In case you're wondering, these are not mine! :(

I’m still waiting for the ultimate gadget. A gadget that will combine the features and functionality of all of an mp3/video player (40 GB), storage device, voice recorder, FM radio, digital camera (at least 3 MP), software running capability, and of course a cell phone. It’s pretty much the marriage of an iPod and a PDA, on drugs. That’s not all. I expect the gadget to be lightweight, with a long battery life, and memory expandability. Oh yeah, and all this without exceeding 8 cm X 4 cm X 2 cm.

Device warns you if you're boring or irritating

It doesn’t stop there. People also give details of how their head was in the toilet all night, and how they fell down the stairs, and how they puked on the lawn, and how they made out with a chick who was so ugly she might have been a guy. All those stories are said with a sense of pride. Like these losers actually achieved something! And there’s always the confused guy who says “oh so that’s what happened that night.. I can’t remember I was totally hammered”

But why is it so natural? Why is it that in a time of life and death we choose to lag behind and save those close to us? I’m going to attempt to answer these questions in this post.

But why is it so natural? Why is it that in a time of life and death we choose to lag behind and save those close to us? I’m going to attempt to answer these questions in this post.

What? Is he trying to confuse me with letter-number combinations to the point where I’ll say “me no get it, you change thing” Well, I wasn’t going to give up that easily. I said to him “so what does the 100K oil do?” He says “it’s for cars with mileage over 100K.” Hmm, that explains it. At this point I’m starting to get skeptical here, so I say “no thanks I’ll stick to just regular oil this time.” A disappointed look was showing on his face.

Part of what makes an office is “office talk,” which is made up of typical phrases, or conversation starters that seem to be repeated in every office. I’ll give you an example. The other day I walked into the washroom to see a person looking in the mirror, yawning with arms stretched wide. I myself yawn all the time, and I expect people to yawn as well. This person though, felt like he had to explain why he was yawning by saying (a very typical office phrase) “Ahh, it’s sleepy Monday”. I’m usually not an ass, but I smiled and said “Today’s actually Tuesday”. He then replied saying (another typical phrase) “Oh yeah, time passes by so fast.”

Back in the day bread cost 50 cents.

The first thing that struck me as I was walking around the plant for the first time was the number of women that work there. Since it’s a factory, I expected to see a lot of men on the floor. Since, although stereotypical, I associate factory employees with men. I estimate that 90% of the people on the floor are women. Their job doesn’t require any heavy lifting or strenuous work and this may be the reason behind the large number of women. One engineer casually mentioned to me that women are proven to have better hand-eye coordination, and since most of their work is assembly related they make a perfect match with the job.

Allow me to give you an inside look into the amount of money spent by and engineering undergrad. When I entered university the tuition was roughly $4200 per term, which means you had to pay $8400 per school year, not including books, food, residence, parking etc. If you do the math you will find out that I will be paying roughly $10,000 for my last year with the new increase. And I’m actually quite lucky. Why you ask? Well I don’t have to live on residence and my program has an incorporated cooperative education program, which lets us work between school terms. But what about the other students? How will they be able to afford an education this expensive? I personally haven’t seen a 5% wage increase for working students over the years, and figures published yearly by the university support my observations. Furthermore, coop students are pretty much denied any OSAP funding (an interest free loan while you study) since they are seen as being well off by the university. So combining an 8% increase in tuition payment, with a constant income, and minus any financial assistance, shows how screwed some of us will be in the upcoming years.

So on Friday I started 1984, and my initial reaction was “wow, this books is sweet!” But before I got too far in the book, my “bestest” friend got me The Davinci Code. Me being me, I couldn’t help it but read the first few pages of Davinci, and that was all it took to draw me in. Plus while watching the Oscars, there was a commercial for the Davinci Code movie coming out in May, giving me more reason to the read the book first. I have tried reading two books at once before, but things got a bit confusing, so I wont try that this time.

Omar may not be exactly as shown... but pretty damn close (see below)

Q: Who’s the 4th person on your received call list?
A: Chris

Q: What’s your main ringtone on your phone?
A: Continental (just a classic ring

Q: What were you doing at midnight last night?
A: Talking to some guests that were over

Q: What did the last text message on your cell phone say
A: New offer from Rogers wireless……

Q: Whose bed did you sleep in last night?
A: My own

Q: What color shirt are you wearing?
A: White

Q: Most recent movie that you watched?
A: I re-watched Wedding Crashers

Q: Name 3 things that you have on you at all times?
A: Wallet, keys, cell

Q: What's the color of your bedsheets?
A: Navy blue

Q: How much cash do you have on you right now?
A: $40.

Q: What is your favorite part of the chicken?
A: Breast.

Q: What's your favorite town/city?
A: Montreal.

Q: I can't wait to (til)...?
A: I visit Syria.

Q: When was the last time you saw your mom?
A: 10 minutes ago.

Q: When was the last time you saw your dad?
A: 1 hour ago.

Q: When was the last time you talked to them?
A: Mom: 1 hour ago, Dad: 1 hour ago.

Q: What did you have for dinner last night?
A: kousa ou bitinjan ma7shi.

Q: How long have you been at your current job?
A: 2 months.

Q: Look to your left. What's there?
A: a bookcase and a printer, and a huge mess of stuff including anything from headphones to a calcluator.

Q: Who is the last person you spent over $50 on?
A: Some kid in Africa.

Q: Whats the last piece of clothing you borrowed from someone?
A: socks, after a water fight at university (I never returned them :D)

Q: What website(s) do you visit the most during the day?
A: Google.

Q: Do you have an air freshener in your car?
A: Two, one soccer ball and one of those maple leafs. The soccer ball is mainly for looks, since it died 10 minutes after I opened it

Q: Do you have plants in your room?
A: No but I’d like some.

Q: Does anything hurt on your body right now?
A: Yes, my shins, forehead and wrist, all from yesterday’s soccer game.

Q: What city was your last taxi cab ride in?
A: Mississauga, and the guy floored it !!

Q: Do you own a camera phone?
A: Yes

Q: What's your favorite starbucks drink?
A: Never been there, but generally speaking, cappuccino

Q: Recent time you were really upset?
A: last weekend.

Q: Have you been in love with anyone?
A: you know it

Q: Who do you think will repost this?
A: No one, hopefully

The image says it best

Newton’s Third Law: for every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction.

“... Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. “

Carl Sagan

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