if you decide you want your own, go sign up. Its actually a pretty neat concept, and it works on any blog that you go to (provided the blog has enabled gravatars, of course).

Comments?

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