The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Kirilaw:

It finally stopped raining here in Ottawa long enough for me to photograph my route!

Both to and from work can be seen here.

Patrick @ 36:

As someone who commutes by bike in downtown Ottawa*, that police campaign has been a source of significant irritation. It has not escaped the notice of the cycling community here that the reaction to a terrible accident affecting five cyclists who were, by all accounts, following all the rules, has been to remind cyclists to... follow all the rules. As if that will somehow help protect us against hostile and/or deliberately oblivious drivers.

(And this is a few days after a woman was killed by a bus while she rode her bike in the lane designated to be shared by bikes and busses)

*and is now inspired to photograph the commute one of these days

Lori Coulson @57:

Wait times vary enormously by location.

In Ontario, according to this site, the average wait for a hip replacement is 162 days. The shortest wait times seem to be 35-40 days, and the longest as much as a year.

(If you're curious about other provinces, Health Canada has a list of provincial initatives to track wait times here.)

Andy W @20:

I'm very familiar with the source material, and although the violence is pretty much identical to that in the graphic novel, I found it much more disturbing to see it played out with live actors on a screen. In fact, that was one of the first things my sig. other and I talked about when we walked out of the movie -- the degree to which the violence felt much more extreme, even though it was, objectively, "the same".

Now, I'm pretty sqeamish about violence, and your average teen is probably much more comfortable with it than I am, but I found it quite disturbing.

Steve Taylor @ 13, Lizzy L @ 20 --

I, too, would love to have such a t-shirt. But then, I have a drawerful of shirts that I think are wonderfully clever but that require far too much explanation for those not already in the know...

Tatterbots @ 1 --

When I was a kid, my parents used to use chocolate zucchini cake as a way of sneaking vegetables into us. Then my mother accidentally admitted that it was (gasp) zucchini cake, and we all promptly decided we had hated it all along.

Mary Dell #141:

Just for the record, that bit at the end of the Handmaid's Tale that you object to is a movie thing, and doesn't come from the book. I can't speak to the rest of the logical inconsistencies, since it's been a while since I saw the movie, but that I remember, because it outraged me.

Serge said:
What I remember hearing from my dad about the conscription is that MacKenzie-King ran a campaign that promised French-Canadians that there would be no conscription and that, the moment he came into office, the conscription happened. Of course, my dad was biased, and not the best-informed person.

What Mackenzie King actually promised was the beautifully ambiguous "conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription". He did eventually bring in conscription, but not until nearly the end of the war. Which does not appear to have placated your dad any. :)

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