That was a good May. Good old May 2007. Caught two baseball games, worked only a couple of days in a ten day stretch and the seeds have come up. Plus the Tories in PEI got the boot which has made everyone happy. Now just wait for the fiscal review and next budget when we all find out what Pat Binns had been doing with all the transfer funding: hole, cash bucket, pour, repeat.
- Update: More stopping of stealing to come into force:
"My movie was pirated, and it's being pirated as we speak," said Mr. Tierney, who produced and co-wrote Bon Cop, Bad Cop, which earned him a Genie Award for Best Motion Picture. "I hate that blithe attitude that [video piracy] is only ripping off the American companies. We have serious issues in this country surrounding copyright ownership that is affecting everyone."
Stealing is bad. - All of a sudden George Bush is a advocate for greenhouse gas reduction. I have no idea what the truth is but it is sure fun to watch all these principles flying out the door these days.
- A-Rod is turning out to be a grade "A" oaf in this his semi-contract year. It is possible he will cheat on and off the field into having to stick with the Yankees because no one else will have him if he were to opt out? Likely not but one hope the Jays have the dignity to bean ball him for the rest of the season. At least he has one pal.
- I say nothing. Nothing.
- I got an email a few weeks ago seeing if I wanted to run a story over at A Good Beer Blog about this and I had the same thoughts - is this legal?
A "beer for bags" promotion has a trendy Queen Street West boutique facing a weekend run-in with the province's alcohol regulation body. Australia-based Crumpler, a company that designs and sells trendy messenger and laptop bags, is planning a promotion in which customers can put away their wallets and pay for their totes with a few brews.
Apparently this Australian firm has these days where you swap beer for their trendy products. And then you drink with the staff. Does it ever strike you that Australian culture is defined by a fifteen year old kid with a whack of money and a who lot of buttons on his desk? - Oh, and A Good Beer Blog has been scientifically proven to be the #1 beer blog on the planet.
Comments
cm - June 1, 2007 8:47 AM
Morning everyone. Despite the possibility of all those bullets, I've got nothing. Maybe I should start waiting until after my tea to comment.
Hans - June 1, 2007 10:02 AM
Hey Congrats on the Beer Blog ranking.
Secondly, I'm starting to get the sense that you really didn't think much of the Binns government.
Alan - June 1, 2007 10:03 AM
He rivals only John Buchannan in the annals of twisted political dorks I have known.
Gordo - June 1, 2007 10:03 AM
Homecraft had their reward program shut down by the province last year. The deal was buy 10 beer or wine kits and your next was free. The province ruled that they were "promoting immodest consumption" and made them stop. :-( Just as I filled my card, too.
Alan - June 1, 2007 10:06 AM
There is an appeal in the making if by kits you mean cans of malt extract. Maybe not if you mean finished kits. Brew on premises are regulated by the AGCO but not homebrewing.
cm - June 1, 2007 10:08 AM
I googled for Sri Lankan beer the other week, and your Beer Blog was first on the list. Next time I just go there first.
Alan - June 1, 2007 10:09 AM
I am big in Sri Lanka.
Gordo - June 1, 2007 10:37 AM
Becasue the cans of extract come with yeast, they're classified as a kit, Alan. That's what I was about to collect on when I found out the program had been cancelled.
Brother Iain - June 1, 2007 10:39 AM
Suffering is hip. Suffering is hot. Suffering is fab.
Alan - June 1, 2007 10:45 AM
Yeast is not regulated either. That is weird. Likely as it is also a brew on premises site they decided not to argue or never even knew there was no right.
Gordo - June 1, 2007 11:12 AM
They told me that they knew all along that they were in a "grey area" ... Just a matter of time before "the man" got them ... LOL
gorthos - June 1, 2007 11:19 AM
Alan, Sri Lankans are very tiny. I am big in Sri Lanka nyuck nyuck nyuck!
Beer for Bags.. Heck, I'll be someone's friend for 30 minutes if they buy me a beer and listen to me yack. I'll pretend to be someone's satisfied client to sway other potential clients into investing millions if they pay for my green fees for the golf "meeting"... I'm pretty mercenary, but beer for a messenger bag? Better be a good bag or at least the chicks that I have to give beer to and drink with better be awfully cute.
portland - June 1, 2007 3:42 PM
watch the name calling. johnny b. is a pal of mine.
Alan - June 1, 2007 3:53 PM
Get in line on the JB personality test. My mom kicked him off the porch back in 1970 when he was polticing at breakfast time.
Jay Currie - June 1, 2007 5:38 PM
"He rivals only John Buchannan in the annals of twisted political dorks I have known." That's because you grew up down East, had you the pleasure of growing up in BC, Binns or Buchannan barely make the dork-o-meter twitch.
Stealing is bad. Copyright law is dead in any sense of, er, application. CD sales are in terminal decline. It is time to seriously rethink how we can pay for our digital goodies. And how to price them so as to take the incentive away from "free". Unfortunately the dorks running the movie and music business still think suing your customers is a clever idea.
Alan - June 1, 2007 6:16 PM
"Copyright law is dead..."<p>LOL! I can't believe how deep the rot gets sometime.
Jay Currie - June 4, 2007 5:34 PM
Dead as a matter of application to the great hordes of broadband enabled people who download music (legal in Canada), movies, software and so on on a purely private basis. The rot has set in far enough that a radical, digitally and economically literate, revision of that law is imperative. And I don't mean conforming to the WIPO's ringing endorsement of the clever tactics of the RIAA.
Alan - June 4, 2007 7:42 PM
Like drunk driving?