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e to stay much closer to them now don t get me wrong i know that a lightweight 21 speed bike with skinny tires on 29 wheels will go faster than a heavy bike with smaller wheels and wider tires but those guys would have kicked my ass if they were riding tricycles all this to say when you re bitching about things not going your way because you don t have the right job or the right gear or the right tools or the right whatever double check and make sure that the problem isn t you posted by unknown at 10 30 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cycling gear introspection wednesday may 08 2013 an open letter to david pollock mayor of beaconsfield every month beaconsfield circulates a newsletter called contact that lets us citizens know about all the great stuff happening in our town like ebooks and french ebooks from the library swimming lessons hazardous waste collection days and the like this month i noticed a little notice about changes to the noise nuisance bylaws for sundays it used to be that the only time you could mow your lawn or do renovations on a sunday was between noon and 4pm this was a bit annoying sometimes but i totally understand the need for a bit of peace and quiet apparently this wasn t enough peace and or quiet for some folks because now you can t use any motorized equipment at all at any time on sundays so i wrote a letter to the mayor which i sent on may 3 2013 as of this writing may 8 i haven t heard back mr pollock as i read this month s contact i was very disturbed to find that the city s noise by laws had been amended to prohibit the use of any motorized equipment or tools at any time on sundays while i appreciate the need for controlling noise pollution this by law presents a number of problems both practical and philosophical neither kirkland or pointe claire restrict noise on sundays to such an extent this means that beaconsfield residents who live on the borders of these other cities can still be subject noise coming from their neighbours in those municipalities in fact no other municipality in west island has such restrictive regulations in many families both adults work full or part time leaving the weekends as the only time for activities and yard maintenance given the vagaries of the summer weather it is not uncommon for one of the weekend days to be rainy and unsuitable for yard work in addition families with children often find themselves shuttling between multiple activities on one of the weekend days and this by law further complicates their lives needlessly my last argument is a moral one and perhaps the most important the choice of sunday as a quiet day or day of rest reflects a strong christian cultural bias on the part of beaconsfield i am jewish and though i am not overly observant my traditional day of rest is saturday the choice of sunday by the city is based solely on tradition since i am sure that the majority of christian residents of beaconsfield do not regularly attend church although beaconsfield has a reputation for a certain degree of cultural homogenity the population is rapidly become more diverse and the value judgement implied by the new by law does not reflect an openness of spirit toward residents of different cultural communities i appreciate the need for controlling noise pollution and i applaud council for it s proactive approach however the previous version of the by law was already among the most restrictive in the west island the current by law will ultimately be ineffective because it cannot protect those beaconsfield residents who live adjacent to neighbouring municipalities it is needlessly restrictive and authoritarian and discriminatory i trust your better judgement will consider a revision of this by law please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions sincerely michael lautman posted by unknown at 10 51 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels activism noise suburban living wednesday january 23 2013 don t be a fucking idiot vaccinate your kids there s a terrifying story on stuff see link about a family in new zealand who opted not to vaccinate their children and then watched their 7 year old suffer for three weeks and almost die from tetanus if you know me or have read this blog at all you m ow that i am completely pro vaccine vaccines save lives end of discussion the only reason we actually have this debate at all is because vaccines are so effective so effective that no one who is a parent today saw a friend die of tetanus or smallpox or become physically disabled from polio our parents did my dad s friend h had polio as a child and it stunted his growth and left him with a limp but we didn t because we were all immunized that means we aren t scared of these diseases we should be child suffering from smallpox according to this article in jama prior to 1947 there were a combined average of 10 433 deaths per year in the us from measles mumps polio diphtheria pertussis rubella smallpox and pertussis in 2004 there were a total of 31 deaths from these illness in the us 27 from pertussis and 4 from tetanus holy shit without accounting for the massive increase in population in the us this means that 10 402 people don t die each year because of vaccines the anti vaccine fanatics will have you believe that because vaccines are so dangerous we are actually no better off here s the truth in the us there are about 11 000 adverse reactions to vaccines reported each year about 1600 of these result in hospitalization and 220 result in deaths hmmm 10 433 versus 220 don t get me wrong i d much rather that vaccines had no risk but nothing in life especially medical procedures are without risk remember public health is a game of odds and the odds of saving lives are clearly on the side of vaccines don t be an idiot vaccinate your kids please posted by unknown at 9 51 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels heatlh science vaccines tuesday january 22 2013 when students are smarter than teachers one of the big news stories around here this week is how dawson college expelled a student for exposing a security flaw in the online course management software they use the software called ominvox is used in many cegeps junior college in quebec here s the gist of the flaw pages containing sensitive information about users students and teachers are given encrypted urls but apparently the url still contains pieces of the staff or student id number simply by changing those numbers anyone logged in to the system can have information about any other user the student in question hamed al khabaz immediately reported this gaping security hole to the college s head of it he got a pat on the back after few days he ran a program to see if the vulnerability was still there good follow up on his part the college then threatened to press charges and ultimately expelled