five for friday

stuck in the apartment for hopefully the last time. they have found the underlying problem with the elevator, which is very good, and the last part of it is being fixed today.

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a squirrel waiting for his closeup fabulous photo.
the vintage moth fantastic photos in the public domain, useable for crafts and other things of that sort.

five part program about the 'hobbits', viewable online.

basking shark's winter habitat found i'm so ridiculously squeeful about this. i remember them from 'planet earth' and 'blue planet: seas of life.'

kind of tired. got up a bit earlier than i would have liked to put the kidlet on the bus because Chris's team is going on a field trip to see the new star trek movie. my knees hurt.

how are you?

reannon reminded me of this

when i was fifteen i went to Ottawa (Canada's federal capital) and among other things we toured the Parliament buildings and we sat in on a session. That day they were discussing some ... i think it was sexist, it was somehow offensive anyway ... remark that the Fisheries minister had made. (yes, in Canadian politics we have a fisheries minister. for more fun ask me about the 1995/96 turbot war.) and i remember thinking that this was insanely stupid. i had been expecting, you know, actual law being discussed. (i was young and obviously had lived a sheltered life.)

That was a long time before i moved to the States. and obviously this sort of thing hasn't changed.

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And if five minutes (not to mention the Fox News headline "obama murders cow to eat pagan lunch" wasn't enough) (no, they really said that) wasn't bad enough, Sean Hannity (who i guess is some Republican talking head?) took issue with the condiment in question.

i can't even blame Free Trade for this.*

* (Canadian readers may remember the gigantic fuss the Free Trade talks were (ZOMG the americans will take away our distinct nation status (or was that just Quebec whining?) and NAFTA was worse, of course)