Quebec Sovereignty

81.8% French speakers within Quebec
19.1% French speakers within Canada

Can understand: The desire of the Quebec people to maintain their language and culture. The French custom is an important part of Canada's history and culture.

Cannot understand: The willingness of the PQ and BQ to break apart Canada and maintain an individual nation. This is despite numerous attempts of the Canadian government to offer compromises to the Quebecois. (read: Quebec as a nation within a United Canada). What would this nation look like? Army? Navy? Foreign ambassadors? Seems expensive to me, when Quebec consistently gets transfer payments from the Feds....

Outdated funniness

Rick Mercer genius found here.

Rock Band & Guitar Hero

I’ve played Guitar Hero a few times, and thought that it was a great game. You get to use a fake little guitar, jerk it around and listen to good songs.

There’s even a competition in which you can win money for being the best ‘guitar hero’ on stage. Sort of a 21^st century battle of the bands.

Just for the record:

BEING GOOD AT GUITAR HERO DOESN’T MAKE YOU A MUSICIAN!!!!!!!

I have heard on a few independent occasions of people believing that they were going to take up an instrument, believing that their Guitar Hero skills would be transferable. Reality check, people: the skills are not interchangeable. The only thing about guitar hero that might transfer would be finger dexterity, which is just as easily gained playing Halo as Guitar Hero.

I play the guitar, the bass, a little piano and the drums. It has taken me years and years of abject pain and finger torture to get some proficiency. Mental anguish when I can’t nail a song in time for the next campfire session. Thousands of dollars in gear.

See how many people sing along when you try to crank out Sweet Child O’ Mine around the campfire with your Guitar Hero guitar.