Archive for March, 2007
My Heritage Celebrity Collage
This My Heritage link has been passed along Facebook the last little while. What the site does is take a photo of your and uses facial recognition to find the face in the photo. It then compares it to their database of celebrity faces. So here is my results…
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Not sure how Portia Derossi fits into the equation… At least I only had one female match, not like Norman’s.
Passport Madness
Naghmeh forwarded me a funny letter today. I really don’t understand the reason for all the hoops one has to jump to renew an “official” document in our country. It’s like they sit up in a box above eating their popcorn and having a blast. I don’t know the origin of this letter, but I got a kick out of it.
The Letter
Dear Mr. Minister,
I’m in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe
this. How is it that Radio Shack has my address and telephone number and
knows that I bought a t.v. cable from them back in 1997, and yet the
Federal Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date.
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on my social insurance card, is on all the income tax forms I’ve filed
for the past 30 years, my health insurance card, my driver’s license, on
the last eight bloody passports I’ve had, on all those stupid customs
declaration forms I’ve had to fill out before being allowed off the
planes over the last 30 years, and all those insufferable census forms
that are done at election times.
Hodgkin’s Survivor
My friend Ted’s daughter Chaya was featured on CBC news on today on a story about Hodgkin’s lymphoma survivors.
[googlevideo]http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-3621676924890758575[/googlevideo]
I’ll see if I can find a better quality version.
The article by CBC can be found here.
What is Hodgkin’s Lymphoma?
According to The Canadian Cancer Society website:
Hodgkin lymphoma is a cancer that starts in the cells of the lymphatic system. Cancers of the lymphatic system are called lymphomas. The lymphatic system helps to protect the body from disease. It is a network of channels (the lymphatics) that run alongside the arteries and veins in the body, and bean-shaped glands (lymph nodes) in the neck, armpits, chest, abdomen and groin. The lymphatics carry a clear fluid called lymph to and from the tissues of the body. Lymph contains special cells called lymphocytes that help fight infection. These cells are produced in the lymph nodes and in other parts of the body such as the spleen and the bone marrow. Waste materials, bacteria and unwanted cells, including cancer cells, are filtered out as lymph passes through the lymph nodes
Dance to Inspire, Inspire to Dance
Being able to dance seemed to have skipped me for some reason. My parents ball-room, my sister is in hip-hop dance groups… me? I dance like a stick thrown into a river… rigid and bobbing randomly. Eddie Uehara has made a few videos with some moving quotes. Read the rest of this entry »
Mario, Luigi… WTF??
At the During the Game Developer ’s Choice Awards (yes, there is such a event), Tim Schafer showed off the latest Mega 64 video featuring a special guest star… Read the rest of this entry »