Umm..., My Own Home Page Last Updated January 12, 2010

Nicknames: Big Dave, Daypid, Taavelli
From: Sioux Lookout
Occupation: A Wannabe Astronomer and Astro-physicist, but that's not my day job :-(
Hobbies: Astronomy, physics, history, culture, golf, weight lifting, x-country skiing, outdoor stuff, running
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KFC 01-12-10

Was in the city of Thunder Bay yesterday and I was thinking how much I miss KFC. When I was just a young kid, it was a big thing to head to Kapuskasing (Kap) for a Saturday. The last thing we would pick up is a bucket of KFC with their bread, box of fries and salad. It was so good. Now I am stuck with Shake ‘n Bake if I want breaded chicken..., still good but deep fried in grease really does something to the chicken... Have you ever reheated KFC chicken in the oven??? You can really see the oil that bird was holding in the breading but it does taste good. I miss eating chips and dip..., poutine (soak in gravy and cheese), onion rings... and eggs deep fried in bacon grease that was left over in the pan from cooking a pound of bacon..., the best!!! If you like poached eggs..., try it in grease... Of course all these things are bad for you unless you’re one of the few people who could eat anything and get away with it..., I’m not one of those people... I eat very good with half decent portion so that I am full when done..., but it isn’t the same... Where I am going with this..., unfortunately nowhere..., I just miss the grease..., Mmm..., deep fried eggs... On a closing note..., my Grandmother (kokum) made tea-ba-loss. It is made from hot tea then put in a cup of flour and 1/4 cup of lard... She said you could drink that and walk for many miles... She drank it everyday and lived into her late 80's... She might be still around today if she didn’t fall and break her collar bone..

End of week one of 520 weeks left in the decade 01-09-10

Well we are into the second week of this decade..., umm..., 520 weeks seems like a long time. Now it is 518 weeks then next thing you know..., another 10 years of your life has expired... Scary when you think of it in that terms..., that is 10 less years of living... How many of us will see 2100..., 90 years away.. I wonder if they’ll have flying cars in 2100 or a moon base..., hard to say. Looking back at movies made in the 50's and 60's..., we are suppose to be living in glass domes held up in the sky by a narrow beam.. I want my dome with my flying car..., talk about a gyp...

I haven’t made any New Years resolutions... I think the last one I kept was to quit smoking in 2000..., ten years ago... I don’t think I’ll take up the habit again... I’m in this life for the long haul...., eating right..., not smoking..., exercising... I’ll do my part but I can’t control the other idiots on the road or anywhere else for that matter. Yesterday I pulled out of Robins then this idiot flying down the road catches up to me and I see he is cursing me... I am just going over the limit just a bit and that f*cker is tailgating me... I turned onto the bypass and he turns too..., then I went to turn towards town again..., this guy almost hits my truck. I got pissed... What if I had my kids in the truck with me and hit my truck... I hope I run into that f*cker again... Oh well..., maybe it was a sign from above to drink better coffee and don’t lower my standards..., Mmm..., coffee... I wonder if they'll brew a better coffee in 2100???

Happy New Year 01-03-10

I want to wish everyone the best in 2010..., another decade gone.... Two more years til 2012..., which is suppose to be the end of the humanity. Seen the movie 2012..., I hated it..., so stupid..., did these writers skip science 101..., idiots... The biggest problem I have is the fact that neutrino were the cause of the Earth core warming up..., which is crazy because neutrinos have “zero mass” and is so small that and more than 50 trillion solar electron neutrinos pass through the human body every second and pass through the Earth like nothing... It is so hard to detect that we have neutrino labs in the deepest mines of the world..., like the movie.., but unlike the movie..., since neutrinos have zero mass..., how could it effect anything.. It would have to have some sort of mass to do anything... Example..., photons (has mass) converts to thermal energy (heat) or microwaves (has mass)which excites the electrons in water to also make heat... Our core is mostly heavy metals such as iron which is the which has the atomic number of 26 which to say the least, a neutrino would have to hard time heating up... Also it is pretty hot down there already..., these metals are in liquid form..., high viscosity mind you but still liquid... Lastly..., if anything..., it would fry up anything on the surface first then effect the core of the planet..., thus these writers are idiots... Don’t worry it will happen..., something like 4.5 billion years from now... They should make a movie on that..., call it..., “4,500,002,012"..., that is more practical... Can’t wait for that one...

