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La Manifestation Echec à La Guerre/Around the Apartment
15 February 2003
Captions (starting from beginning of slideshow)
1. Montreal hosted a 150,000 person peace demonstration against the war on Iraq. I brought my SLR camera out and tried to take some pictures using one for the first time and take pictures of some of the interesting things going on. The french and english versions of the signs read "How did OUR oil get under THEIR sand?"
2. Massive amounts of people on Ste. Catherine...
3. "No blood for Oil."
4. "Je suis objectrice d'impôt militaire" (reads: "I am an obect of military taxes")
5. The communist party was out in full effect. "Fin de la subjugation americaine" (reads: "End American Subjugation")
6. Tam-tamer outside of Indigo.
7. The pretzel man on a fire hydrant making a point about George Bush.
8. The Montreal Raging Grannies stood on the steps of the cathedral and sang protest songs in chorus...
9. Their sign.
10. The dancing Spiderman posed for a picture while dancing to Justin Timberlake's "Like I Love You." He's now a Ste. Catherine fixture.
11. "Bush et Blaire: La Vieille Europe Vous Emmerde Et La Nouvelle France Aussi" (reads: "Bush and Blaire: Old Europe Shits on you and New France Also")
12. One of a couple of trucks with loudspeakers shouting anti-war chants out the back. The sign reads "Bernard Landry, Nous te disons: Non à la Guerre en Irak" (read: Bernard Landry, we're telling you: No war in Iraq")
13. "America is Beautiful, Bush is not. Bush sux."
14. Looks like the Beastie Boys video "Intergalactiques Pour La Paix" (read: "Intergalactics for Peace")
15. Into the Festival of Lights by UQAM.
16. As people march in...
17. Claire in her room looking at the movie listings.
18. Nick engaged in something non-intellectual.
19. Yours truly, ready for a shower.
20. Amanda putting clothes away in her room
21. Yin in his room, ready to go out for the evening.
22. seth does disheS?
23. "It is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself."
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Google Finance
I've become a big advocate of Google. I think they truly have managed to break the hold of Microsoft and if anything, have also demonstrated the sheer power of the cliched Web 2.0. This finance site is no small potatoes either. The graphs are so simple yet so lush in data, and the rest of the pages are no different. Perhaps the most appealing feature is the portfolio which, with a Google account, lets you enter in how many shares of a stock you own and track all of its vitals in one page. I entered in my 401k breakdown and at any given time, it lets me visualise my account better than my 401k planner does.
Gastroenteritis
The stomach flu got me at the end of the year, making for the worst sickness I've felt in probably 10-15 years. Every hour, I was either on or over the toilet and at times, had to keep a bag next to the bed for those times I couldn't make it to the toilet fast enough. From what I've heard, I wasn't the only one to catch this horrible disaster in the past 2-3 weeks. I was supposed to go to Andrew's for the opening of the 7 year old time capsule and video but the stomach flu sidelined my plans (I'm finally at about 85% recovery) and for that, you are the asshole of the week.
The Smalrus Habs Rankings 2004-2005
Rankings pending...
Opus of Prince Arthur and St. Laurent, No. 03
Movement 1, September 20
Movement 2, October 18
Movement 3, November 22
Movement 4, December 20
Movement 5, January 17
Movement 6, February 21
Movement 7, March 27
Movement 8, April 17
Movement 9, CODA, May 22
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