Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock and Watson

The BBC is producing a show called "Sherlock" wherein it is the stories of Sherlock Homes and Dr. John Watson, but in the modern day. Each episode is 1.5 hours. Three episodes were released in 2010, and three more are expected in 2011.

OMGSFG.

This show is amazing. To see how things are done in the modern day but still maintaining that Sherlockness is fantastic. It is incredible to see how texting and blogging can come into effect in modern day detectivery. Not to mention, how one gets a nicotine fix in a city where smoking is becoming nothing but a memory.

I highly recommend that you look up this show, here.

If you are looking for a little verisimilitude you can check out Sherlock Holme's personal website The Science of Deduction or Dr. John Watson's account of their cases on Dr. John Watson's Blog.

I must say, I cannot wait for the next episodes of this to come out... Simply incredible.

Sherlock and Watson

Update from Rocky Rapids...

So, this update was supposed to start with a photo of Rocky Rapids, and then a brief video of my new place, but I have run into some technical difficulties. Technical like... I cannot find my Camera cord. I am hopeful that it will turn up after I unpack a little bit more, but if not I will just go buy a new cord.

This place is very nice and will suit my needs perfectly. I could not have asked for a nicer family to be my landlords. I have not managed to get any art on the wall yet, but hopefully by tomorrow night I will be completely unpacked. Then I can sort out my camera cord as I have a few blogs that I want to write but will not without the photos that accompany them.

Hmm... that makes me wonder if I can even upload videos from here. Maybe. I have a Rogers Hub to get my internet and I spent quite a while yesterday going from window to window in the basement to try and get some semblance of a signal. Things did not go well on that front. Today I put the hub upstairs and it seems to be ok... I have uninterrupted medium speed internet. I just have to make sure that I don't use it tons and tons and have to pay about a zillion dollars. I guess there goes my hopes and dreams as using Skype as my house phone... do you think that Rogers has a my one thousand plan? I don't think just having free calling to my friends is going to count, especially when my clients in New Brunswick will be giving me a call soon to talk about some work stuff... Yikes, I had better start to think about how to get all of this stuff sorted out.

Also, buying all the stuff you need for a new place is a pain. Baking goods, spices, paper towel, etc., etc., etc. Oh well... I should be up and running soon.

That is all for now, and if my camera cord turns up I will enlighten you with some more fun blogs, but for now, I need to try and make some food with my lack of spices...

p.s. I cannot yet post blogs from my house... this has been graciously posted by a dear friend of mine. I will try to get some kind of antenna up and running tomorrow to boost my internet signal... Let's hope it works.

p.p.s. Frik. Maybe I will just write my posts at home and then to the final post from work. BTDubs... where is that camera cable?

Most Hardest Conditions to do Iaido in Ever!!!

Crusty snow. You might stand on top... You might sink in and get stuck...

Life is like a box of chocolates... Until you get your head cut off by your imaginary opponents!!!

'Nuff said.

Atlas Shrugged...

Popularity on IMDB up 311% this week... Ya Hoo!!

Moving to Drayton Valley... uh... Rocky Rapids!

With the having no luck finding a place in Drayton Valley I was told that my best bet was to drive up there and look for "for rent" signs. So, that is what we did. On Sunday my sister and I drove up to Drayton Valley. It was a great day for a drive, and the drive is a good one. When we got to Drayton our first impressions were good. It is a fair sized town, so it appears to have everything, including a movie theatre. We took drive down the main strip, which took like 5 minutes, and then pulled into one of the local restaurants... good food... good atmosphere... good everything...

I was beginning to like Drayton already.

We headed to an appointment to see an apartment... um... evidently you cannot get much in Drayton Valley for $800/month. The place was a very dark basement with a pretty strange layout. It did have a garage however and the people there were nice, but still... a bit to dungeony. After that we drove to an address of another place... yeah... we didn't try to get inside; we had seen enough. We were out of places we knew for rent so we just drove in front of some apartments and started to call to ask if there was space.

We got lucky. In not too long we found a decent place. When we called and we were allowed in things seemed good. The building was less than spectacular, but when we were taken in the place itself was great. It was looking good so I asked the landlady how to apply for it or whatever, since the basement dungeon had an application form. She looked at us and said, "you aren't druggies, you aren't drunks, and you either have a job or you will soon, so that's good enough for me."

Perfect.

She showed us another room in the building next door, but it was back to the regular Drayton for $800 standards.

Running late for supper, we headed home.

Getting home we were about to eat supper when I got a call from my Aunt-in-Law (if there is such a thing) saying that she had family in Drayton who might be renting out their basement. The next day I spoke with the family (what is a child of a cousin of an Aunt-in-Law... even then I am not sure I got that right...).