Boxing Day 26-12-09

We’re heading into the last week of the “00" or “oo”. I’ve been in Northwestern for almost 10 years now..., a whole decade.. Where has the time gone..., hard to believe. In six more days, 2010..., wow... Nice to see more snow on the ground and days getting longer. Been using my snow blower..., that is a nice piece of machinery..., where have you been all my life... Yup...

Merry Christmas 12-25-09

I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and safe holidays...

Budweiser 12-13-09

There is nothing like driving to Dryden on a early Sunday morning..., workout at the Rec Centre, walk up the stairs and then be accused of drinking a beer after your workout..., now that is priceless. I can’t see how they can confuse drinking a protein shake compared to having a bud. I think she was just looking at the person holding the shake and not looking what I was holding in my hand. Racism at its best..., a classic..., kinda miss that old school racism. Nowadays you call someone a racist and they get insulted.., wounded..., hurt..., and then they become the victim... You can beat an Indian to a pulp but conclude that it is racially motivated and wham..., the perpetrators become the victims... Look what happened to that university professor trying to get into his house. A lady walking by see a black man going into a nice house..., calls the cops..., then the cops arrest the professor. Then the professor calls the incident racist and everyone comes running to the aid of the police officer... I just got so sick of listening to the sob story of the police officer who judge the man by the colour of his skin not who the man was. If that officer just called it in..., it would have been solved in an instant...

If they don't like it here..., why don't they just go back to their homelands..., they're very few Indians over there compared to here. We're the fastest growing population in Canada..., the problem is only going to get worse for these people..., just go home already if it's so bad... No one is holding a gun to their heads... The religious oppression they suffered is over..., no one cares which religion they belong to anymore..., the soil in their homelands can now grow potatoes again..., most of the countries they left have good social programs now..., no reason to stay... I just don’t get it..., oh well...

A couple of more weeks til Christmas..., last week of work before X-mas holidays..., looking forward to that. Had most of my stuff done before the start of December..., getting better at this X-mas stuff. This winter I want to go sliding down garbage hill in Winnipeg. It is one of their older dumps from the 60's and 70's..., poured some soil on it and now it is one of their best sliding hills in Winnipeg. It must suck trying to go sliding in the prairies..., now that is flat. Yup...

Do unto others... 11-18-09

When I woke this morning..., I said to myself..., you know what.., I am kinda happy with my life but not full blown 100% happy which I think it is a good thing. If I was 100%.., like total inner peace..., like the Buddha himself nothing would bother me. Better yet..., what would I live for if I didn’t want anything. Maybe that is why it is so hard to achieve or the people who were genetically prone to have inner peace and no inner demons are no longer part of our gene pool or in really small numbers. You know the guy who you could walk all over and they would do nothing.., just smile. The old saying of “Do unto others as others do unto you” which in some verison is found in most of the ancient writings..., like the New Testament, Talmud, Koran, and the Analects of Confucius... I think is excellent words to live by... Thinking about Jesus..., he would have had excellent parents and total inner peace not to commit any sins in his 30 plus years of living... He was able to do great and wonder things with his total inner peace..., has 25% of the world current population as followers which is no small task. I asked my father once..., “why did you let that happen” (when someone did something bad to him) and all he said was “the meek shall inherit the earth”... I really didn’t know what he meant at that time..., I would have just smucked the guy. Now I have a greater understanding then smucked him...

The only problem with “Do unto others as others do unto you” is that it creates a double standard and really gives the leg up to people without morals. That is why Carl Marx did what he did..., he seen the common people who followed these rules being run over by people who didn’t. The people suffered for it. I think he took it too far..., in attacking religion..., he was attacking spirituality and God. That is why it probably failed. I think of the old people..., my grandparents..., you see them all over the north. It is innate that if they were in disagreement with something..., they wouldn’t say anything and their body language would say so. I always took that as a no respecting their decision. If I pushed it..., they would eventual say yes because they figure that since I am pushing it.., it must mean a lot to me. You throw someone else in the picture who doesn’t share these values..., they could get away with almost anything. I heard this story one time where this old man from one of the Matawa communities made a beautiful painting. This non-native liked it so much that he asked him for it but silenced followed. He kept on asking til he said yes. On my plane my mother gave him shit saying he didn’t really want to give you the painting but you pushed so hard and kept on asking..., he eventually gave it to you for free. He took advantage of that person with no regret. Now the biggest problem is whole communities and societies are being overrun.

