It all started out fairly innocently... I went to the pool to run some shark attack drills to prepare for my upcoming trip to tropical shark infested waters. Unfortunately there was a geezer aqua-fit class sharing the pool who claimed to be distracted by the honest and hardworking shark drills being run by our hero. Simple drills... holding breath, circling underwater remaining calm striking precise strategic blows to an imaginary four foot sensitive snout. Then there was the escape from the area as quickly as possible as quietly as possible... no need to give the sign of a struggle.
Apparently you are not allowed to film in a public pool, which of course puts a real thorn in the concept of studying your stealth escape technique. Once again some of my great "outside the box" thinking was being stomped on by loose rules and senior unrest over the idea of a shark in the pool.
If you can't beat them join then right? Now don't get me wrong, i feel old, there is no doubt my decline is well underway... but in the senior aqua-fit class i was a superstar... hell i could lift my arms out of the water. And they actually really liked me... i was providing energy to the group and there were smiles all around... i was deeking around the class bouncing in the water flapping my arms like a chicken... everybody was having a ball, smiles all around.
Of course in my mind there was a shark stalking me and i was using the senior citizens as plump decoys in my evasive escape. Maintaining control and momentum in the water is a hard game and it can only get harder when one factors in the rip tides and fire coral. But hey dancing around the blue hairs in a pool is good for the confidence.
My real problem was later in the hot tub when we were all just palling around and they started attacking Obamacare.... the problem is they don't know what the fuck they are talking about. You see Obamacare doesn't affect me because i have good health care... really for the U.S.A. i have good health care. It kind of happens that way when your wife works for one of the leading health science centers in the country. Now, i don't know everything, and i know that Obamacare could be much better, but these people, they don't know anything. They are trying to organize a protest in the hot tub but they haven't heard anything. For example old man is on Kaiser plan and on Medicade... now I'm pretty sure he is not affected and so is he as he has not heard anything but he was at home depot and there were cop cars everywhere and of course he had to ask why and apparently it was because they had to lay off 10 full time employees because of Obamacare. So i took that bait arguing on the fact of "how much money Home Depot makes", and they really can't afford health care, or is it the shareholders that need profit, more of it. It was a silly uninformed debate that ended with them telling me i was lucky to have Canada, but then i reminded them that you pay more taxes in Canada, and remember paying more taxes is worse than anything no matter what the outcome... i think they missed that point, but i had to leave anyway.
So it was cloudy the next day so obviously i went out to the airport for some eye training... i figured spotting a plane trough a cloud would be analogous to spotting a shark far off in the shadowy ocean. The only problem is they want you to pay for parking in the discount lot, and truth be told you can hear the damn planes before you can see them which helps the eye cheat.
Moving on to other things what do we have? Oh yes in the news some Tory MP made a direct link between climate change and extreme weather events. This is kind of incredible given that the Canadian Conservative Party has been a staunch denier of clear scientific thought for such a long time and has spent much of it time in power dismantling and decimating scientific information.
Now you have to wonder what the play here is? Might be a safe bet that a winnable majority of the voting public might forget the past and think that if the Conservative government were to be elected again they could fight climate change by putting more middle class workers out of work and funneling more money into oil exploration, TV adds and security scares.
It's hard to know, it makes doing shark attack drills in a public pool during a senior citizen aqua-fit class look sane.
So what else... Watched the last 3 Vancouver Canucks games and it is incredible how that team can blow a game. I mean at least the Leafs get their balls stomped in games they have no business winning, but the Canucks, they deserve to win the game and then they goat it away with some weak play at the very end.
For me, been keeping off the Facebook... now i log out and i find myself so often at the log in page... i don't even know how i got there. It's a hard nut to crack... but when i get to the log in page i just don't log in... part of me wants to complain about how little good comes from it, but there is some good and i feel like i need to take responsibility for my Facebook. My Facebook friends are a collection that is unique to me, right? So it's kind of something that represents me... taking careful strides here... I don't know if it's a cultural thing, or a human thing or a we have been on the Internet for a while thing, but i have to say, i see little comedy and little of interest bloated around rare instances of things i care about. And that's the thing, i think napalming the facebook account is a bad knee-jerk reaction to an unsatisfied experience. Why not just control yourself from not wasting your time there, because it is you that is there looking for something that does not exist... I'm talking to myself here of course.
Sure it's nice to see things, but it's the same argument as having cable TV and a big screen TV or a smart phone. And my point is that is you at home watching TV , or you in the park checking your phone, or you in your house checking your Facebook to see if anything interesting is happening. You see the thing is my kids are getting older and are starting to call me out for spending time on the computer. Hell they are right! Obviously if i had the skills to operate a smart phone in discretion i would be OK but i missed the boat. As a parent it is unacceptable for me to be looking online at something that doesn't really matter when we could be doing something different.
That's why I'm throwing down with twitter... i hated the name originally and wanted to blood any bastard that felt the need to tweet, it sounded weak given my Scarborough upbringing. We are all just stardust in this other universe, and i think the trick is to not lose your life in the pastimes in which you spend them. Of course i am talking about myself an myself only here... i spent too much time on facebook last year and while it was nice to see some things and have some interactions, on the whole my participation was a net negative as far as i can see. Clearly i need to control myself, so that's what i will do. As for now i can tweet without much repercussion, it's faster and i like the character limit, makes one think. Not sure i care if people follow me, to be in a game is all i really ask.
