people getting punched just before eating

October 15, 2007 under andy samberg, humour, snl

Dena and I stayed up late (for us) on Saturday night watching Dogma on IFC. Afterwards when we retired to the bedroom, I turned to SNL and caught the end of this weekly digital short from Andy Samberg:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9dlSDHrhR9E

Tears of laughter ensued. Jovi punch!

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internet people

September 7, 2007 under humour, Internet

All things popular on the Web up until this point in time has been captured perfectly in this single video created by Dan Meth. Get your junk-food-for-the-mind fix with this ode to Internet pop culture here:

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sad – so very sad

August 27, 2007 under Education, humour, Miss Teen South Carolina

Say what?!? Miss South Carolina attempts to answer the question as to why so many Americans cannot identify their country on a map of the world:

As a Canadian who went to university in the US, I’ve witnessed the odd results of the American education system first-hand. I did not see this in my pre-pharmacy or computer science courses at LSSU, but I did know a fair amount of other students in other majors that made me wonder how they were even accepted by the university, let alone allowed to complete their degrees. Those students would surely have been booted from a Canadian university (and probably any other university in an industrialized nation) after a single semester. I suppose it’s a testament to the saying that the US is the land of opportunity – everybody gets a chance, regardless of whether they’ve earned that chance or not.

* Answer to the Inevitable “so why did you go to university in the US?” Question
Simple – path of least resistance. Even though I was accepted into Memorial and the University of Saskatchewan, I selected LSSU because Pharmacy is much easier to get into in the US than it is in Canada. LSSU was also closer and much cheaper (even with the shitty USD/CAD exchange rate at the time). When I switched my major to Computer Science, I tried to return to Ontario. I selected 3 Ontario universities to contact to determine how I may transfer to them:

  1. UW – one of the world’s most renown universities in the fields of Computer Science and Engineering.
  2. U of T – one of Canada’s most prestigious universities and possessing very solid Computer Science program – the.
  3. Laurentian – a small university that would be very affordable and close to home, but a small Computer Science program.

All 3 universities told me that none of my credits from LSSU would transfer, thus requiring me to throw 3 semesters of education out the window and forcing me to start from scratch. So I stayed at LSSU to finish my degree, which was ok. The LSSU Department and Mathematics and Computer Science, while not having the luxury of big funding and research dollars, had a stellar faculty – the profs knew our names and would recognize us outside of class. And I met my wife there. So alls well that ends well 😉

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