That is the dilemma. I think that is why when God told Moses to tell the people of Israel..., just kill everyone when you cross the river Jordan..., don’t take them as slaves..., don’t spare the children..., don’t take them as wives..., just wipe them out. He told them they were kinda the chosen people..., you are not the greatest but you are better than the others in the area. That is why I chose you as a people. They listen for the most part then started taking slaves..., wives..., then their society fell apart and were a divided people. That’s what I mean giving the leg up to people without morals.. What to do when you live in a shoe...Look what happened to us when we signed those treaties..., gave the land away for next to nothing AND now they want to take what little we have now... If you look at our high unemployment rate.., high suicide rate, we have the highest inmate population in most prisons..., high dropout rate..., the poorest group in Canada all because we wanted to share..., and they still want to beat us to the ground... Yup..., I am happy but not that happy...

December 21, 2012 11-17-09

I think my media windows player is spying on me..., it is using an awful a lot of juice to play a couple of songs... Well..., 2012 is the biggest movie in the land this week. I don’t know..., December 21 is the Equinox and I think the Mayans just got tired of counting..., now we think it is doomsday... Isn’t that just like our species..., first of all a lot of us thought that Saddam Hussein was the anti-Christ that would bring death to the world..., then this then that..., now 2012... We’ve been waiting over 2000 years for this doomsday..., why can’t we be happy what we got and change things for the better... Why are we waiting for the hand of God or the second coming of Jesus..., Buddha..., Mohammad or whom ever...Why does humanity almost have to be wiped out before things can get better. Doomsday..., well..., I take it as the end... The only thing that can wipe us out in a fraction of a second is a gamma ray burst from a Super Nova and there are a few of them out there with our names on it. We won’t have no warning..., no time to prepare..., no place to hide... It will happen at the speed of light..., less than a blink of an eye..., we’re here and then we’re gone... Wouldn’t that make for a terrible movie..., walking around then in a instant..., gone..., end of movie..., no hero..., no bad guys.., just one fried rock and no one to tell the tale... At least we'll be taking Bills Gates and the Waltons with us so it aint all bad news..., spy on me you arse...

Leonid Meteor Shower 11-16-09

Leonid Meteor Shower tonight...., 2 a.m. and 4 a.m., we should see 30 to 50 meteors an hour.. Time to make those wishes..., that’s 30 to 50 wishes per hour... What should I wish for??? Just look for the constellation Leo or up..., whatever works for you... Finally got off that Halloween stuff off my page and time to get into the X-mas spirit. Got my lights up and running outside..., started my shopping... Everything is a go... Christmas..., bring it on... Constellation Leo..., Leonid Meteor Shower suppose to be the best so far...

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In case you are wondering where the hell Mattice, Ontario is on Highway 11 (where I grew up), look for this dinosaur on the side of the road. Also if you are parched after hours..., this is the place to be along with 9 other excellent locations to serve you.

This is me in a Lapplander Traditional "Dwelling" in Finland Near Fort Severn's Goose Camps Near Tampere, Finland Me with Grandpa Sandy

Back in the day in Mattice

Quotes

"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance." - Albert Einstein

"I intend to live forever, or die trying" - Justin Neegan

"Ninty-Five percent of enjoying the wilderness is knowing it's there" - John Sills in reference to the people of the south.

"When traveling (abroad) ..., sometimes it is hard to tell someone what they just ate, it could be a monkey, dog, anything..." Osmo's answer when I asked what I ate for breakfast.

“Donna Orr, the only Orr I know besides Bobby” - Ted Nolan

"...keep your goals as high as you can dream, and if you fall short they will be higher than is you aimed too low." - Dale

Religion is the opium of the masses - Tom Wassakeesic

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. - Albert Einstein

Gas to Calstock: $40.00, Food for the road: $40.00, Getting to Calstock at 4:30am, no one awake, going to Hearst for a hotel, no rooms available, heading to Mattice at 5:30am for other hotels and finding out there are no longer any hotels there: PRICELESS - Tanya Spence

Locks only keep the honest people out - Mike Peltenon

“..... if the coffee is too strong, just add water. You can make strong coffee weak but you can’t make weak coffee strong..” - John Perry's memo to KO staff

“The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens” - Arnold Schwarzenegger

"I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty." - Groucho Marx

"I am too lazy too type, I call!!!" - Graeme Bouchard-Wood

Have a Safe and Merry Christmas!!!

I cartooned myself and this is what I got......