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Conservative MP Garth Turner says he expects to be assigned an office in ”a renovated washroom somewhere in a forgotten corner of a vermin-infested dank basement” after suggesting a former Liberal resign his seat and seek re-election before taking a Tory cabinet job.

From Canada.com

my good and loyal friend for the past two years, my 4-door toyota tercel, passed away of a cracked cylinder head or blown head gasket (i’m not sure which) on sunday. he was 12 years old and had 191,732 miles (308,497 km) on the odometer.

trina, who has a penchant for giving nicknames to cars, refered to him as “toyo-san” in recognition of his japanese heritage. and true to his toyota namesake, toyo-san was one tough car. despite a rusted-out radiator, an exhaust pipe ready to fall off, only 60% compression on two cylinders, a leaked-out a/c, and a dented fender, hood, and roof, he got me to and from work every day, and took trina and i on road trips to toronto, montreal, new york, and even PEI. in fact, on one trip to toronto, two of the spark plugs inexplicably failed somewhere in the middle of upstate new york. we drove all the way from new york state to toronto, about 3 hours, on only TWO cylinders. that’s right. toyo-san was one tough mofo.

he got towed off to the scrap heap today. a moment of silence, please.

okay, so, we’re thinking of getting a new car sometime in the next little while. if anybody has suggestions, let’s hear them. right now, i think the front runners are either a certified used honda civic (one or two years old), or a scion xa. i’m leaning toward the scion, i think. and here’s a neat tool that’ll tell you how much pollution your particular car will put out. an ’04 scion xa puts out 7040 lbs of co2 over 12,500 miles, vs a prius, which puts out 4363. nifty.

23 year old man sentenced to prison for having sex with his 15 year old wife.  The key evidence is their 5-month old daughter.

Fairly huge discussion on MeFi.

So in short order the 2006 Olympics are going to get under way, and doing a little spot checking on when the Canadian Hockey team will be skating around gave me interesting results.  Very early morning interesting results.  Here’s what’s on the plate so far :

Wed  15th  Torino : 13:05  Van : 4:04am  ITA

Thur 16th  Torino : 20:05  Van : 11:05am  GER

Sat  18th  Torino : 15:35  Van : 6:35am  SUI

Sun  19th  Torino : 21:05  Van : 12:05pm  FIN

Tue  21th  Torino : 16:35  Van : 7:35am  CZE

After that, there’s anarchy for the quarter finals, but they all start between 5:30am – 12:30pm Wed 22nd Van time.

Then Semi-finals are Fri 24th at either 7:30am or noon Van time.

Bronze medal Sat 25th at 11:30am.

Gold medal Sun 26th at 5:00am.

It’s all here for you to take a look at as well.

Man, my next few weeks sleep schedule is going to be one messed up thang…

“Oh Canada,
Our home and native land,
True patriot love,
In all thy sons command.”

Snowshoeing!