H1N1 Crock Of S***

Yes, it's good to be prepared. But man, did everyone go COMPLETELY OVER THE TOP with this whole H1N1 thing or what. Still today, Medscape.com has the following plastered on the front page of their H1N1 page:

The President's Council of Advisors anticipates that 2009 H1N1 influenza may infect half of the US population, require 1.8 million hospitalizations, and result in 30,000-90,000 deaths. WHO predicts that within 2 years nearly one third of the world's population will have been infected with the 2009 strain of H1N1. Stay up-to-date as reporting and management guidelines continue to evolve.

Local Broadcasters

I still think the CRTC made a grievous error this time around. Yes, the cable companies benefit from having the local stations available in their service packages. BUT, and this is a big but, the broadcasters also benefit from having their station shown on the cable services as well. Tit-for-tat if you will.

If they start charging for these local stations, I should have the option to opt out, and I may skip some local channels, especially if there's a high-def option that's not local (i.e., our high def CTV station is not the local one, frankly I could just skip the local CTV station entirely, as I could CITY-TV, which is pretty much a bunch of crap).

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2010/03/23/crtc-report-tv-signals.html?ref=rss

Jasper

Back from a weekend in Jasper. Skiing was great, weather was great. We ended up at two places to eat I thought I'd pass along:

Evil Dave's - oh my god this is the greatest place for food. excellent menu, excellent food, great service. the staff kept passing with other dishes and everyone would look and ogle as it went by. good deserts too. this place could make it anywhere.

L&W - used to be decent but man it completely sucks now, you're better off going just about anywhere else other than here, stay away at all costs.

GOOG

Just picked up a couple shares of Google for my equity portfolio. You'd think the shares are trading pretty high right now ($567.24USD), but if you look at the fundamentals, the growth opportunities, their track record, the new stuff they've already talked about, their forays into supergrowth fields, I'm still thinking it's a buy.

(( PS - my boss bought some bacon stuff too, should be a fun day in the office when it all arrives! ))

Mmmmm . . . . . bacon

I held out as long as I could, but it couldn't last forever. I finally broke down and ordered a few items from the Bacon Salt people, including bacon-flavored envelopes, and the infamous baconaisse. Reviews forthcoming.

http://www.baconsalt.com/

Welcome to Dark Numbers

Why Dark Numbers? It seems to me that when people think about Michael, they think about numbers. At the end of the day, a lot of my life revolves around numbers. Work. My hobbies. My games. Heather would probably comment how I like to include world-building in my hobbies as well, but, there you have it.