the kid morons the correct course of action should have been 1 holy crap thanks for finding this really serious problem with our system we ll get that fixed right away 2 here s your diploma you can go home now seriously this kid is smart thorough and above all honest this first thing he did when he found the problem was tell a grown up and then he got expelled i thought that the mission of a college or any other school for that matter was education i didn t think that this mission was restricted to the classroom well what the hell do the administrators at dawson think they are teaching this student and all their students by their actions they are teaching him to toe the line to cover his ass and never trust anyone in a position of authority clearly these are superb lessons these people are fucking idiots i hope that my own children can act with the clarity of thought integrity thoroughness and honesty that hamed al khabaz did this whole incident started back in september of 2012 and we re only hearing about it now because the company behind the software skytech not skynet forced al khabaz to sign an nda in my capacity as a teacher i used omnivox everyday and i have not heard a thing about it including whether or not the vulnerability has been repaired in an interesting about face skytech has now offered al khabaz a scholarship so that he can complete his studies at a private college they should hire him institutions of all kinds governments companies schools and parents need to remember that the example we set by our actions often provides a more powerful lesson than anything else watch this clip of al khabaz being interviewed on cbc news you can sign a petition to encourage dawson college to reinstate hamed al khabaz here posted by unknown at 11 32 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels education news wednesday january 16 2013 teaching my son to love justin bieber all of my kids love justin bieber and would gladly tell anyone about it at least until recently something sad and certainly not uncommon has happened to curious boy recently at his last birthday party the subject of jb came up my daughters and the one other girl there had no problem saying that they like or loved justin although the 7 year old friend has moved on to one direction the rest of the gang boys were quick to say that jb sucked or to make gross faces curious boy held his tongue i noticed what was going on and i made point to be vocal about the fact that i like justin bieber s music quick aside i do like justin bieber i grew up listening to doo wop motown the beatles and other melodic pop i m not saying that jb is john lennon but i have a soft spot for catchy pop tunes on top of that since i saw the movie never say never i have a lot of respect for him and his family now back to my main point since then cb has been very anti justin he makes faces when there s a bieber song on the radio he won t watch never say never with his sisters it s easy to see where these boys get the idea that they ve got to hate justin i was at a party recently where the subject of music came up and my friends all fathers of young boys were also quick to slam bieber even going so far as to say that they would shoot him in the face if he were standing there admittedly this conversation was under the influence of a few bottles of wine this sentiment however is surely expressed at home and not only about justin bieber it s time to be brutally honest this kind of exaggerated loathing of a pop star we re not talking about mahmoud amedinejad here is nothing but thinly veiled homophobia justin bieber exemplifies many qualities that are traditionally considered feminine in our society he has a slight build he cares about his hair and clothes he talks about love and caring many men worry that expressing that side of themselves will make them less of a man maybe even gasp gay you don t have to like his music but that kind of vitriol is unaccptable and spreads to our children making it acceptable to hate on jb in your house teaches your kids to dislike people based on appearance and perception without even knowing them attaching derogatory names objectifies them and makes them less than human this is the direct precursor to intolerance i hope that cb comes around about justin bieber i ll be far more concerned if he starts listening to flo rida or some other macho crap for more information of language and intolerance check out barbara coloroso posted by unknown at 10 17 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fatherhood homophobia intolerance language media music opinion violence wednesday december 12 2012 when i first started this blog in 2006 our first child curious boy had just been born it was a huge shift and the ensuing years were filled with lots of change finishing graduate school getting a job having two more children zen girl and her purpleness things have settled down in some ways i started my own business on top of teaching but there haven t been any major transitions in a while so what the hell happened well it turns out that life with three kids is busy i mean busy so much so that i just stopped making it a priority to write here i stopped to think about that the other day and i realized how much that bothered me this blog started as a place for me to chronicle my adventures in parenting but it quickly became a place for me to work through different ideas explore and sound off on a whole range of topics i felt that the image of the philosopher dad was one that suited me will writing this blog was something that forced me to think at least from time to time about parenting n particular and how i was living my life in general even if those things didn t show up in posts it seems that when i stopped writing i also stopped thinking about those things funny that the world moves fast and my children are growing up faster than i imagined possible yes it s a cliché because it s true curious boy is in first grade and zen girl is in kindergarten they amaze me and challenge me in new ways every day if i don t stop and think about what is happening and how i m doing from time to time i ll simply well i don t know no one can be a perfect parent or spouse but i d at least like to take the time to think about the things i m doing and the mistakes i m making oh yeah i m still pissed as hell about how people don t understand science and how shitty and out of date the school system is so hopefully i ll have a chance to sound off on those things too posted by unknown at 3 31 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday december 21 2011 it apos s been a while it s really been a long time since i ve been here and in a lot of ways it s very good to be back on a practical level my web marketing self was always angry that i abandoned a pretty valuable piece of web real estate on a deeper 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