Jeff's Brain Farts (til I think of a better title)

2007-07-21T20:42:00.000-07:00

So I guess I should give a quick update of my life, since it's been so long since I've written here. My sweetie and I are planning our wedding. We've changed our wedding plans quite a bit, based on changing ideas about what kind of wedding we want, where we want it, how big we want it, etc. But I think it's worth it to put a lot of effort into it, so that we'll have something worth remembering.

Eroding liberties

2006-11-04T21:37:00.000-07:00

There are times when I'm so pissed off at the whole world that I can't see straight. I can't even put into words how frustrated I feel, partially because of my own powerlessness to do more, partly because of the collective complacency in which we all wallow. Take a look at this.I will readily admit that I've had trouble verifying the truth of this article. I haven't found anything about it on

Should felons be allowed to vote?

2006-11-01T16:15:00.000-07:00

So I've been thinking about this a little bit. A little bit being about 5 minutes. I'd like some input to help me think about it more. The link that I hope shows up is from Time Magazine, and it's about American felons, but I think we can apply the same argument here.Do you think felons should be allowed to vote? Why or why not?Part of me thinks they shouldn't. Like the article says, if

Jeff's Brain Farts (til I think of a better title)

2006-09-24T21:12:00.000-07:00

This article appeared in the Calgary Sun, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2006I think everyone should read this, and consider for themselves how the political climate in the Land of the Free is progressing. By ERIC MARGOLISIn the late 1980s, I was the first western journalist allowed into the world’s most dreaded prison, Moscow’s sinister Lubyanka. Muscovites dared not even utter the name of KGB’s headquarters

Religious Extremism, Overzealousness

2006-02-12T02:46:00.000-07:00

I've been reading a lot in the news about rioting happening, mostly in countries known for harboring Muslim extremists, as a result of insulting cartoons originally published in the Danish newspaper Jylland-Posten. I can understand how offensive it is to see Western media mock one's religion. I've witnessed mockery of my own religious beliefs by media, the entertainment industry and North

5 weird habits

2005-12-29T01:45:00.000-07:00

The game is called Five weird habits about yourself. The rules are: Start with the topic "Five Weird Habits of Yourself," and then tag 5 people, who then have to write an entry about their five quirky little habits, as well as state the rules of this game clearly, and then list the next 5 people they want to tag.Five weird habits of mine are: I prefer to eat cereals that don't float, so I don't

2005-11-06T02:22:00.000-07:00

OK, I know it's been awhile. Hang on, lemme try to think up a good excuse for why I haven't written anything in awhile. I'd have to say... I've been phenomenally lazy. Well, that and my computer was having major problems for a long time. And I've been taking off to go see my favourite woman every chance I get. But by and large, I've just been going through a serious bout of apathy. I'll try

Life-size board game

2005-04-29T00:49:00.000-07:00

Ok, I don't have much to tell you about my life right now. Oh, I just recently applied to the John Howard Society to be a literacy tutor. So I'm gonna teach ex-cons how to read. I'm looking forward to making some worthwhile contribution to society; I'll keep you posted.Here's another one of my amazing, must-see links: The World is a brilliant idea thought up by people in the United Arab

buying stuff from an elderly dead woman, and spying on my friends

2005-04-17T12:37:00.000-07:00

Ok, so most of you already know, and a lot of you don't really care, but I moved again. If you're losing track, this is the second time this year I've moved. I moved 2 doors down the street, so it wasn't too tough, and I'm on my own, in a bachelor suite. It's great. As soon as I get some more furniture, everyone needs to come visit. And I mean everyone. Well, except for you. I've got a

Breast Cancer Research

2005-04-14T16:29:00.000-07:00

Please tell ten friends to tell ten today! The Breast Cancer site is havingtrouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota ofdonating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman .It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on "donating amammogram" for free (pink window in the middle). This doesn't cost you athing. Their corporate sponsors/

Way Downtown

2005-02-07T17:41:00.000-07:00

So I've been in the new place for about a week and a half now. I love living downtown so far; it's neat when I forget where I live now, then remember and realize I can go outside and be downtown right away. I'm not sure if all of you will really know what I'm talking about, but I've always found downtown therapeutic. The cool thing about the city is, even though you're surrounded by crowds of

Trapped in Paradise

2005-01-22T21:25:00.000-07:00

As I hinted to some of you in a friend's blog, I definitely do have blog-worthy news happening in my life lately. Well, not so much news as just a lot of stuff going on that has really caused me to reflect on my own mortality, and how much I value the relationships I have with my family. A couple weeks ago, my Grandfather had at least two very serious strokes. He's now in the hospital, and

Just when I thought I'd seen and heard it all...

