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Congratulations Mom!!!
My mom (Hetty van Gurp) was presented with an honorary doctor of civil laws degree on Sunday. It was a very nice ceremony held at the World Trade and Convention centre. Attending the ceremony makes me wish I hadn’t missed mine while I was working in Jamaica.

After receiving her honorary degree my mom addressed the graduating students with a few words of wisdom. I took some photos and also took some video of the event, but I would like to get a copy from the university photographers who had much better positioning and equipment.

Hetty van Gurp, a Halifax elementary school teacher who began Peaceful Schools International in 2001 after her son died following a bullying incident, will receive an honorary doctor of civil laws degree.

Ms. van Gurp has worked tirelessly to rid classrooms and school hallways of all forms of violence. She has given workshops around the globe, with her ideas and methods gaining renown in places as disparate as Asia, Ireland and Russia.

I spend way too much time thinking of excellent crimes I could commit if I were a crime committing sort of person. Every time I read about hurricane-related looting, I wonder about the best way to do it.

I think I�d get myself a looting boat, stocked with a bunch of camping stuff, in case I got stuck in the disaster area. And it wouldn�t hurt to have a big jacket that said FEMA on it. I�d wait until a hurricane started to threaten a particular community and then I�d steal a car and start towing my little pirate boat in that direction, monitoring the news as I went. I�d set up camp near a target rich environment, tie the boat to a lamppost, up high, and wait for the storm to empty the city. There�s a good chance I�d be killed by the hurricane before I did any quality looting, but that�s a risk I�m willing to take for free pants that aren�t my size.

I might bring my own decoy puppy, in case anyone saw me climbing through a broken store window. I’d just hold up the puppy and yell �It�s okay! I Got her!�

After I did my looting � or as we white people like to say: �gather my supplies� � I�d motor my little pirate boat down the main street, out to the ocean, and back to my hidden lair that�s stinking of damp merchandise.

Sometime soon I plan to do some thinking about ending world hunger. But frankly, that seems harder.

I came across this document (How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary) which I admit I have not had time to read fully but I intend to.

I suspect that this article would be a good read for anyone who is a programmer or works with them.

“That was the one thing he had, to get in his car and just drive for the sheer enjoyment of driving,”

For supreme, which is kind of nice.

Almost made ip for my night of dealing with idiots at Future Shop.
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