Briar Rabbit!

Well , after clearly mastering one of the mad Scots' silly games (i.e., golf with my last three rounds at the Academy coming in well under 50) I'm taking on their other silly game -- curling.

Took a 4.5 hour "beginners" clinic yesterday and with three other guys from the pub we're signing up for the "hangover" league in Coquitlam starting next Sunday at 9:00am.

Really, can the Briar be that far away??!

Mind Over Matter

From the Gizmodo Blog:

This past June, a judge in the Indian state of Maharashtra convicted a woman of killing her ex-fiance, citing as proof an EEG scan showing “experiential knowledge” of the crime.....The story tells of a woman who lived in the town of Pune, engaged to Man A. One day, she up and runs off to Delhi with Man B. She returns to Pune, meets Man A at a McDonald's, and later on, he dies. Of arsenic poisoning. When the woman was brought in accused of murdering Man A, she denied the allegation. When investigators hooked her up to an EEG and read aloud facts of the crime, however, software interpreting the electrical impulses in her brain told a different story. Says the NYT: "The relevant nooks of her brain where memories are thought to be stored buzzed when the crime was recounted."
Unlike in previous cases, there was little or no corroborative evidence here, but the judge sentenced the woman to life in prison anyway, and went on to write a 9-page lovesong to this particular Brain Electrical Oscillations Signature test, even though it has yet to be "validated by any independent study and reported in a respected scientific journal."


God, you got to love it when the judiciary jumps in bed with the fringe neuro-scientists!

DRo -- JFu .....Maybe Move To A Cash Economy

From CBC online:
Debit card skimmers target Kamloops residents...Since this summer, close to 70 Kamloops residents have found money missing from their bank accounts, totalling thousands of dollars, RCMP said.

"[With] your bank account information and your PIN number they create new bank cards using your information and go on a spree. They take out as much as they can each day out of your account," Wilson said.

RCMP believe a gang operating in the Lower Mainland is behind the debit card scam and it is operating throughout Western Canada, Wilson said.

Be careful out there boys!