2004-12-15T01:19:00.000-07:00

Ok, this is a new one for me. I've been around enough I know how assumptions and speculation can get out of hand, and lead to idiotic rumours, but I've never been the subject of any of this, as far as I know, until now. I was having a chat about people at work with one of my co-workers tonight, when he mentioned that "some of the guys" think I'm gay. I said something like, "Bluhhhhh??" I said

2004-11-30T03:27:00.000-07:00

I sort of hate people right now. No, no, not all people. Just the stupid people. I was really interested in this Greatest Canadian dealie and was following it's progress. Not because I actually think we can decide who the "greatest Canadian" is, but just to get an idea of people's impressions. I honestly had no idea people in this country were so ignorant about their own country and their

2004-11-27T01:25:00.000-07:00

I've most likely got something relatively big happening in the relatively near future. I can't really say what it is on here, cuz it's sort of sensitive, but ask me if you're really curious, and I'll decide whether or not you're worthy enough to find out about news in my life. Actually, a bunch of people know already, so this post will seem anti-climactic to some. In other news.. I'm just

2004-11-15T17:08:00.000-07:00

Ok, I want everyone to read this book right now. Buy it, borrow it, or steal it (not from me) or I'll chase after you tackle you and tape your eyes open til you do read it. It's heartening to know that intelligent satire still exists in our world, no matter what point of the political spectrum you live on.

2004-09-21T19:50:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I'm going to sort of piece this rant together from a conversation I had with Tricky. Therefore, it may sound a bit convoluted, and disjointed. But, I know you're smart enough to deal with that. But for the purpose of making myself sound smart, I will try to fix up everything I said in the chat, so you'll think I just pulled this out of my hat. Tricky and I were talking about another

2004-06-07T02:33:00.000-07:00

It's my new, and unintentional goal to communicate entirely using quizzes from Quizilla and other similar sites. I got the same results that a friend of mine got, which sort of bugs me. I wanted to be different and weird, but Proverbs is good. Better that than one of the obscure really weird ones. I don't think I'd want to be Numbers. Isaiah would be cool. What do i have to do to be Isaiah?

2004-06-04T18:18:00.000-07:00

yes, i know i'm a lazy bastard. But this is better than nothing, isn't it? If you really want to know what's going on in my life, phone me up, or email me or something.. or better yet, come over to my house. Saw this on Boblog, and i thought it looked interesting.. I don't think it's really that accurate, but i'm sort of partially German.. kind of. Not really. Anyways, enjoy! Germany -

2004-06-03T09:57:00.000-07:00

Mean lil fellow, arn't you? What Monty Python Character are you? brought to you by Quizilla Ya, i know this is a lame excuse for posting. Guess some of you want me to actually write something, eh? Oh well, Too bad.

2004-06-01T20:39:00.000-07:00

You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission in life is not already topreserve the English tongue, it should be.Congratulations and thank you! How grammatically sound are you? brought to you by Quizilla

2004-05-21T19:24:00.000-07:00

What Famous Leader Are You?personality tests by similarminds.com I'd rather be someone cool and badass, but this is ok, i guess.

2004-05-19T22:40:00.000-07:00

Ok so this was weird. All of the following happened to me last night. I'm not sure how much sense this will make, and it might not sound believable. Anyways: So i was at Eau Claire market last night, just wandering around, staring at stuff.. As i was going up the escalator, the guy going down the escalator beside me sort of happened to look at me for a sec. I looked at him, and thought, gee

2004-05-09T01:21:00.000-07:00

Abortion?:If women really want to have control over their own bodies, they should have enough control to keep their legs closed, or just accept the consequences. That only applies to women who have had consensual sex, especially if they did it with someone they're in a stable relationship with. I sound like an ass if i say i don't support abortion for women who were raped, and of course i

