My latest posting on Slashdot earned me 2 fans and a freak. I guess that's still a net positive... I could probably have been even more inflammatory - pinko commie Canadian that I am - but I restrained myself. :P

Yay! I am pregnant! I couldn't be happier, except maybe if morning sickness would actually end at noon instead of making me feel wretched all day... but it's always morning somewhere, I guess.

I'm so excited, I just want to spend all day in the store looking at baby stuff. Only 8 months of incubation left to go!

Just thinking, since the Boston Christmas tree is getting so much publicity these days, I find it sad that the news stories hardly ever mention the origin of the tree. The Boston Christmas tree is an annual gift from Nova Scotia as a thank-you for the help sent after the Halifax explosion. (On December 6, 1917, two ships - one full of munitions - collided in the Halifax harbour. The resulting explosion levelled most of the downtown.

Next week we are installing a cosmic ray detector at some christian elementary school. They specifically asked us not to mention the e-word while we were there. (After all, it would take them hours to remold the kids' malleable little world-views, should we accidentally drop a phrase like, say, "fossil evidence".)

Here biginneth the Book of the Tales of Linux

The slashdot gender bias bothers me. Not the fact that slashdot readers seem to be 95% male, but the fact that there are so many negative comments about women. Especially when they get modded up as "insightful"... I also read forums where the gender ratio is reversed, and there are nowhere near as many negative comments about men on those boards. So what gives?

Reading the comments on the electronic voting story today was interesting. After reading them, here's what the kind of electronic voting system I would want:

1.) Voter selects a candidate from a menu (including write-in option).

2.) For write-in votes, the voter can enter the name from a keypad or touchscreen.

The cats are restless... I wish I could let them outside. It's sad to have to explain over and over that because they weren't evolved to recognize cars as dangerous, they are just going to have to pass the time by posting to slashdot. It's a tough life, but if it's good enough for me, it's good enough for them...

If NASA wanted to send someone on a one-way mission to Mars, I would go. Just be sure to hook me up with a lifetime supply of junk food and an internet connection, and I'd be set. I'd take Teaser and Firecat too, of course. They're leash trained - how much harder could it be to get them in a space suit?

And if Mars is to far, just send me to Canada. :)