Proved by this facebook stupidity that was posted on a wall:

I’ll be visiting each of the following destinations for a day or two each:

• Calgary
• Edmonton
• Jasper/Banff
• Kelowna
• Vancouver
• Seattle

Drop me a line if you have any suggestions of what to do or people to see (e.g. you).

p.s. This means I’ll be AFK for a few days.

The CRTC really needs to start opening up the market for cellular communications a little bit more. Why? Because simple economics and this example show that increased competition in this realm can only help the consumer.

For some reason the Rogers-Fido acquisition was approved at a time when Fido was aggressively cutting prices to gain market share. Wikipedia excerpt:

As an example, Fido canceled their flat rate data plan shortly after the acquisition, and with the Rogers/Fido GSM monopoly, wireless data access is very expensive in Canada ($100 / 200 MB at the “best” rate).

This left the Canadian market with only 3 major players—a similar thing happened with Clearnet back in the day. I’ve also heard down the grapevine that Rogers has an exclusive contract that locks down GSM until 2012. Way to screw the consumer.

Today is Noodlefest. It’s unfortunate that I can’t attend. I still need to get a FSM t-shirt at some point.

p.s. ILTC (I love this commercial). TB I can’t text my bff since it’s not nbd with rogers.

p.p.s. This credit card is a great way to make sure that if you pay for a first date, you won’t get a second. (Cheers Simon)

…you should not be allowed to copyright a number. It goes against the entire idea of copyright where you are trying to ENCOURAGE creation and innovation. Furthermore, preventing “curcumvention” by claiming you can’t publish a number is equally as absurd*. Therefore, the DMCA causing this is crazy. If you can copyright a number the I claim ‘e,’ ‘i,’ and ‘pi.’ Too bad… NASA can’t do anything now without paying me.

*You know what is really absurd? Giving media giants the legal power to take away the rights and protections granted to the consumer.

Update: This site has an example of why an integer as a circumvention device is absurd.

From here:

There’s also a great youtube video (song) that came out today.

I came across this post from craigslist a while back. It’s pretty funny. Here are some of my favorite parts about why girls should date geek guys:

• They’ve got brains. Come on now, how can intelligence be a bad thing?
  
• Sex. Yep. Sex. I’m not really familiar with this myself, but I’ve friends who’ve been intimate with geek guys and it’s raves all around. They say a virgin wrote the Kama Sutra… all that time thinking about sex, imagining sex, dreaming about sex, (they are male after all) coupled with a desire to make you happy? Use your imagination.
  
• They’re relatively low-maintenance. Most can be fueled on pizza, Twinkies and Mt Dew. No complicated dinners needed here, so if you’re not the best cook, eh. Can you order a pizza?
• They’re usually very well educated. Physics majors and the like. See #5. You won’t have to listen to him blathering on about his car (ok maybe a little), he’ll have loads of other interesting things to talk about. Politics, world events, how much the chicken burgers down at the local place rock, so long as you douse them in hot sauce…
• And the final reason why geeks and nerds make great boyfriends: They actually give a damn about you. Not how you look (though that’s a plus), not how skinny you are, not how much make-up you primp yourself up with, but they like you for you. That kind of thing lasts longer than “DaMN baby you got a fine ass!!!” Believe me.