According to this CTV article, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (the title still feels funny attached to that name) is apparently not too worried about climate change. Considering his political bent, that comes to me as no surprise; what does is that Canada still has no national strategy for adapting to climate change.
When I applied to the Forestry program in Finland, they told me I needed to study a 278-page PDF for the entrance exam. That 278-page PDF was Finland's National Strategy
Alien Tripod Exterminator
Scorpio
Also the saucer pod Sagittarius, which has been covered in a previous entry and doesn't yet have a current picture.
Model Expo 2011 is on April 15th to 17th at the Helsinki Fair Center. I look forward to it!
I got tired of the movie theme. Hope to have new blog art sometime soon, as the old sidebar splash JPG is old and winter is just about here. I'm thinking something dark, akin to the style of photography on my BBCC55 entry, in keeping with the time of year and, incidentally, my current mood.
E-dubya, aka Casablanca, has asked a question of his readers that I thought I'd ask as well: do you read this blog? How do you find it (faves, RSS, tracking)? And any thoughts on what I bring to it? Pleas
Episode goes online tomorrow. I'm so watching it. And I never watch TV.
In other news, BCii's 4srsblag has taken a turn for the deadlier. I dunno what to do about that. It's like it has a life of its own now.
Current mood: :fear:
I got a response from Chrissy at Scholastic.
This is obviously not going unnoticed at Scholastic's decision-making level. You, too, can be part of the effort to save Bionicle Legends #7! All it takes is one email!
-BC
I just hosted my going-away party. Life is hectic, mad scary, and oh so very, very sweet. The Lego collection is just about packed up and will be gone tomorrow. I hope it finds its way to some kids who will appreciate it and get something out of it. I'm suddenly faced with an unexpected choice: should I go ahead with the wild hobo adventure as planned, or opt for the wild hippie adventure instead? Decisions, decisions...
The part where Carl's watching TV and there's an infomercial on, except you only hear the audio. I didn't get the joke at all. But then today, just by chance, I'm watching a Best of [Failsite] video that shows that exact same failed infomercial.
PIXAR wins an Internet.
Nothing is too big, or too small, for this blog. You can count on that, folks.
Oddly, though, I found myself debating whether this item was, in fact, too big. It's one of those things you either want to shout out to the world or keep selfishly inside.
Considering that I've already, in effect, shouted it out to the world via my sig, it would be sheer coyness not to expand on the matter in this space.
You know it: BCii has found love.
I met her in mid-October. She is everything I could
1. Went for my driving test. Passed.
2. Celebrated by picking up 3 Roporak and a Whenua Hordika for cheeep.
3. Donated blood.
4. Currently listening to this. THX JINZO - my first real taste of trance techno!
Doog si efil. XD
<o> <o>
Bio:
Toa Amir wields the elemental power of Love. Centuries ago, as an avatar of divine will, he saved the world of Spherus Magna from the ancient and implacable Archons. Now fallen to the state of mortal man, he serves as best he can in the complicated center of global politics, under the planetary High Council, where pressures abound on all sides. Can he hold his own in the midst of a growing chaos? And will he ever find his way back to himself? The fate of Spherus Magna may well depend on th
. . . And for looking forward to the coming year. . .
As I alluded to in the last entry, my little brother is visiting me over Christmas. He's the second son of eight in our family (there are six girls, too) and the only one of my siblings that's currently here in Finland. He came to serve the military duty that's a requisite for retaining his natural-born Finnish citizenship. His six-month term ends in a week, at which time he will be leaving (on a jet plane, don't know when he'll be back ag
Celebrate!
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happy new year -- onnellista uutta vuotta -- bonne année
gott nytt år -- ein gutes neues jahr -- xīnnián kuàilè
próspero año nuevo -- c hовым годом -- akemashite omedetó gozaimasu
felice anno nuovo -- šťastný nový rok -- losalazashidele
jaña jıl quttı bolsın - helol alseneh aljedīdah -- athbhliain faoi mhaise duit
selamat tahun baru -- שָׁנָה טוֹבָה -- kia hari te tau hou
yeni yılınız kutlu olsun -- urte berri on -- godt nytår
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On the Interweaves, everyone's poly
Superstaffie can has superbad staff.