2004-05-09T00:34:00.000-07:00

Harmony. It's inner peace for you, or at leasttrying to find it. The shell you live your lifein is akin to monks of old. You'd be morecomfortable if things were less stressed andmade a little more sense, so you try to getjust that. You survive the end by not lettingit happen. You didn't stop it, but yousupported those who did. I'm glad you took abreak from meditation to take the quiz... How

2004-02-18T04:31:00.000-07:00

Here's an interesting chat I had with Bob the other day: Jeffypoo-988-8658 says: check this out.. I changed my pic from just the one of me with my hat to both of those.. Jeffypoo-988-8658 says: my rating's now the lowest it's ever been, which is fine.. whatever. I changed it cuz I got bored.. but now it seems the number of women who are willing to meet me are noticeably hotter (by society's

2004-01-05T03:20:00.000-07:00

What Famous Leader Are You?

2004-01-05T02:09:00.000-07:00

INFP - "Questor". High capacity for caring. Emotional face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population. Take Free Myers-Briggs Personality Test Conscious self Overall self Take Free Enneagram Personality Test Enneagram Test Results Type 1 Perfectionism |||||||||||| 42% Type 2 Helpfulness ||||||||||||||||

2003-09-16T21:43:00.000-07:00

Hi there. I've got almost nothing at all to tell you. Still working at the same job. It's ok some days, really sucky other days. I still want to go to China, but don't know when I'm going to go. I miss having my own place more and more. I'm not entirely sure why that is. I think it's cuz of a bunch of small reasons. The only really big news I have is that I got a new personal best score

2003-07-29T19:56:00.000-07:00

Alright, you want more? Fine then. I'm blogging again. Whiny little bastards, all of you. I actually meant to get around to this earlier, but that doesn't seem to matter as far as how much stuff I actually get done. Biggest news of late is when I went to BC for my brother's wedding. I had an absolutely wonderful time there. Honestly, if I won the lottery or something like that, I would

2003-07-03T21:43:00.000-07:00

Wow, this is weird. New look to blogger. Guess you'd have to see it from my point of view. So I finally got my lazy ass outside to do the weedpulling that landlord had asked me to do a week ago. I went out about 10pm, when it was still just barely light enough to see what I was doing. I found one weed, yanked it out, then walked around the yard looking for more. There were a small thicket

2003-06-18T20:25:00.000-07:00

Sorry about that. I believe I messed up with the code or something like that. Going to try this one more time. btw, I don't know why there aren't separate paragraphs in the last post. I separated them when I was writing. Thanks to Sarah, and now, also to Will for technical assistance. Picture I Took

2003-06-18T20:15:00.000-07:00

Gee whiz, it's been awhile since I've been back here. Sorry about that. So it turns out I have one or two fans; I've been catching a lot of flak for not writing more often. Thanks for that, eh. It's nice to be noticed. Who out there is familiar with the book/movie Christine by Stephen King? This nerdy teenager buys an old car, fixes it up, and the car's possessed and starts killing people.

2003-05-28T02:47:00.000-07:00

I'm working on writing. I'ts strange, I find I always dislike the idea of expending effort to sit down, organize my thoughts and blog, but when I get into it, I'm glad I do it. Essentially, I think that's the main obstacle in my path. I don't think not wanting to offend anyone has much to do with it, though. I mean, there is some stuff I can't/won't talk about, because there is some stuff I'm

2003-05-24T00:40:00.000-07:00

I'm really enjoying the good weather. I like to make myself out to be the type who can handle nasty weather, especially since some people still think I'm a weather wuss from BC, but I gotta admit, I love nice sunny skies and plus 30 temperature. Actually if it can get up to 40ish, that's really neat, cuz then I'm still fine and I experience schadenfreude (sp?) watching people around me wilt

2003-05-15T02:21:00.000-07:00

Oh by the way... everyone else should start blogging. It's super annoying, just because I'm slacking off in my writing, that everyone else thinks they have the right to do the same. You were all put on this earth to entertain me, and you're not producing nearly as much as you should be. So very annoying... But when you do hork out something, I always love reading it.

