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Weekly Writers Showdown #2

Tepid

I want to bask in the sun
when it’s high in the air
feel the heat on my skin
in the day
 
It’s closed in the snow
the sun holds the heat for itself
fearing the wind
will carry all away
 
Tepid sun
Tilting earth
Terrible
I hate you
 
Come back

-Byterman

 Chocolate Dreams

The Older I get the more childish I become

So ready to cling to mystery in search of reality

So ready to accept myth as my destiny

 

I was at a wedding last night

Of a woman I didn’t know

She was beautiful

my vision of childhood memory

 

I remember a story

A magic trick to set your dreams

To the man you desire

All you need is cake from a wedding

 

So silently I slip a sliver

Of chocolate dreams into my pocket

I drove home thinking of you

 

Falling asleep a smile graces my lips

The first in weeks

Ready to embrace

 dreams of myth and destiny

-Julia-lee

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Alternate Usernames

It has been pointed out to me several times recently that my username sucks. Here are some of the suggested alternatives:

morebitterman

bitternessman

xtrabitterman

manbitter

rabidmanbitter

or

sadderman68

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Typewriter TAG Inspiration. Round 2.

Typewriter TAG... H.A.F.

H.A.F.

Round Two.

Will Byterman beat Julie to the next TAG?  I’d like to know what kind of journey you are going to take finding a typewriter Byterman!  Take lots of pictures!

Take Care,

CC.

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Typewriter Tag… This is for Byterman and Julie!

Thank you both for writing on the old/new blog! I’ve got a challenge for you both and anyone else that wants to join. It’s called Typewriter TAG. Rules are below, forgive me for the grammar…

Typewriters!

Typewriters!

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Perspective on Usage Based Billing in Canada… From Reddit.com

I may start to sound like a broken record on this UBB thing, but I think it’s important in Canada. The internet is a luxury, I realize that. What I do have a concern with is with price gouging by any form of business when it is not necessary. Oh wait, price gouging is never necessary. So here is something interesting to get your brains going.

I just came across this on Reddit (I discovered Reddit about a month ago…Sigh.) The idea that this may be a cheaper alternative is starting to make me think that UBB could get this bad.

Click to see the comments generating from this on Reddit!

Reddit post from a concerned Canadian. Click to see the comments generating from this photo on Reddit!

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Weekly Writers Showdown

So this is the first in a weekly writers showdown, Julia-lee vs. Byterman.

In Tall Grass

I found myself on a journey

Feet floating, toes trailing

Hardly in control,

I drifted

Shed what was never mine to bear

I ran

I ran, and ran

In my mind

So fast

I couldn’t catch the thoughts

That flew past

My feet anchored

My body atrophied

Rooted to the spot, waiting

For your permission to pounce

a cat in tall grass

Instead I read the words of women

Froze in just this pose

 – Julia-lee

Techno Solitude

Is my phone not working?

No one is texting

facebook is unimaginably silent.

It must be true that you can disconnect from everyone by withdrawing.

I am a secret watcher, checking updates and leering longingly at photos.

Leaving no traces, no footprint.

I see the onward progression of your lives while mine is slowly drawn from me.

I have gotten busy dieing, while you’ve been posing in fantastic photos for the internet.

I am alone and you have all abandoned me to rot away in this cubicle

where my eyes hurt from the strain of staring at the screen

awaiting confirmation that I’m still living.

Wait,

never mind

I’ve been very personally invited to a party this Saturday.

Don’t let me go so long without some confirmation, some hope

Ohh these quarter hour solitudes!

– Byterman

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Internet Usage Based Billing In Canada. My Thoughts. Yours?

Stop Usage Based Billing in Canada

Stop Usage Based Billing in Canada

Okay, here is my rant about what the CRTC approved about Usage Based Billing (UBB).

I’m living in rural Alberta with no highspeed options aside from an aircard or satellite.  Which, by the way, are expensive and not very reliable from my experiences.

Here’s the CRTC post regarding usage based billing. Telecom Decision CRTC 2011-44t

Usage Based Billing is what I anticipated years ago, yet I’m still upset about it.  The reason I’m upset is that I love the internet and its capabilities. (Helping people to be be informed of civil unrest, wartime atrocities, corrupt politicians, Youtube, or watching funny videos on failblog.org)

Uploading pics and videos of me and my friends having fun together, whether to share with them or anyone on this lovely planet is WAY MORE gratifying than waiting for a new show to air on TV.  It doesn’t seem to connect me to my friends as much.

I wonder what this guy would think about UBB if he were alive today…

Alexander Graham Bell Phoning the CRTC to say "Usage Based Billing Blows!"

Alexander Graham Bell Phoning the CRTC to say "Usage Based Billing Blows!"

I like television shows and movies, don’t get me wrong, they make me smile every day and the people that work in the film industry work hard to bring us quality programming (aside from the annoying ads…)

The biggest reason I’m upset is that why do we now have to pay extra to connect with my family and friends, just because the communication infrastructure here in Canada can’t possible cope with the current demands…  The fact that the big ISP’s spearheaded this is making me think of sending the CRTC a written letter to complain… It’s going to be on a typewriter or even handwritten.   I figured I would “Do Them A Kindness” and save them a couple of bucks on bandwidth…  Maybe I’ll get a response, maybe not.  Thoughts?

CC.

Here’s a link for a few blogs against UBB, haven’t read a lot of it, at least we’re starting to blog about it.
Online petition to stop UBB in Canada
Stop Usage Based Billing In Canada – A WordPress Site

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Blogspot is off…. WordPress is ON!

It’s Official… I’ve switched to WordPress… More features and widgets.  Sorry Google.

Just so you’re not worried, all of my blogspot.com posts are there as well.
Happy Blogging Trolls.
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Auto Style Over Safety in 1965

I love the CBC archives. Every once in a while you find a gem that’s funny and shocking at the same time.

The video starts with cars being run into concrete walls at high speed starts this one off and has commentary from members of the big automakers of the day; General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, American Motors, and Studebaker. Very entertaining… But it gets better.

Apparently, industry was the experts on car safety, and some of the public were willing to give up some safety for additional “style”….. If the auto makers were forced to add additional safety features, there would be a public backlash and it would hurt sales.

Once of the funniest things said throughout this whole film was this,

“20% of our cars were ordered without window washers last year” – American Motors Rep.

WTF? What were people thinking back then? Oh wait, seat belts weren’t mandatory until 1966, maybe a few banged their head against a steel dash in a fender bender and it affected their judgment up to that point in history.

Definitely worth watching.

http://archives.cbc.ca/science_technology/transportation/clips/12090/