Clearly i prefer blogging, but people don't have time for that... apparently. That's fine, i never really wanted to change the world, i just wanted to change myself. When you post something on the Internet it becomes part of you, or at least your image, and i prefer the idea of an explanation of why you feel the way you feel over a status update any day. Not to say that it's not fun to pass notes in the class of life, but i think i need some time in the principals office, just like the old days.
Apparently you are not allowed to film in a public pool, which of course puts a real thorn in the concept of studying your stealth escape technique. Once again some of my great "outside the box" thinking was being stomped on by loose rules and senior unrest over the idea of a shark in the pool.
If you can't beat them join then right? Now don't get me wrong, i feel old, there is no doubt my decline is well underway... but in the senior aqua-fit class i was a superstar... hell i could lift my arms out of the water. And they actually really liked me... i was providing energy to the group and there were smiles all around... i was deeking around the class bouncing in the water flapping my arms like a chicken... everybody was having a ball, smiles all around.
Of course in my mind there was a shark stalking me and i was using the senior citizens as plump decoys in my evasive escape. Maintaining control and momentum in the water is a hard game and it can only get harder when one factors in the rip tides and fire coral. But hey dancing around the blue hairs in a pool is good for the confidence.
My real problem was later in the hot tub when we were all just palling around and they started attacking Obamacare.... the problem is they don't know what the fuck they are talking about. You see Obamacare doesn't affect me because i have good health care... really for the U.S.A. i have good health care. It kind of happens that way when your wife works for one of the leading health science centers in the country. Now, i don't know everything, and i know that Obamacare could be much better, but these people, they don't know anything. They are trying to organize a protest in the hot tub but they haven't heard anything. For example old man is on Kaiser plan and on Medicade... now I'm pretty sure he is not affected and so is he as he has not heard anything but he was at home depot and there were cop cars everywhere and of course he had to ask why and apparently it was because they had to lay off 10 full time employees because of Obamacare. So i took that bait arguing on the fact of "how much money Home Depot makes", and they really can't afford health care, or is it the shareholders that need profit, more of it. It was a silly uninformed debate that ended with them telling me i was lucky to have Canada, but then i reminded them that you pay more taxes in Canada, and remember paying more taxes is worse than anything no matter what the outcome... i think they missed that point, but i had to leave anyway.
So it was cloudy the next day so obviously i went out to the airport for some eye training... i figured spotting a plane trough a cloud would be analogous to spotting a shark far off in the shadowy ocean. The only problem is they want you to pay for parking in the discount lot, and truth be told you can hear the damn planes before you can see them which helps the eye cheat.
Moving on to other things what do we have? Oh yes in the news some Tory MP made a direct link between climate change and extreme weather events. This is kind of incredible given that the Canadian Conservative Party has been a staunch denier of clear scientific thought for such a long time and has spent much of it time in power dismantling and decimating scientific information.
Now you have to wonder what the play here is? Might be a safe bet that a winnable majority of the voting public might forget the past and think that if the Conservative government were to be elected again they could fight climate change by putting more middle class workers out of work and funneling more money into oil exploration, TV adds and security scares.
It's hard to know, it makes doing shark attack drills in a public pool during a senior citizen aqua-fit class look sane.
So what else... Watched the last 3 Vancouver Canucks games and it is incredible how that team can blow a game. I mean at least the Leafs get their balls stomped in games they have no business winning, but the Canucks, they deserve to win the game and then they goat it away with some weak play at the very end.
For me, been keeping off the Facebook... now i log out and i find myself so often at the log in page... i don't even know how i got there. It's a hard nut to crack... but when i get to the log in page i just don't log in... part of me wants to complain about how little good comes from it, but there is some good and i feel like i need to take responsibility for my Facebook. My Facebook friends are a collection that is unique to me, right? So it's kind of something that represents me... taking careful strides here... I don't know if it's a cultural thing, or a human thing or a we have been on the Internet for a while thing, but i have to say, i see little comedy and little of interest bloated around rare instances of things i care about. And that's the thing, i think napalming the facebook account is a bad knee-jerk reaction to an unsatisfied experience. Why not just control yourself from not wasting your time there, because it is you that is there looking for something that does not exist... I'm talking to myself here of course.
Sure it's nice to see things, but it's the same argument as having cable TV and a big screen TV or a smart phone. And my point is that is you at home watching TV , or you in the park checking your phone, or you in your house checking your Facebook to see if anything interesting is happening. You see the thing is my kids are getting older and are starting to call me out for spending time on the computer. Hell they are right! Obviously if i had the skills to operate a smart phone in discretion i would be OK but i missed the boat. As a parent it is unacceptable for me to be looking online at something that doesn't really matter when we could be doing something different.
That's why I'm throwing down with twitter... i hated the name originally and wanted to blood any bastard that felt the need to tweet, it sounded weak given my Scarborough upbringing. We are all just stardust in this other universe, and i think the trick is to not lose your life in the pastimes in which you spend them. Of course i am talking about myself an myself only here... i spent too much time on facebook last year and while it was nice to see some things and have some interactions, on the whole my participation was a net negative as far as i can see. Clearly i need to control myself, so that's what i will do. As for now i can tweet without much repercussion, it's faster and i like the character limit, makes one think. Not sure i care if people follow me, to be in a game is all i really ask.
Clearly i prefer blogging, but people don't have time for that... apparently. That's fine, i never really wanted to change the world, i just wanted to change myself. When you post something on the Internet it becomes part of you, or at least your image, and i prefer the idea of an explanation of why you feel the way you feel over a status update any day. Not to say that it's not fun to pass notes in the class of life, but i think i need some time in the principals office, just like the old days.
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