Anyways, that was yesterday. Today, I told them I would happily move in, and so my accommodation in Drayton Valley has been resolved by my moving in with a confusing but kind family relation in Rocky Rapids (10 min from Drayton).

Yay!!!

Randroids vs. Rand Haters

The trailer has been out for like... 18 hours and already the Interweb is abuzz with the chaos of Ayn Rand's philosophy.

Currently, at 18ish hours after release the trailer has over 100,000 views, and over 1,000 comments. The ratio is somewhere round 75% thumbs up and 25% thumbs down but that will change. It is just amazing, as always with Rand's work, to see how involved and how agitated people get. There is an ongoing and rather lewd debate on youtube about the merits of Objectivism as well as about if the movie will be a flop or a success.

It is interesting to me how eager people are to dish out criticism. What I wonder, in all of this hate and this rage, is when did any of those people accomplish something so great as to spawn this entire debate. They can hate all they want, but the honest truth is that its working. They are thinking about what Ayn Rand said. They are debating. And for some, they are finding a philosophy that will give them a better life.

If anyone wants to see the chaos of the debates there are the two I was looking at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W07bFa4TzM&feature=player_embedded

http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com/atlas-shrugged-movie-trailer

Atlas Shrugged Part 1 Trailer

Re: Auto-Correct

For those of you who have been following this blog and were privy to the blog about Damn You Auto Correct, Wally and The Pointy Haired Boss seem to be having similar issues...

Moving... sucks...

So, it is evidently very difficult to find a place to live in Drayton Valley, especially without being there. I have checked the local newspaper, but beyond that they don't seem to advertise online much. This is like... sucky...

I have talked to a few people who are keeping their eyes open... I hope that they find something because I am not having much luck.

Atlas Shrugged

TT

This is a momentous day for me. A very very dear friend gave me a great gift for Christmas/Birthday/Whichever is Closer. She gave me a copy of Atlas Shrugged. This version lists only the copyright date of 1957 and the Nineteenth Printing. I believe that this book was released in the first year that Atlas Shrugged was in print. Incredible.

I talk about it from time to time, but for those of you who have not read it... you should! Without a doubt this is my favourite novel. I have read it twice, listened to it on tape once (which after 39 days on the road we had still not finished), and written three essays on it. This book has helped me to define myself and shape my life into what I want.

Atlas Shrugged is a story of great hardship and great triumph. It is about the collapse of man's spirit and its phenomenal rebirth.

This story is not just a story, it is a tome that can provide crucial insight into man, and into man's fullest potential.

Atlas Shrugged changed my life.

As I said, this is a momentous day for me. I received this great gift of Atlas Shrugged on paper, and in receiving it I took a look on the Internet to see what was going on in the Atlas Shrugged world. The answer is, quite a lot. For years there has been talk and rumours and some work on turning Atlas Shrugged into a movie, well, today I learned that it is happening.

Atlas Shrugged has been broken into Parts and will be released as a movie. There is no trailer yet, but the first installation is on its way. For more information on the movie click here for the official site, and here for IMBD.

I highly recommend that anyone who has not read Atlas Shrugged reads it, and anyone who has read reads it again. If you don't get around do it (which will happen for most people) I hope to try and go to see this movie to support this initiative, and this idea.

Atlas Shrugged.

I can't wait.

Atlas

Auto Correct

There once was something called Auto Correct. The idea, is if you have a typo when you are spelling on your phone, Auto Correct will fix the typo with whatever word it thinks is the one you wanted.

Sometimes Auto Correct is wrong.

All fans of FML I highly recommend that you check this out, it is amazing.

WARNING: Adult Humour.

Behold: Damn You Auto Correct

DV: Update

I got my offer... now it definitely looks like I am heading to Drayton Valley!!!

Ye-Haw!!!

Middle of Nowhere

You know you live in the middle of nowhere when... you are trying to drive back to Calgary and you have to stop, and wait, because two guys have cut down a tree and it is now lying straight across the road. It took a while for them to notice me because of the sound of the chainsaws, but when they did they moved that tree pronto.

Oh, Willbillies!

DV

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Have you ever been to Drayton Valley? No? Me neither. The thing is, that I might be going there very soon. I have been interviewing with PennWest Exploration, the company that I have been working for on and off for the past few years, and there might be a position for me. The issue, if you would consider it one, is that the position is in Drayton Valley.

The benefits of heading out into the field are enormous, but, then it makes other things that I do a little more challenging. I guess it is not too far away (3 hours) but still it will change things up a bit. I guess I do also need to get gainful and full-time employment eventually...

Well... eventually could be soon. I was informed today that I have finished all of the interviews and that I should be expecting an offer early next week. As much as things were looking mixed about all of this, I am excited. New Brunswick was an adventure, and so might this be.

I will keep you posted as things unfold. I guess I just can't stay in one spot for long...