Palin's new gig: Improvisational Jazz Singer

While we're jazzing things up:
Funny, made me lol.

The hell that is CPSC

I have a pretty hefty operating system assignment due on Friday. So last night I check the prof's website for tips and as I’m going through the marking scheme for the assignment I realize that the prof hasn’t been able to do the assignment himself. However the funniest part of the whole thing is the last paragraph :

This was truly an evil and nasty assignment. My fault. Way too much
to handle in the short time available. If anyone came up with a complete
and brilliant solution, please allocate 5 bonus marks, and let them
teach this course next year!

Lols all around. Carey’s awesome.

Catch phrase of the month: Pulling a Sarah Marshall

To pull a Sarah Marshall or to Sarah Marshall someone is defined as:

Ditching a long term significant other for someone completely different, only to go back to them when they start seeing someone else.


Now if enough people watch the movie, I can see this catching on.

Untitled.

(I should probably thank Reza for the intro rather than making fun of his spelling but one is infinitely more fun than the other.)

Today's Motivation:


(Also fits the spirit of this blog at the moment.)

And in the same spirit, seeing as it's Tuesday.... wine and cheese anyone?

Two new writers!

The Fort is proud to announce that we have two amazing new writers: Beth and Lisa.

These two lovely ladies live above us and will contribute to the blog from now on. I won`t say much about them cause they can do a better job of that.

However I will say that it`s going to be different reading posts without spelling mistakse for once.

Welcome ladies, it`s nice to have the upstrairs unit on board.

Top worst 5 music videos I've come across on youtube.

5:
Any music video from the 70s that has a guy in his 30s, sporting a mustache and tights qualifies. Hot Indian chicks and the catchy tune are a plus, but there's something unsettling about the keyboardist that just makes this so bad it's good.



4:
I couldn't watch more than 10 seconds of this, so if gets any better I'm sorry. It's probably a fake music video too.



3:
Your mama's on crack rock! no my mama's on rehab yo!



2:
This one is not actually a music video, but it's by far one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. I thought it was fake at first but sonseed was an actual band in the 80s. I read somewhere the band broke up 5-6 years later, Sal (vocal, bassist) divorced his wife( keyboard) and now lives alone and is very bald. Not sure if he's still friends with Jesus.



1:
I'm not sure about the story behind this one, but apparently this is not a joke. The woman in this video was very serious about what she was doing. I think she's cute.

Distracted Driving Laws

Oh December. This month brings many things - advent calendars, awkward holiday parties, hopefully some snow to go with the cold - but to Ontario, December also marks the start of a ban on using cell phones while driving.

“To illustrate his point, [Bradley] hopped into a driving simulator while making a cellphone call with one hand on the wheel, ended up going the wrong way and crashed into a wall.”

- Toronto Star

I totally see a point here. Unfortunately, I don’t think the point that Transportation Minister Jim Bradley was trying to make was that he is, in fact, a complete idiot.


Initially, this ban might seem to be a stellar idea. There's been a few times I've nearly ended up in a flaming wreck at the side of the 401 when someone decides that checking their text messages is more important than checking their blind spot. Unfortunately, this ban doesn't cover 'hands-free' devices, because that'd be too hard to enforce. Police can't tell the difference between someone singing along to the radio, talking to a passenger, 'reciting a speech', or talking on a hands-free device. So any idiot with a headset can just laugh at this law and continue on their merry way. Luckily, there's a cheap solution for the rest of us.

hands-free = legal

The most frustrating part of this ban is the inclusion of music devices like iPods and MP3 players. Why not ban CD players, tape decks, and radios too? I could argue that I am just as likely, if not more, to get into an accident while flipping stations and changing CDs trying to find something decent to listen too - but I'm not a complete retard and don't do that to the point where I'd be distracted while driving (while I'm in the passenger seat it's another story). But driving I can usually just plug in my MP3 player with a decent playlist and not bother with it for the entire drive. Luckily, the "hands free" aspect gets to come into play again! And people are asking the tough questions:

'Asked if a motorist could skirt the law by taping his iPod to the dashboard, Bradley wasn't sure."I would have to look at that one," Bradley told reporters.' -Toronto Star

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for road safety. I'm just against the government acting like an incompetent babysitter by trying to impose stupid regulations with gigantic loopholes. I would really, really like to think that people have the capacity to make their own judgement calls when it comes to something as mundane as music while driving.

Or in other words, 16 days to figure out the best way to attach my MP3 player to my dashboard.