2003-05-15T02:19:00.000-07:00

So I went and saw The Matrix Reloaded tonight. Holy cow, it's amazing. I can't really tell you much more than that it's amazing, cuz I'll have to see it a few more times before the depth in the movie starts to sink in. But I can tell you that it's really deep; there's a lot of philosophy in it, and if you're into that kind of stuff you'll get a lot out of it. Of course, if you just want a

2003-04-30T04:43:00.000-07:00

So the comment thing seems to be working. click on the link at the bottom of whatever post you want to lambaste, and type away. Many thanks to Kasper for setting that up for me.

2003-04-29T03:32:00.000-07:00

I really hate not being able to sleep, especially when I have to work in just under eight hours. I guess that's ok, though. I got about five hours sleep last night, and I got called into work at the same time. I had to work by myself for most of the day too, which really blows. Washing dishes by yourself sucks; I'd rather have three times as much work to do with one other person than less

2003-04-23T05:34:00.000-07:00

I hate neglecting my blog for long periods of time, yet I still do it. I don't know why. Anyways, lemme see what's been going on in my life. I just got a couple T-4's in the mail. They're late cuz they were redirected from my old place in Ontario. I did a bit of math and figured out that I made a grand total of a little over $6000 last year. How very very sad is that. I got another letter

2003-04-18T03:07:00.000-07:00

I am so lazy. Will blog soon, promise. soon being... someday.

2003-04-01T03:51:00.000-07:00

My hands smell funny. I don't know why. I hate it when that happens. So gross.

2003-04-01T03:45:00.000-07:00

Ok, I'm going to get the big stuff over with first of all, cuz it's foremost in my head. Don't worry, nothing traumatic like getting mugged. I've been trying to formulate in my head a coherent argument against the war in Iraq, and I've been having trouble, partly because I was trying to argue on the same terms as the pro-war camp. Obviously, I'm against war because it involves killing people,

2003-03-24T06:10:00.000-07:00

I had a conversation with a friend earlier this morning. Here it is. if anyone has any questions after this, they're welcome to email, IM or phone me - whatever they want, and I'll be more than happy to answer any questions. But if I have to repeat the same story over and over again, I'll definitely strangle someone. Tricky: aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee jeffypoo: hey Tricky: sup?

2003-03-19T05:02:00.000-07:00

My room smells funny. I don't know why, or of what, but it does. Nothing really exciting to report at the moment. I went and saw Agent Cody Banks. I dunno why. The movie sucks, but I was surprised to see someone in it that I know from high school, so that was interesting. My nostalgic longing for British Columbia seems to be growing stronger. That really bothers me, cuz I want to be

2003-03-13T03:17:00.000-07:00

Here's my latest adventures. Nitz and I went to Sev last night for munchies. we both got a couple hot dogs, and I got a chocolate bar, and Nitz got a cup of sugar with Coffee. As we were loitering around inside the store, we noticed flashing lights coming from outside, which turned out to be lights on a couple cop cars. Then we noticed a guy standing right by the phone booth outside the store

2003-03-09T03:38:00.000-07:00

Hey, you know what's really fun about living in a house with a bunch of other guys? When you're in the shower and you're using the soap, and there's lots of hair on it. You can play a little game with yourself. The trick is not so much guessing who that hair came from, but what part of their body it came from. So the past couple days have been absolutely freezing. It went down to -29 last

2003-03-08T16:18:00.000-07:00

Ignore this. this is a test.

2003-02-28T01:14:00.000-07:00

crappage. ok, I'll do it the easy way. www.tatugirls.com

2003-02-28T01:13:00.000-07:00

Sorry about the technical difficulties in the last post. I could've sworn I inserted the link correctly. Take two:

2003-02-28T00:59:00.000-07:00

I probably should mentioned this earlier, but it was just sort of floating around in the back of my head. Ok, first a little background information so that you won't be completely in the dark. There's this band called Tatu, which is two cute chicks from Russia who do yer basic modern pop, dancey style music. During their performances, they smooch each other. I imagine most heterosexual guys

2003-02-27T00:51:00.000-07:00

So I decided to do something halfway productive tonight. The two most obvious choices are posting here, and washing the huge pile of dishes, most of which belongs to me. So, here I am. Hang on, intermission while I make a Sev-run with "the guys". Ok, there was no Sev-run. That's been postponed til Nitz gets home. Big news of late is, I just bought a new monitor. 19" ADI Microscan. I've