NO U
This MOC is a combination of ideas from a Dark Hunter MOC, a previous MOC of this character, and ToM's own self-MOC (v.1, v.2).
Hi, guys. What's up? I've been pretty busy, and it just keeps getting crazier. Next month is Model Expo down in Helsinki. My first LEGO exhibition! Pretty exciting. I'll be catching a ride there with TheQ and some other dude. It will be all kinds of awesome.
I guess I'll kick off this entry with a diorama I made some time ago that I never blogged here. (It was featured on TBB, though.)
"Under the Sea"
I haven't been very active in the BBC forum. Much as I'd like to share my works with
I got my contest entry built. Took me a whole entire weekend of literally doing not much else. I'm going to need the coming weekdays just to physically recover from that marathon.
Next phase, photography. If I thought the actual build was bad... whew. Out of thirteen experimental shots tonight, two just might be useable. I anticipate much frustration and slow going in the session(s) to come. I'm afraid my camera was designed to be cheap, not to be able to handle projects like this with any ki
Lately, I've been getting an inordinate amount of non-random weirdness appearing where there should be just pure, normal randomness. I look at the clock and it's 2:22 or 4:44 or 11:11. My car's tripmeter reads 888. I see three or four license plates in a row with letters or numbers in the form XYX. It just goes on and on. And a couple of days ago, my BZPower inbox had three new messages (I hardly ever get more than one; two is very rare) -- for a total of 333. Not only that, but my sent folder h
I joined a church choir today.
I've always enjoyed singing, and people tell me I have a good voice. So when my cousin "Mandy" and her husband "Johnny" tipped me off about the youth choir they sing in, I perked up my little hedgehog ears and decided that that was something I definitely wanted to try.
Due to a slight conflict with my work schedule, I arrived a good 15 minutes late. The church cantor, who directs the choir, must have been expecting me, because his eyes were clear as he greete
I have looked upon the face of the Void and returned.
I have seen what lies beyond Oneness, beyond Is-ness, and it is terrible indeed, too terrible for mortal minds.
This is a prison planet.
You are all mind-controlled.
Your belief system is your cage.
Believe nothing. Question everything.
Hope is false. Despair is false. Light and dark are a lie.
Your own existence is an illusion. You cannot know reality.
The search for truth is a game, and the cards are stacked against
of Order over Chaos.
In my room. It is happening. Slowly but surely. This is good.
As a result, I will soon be able to focus ever so much better and bring you more Lego goodness! Yay!
Hey, you, wake up!
- Hzbglf. Mmf. Whut?
We have computer class in ten minutes.
- We?
Oui.
- Whee.
I’ve wanted to talk to you since our little conversation yesterday. Remember?
- Yes. You were going off about the ii in your name.
Uh-huh. And then you left without telling me your name. So why don’t you tell me who you are and we can get to know each other.
- And pass through many perilous trials together, to finally achieve our destination?
Uh... if you like.
- The
My name is BCii. It's an unusual name. It ends in ii.
- So? Lots of names end in ii. Like Hawaii. And the Nintendo Wii. And... uh... sestertii. And if there were two guys named Mercutio, they'd be, like, the Mercutii. And hey, yeah, there's that new Toa named Hewkii. So I don't see what's special about BCii. How do you pronounce that, anyway?
Ah. You see, in my name, the ii is silent. That's what makes it unusual.
- Oh... kay. So what's with the ii thing, then? Is it, like, the Roman nu
Last night, I asked E (abbrev. to protect the sweet and beautiful) to be my girlfriend. She said yes. And that makes us official, doesn't it?
Actually, I had help. A teddy bear much like the one you see here offered to relay the message to her for me.
I was only too glad to accept. Thanks, teddy!
So what now? Well, this weekend is our time for Christmas parties. First one is on Friday with E's friends, second on Sunday with her family. Unlikely fact to take advantage of: her parents
