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Tuesday Oct 28, 2008
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Holy shit we’re getting a lot of rain here in Fredericton NB, Canada! So much that the police are closing down roads here in the city because of flooding.
When I was at work today, I was actually surprised at how high the river was, and that was earlier in the afternoon. It’s still pissing like crazy out there right now and it’s later in the evening. I can expect that a lot of low lying areas will get some pretty bad flooding if this afternoons river height was any indication.
The extended outlook for the weather isn’t any better, as it seems tat we will continue to see rain until Wednesday. It looks like we might get some snow on Thursday though. Ugh! I would rather see the rain than that shitty white stuff that turns gray after it lays on the ground for awhile.
Lucky for the Trick r’ Treaters on Friday too. Looks like it may be a nice day for them to go door to door begging for food. OK, begging for candies. Heh heh, Thank you whoever invented the security door. Little buggers won’t be getting in here and knocking on my door.
Well, anyway, it seems like I might need a canoe to get to work and back if this rain keeps up like it is. It gets pretty heavy at times too and very loud. There no way one can ignore it either because it is so loud.
This morning the east side of the city was in darkness because the power went out. I can see across the city out my work window, and it looked really weird the way it was all black where it is usually lit up with lights. There were a couple of lights here and there, but not enough to make any difference.
The power hasn’t went out here *knocking on wood* at all, yet. I hope it doesn’t though, because it sucks sitting in the dark with no puter to play on, or TV to watch.
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Tuesday Sep 30, 2008
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When I heard on the radio this morning, that this service was finally available today here in Canada, the first thing I did was log into the National Do Not Call List Website through the CRTC. It’s to bad it took this long to get set up here. Probably a lot of Canadian Red Tape prolonged the whole thing.
It didn’t take mo long after I got home today to submit my Cell Phone number to the list. Although Telemarketers have up to 31 days to update their lists and to make sure they do not call you. You could still receive calls within those first 31 days.But at least I won’t keep getting these annoyances calling me on my cell phone killing my daytime minutes.
Before all this was available, I was Googling the 1-800 numbers that were calling me (I usually never answer them) to see who they were and there would usually be a forum with threads from people asking who the number was from or somebody that found out who they are. When I found out I usually just programmed my cell to never ring when that particular number called. Telemarketers don’t normally leave voice mails.
So I thought that this would be a great post to share with my fellow Canadians, especially my Mom and Dad since I had answered one at their hous last weekend. Some very rude, Derka-Derka accented lady who I couldn’t understand called trying to give away credit cards. The conversation went sorta like this:
Telemarketer: Derka-Derka-Derka Mic Doonawwld! ME: Sorry we’re not interested and please place this number on your Do Not Call list. Telemarketer: Derka-Derka? Derka-daerka-derka! ME: I’m sorry, I can’t understand a single word your trying to say. Telemarketer: Derrrrrrrr-ka, Derrrrrr-ka, derr derrrr deeeeerrrrka! ME: OK, I’m hanging up now… Telemarketer: Der…
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LOL! The news on the TV is just starting their story about this DNC List.
Well anyway, if you want to put a stop to these annoyances, just go to https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/ and submit your phone number.
FYI, the site might be overwhalmed so you may get some error, I just paged backward one and then tried again.
UPDATE: Funny news artilce about people having trouble with getting registered.
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Saturday Aug 9, 2008
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A man in the Florida supermarket tries to buy half a head of lettuce. The very young produce assistant tells him that they sell only whole heads of lettuce.
The man persists and asks to see the manager.
The boy says he’ll ask his manager about it. Walking into the back room, the boy said to his manager, ‘Some asshole wants to buy half a head of lettuce.’ As he finished his sentence, he turned to find the man standing right behind him, so he added, ‘And this gentleman has kindly offered to buy the other half.’
The manager approved the deal, and the man went on his way.
Later the manager said to the boy, ‘I was impressed with the way you got yourself out of that situation earlier. We like people who think on their feet here. Where are you from, son?’
‘ Canada , sir,’ the boy replied.
‘Well, why did you leave Canada ?’ the manager asked.
The boy said, ‘Sir, there’s nothing but whores and hockey players up there.’
‘Really?’ said the manager. ‘My wife is from Canada .’
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Monday Aug 4, 2008
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New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of Canada’s three Maritime provinces and is the only constitutionally bilingual province (French and English) in the federation. The provincial capital is Fredericton. Statistics Canada estimates the provincial population in 2008 to be 751,527; a majority are English-speaking, but there is also a large Francophone minority (32%), chiefly of Acadian origin.
The province’s name comes from the English translation for the city of Braunschweig in north Germany, the ancestral home of the Hanoverian King George III of the United Kingdom.
Not only is it New Brunswick’s Birthday, it is also CFB Gagetown’s 50th Anniversary! They are celibrating at the old government house and will be providing fireworks for the events too. Plus there will be Free Ice Cream and Lemonaid!
Hopefully the weather lets up enough so I can take a walk over and take some video. Maybe get some tanks and stuff on video.
Posted by macbros | Under My Opinion, Video | - 345 Peepers read this post.
Wednesday Jul 2, 2008
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Sorry for taking so long to get this stuff up, it just ended up taking a bit more time to edit the video. I didn’t realize I took that much video. Even after editing it and converting it to FLV it was still a huge 25MB file.
I was constantly switching my camera from video mode to still picture mode. Before I went there I had manually set my camera up for taking the night pictures using settings in the manual for taking pictures of fireworks. I should have noted the part about needing a tripod. Every picture had the shutter open for a long time and every movement I made caused streaks.
I didn’t end up deleting them because they actually still looked pretty kewel. Not the best firework pictures, but they still looked neat enough to keep.
I’ve uploaded them to my Flickr Pro account to share.
I was all set and thought I had the best seat in the house on the waterfront. Well that was until this loudmouth 400LB bitch and her followers decided to park their fat asses right beside me. If I needed a play-by-play commentary with special effects for every firework that went off then these would be the idiots to go to. I tried to edit their voices out so you wouldn’t have to listen to her bicker and complain the whole time and then talk bullshit about the show. I felt like saying something like, “Then go take your fat ass home then.” But I just bit my tongue. Might I also suggest there be a ban on ridiculously mega-fat people wearing spandex tops and spandex pants!
Aside from the annoying group of misfits beside me, the show wasn’t all that bad. I just wish I had the proper set up on my camera for the stills. I’ll see if I can do better August 4th on New Brunswick Day.
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The extended outlook for the weather isn’t any better, as it seems tat we will continue to see rain until Wednesday. It looks like we might get some snow on Thursday though. Ugh! I would rather see the rain than that shitty white stuff that turns gray after it lays on the ground for awhile.
A man in the Florida supermarket tries to buy half a head of lettuce. The very young produce assistant tells him that they sell only whole heads of lettuce.
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