to forget and not to forget [2]

surely i am awake while the rest of the house is still vast asleep. so while i am waiting, i thought i'd make this post, which i had been meaning to put together for a while.

in memory of our dear beloved beta fish, who were with us for a time far too short

hero (dr. shakes)

alfonzo (alfie jr.)

i will especially remember how you were there for the whole season, and the playoffs. had there been a stanley cup win i am confident alfredsson would have acknowledged you in his thank you speech.

cody

keane - try again

at sea

the first verse has been on my mind all week, and after looking it up again, i am thankful that the next verse offers some answers.
hymn 48 - wer nur den lieben Gott

will anxious care or bitter sighing
at any time give true relief?
and what avails us our decrying
each morning's evil, trouble, grief?
we only add to grief and stress
by discontent and bitterness.

be still! what God in His good pleasure
to you in wisdom may impart
is given you in perfect measure;
thus be content within your heart.
to Him who chose us for His own
our needs and wants are surely known.

the inconvenient truth

the ottawa senators are officially missing in action.

ugh.

ps. i understand any readership might not really care, but as the title suggests: it is the inconvenient truth

EDIT: paddock has been fired.

embarrassment a l'hockey

after listening to fall for you by the whitlams, i took the liberty to write my own message to my beloved ottawa senators:

i'll follow you

when i get on and shake my pride

i'll cheer for you

you can do better than you were tonight

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be strong and you'll get strength back

feed the fire and you'll get passion back

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you can do better than you were tonight

if you could only see

alone, but not lonely.

me and bruce are watching hnic on mute, while for music i do what i always do: press play and repeat. at least being alone lets me sing my little heart out w/o the embarrassment factor

sens win. leafs win. canadiens lose. and canucks are battling it out with the red wings. together with a rickard's red, it is just an ordinary saturday night in canada.

matchbox twenty exile tour @ acc

city-scapes

mute mathalanis morissette
and ... matchbox twenty
rob thomas

matchbox twenty - i'll believe you when

eclipse

i hear eclipse and right away associate it with westlife's cover of total eclipse of the heart, but in the real world, an eclipse is something as special. this lunar eclipse, that will not happen again until december 2010, was a bit of a disappointment, as much as my ability to capture it was. but maybe by 2010 i will have perfected my photo-taking skills, or even better by that time i may own a really nice camera, and a telescope. who knows?

so long.

i've got my sunglasses

view from this morning's drive

a tuesday afternoon stroll

sydenham river

my return was delayed by a day as i had disappeared into a winter wonderland. however frustrsating the driving is in snow, the sheer beauty of it all makes it surely worth it.

of course i did take my camera along to try and take some snapshots of my adventures. but with my luck the batteries died when i was at inglis falls. and so i did not have the chance to capture my brother's friend jumping up into a tree only to fall backwards with the tree in his arms. but i can assure you that it was the one of the funniest things i have seen so far this year.
as for hockey: we got our satellite installed right on time for me to watch a devils beating of the senators. of course all of that was forgotten, when the senators finally registered a win on tuesday night. of course i am grieved by that fact that sportsnet east did not let me watch the game. as for other hockey: i did get to watch my brother's hockey practice, which is very entertaining, especially since some of the children have a skating ability that resembles mine. but, i did catch the winning breakaway goal on video, so it can go somewhere in the family files.

that is all for now, i think i will post a sign at the front door, warning: cleaning frenzy ahead, because this house could use some cleaning.

2 days until Matchbox Twenty :-)

must see

happy valentine's day

credit to xkcd.com
credit to xkcd.com

interestingly, this approach does not always work as well for me either. i think i need to order a cartoon titled "death by integration," kind of like a sequel to "death by summation." so, following from an earlier post, even if calculus sucks, and hockey sucks, there is always love.

and how do economists look at this? see for yourself.

justin nozuka - after tonight

to forget and not to forget

allright so after a fun-packed weekend, i want to forget about the monday that followed it. although forgetting calculus will result in instant failure, it might be good to forget about it for a minute: and what better to do than read up on hockey. so just remembring:

- pizza line delivers pizza
- spezza scores his first career hat trick


- and stillman and commodore come to ottawa

see, even if calculus sucks: life never does.

body rockers - i like the way you move

rained out

i just want to share how sad i am that our road hockey tournament got rained out

so now, i am just waiting for the games to begin, because i am not sure how much more of ron mclean i can handle.

citizens of contrary knowledge - house of cards

funnel cake, roller coasters and integrals

between studying for an upcoming calculus mid-term i am listening to the senators vs. panthers and am thinking about roller coasters and funnel cakes. maybe because this game for a sens fan is like stepping on a roller coaster after you have eaten a little too much funnel cake. you're going up and down not sure whether to open your eyes or just close them, because you might miss some scenic sights, but the chance of bugs in your eyes is too great, and the anticipation of going full circle with a stomach full of funnel cake is simply dangerous. it is better to just close your eyes and hope that you don't throw up over the handsome ride attendant when the ride is over. after all, you can't really trust your stomach. (23 seconds left, eyes closed).

allright, so maybe a little far fetched, but i am sure my mind has taken me stranger places.

i think calculus might have something to do with it. after all, it is one of the world's greater evils.

aside from this, i saw a trailer on a new documentary called the "demographic winter" which brings to light the concerns of declining birth rates. i am especially interested in this, because someone in a discussion after the screening of the 11th hour suggested Canada should adopt a one child policy. i should have told him he was crazy. in a most broad sense, i really believe that in building stronger families, and encouraging people's sense of place, belonging and purpose we would be able to solve a lol of social, environmental and economic problems. here again, i think as a student of economics, there is a lot to be aspiring to, and new opportunities for change will arise. and i am very exicted about that :-)

mute math - noticed

UPDATE: 4-5 sens win at last. heatley: welcome back.

golden delicious and sparkling

vitamin A puts that sparkle in your eyes.

i don't know if i am disappointed or not. i think i will just refuse to believe that that is all.

NAGFLATION,
n.: "the incessant gloom-and-doom predictions from economic
analysts who feel compelled to issue updates even if nothing has changed."

from invented words of the week, courtesy of the toronto star.

frou frou - let go

lollipops and rainbows

today is the day of superbowl XLII, and currently the patriots are leading the giants 7-3. i have to admit i have no idea what that means, if that is a comfortable winning margin or not, but it looks interesting. also interesting because it is so true: from urban dictionary dot com

Person 1: Who do you think will win the Superbowl?

Person 2: What's that? Oh, those men running in between the commercials?

either way football is much more interesting than UFC fighting, which apparently does attract many male fans that enjoy watching muscled and slippery men. and also much more interesting than another sports debacle that may have occurred the other night.

after some intense searching, or googling/dogpiling/yahooing if you will, i could only find one article of interest about theories of optimism. this article, based on a questionnaire suggests that optimism and pessimism are postively and negatively (respectively) related to religiosity and superstition, and are not at all related to the illusion of control. now, this is completely relevant to the idea that superstition takes hold in the NHL and that a fanbase cannot feel optismistic or
pessimistic on the basis of any control, because the entity that is supposed to extend some level of control is out of control. yeah, i know. basically i would like to offer the argument that the NHL officiating sucks. and that it in itself needs not be argued. it is more like common knowledge. like the norm. or more like hearsay. no, actually like the obvious. so no wonder fans base their
feelings of optimism or pessimism on religion or superstition, and that their team has been grappled by some sort of a curse. and i feel like it has to do with alfredsson. and i don't like it.
but to conclude: nhl officiating can't make a game. but it can break it. and that is an injustice and needless frustration for the blue-collar hockey fan.

wow. that was as much ranting i can do in a semi-public setting. and i think that the fact that i dreamt that cliff fletcher died in our house has something to do with it [insert shivers]. so not everything is rosemary and sunshine. lollipops and rainbows. but you know, that makes life interesting.

superbowl update: nothing happened ... yet.

superbowl update 2: the giants have taken a lead, but the patriots are getting really close. and i am unwillingly becoming nervous. 2:49 left.
delirious? - investigate

spring is in the air

it is official: an early spring. despite all the hype, or really non-hype, i don't think i can explain how sorry i feel for willie.


but winter is not over yet, and good thing, because i would feel really sad if our snowman would melt so soon. although spring = nhl playoffs, and those can't seem to come soon enough. because maybe then, just maybe, some teams can pretend to care to play some badass hockey. either way, i would be okay if said team would try tonight, because a good battle of ontario is a good battle of ontario. go sens go!

snow dayzzzzz?

nope.

snow days ≠ getting extra work done

althought perhaps: snow day = getting a little bit of work done. so back to milk quotas, price support systems, numbers, numbers, and more numbers.

emiliani torrini - summerbreeze