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I hold no sentiment for this day or age. However, I will give you a present. I will tell you The Meaning of Life. This is deep. You can skip to the next paragraph if you wish to avoid this now. Are you still here? Ok. The meaning of life is: death. Everything we do revolves around it. We fight against it. We fear it. We hide from it with plastic and silicon. We intoxicate ourselves to see it at other angles. We run on stationary machines to prolong the inevitable. We fear it from happening to others around us. We see it happen to others. It's all unfortunate. However, once you accept that death is a part of life, you will realize that life is a breeze and find that life has more than simply one meaning. Merrily, merrily, merrily. Enjoy it. Enjoy those meteors in the sky tonight if you get a chance.

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Here are 3 pieces of bullshit I found in this weekend's news. Millions of dollars going to pot. Millions of dollars lost royally. Millions of dollars scrapped. Why do we tolerate this? These things disturb me, and here they are:

Ottawa pot crop a bust
The first batch of marijuana grown by a private company under a Health Canada contract was useless for clinical trials and had to be burned, Health Minister Anne McLellan said yesterday.

Prairie Plant Systems Inc. received a five-year, $5 million federal contract to grow marijuana in an abandoned copper mine in Flin Flon, Man., but McLellan said their first batch was not uniform.

Royal visit budget balloons
Last month's royal visit to Canada cost almost $2 million more than federal organizers expected when they budgeted for the Queen's 12-day Golden Jubilee tour.

An initial estimate of $4.85 million for the Oct. 4 to 15 visit by the Queen and Prince Philip ballooned by about 40 per cent to $6.7 million, the Ottawa Citizen reported yesterday.

Ottawa dumping $16M worth of computers
In a bid to streamline its computer system, Human Resources Development Canada is poised to dump almost $16 million worth of machines it acquired only two years ago, it was reported yesterday.

The $40-million plan was announced just as a series of internal reports warned the federal department it had a massive oversupply of network computers.

Why do people ask "what's the worse thing that can happen" as opposed to "what's the best I could do" these days? Or has it always been like this?

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Ok. Let's take it a bit easy now. The following links are more amusing to me. They lighten up this posting like the sky will be lit tonight. See if you can solve the puzzles on these pages. Answers are on the pages. Puzzle ONE and puzzle TWO. Enjoy!

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See you again, sooner or later.