If a picture is worth 1000 words, then here are 2000.  Finally, it looks like the Canada that the rest of the world sees us as:

This was yesterday.

That’s out my window this morning.  We got another 10cm or so.

More, but not worthy of another post:

This would be what Macbros had referred to on his site.

Behind our Building

Another of the Trees

Awesome! I just got my e-flyer from Dell today and I saw a new offering on the ad.  They’re now bringing the Ubuntu operating system to Canada on some of their models! This is great news, as I have been contemplating a laptop purchase and it was going to have Linux on it.  Now, since I like Ubuntu anyways, I won’t have to install it myself.  And all of the machine’s capabilities will be used under Linux, supported by Dell.  Woo hoo!

Check it out:  HERE

Its been reported here and here as well.

This is so good!

Today is Remembrance Day in Canada. As a sign of respect, I am going to take two minutes of silence at 11:00am, which should be about 3 minutes from the time that this post appears. For all who live in a country that respects their Veterans and War Dead on Nov 11, please join me.

Our National Holiday to celebrate our country’s inception in 1867 is July 1. It just happens to be that day today.

UPDATE:

It turns out that the fireworks were quite good this year. Fredericton usually goes a bit cheap on the fireworks, but it seems that this year there were a few pennies left for them this year. They were fired off from Carleton park this year, and the view was nice. There was a reasonable variety and a few new ones that I’ve never seen before (one that looked like a gyroscope, for example). After a nice show, the “signal went out” and a blitz of different forms of fireworks were shot off from in front of the lighthouse on the south side of the river. Nice finale.

Sorry - no pictures.  Perhaps Fredericton Cabbie might have a few…

So today marks the “official” 139th birthday of Canada, the country I am proud to live in.  Happy Canada Day!

This is just a quick note from a guy who probably doesn’t currently have internet access.  Tomorrow’s Canada Day, so the stores will be closed.  Don’t forget to stock up on the essentials, like steak, propane (or charcoal), fireworks (or shotgun shells, if that’s what you do), marshmallows, and loads of Canada’s own nectar, beer (Keith’s, of course).

Its election day in Canada. If you’re eligible to vote, then get off yer butt and go do it! Polls open in 1/2 hour.

Remember that if you don’t vote, then you have no right to complain about who got elected and what they’re doing. If you vote and thw candidate/party that you support doesn’t get the majority, then you can say, “I didn’t vote for them!” when the government does something you don’t like!