Can I get some shroves for anyone?

Happy Shrove Tuesday to everyone out there!

Hope you had awesome, fluffy pancakes today; although, we didn't have any....maybe on the weekend.

To the American readers, Shrove Tuesday is like Mardi Gras with the following exceptions:
1. One day - not a season
2. No cake with plastic babies
3. No prolonged bouts of drunken revelry
4. No beads
5. No anything else that goes on at Mardi Gras
6. You eat pancakes at some point during the day on Shrove Tuesday.

Get some good beads and don't fall on your face

Happy Mardi Gras to everyone. Hope you've had a safe and kickass Mardi Gras weekend.

and fyi...Bbg pooped and peeded in something other than something covering her butt. Can I send the light at the end of the diaper-changing tunnel? Stay tuned...

Click the vote

Weekend Pictures, Steve's website dedicated to educating the general populous on user-generated content and privacy on the web is up for an award at SXSW Interactive Festival.

For those unfamiliar with SXSW, it's the infamous South by Southwest Group that puts on the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. The Interactive Festival is one of the festivals this groups puts on and it is geared towards the "blossoming interactive media industry.

Needless to say, this is a huge accomplishment, and I invite everyone to click here and vote for Weekend Pictures in the People's Choice award for the Student category. You can vote once a day until March 6th...so go and click the vote.

Everything I wanted to know

For years now I've tried to wrap my little ole American head around how the Canadian government works. At first I tried to compare/contrast against the US government, and it's just incomparable. A republic vs. a constitutional monarchy/parliamentary democracy match up just doesn't make much sense.

It has also bothered me that when I ask most Canadians questions about government, they look at me like I have a horn growing out of my head - as to say why in hell would you ever ask that or how the hell should i know. Didn't Canadians have a Canadian version of School House Rocks or a basic Civics class in jr. high or high school? Apparently not.

Then in the end of 2008 this so-called coalition government almost takes over, and I have Americans asking me what the hell is going on up here. As if I know. I only live here, and I can't find a Canuck to give me a straight answer. ...then comes Rick Mercer.

Rick Mercer is like the Jon Stewart of Canada, but smaller (if you could imagine that) and funnier looking. On his show last week he had an entire segment on how the Canadian government works. Go watch it now!

What I find hilarious about this piece, is that it's as if it were written by an American living in Canada. So, for all of you south of the border (and for those north of the border) who don't have a flippin clue about the Canadian government, I hope this has shed some light on it for you, or at least given you a good laugh.

Enjoy.