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My 2012 Prediction

You know how the Mayans predicted in the year 2012 something huge would happen?  What I think it will be is this:

It’ll be the year that humans begin to control things with their minds.  Thought-reading, powering and moving objects via thought, transmitted through clunky connectors attached to our forheads and secured with headbands. 

It’ll start off small… “change the channel by changing your mind!”, gimmicky things.  Then we’ll be dialing phones, linking into the information net, thinking to Twitter, you get the idea.  It’ll grow big and get away from us, get its own act together, it’s the beginning of the proverbial end.  

Far in the future there’ll be a small group of unpopular people who, instead of downloading the lastest skill set off the ever-present thought net, they’ll choose to learn “the old fashioned way”, trial and error, day by day, slooowly.  

note: researchers have concluded the Mayans never said doomsday was gonna happen in that year, just that something big was coming

note: for a Wikipedia list of things happening in that year, click here.  It’s the transit of Venus that gets me.  One happened in 2004, one will happen on June 5 then not again for 105 years. 

Ran Into an Old Friend

At tonight’s Third Tuesday’s Online Video Meetup (which was sick) I saw this guy:

may 25 2009

That’s RT!, one of Canada’s premiere music video directors.  Nominated for 22 MMVAs and won for Best Director a bunch of times he also (pretty sure this is correct) directed the most expensive Canadian music video ever.  One time I was on a plane flipping around the TV in the headrest and there he was discussing music videos… that’s when I knew he’d made it.

We’ve known each other a long time, a decade anyway, and he’s always been quiet about his achievements.  He probably won’t like that I’ve listed a bunch in the paragraph above but too bad dude, it’s my blog.  Although I must say your new Bay Street address is impressive (smirking right now).

[note: I have got to learn to properly remove red-eyes in Photoshop]

Finally I Made it Inside Today

may 24 2009

Founded in 1890, The Royal Canadian Military Institute is our country’s premier place for military arts, science and literature.  When I was leaving I heard a lady saying they were tearing it down, what?  Then I spotted one of the employees standing outside so went up and asked him if that was true and yes, it is.

He said it’s one of the last places along University Avenue that’s not been torn down but starting soon it’ll be demolished and a 42 floor skyscraper of yup you guessed it, condos, will be built; they’ll occupy the first six floors.

I mentioned I was worried about the library, they’ll be keeping it intact, right?  You just can’t build things like that anymore.  Apparently all the wood will be removed and then put back but really, it’s too small as it’s the biggest and most extensive military library in North America, 30 000+ books.  They have books that no one else has… some hundreds of years old, some worth six figures.

Above are medals from our Canadian Honours System.  From left to right:

– Order of Canada – highest civilian order you can get.  Since its creation in 1967 5000+ have been handed out and only 165 living people can have one at once
– Victoria Cross – the highest honour given to someone in the military.  Since its creation in 1993 none have been awarded (this one is from pre-1993 when the award had British connections)
– Cross of Valour – the highest ranking medal for bravery; 20 have been awarded since 1972
– Star of Courage – the second-highest medal for bravery
– Medal of Bravery – the third-highest medal for bravery
– Look how decorated that guy is! It’s Leonard Birchall