2003-02-06T00:30:00.000-07:00

Two things I'm going to mention. I don't plan on making this a long post, but then again, plans mean nothing to me. Fairly recently I've had some of my worldviews seriously challenged. This is a source of serious inner turmoil to me, because I like to think I keep better informed and am more openminded about what's going on in the world around me. One serious shortcoming I have that makes this

2003-02-05T04:51:00.000-07:00

I'm not totally sure how to word what I want to say. As usual, I'll figure it out as I go along. For the past few years, I've gone through the epic struggle that many people my age have gone through - that is, the struggle to find and achieve whatever career will make me feel somewhat useful, fairly fulfilled, and reasonably reimbursed for my efforts. It's been a big thing for me, actually. I

2003-02-02T01:30:00.000-07:00

Well, today was sure a fascinating day. Nitz woke me up around 9ish to tell me that the space shuttle Columbia had exploded. Some of you might be phenomenally annoyed if someone did that to you, but I'm a news junkie, and I always like to keep on top of that stuff, so i was glad that he did it. Needless to say, I reacted the way most people have, with shock and horror. In a small way, I found

2003-01-28T00:08:00.000-07:00

I'm not totally sure what to talk about. There's nothing really major going on in my life right now. I've found a couple new people to chat with, which is always neat. I'm not usually the type to go out looking for people, so I don't know what inspired me this time. I'm working on fixing my sleep schedule, so I wake up sometime in the morning, and go to bed sometime when it's still dark at

2003-01-21T20:52:00.000-07:00

I think this may be one of the times in my life I'll look back on with fondness. I'm living in a city I love in a house with a bunch of really awesome guys, and I have almost nothing to worry about. There have been a few times in my life like this, and I know they're too rare to ignore. Of course, there's the usual thorns in my side, just anything in my life that makes it less than perfect.

2003-01-17T15:03:00.000-07:00

This is really weird. Some of you may know, I'm writing in another blog. I'd rather not stoop to advertising here, so if anyone's interested in reading it, email me. A couple friends and I are doing a creative writing type deal on it with varying amounts of success, at least for my part. The first couple times, it seemed so much easier to write in that blog than it did in this one, but for

2003-01-09T03:07:00.000-07:00

Just a quick note to tide everyone over, because I know you yearn to know the piddly details of my life. I wrote a post the afternoon of the day before yesterday, and it still hasn't shown up. I mean, when I log in here to write more stuff, it shows up, but when I go to the site like everyone else would, it's not there. that's super annoying. So, I'm going to watch a movie with Nitz now.

2003-01-07T15:38:00.000-07:00

I am so very very tired. But I have a good reason for being tired. For some strange reason, my boss only gave me one day off this week, and because I didn't get around to trying to change it, and because I always like to make more money, I just accepted it. So after work last night, I stayed up til an obscene hour, and ended up getting about only four hours sleep. The way I see it is, if I

2002-12-30T02:15:00.000-07:00

There was a little incident the other night at work that irked me tremendously. Actually, many things at work irk me. For reasons I'm working on discovering, some things that seem to bother others don't bother me so much, but other little things that most others don't even care about annoy the hell out of me. By the way, I don't know how many people know this, but for the uninformed few, I

2002-12-28T02:12:00.000-07:00

Well, I guess I have to keep going. For some reason I kept putting off writing another entry; I really don't know why. I'm experiencing a huge writer's block right now. I hope everyone had a great Christmas. Mine was good, although what some might consider unconventional. Since I've been unable to afford to travel home to my parents' for the holidays (home being the Southern Interior of BC)

2002-12-24T02:21:00.000-07:00

ya, so I had written a fairly lengthy post filled with everything from new Christmas presents I bought myself to pontifications about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but when I tried to post it, I got this retarded error msg. How annoying. So I'll just wish everyone a great Christmas and fantastic new year. And for those who take it upon themselves to critique my prose just remember, I

2002-12-22T01:45:00.000-07:00

Ok, I gotta warn all of you. This could really suck, cuz I haven't written, I mean really written anything since the Dead sea was just sick (one of my brother's puns). Hopefully I'll get better. Um, lemme think what's going on so far. I want money. Lots of it. I want to go back to school. Washing dishes is lame. I should have a real job by now. I can't go home for Christmas which blows