January 23, 2006

How can you tell it’s election night?

Posted on by Patrick

CBC.ca is was farked. Update–scant min­utes lat­er, I’m get­ting through. Still.

Appar­ent­ly I did throw my vote away, since the incum­bent got re-elect­ed. Not that I’m surprised.

Judo–only three of us there, me and a white/yellow striped belt and Dar­cy, the head instruc­tor. So we did­n’t do hane-goshi; instead, Mark–the white/yellow stripe–went through his throws for his yel­low belt, and I went over the ones I’ll need to know for my brown belt, and then I did the first three sets of nage-no-kata, which I will also need to know for my brown belt. Then I came home.

Voted.

Posted on by Patrick

Yeah. The can­di­date that usu­al­ly gets elect­ed ’round these here parts is not who I vot­ed for. I just can’t help hear­ing that Simp­sons bit, where Kang and Kodos are run­ning in the US elec­tion, and some guy in the audi­ence says, “Why, I think I’ll just vote for a third-par­ty can­di­date”, and one of the aliens says, in that delight­ful boom­ing voice they have, “Go ahead. Throw your vote away.”

I tossed my vote into the æther. And now, because of a new/old law (I think it was struck down by a provin­cial court before last elec­tion, but rein­stat­ed before the cur­rent one), I have to wait till 9PM to see any results from any­where in the coun­try. Weird. Oh well.

Hane-goshi Tonight at judo: Hane-goshi, the spring­ing hip throw: one of my favourites. Video | Ani­mat­ed .gif. Whee!