Mike DeWolfe : The Daily Edition

My lovely wife turned 40 today. To celebrate, we went out for lunch. Then, we had friends over for a party. We capped off the party with a birthday party. But I heard criticisms about the cake and I, well, don't like criticisms, but I do know how to best serve a CostCo cake.

Check out the NY Times and what they wrote about the linkage between morons on two wheels and the supply of organs: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/no-helmets-for-more-organs/ And what I wrote at least 7 years ago: http://mike.dewolfe.bc.ca/oped/opinion.bikes.asp

The Canadian military are flying jets over Victoria and Vancouver in preparation for the 2010 Olympics. At the same time, North Korea is planning to launch a missile in the direction of Hawaii. It has been estimated that North Korea's missile range is short of most of the US. The targets a missile could hit: Japan, Hawaii, South Korea (duh), Alaska and maybe into Puget Sound. I have always had the theory that if North Korea struck a target close to the US, it would create a conundrum: would America go all out vs. a nuclear armed opponent in retaliation for an attack on an American ally. Given that military exercises were underway at the same time as recent events like 9/11 and 7/7, I gotta wonder. At the very least, I have to wonder why pilots prepping for the 2010 Olympics in Raincouver by doing exercises in the balmy, late Spring skies when the weather back in February would have been a closer analogue to the rain, wind and clouds that they will see when they defend Vancouver fro...

No more touching your bottom! We are one set of silicon tongs away from never touching your nethers again: Wipe 'em if you got'em

A trash removal company found a skeletal body in an abandonned truck in VicWest. A-Channel didn't have juicy footage or a good first-hand report, so they went for the B-Story: desperate Times-Colonist and their sister media, floundering Chek-TV, went for the kill-- photographing the skeleton before the police could cordon off the scene. It's amusing that both of them are trying to make hay over a dead old man in a truck. A-Channel is trying to take the high ground and make an excuse for not getting the shot, standing behind respect for the family. If Chek-TV had any attractive people working for them, I'm sure they'd pimp them out, but short of that, they had a picture of a dead guy. I'm one shut-in and I still scoop these two professional organizations all by myself every now and again. If these two channels and one "paper" had to stand-up against a cadre of organized and diligent citizen reporters, they'd be dead in the water. The only nut to crack:...

I took the newest lawn ornaments out to UVic so that they could "frolic" with the local fauna. It didn't work out so well. See more of the lawn ornaments

Here's a duh moment about Battlestar Galactica's Cylons: From Wikitionary for Scion: From Old French cion , ciun , cyon , sion ; cognate with French scion and Picard chion . [1] scion ( plural scions ) A descendant , a son or daughter. A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting . The heir to a throne . Cyon like Cylon. The child of humanity are the robots. Of course, the Glen A. Larson production of the 1970s didn't make out the Cylons to be the descendants of man, but the creation of an alien race.