kensington - cedar cottage

this is the second attempt at a post. i simply do not have the patience to painstakingly reconstruct the entire post that i unwittingly deleted. see, i am using safari, which features tabbed browsing! i often make the mistake of closing the entire window when i mean to close a tab. i just closed the entire window, including my 'blogger.com' tab, without saving a draft. mozilla gives you a warning: 'you are about to close 5 tabs. proceed?' i am now going to finally install mozilla.

a summary!

• i got a case of beer on monday and one of the bottles was empty! it was easy to return it for another case.
  
• i like india pale ales and sean doesn't. IPA was made by the british in india, as they attempted to find a beer that would not spoil in the hot climate.
  
• i am interested in learning more about british india
  
• i am interested in learning more about the end of the ottoman empire
  
• we were told in my POL 327 tutorial that wikipedia is not an acceptable source for a research essay. from an earlier version of the 'political parties of latvia' page: Badass Nigger Foundation or BNF; this is largely believed to consist of Sweet Sweetback, the only black man in all of Europe
  
• i like politics and committee work but i do not like the student society.
  
• i like music.
  
• i like isaac asimov's foundation trilogy a lot, and am now on the second book. we've covered some 200-odd years of history now, and when there are references to historical events in subsequent chapters (every 20 pages or so) i get very nostalgic, even though i only read the referenced event last week. incredible. i only read it on the skytrain and bus, and i only read textbooks at home.
  

also, unsurprisingly, dose is ceasing publication, as of today. on a typical skytrain car in the morning, i will see 15 copies of 24hrs, 8-10 metros, and maybe 1 dose. nobody reads it because it is LAME and it tries too hard. lame pseudo-hipster trendoid cheesy and LAME newspaper. now i feel smug! DOSE was our OK SODA. kinda. quote from the toronto star: "dose wasn't funny". so true, so true.

i am smug about the failure of dose. is this akin to people's smugness at the failure of david blaine to break his underwater breathing record or the failure of the segway human transporter? yes, because these are all tales of hubris! these are life lessons to the rest of us, reminding us to not get ahead of ourselves and always stay grounded. i feel no guilt over my smugness at dose's failure! they were dishonest.

i remember when they picked the new pope! i was in bed, listening to 'the current' on CBC. they had a correspondent in vatican city. "white smoke. the smoke is definitely white this time. they've picked a new pope". several days earlier, kevin, amanda, and i had been discussing the pope selection process over breakfast at the sunny spot cafe. i remember this very vividly!

oh, also! we watched the 'no logo' movie in class on tuesday, and i got very very nostalgic. people marching in streets with nike logos on placards! i read no logo in 1998(1999?) when i was in high school, and this reminded of that time. going to high school, thinking about logos and branding and global supply chains and lifestyle marketing!