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It's so wonderful to be here in Boulder with my wonderful boyfriend, and to see our friends! We've already seen Graham and Amanda yesterday, when we went on a hike with Graham and then added Amanda for dinner on the always awesome Pearl Street. We're about to head over to their house shortly for dinner, including Dinner Roast which I almost forgot. Of course I'm sad not to be with my parents and sisters, but I am very happy and joyful and thankful! I have so many blessings in my life, so many awesome people and great opportunities.

I am so thankful!

Looks like I picked up dawnd's sore throat and low-grade fever from last week... I feel icky and achey and like I should be careful about exposing anyone else. So I'm going to have to punt on going to the Choirloft group dinner today. patgreene and the three boys will go on without me, I'll stay home alone, maybe they'll bring me a plate tonight. Sorry I'll miss seeing those of you attending there today. :(

(Alexander Hacke is a member of Einsturzende Neubauten and has a lot of interesting solo work as well. okoshun and I saw his film about his musical explorations in Turkey and loved it. The following is from the Einsturzende Neubauten newsletter.)

BERLIN WALL TO WALL is an event presenting the Berlin avant-garde scene in Montreal, December 1st to 7th, in Quebec city on December 9th 2009 and in Toronto on the 11th and 12th of December 2009.

The BERLIN guests are Danielle de Picciotto and Alexander Hacke that will present works from the artistic scene before, during and after the Fall of the Berlin Wall. The program will include over 15 hours of film and video screenings, an audiovisual musical show, a multimedia performance, a conference and discussions with the artists.

Exact schedule
3rd of December 2009 lectures in Montreal Uqam University 12pm & Goethe Institute 17pm
4th of December 2009 Ship Of Fools multimedia performance at Sala Rosa with Dana Gingrass and Marie Brasssard
5th of December 2009 history of Electricity - electronic performance Sala Rosa
9th of December 2009 Ship Of fools performance Quebec City
11th Of December Ship Of fools performance Toronto at Music Gallery with guest musician Chris Wordon
12th of December Workshop at Goethe Institute Toronto

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Out to get my nana, Lets hope her wheelchair fits in my bug

Most of you know I'm vegetarian. Most of you also know that to me, it's a personal choice, and I'm totally okay with you all making your own choices on this issue. Just so we're clear that this isn't meant to be a guilt trip or a protest. What I'm writing about here isn't the killing of the animals, but rather the othering (and the use of charged words in service of that) of traditions from other cultures.

However, the day before yesterday, Toronto's free Metro newspaper ran this story, which has the headline, "Mass animal sacrifice begins in Hindu festival in Nepal; 200,000 animals to be killed".

It's worth noting that the animals slaughtered are taken back to the villages where the meat is eaten.

I find the running of this clearly-intended-to-be-alarming headline highly ironic just two days before American Thanksigiving and just a month after Canadian Thanksgiving. (According to this page, more than 45 million turkeys are cooked and eaten in the U.S. on Thanksgiving. I don't have figures for Canada, but in general you can divide the U.S. figure by ten for most things. Note that both of these figures are much higher than 200,000.)

Are people really that blind that they can shake their heads and say, "Those terrible foreign primitives! Oh, hey, that reminds me, I need to pick up a Turkey for Thanksgiving on the way home. La la la." WTF, newspaper?

Anyway, I really do hope that everyone who celebrates it is having a great Thanksgiving. :)

Well, the announcement about changes to Corunea Battles is out, and the big restructuring that was supposed to make me so happy appears to be:

1. The site is down until the 28th.


2. There will be no free play any longer. There will be an up-to-level-three demo, and then you must pay to play.


3. All purchases of in-game money ("Coruns") will be refunded.


4. All accounts will be deleted and the game world will be reset.

This does seem to be an attempt to address a very small amount of my comments to the game -- basically my, "I don't think your business model is viable," comments -- but it doesn't even glance at the majority of what I wrote. As such, I'm a little bewildered as to why they thought I'd be so thrilled. Also, the fact that I won't be able to pay for free clearly goes against the parts where I said that they weren't presenting enough information for me to consider buying the game a viable investment. So... *shrug* I do like the game, and part of me will want to register, but I'm not sure there's enough to it to justify it.

To avoid the hassle of re-screening all the screened comments after replying, I'll just say that everyone who left a request on the previous post was nominated. It usually takes a few days for them to actually send you an invite after you're nominated, but you should get an invitation soonish. I actually have four nomination slots left. I think Google Wave is starting to hit the point where everyone who wants on in my social cloud is now on it.

However, r_ness raised an important issue: A lot of you are on there, but we aren't connected! If y ou'd like to be, I'm irfon.kim@googlewave.com on there. (I did add you, r_ness.) Feel free to add me and/or drop your contact information here so folks can add you. (Comments to this post aren't screened -- if you want to drop your contact information without others being able to see it, or if you still need an invite, you can drop those on my previous post here, which has all comments screened.)

Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm heading home now from my office, after midnight...

Ridiculously important status updates...

• 06:22 Warhammer Online now has a Mac client: www.warhammeronline.com/mac/ This means I'll try it again. ;-) #
• 06:32 WTF, is this a parody? www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Oj0-splZw&feature=player_embedded Oh America, you so crazy. #
• 07:02 Mothra vs. Craigslist! catandgirl.com/?p=2283 #
• 07:09 I feel a little bad for laughing at this. www.zwixy.com/images/1612686471253290694452.jpg #
• 08:12 RT @CPCharity: Congrats #DesertBus! Last year's total surpassed… more than a day still left to go. Amazing! www.desertbus.org #
• 08:22 I'd sure like to know why Firefox 3.5 seems to just stop now and then, usually when running Flash videos, but also when editing text. WTF. #
• 13:20 RT @CocoaGeek: RT @dbarefoot: New blog post: Eleven Lessons I Learned About Writing a Book bit.ly/6m4ry9 << good list! #
• 16:09 Stay class, Conservative party of Canada! www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/730478--tory-mp-derides-jobless-as-no-good-bastards #
• 16:44 Virgin Mobile's going to have iPhone in Canada soon; for a preview of their prices, see what Rogers, Bell and Telus offer. #notcompetition #

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Happy birthday, radven! Hope it has been a good one. :)