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Geography Lesson

Oct 20

Posted by Likalia in Getting SMRT, Just For Fun, My Life | 3 Comments

On my last post, Delton joked about adding enough stars to the US flag to compensate for all the “territories” in Canada. While I appreciate the willingness to help me view tv shows on the internet, I’m afraid I’d like to keep Canada as Canada instead of another US State. (Sorry Delton)

What I do need to address though is the “territories” comment. I am aware that in the States they do not teach Canadian geography, other than to tell you ‘yeah there is a country up above us with snow, igloos and some hockey players.’ (I’m paraphrasing of course – no offense.)

Since we in Canada learn about the States in Social Studies class I figured it only fair to treat my US readers to a small geography lesson. It is for your best interest I do so too, because while Canadians are polite, we will kick your ass for not using correct terminology. :) Semantics, we’re anal about it.

Here goes:

Canada – The Great White North (This is only a Nickname – some places are not covered in snow all the time)

Our country is made up of as Delton noted Territories…and PROVINCES.

We have three Territories: Yukon, Nunavut, and The Northwest Territories

We have ten Provinces: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI and Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfoundland and Labrador are one Province).

To help you with the locations of these Provinces and Territories here is a link to a lovely map. :)

MAP OF CANADA*

Thus ends our lesson on the Geography of Canada. Tune in next week when we discuss…*static*

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*I tried to make this an internal link – but my server wouldn’t co-operate and upload the file. PITA!  I FINALLY got the server to co-operate. YAY!

Nomenclature

Mar 21

Posted by Likalia in Getting SMRT, My Life | 2 Comments

1. a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc.

2. the names or terms comprising a set or system.

(source)

I feel so much better now – that word was rattling around in my head all day yesterday and this morning. To make matters worse it isn’t even a word that one could use in day to day conversation very easily. Hopefully now that it has been written out it will leave me alone.

Follow The Bouncing Ball

Aug 14

Posted by Likalia in As I See It, Getting SMRT, My Life | 4 Comments

I’ve written before about my OCD regarding my name, Likalia, I have email addresses, websites, user IDs, anything really I can put it on I do. :) Crazy I know, but what can you do?

Although it makes me think sometimes, why people have OCD about something things but not others. Why am I OCD about my name, but not about say cleaning? What is it about one thing over another that triggers the need to be compulsive? My brain latches on to some things and drives me nutty by not backing off, yet things that would be beneficial to me it can’t latch. I would love to be able to orchestrate my OCD into motivation in say school or writing. Yet it never helps me out.

Perhaps I have OCD against succeeding in those arenas but I am unaware of it. :) The brain is a strange thing, why do some people become afraid of spiders and other not? Did I have some traumatic event involving a spider? Nope. Have I seen many unrealistic movies and read many unrealistic books about spiders, yes! I know they aren’t real yet my brain refuses to not be freaked out by spiders when they are on me, although I do find them fascinating creatures.

If any of you are psych majors do let me know what you think, I’m always intrigued and willing to learn something new.
Also if anyone can help me learn to use my OCD for good instead of evil, that might be interesting, though evil is pretty fun sometimes. ;)

Have we learned anything today class??

Jul 31

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Many times probably I have mentioned my desire to have a guest author, mostly because on occasion I just have nothing much to say. My weekday life is terribly dull. Tonight though I sat at my laptop and found I really was at a loss for something to write about. I figured I’d ask someone to suggest a topic and go from there. Apparently I caught EvilMonkey on a good night because he was ready with multiple.

Here were his suggestions along with my little take on each.

How smell effects people – I’m always amazed at how the olfactory system works, especially how smelling something can bring back vivid memories. Just this morning actually I walked past the blackberry bushes behind my parents house and the smell of them reminded me of playing near them as a child. Often times I’ll smell mens cologne or aftershave and be reminded of old boyfriends.

Going to the dentist – I know a lot of people hate going to the dentist, but since I’ve worked for a few and had rather a bit of work done in my mouth I’ve never minded much. Actually I love having my teeth cleaned. When patients would cancel for hygiene appointments I would always volunteer for a cleaning if we couldn’t fill it.

Summer holidays – I was just saying to IndigoEve this evening, it is a shame that I never took advantage of the forced holidays you get while in school. As she mentioned though who has the money to travel anywhere at a school age. Not that I particularly have the money now but I definitely don’t have the time.

Island Living – I don’t know if I ever mentioned it on here, but my idea living situation would be on an isolated island somewhere, I have tendencies toward hermitage I think. I love living on this island though it is not quite isolated, it seems to spawn diversity though. I’m not sure I could ever live elsewhere.

What makes water taste – what kind of water? Personally I drink water from a cooler, which doesn’t really taste like much of anything. When I was living in Victoria the water would taste like algea sometimes when the resevoir got quite low and I’ve heard the same about the water here. I’m sure at times it taste like silt too from the bottom of the lake or chlorine from the processing.

Well that filled up the page I suppose – excellent topics I think, if rather brief answers.

Learning Everyday

Jul 25

Posted by Likalia in Enter the Geekery, Getting SMRT, My Life, Things I'm Reading | Comments off

Our office has a vast number of woodbugs (woodlice/pillbugs whatever you want to call them) wandering around our office although many of them have died. I wanted to know why they were dying, which is apparently because they have gills and require moist environments. Very unfortunate that they are stuck in our office it is very dry, especially with the air conditioner running.

Anyway, while I was learning all about my little bug friends on Wikipedia, I also came across their cousins. Go take a look then come back, CLICK HERE.

Aren’t they PURTY!!!! Seriously I am going to have nightmares of those things crawling on me, they grow up to 18 inches! That is 6 inches bigger than an average ruler! EW! Of course they look totally fake, what with the silver eyes, but they are real. Which is cool and creepy.

See what happens when you have an addiction to the Wikipedia site, I just keep clicking on connected entries and eventually find WEIRD or interesting things.

For instance yesterday I was really closed to going to live in Alert on Ellesmere Island, except for the part where it gets to about -69°C for the entire winter. Oh and only 5 other people would be there and you are completely surround by ice pack ALL THE TIME. Had to pass on it, so now I’ve decided if I ever need to move I’m going to New Zealand because it is beautiful and very temperate, well at least until Global Warming kills the climate there too. :) I guess for now I’ll just enjoy life on the Island, we aren’t that bad off yet ;) .

Edited to add: If you are into the creepy sea creatures I found this link on Glark.org…Yummy!