McCain and Obama Yuk it up

It's surprising to see these two so lighthearted in the midst of a presidential election!





I think Mccain's is a little funnier, maybe it's because I didn't expect this out of him.

Election Time

Tomorrow is Canada's Federal Election. For me, the more local the election, the less interested I become. You may think that Canada's National Election is as big as they come, but I am 100x more interested in the American election.

I've been closely following the American election, watching debates, reading on the latest news and of course watching Saturday Night Live. Tina Fey is spectacularly hilarious as Sarah Palin. I just started Audacity of Hope, and really like what I'm seeing so far. When I was in California, I saw a really nice Obama T-shirt, but it was really expensive and poor quality so I passed. When I went to NYC, I looked for one as well, but couldn't find a good one. Maybe I'll eventually find one.

But what to make of the Canadian election? I have a hard time voting for Dion, and maybe the Conservative ads are getting to me, but I couldn't imagine him representing our country. Harper is pretty conservative for a "stereotypical" Canadian, but he has lowered taxes and instituted a tax-free savings account. Harper also went to the high school one block from where I live, but I'm not sure whether that's good or bad. I don't think a vote to any other party would be worthwhile. So I suppose I wouldn't mind a minority conservative government, which is difficult to know what to vote for to achieve.

If Harper wins a majority, I think Canada would become much more right wing. I get the impression that the Americans think we are all liberals in Canada. So as a result, you get funny spoofs such as the following:



But no matter what your opinion, remember to vote tomorrow!

Basketball Playoffs

Almost every year, I go to watch some Raptor games. This year, I haven't attended any yet, but my plan is to save my money so I can attend a playoff game. My cousin Eric went last year (or the year before) and said it was worth it.

Last year would have been good, because Vince Carter was in the house. This year, he apparantly is taking on more of a leadership role now that Kidd got traded to Dallas. Really? Seriously? Check out the leader Carter:



LMAO! Leader? Really? Are you sure?

But the Raptors can't say much, since the Nets beat killed the Raptors in the 1st round last year. Hopefully they'll be more experienced this year and do better. Now if only Bargnani would stop sucking. At the very least, the fans gave something back to Carter:



So if I'm fortunate enough to get some tickets this year, I'll be embarassingly cheering myself hoarse.

Russell Peters

Kevin has alerted me to the fact that he hasn't watched Russell Peters before. Insane!!!!

I've seen him live twice now. Once when he came to our high school and last friday when he performed in Dundas Square. I missed him when he came to Waterloo (FED Hall) and when he sold out the ACC....for TWO nights in a row. It's unheard of for a comic to sell out a 50,000 seat stadium.

So for those that haven't seen his stuff, I've provided a link from where you can download this comedy goodness. Unfortunately, it's a .rm (real player) file and the compression is cranked up all the way, but it doesn't matter. You can play real player files in Windows Media Player if you download a codec for it.

Let me know if the link causes problems.

Enjoy!

New Blogger Features

Well I've been using the new Blogger for a little while now and there are some new features.

First of all, there's a new RSS/Atom feed address, that is listed on the right side. I think my old feed is now broken since I swiched over. Also, there is finally a comment feed as well. I couldn't get the comments feed to show up with the blogger tag, so I manually added it myself on the sidebar to the right.

A smaller changes is now you can email post to another user, which I've added to the bottom of each post. Don't see it being incredibly useful, but it's took no effort for me to add.

The other big change is the addition of what Google calls "labels". The rest of the world calls them tags, but Google has chosen differently. Eventually I'll be able to see how much I blog about the Wii (too much) and even get a (geeky) T-shirt like this. But there are some deficiencies with tagging, such as using a different tag for the same topic. I think Google is trying to cut down on this by bringing up previously used tags as you type them into the text field. A good idea to keep track of my own tags, but too bad it doesn't cut across blog users in general.

Anyway, to offset the boring entry, here's an funny video linked to by Ted: