Canadian things.....
PermaLink - Nov 29, 2006

Canada rocks, Eh? 

sorry for the spaces, its just the way it was formatted

acrylics (Plexiglas/Perspex/Lucite) - William Chalmers


Actar 911 CPR Dummy - Dianne Croteau, Richard Brault and Jonathan Vinden


air-conditioned railway coach - Henry Ruttan (1858)


antigravity suit - Wilbur R. Franks (1940)


Balderdash - Laura Robinson and Paul Toyne (1984)


basketball - James Naismith (1892)


batteryless radio (AC radio tube) - Edward Samuel Rogers Sr. (1925)


bovril


butter substitute


Canadarm - SPAR and the National Aeronautical Establishment (1981)


calcium carbide and acetylene gas (production of) - Thomas L. "Carbide" Wilson (1892)


carcino embryonic antigen (CEA) blood test - Dr. Phil Gold (1968)


cardiac intensive care unit (first)


cobalt bomb - University of Saskatchewan and Eldorado Mining and Refining (1951)


compound marine engine - Benjamin Franklin Tibbets compound revolving snow shovel (trains)


computerized braille


crash position indicator (C.P.I) - Harry T. Stevinson and David M. Makow (1959)

 dental mirror


disintegrating plastic


ear piercer


electric cooking range - Thomas Ahearn (1882)


electric hand prosthesis for children - Helmut Lukas (1971)


electrical car (North America's first)


electric wheelchair - George J. Klein


electron microscope - Prof. E. F. Burton and Cecil Hall, James Hillier and Albert Prebus (late 1930s)


electronic wave organ - Frank Morse Robb (1927)


explosives vapour detector - Dr Lorne Elias (1990)


fathometer - Reginald Fessenden


film developing tank


five pin bowling - Thomas E. Ryan (1909)


foghorn - Robert Foulis (1854)


frozen fish - Dr. Archibald G. Huntsman (1926)

 garbage bag (green plastic) - Harry Wasyluk and Larry Hanson (1950s)


Gestalt Photo Mapper - G. Hobrough (1975)


gingerale - John J. McLaughlin (1904)


goalie mask - Jacques Plante (1959)


Green ink - Thomas Sterry Hunt (1862)


hair tonic


heart valve operation (first)


helicopter trap (for landing on ships)


helium as a substitute for hydrogen in airships


hydrofoil boat - Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin (1908)


IMAX - Grahame Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr (1968)


instant potato flakes - Dr. Edward Asselbegs and the Food Research Institute (1962)


insulation


insulin (as diabetes treatment) - Dr. Frederick Banting, Dr. Charles Best and Dr. Collip (1921)

 Java - James Gosling


Jetline


jolly jumper - Olivia Poole


kerosene - Abraham Gesner (1840)


lacrosse - played since the 1600s; William George Beers set out standard rules (1860)


laser (sailboat) - Bruce Kirby, Ian Bruce and Hans Fogh (1969)


lightbulb (first patented) - Henry Woodward (1874)


liposomes

 machine gun tracer bullet


MacPherson gas mask


measure for footwear


Muskol


Newtsuit - Phil Nuytten


newsprint - Charles Fenerty (1838)


Nursing Mother Breast Pads - Marsha Skrypuch (1986)

 pablum - Drs. Alan Brown, Fred Tisdall, and Theo Drake (1930s)


pacemaker - Wilfred Bigelow


paint roller - Norman Breakey (1940)


panoramic camera - John Connon (1887)


Phi (position homing indicator for aircraft)


Pictionary - Rob Angel (1986)


pizza pizza telephone computer delivery services


portable high chair


Puzz-3D


(A) Question of Scruples - Robert Simpson (1984)


radar profile recorder - NRC (1947)


radio compass


retractable beer carton handle (Tuck-away-handle Beer Carton) - Steve Pasjac (1957)


rollerskate 

 screw propeller


ski-binding


snowblower - Arthur Sicard (1927)


snowmobile - Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1937)


snowplow (rotary) - invented by J.W. Elliot (1869), first built by Leslie Brothers (1883)


steam foghorn


standard time - Sir Sanford Fleming (1879)


Stanley Cup - (Canada's Governor-General) Lord Stanley of Preston (1893)


Stol aircraft - de Havilland Canada (1948)


submarine telegraph cable


Superman - Joe Shuster and Jerome Siegel (1938)


table hockey - Donald Munro (1930s)


telephone - Alexander Graham Bell (1874)


Trivial Pursuit - Chris Haney, John Haney and Scott Abbott (1982)

variable Pitch Propeller - Wallace Rupert Turnbull (1918)


Walkie-Talkie - Donald L. Hings (1942)


washing machine


wirephoto - Sir William Stephenson (1921)


Yachtzee


zipper - Gideon Sundback (1913)

What a geek REALLY is
PermaLink - Oct 25, 2006

When it comes to geeks...I'd have to say we rule the world...litterally...we hold together governments or topple governments...we end wars...or (in the odd case) we start them, we are holding the economy together in many countries....not everyone can be one though...Heres generally what one is:


1.Total obsession to portable electronics.
-IE: Cellphones, video games, GPS, PDA, ultralight laptop, etc.
2.Doesn't use chatspeak and can type really fast.
3.(optional) knows a crap load of pie
4.in your face attitude about technology
5.You have to scoff at people that consider an iPod to be something different than an 'MP3'.
6. know alot of HTML or java
7 knows what a PCI card is

Ill update this later....

Clarifying
PermaLink - Oct 10, 2006

Now if youve had a chance to look at my gallery youd thin im some kind of war freak...well im just telling you up front that im not...war is a terrible thing, man and womans greatest moments havent been fighting for freedom but fighting for rights. Fighting for rights wars have ever so suddenly taken from them. If you read my first blog then this is kind of contridicting to that...remember the best offence is a good defence.....meaning you dont have to pull the trigger to end it...its called blanks...
Hating your windows machine 101
PermaLink - Oct 10, 2006

a history of windows....

1.windows has always been a shitty OS(operating system)

2. even though mac started out shaky and even worse than windows....but it fought its way back

3. today macs rule in the operating system catagory

 

reasons why you should hate windows

1.holes-windows is full of them, what else did you expect to came in the "service packs" microsoft is trying to hide its wholes by telling you that the "service packs" are for virus and stuff.

2. annoying- basically sometimes your windows machine is just being a bitch...it thinks it needs to do one thing when you tell it to do another thing...like as im trying to write this....WINDOWS THINKS BACKSPACE IS THE FOWARD KEY!!!!!

3. stupid- you may be saying if your computer saavy "o well all computers are stupid" well no computer is stupider than a windows machine....youd know if you watched the newscast about the speech recongniser screwing up at a press conference....beside vista is really not special in ANY way

4.looks- i guess its dells fault or sony....but microsoft should have come in and said "fuck, that looks like shit""do it again"

Guns 101
PermaLink - Oct 10, 2006

thought you anti-gun people would like to read this

GUNS 101 -- A History Refresher Course 1- An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject. 2- A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone. 3- Smith & Wesson. The original point and click interface. 4- Gun control is not about guns, it is about control. 5- If guns are outlawed, can we use swords? 6- If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words. 7- Free men do not ask permission to bear arms. 8- If you don't know your rights, you don't have any. 9- Those who trade liberty for security have neither. 10- The United States Constitution (C) 1791. All Rights Reserved. 11- What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand. 12- The Second Amendment is in place in case the other amendments are ignored. 13- 64,999,987 firearm owners killed no one yesterday. 14- Guns have only two enemies, Rust and Politicians. 15- Know guns, know peace, know safety; No guns, no peace no safety. 16- You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive. 17- 911: government-sponsored "Dial a Prayer." 18- Assault is a behavior, not a device. 19- Criminals love gun control. It makes their job easier and safer. 20- If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson. 21- Only a government that is afraid of it's citizens tries to disarm them. 22- You have only the rights you are willing to fight for. 23- Enforce the "gun control laws" in place; don't make more. 24- When you remove the right to bear arms, you create slaves. 25- The American Revolution would never have happened with "Gun Control." 26- "....a government by the people, for the people......"
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