Im too sexy for this GDF

[Epectasis]

along with my myspace address lying around here somewhere, here's a lil intro...

Obviously Epectasis is not my name. It's the name of my would-be business. Epectasis is ancient greek for "creative activity". Aint i just awesome? Anyways, people call me Jos. Even though it's not my full name (some people didnt even know there was more to my name) that's all you're gonna get.

I live in that perky city up north of the border called Montreal. Yes. It's awesome. That's why i live here and not in a place like *shudders* Ottawa. I've had a bit of a strange path in life and at this moment im probably the resident bum. All these years not wanting to go back to school led me to actually really wanting to. Waddya know. So now im on just waiting for my acceptance letter from Uni, for a peachy program called painting and drawing. im only really doing it so that i can improve my portfolio and have an easier time to transfer into what i really want; which is computation arts (wanna know what it is? skip on over here for a rundown...http://design.concordia.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=24&Itemid=9)
At the moment im enjoying life, to be honest. Working on personal projects, spending mucho time outside (contrary to popular belief, we do HAVE hot summers...and not year long winters - yes, i lived in the states for a few years and that seemed to have been the concensus). I do already have a background in design (two schools as a matter of fact, but still dont feel like i learnt what i wanted to learn), but even if i was still a n00b, this place is filled with fun loving people (except PrintDriver. :D jk!) and filled with plenty of ressources to get anybody going.

Im also quite handsome. And rich. ok. i lie. im not rich. but i AM handsome :D and did i mention single? AND, i speak french ;) ahem.

Reuber isnt the only one who's mind may wander off at times...im in your camp bro!

The prevert army!

somehow im not too sure that's gonna fly...

[reuber1]

Reuber isnt the only one who's mind may wander off at times...im in your camp bro!

The prevert army!You got the avatar for it, soldier. "At ease" has a whole new meaning now.

I speak some horrible Spanish.

[Epectasis]

I speak some horrible Spanish.

as horrible you mean it shouldnt be used in front of small spanish children, right?

[reuber1]

Horrible as in I'd probably say "Mis daños de pene" or something when I mean to say "This bathroom is dirty" ("El cuarto de baño es sucio").

[Drorain]

you can not be a pervert army sargent until you get a plushie mushroom on a wooden dowl...a scepter of rank..and yes I am your leader

[morea]

Je parle un peu de français. J'ai étudié la langue pendant quatre années à l'école. Je ne me rappelle pas beaucoup autre que:

"Je voudrais une pizza et une bière" et aussi "Ou est la salle des bains?" ('ou est le w/c?)

pour les temps je visite Montréal.

[morea]

hope I didn't butcher that too badly, it's been a while. ;)

[Epectasis]

you can not be a pervert army sargent until you get a plushie mushroom on a wooden dowl...a scepter of rank..and yes I am your leader

that sentence hurt my brain...

*goes back to pr0n*

[Epectasis]

Je parle un peu de français. J'ai étudié la langue pendant quatre années à l'école. Je ne me rappelle pas beaucoup autre que:

"Je voudrais une pizza et une bière" et aussi "Ou est la salle des bains?" ('ou est le w/c?)

pour les temps je visite Montréal.

lol!

not bad! not bad at all actually! even your grammar is pretty slick (save for a few, but didnt stop me from understanding at all).

w00t someone who can attest to the fact that it's not winter all year round!

just for the sake of it, here's how you would write it:

Je parle un peu de français, j'ai étudié la langue pendant quatres années à l'école. Je ne me rappelle pas de beaucoups de choses sauf:

"Je voudrais une pizza et une bière" et aussi "Ou est la salle de bains?" ('ou est le w/c?) - w/c is a term used by the french in france. we dont use it in quebec.

pour les fois que je visite Montréal.

[Drorain]

your head hurts cause you were stamped with the scepter

[Epectasis]

your head hurts cause you were stamped with the scepter

so what can i start out as? a lackey? a pawn? cannon fodder?

[reuber1]

A bishop.

[Drorain]

wow I understood all of that morea, but I could have never written it so well

[Drorain]

we shall give you a mushroom cap and belt buckle...welcome to the pervy army


...hustler is in the corner, ask the librarian for help (OOOOH MOREAAAAA)

[Epectasis]

we shall give you a mushroom cap and belt buckle...welcome to the pervy army


...hustler is in the corner, ask the librarian for help (OOOOH MOREAAAAA)

librarians...kinky...

i went out with one once. oh man..the fantasies that i got to enact :D

[morea_too]

ask the librarian for help (OOOOH MOREAAAAA)

librarians...kinky...


you rang? RAWR! ;)

[morea]

uh oh, the cat's out of the bag now!

[reuber1]

Everyone, watch out! morea's bored.

[morea]

not bad! not bad at all actually! even your grammar is pretty slick (save for a few, but didnt stop me from understanding at all).

sweet... let's see, I finished high school in 1995, so I'm more than surprised that I remembered as much as I did!

[mac.FINN]

Hey now... someone's got something to say against Ottawa?

Are you talking about the City, or the proverbial "Ottawa" aka the politicians? You can bad mouth them all you want, I don't mind. You'd just better not be knocking the beautiful city!

[Epectasis]

Hey now... someone's got something to say against Ottawa?

Are you talking about the City, or the proverbial "Ottawa" aka the politicians? You can bad mouth them all you want, I don't mind. You'd just better not be knocking the beautiful city!

i am knocking Ottawa lol

it's a pretty city, just not one people should live in. It's a lil on the dull side, ya know?

And please dont get me started on mr. Dimwit Harper...I cant believe that it's a possibility that the conservatives become a major government....ugh

[mac.FINN]

okay I'll give you that one... it's a little bit Small Town Big City compared to Montreal. It's still a great city though.

I see your ugh and raise you a barf. I can't stand Steven Harper or his Conservatives.

[Broacher]

Ottawa is too full of itself. I mean, c'mon... why was this site chosen to be the home for Canada's capital? Historical significance? Central to transportation corridors? Divine inspiration? Try an old lumber camp picked out on what looks like a whim, by some ol' British Monarch who never even knew the area (wonder what she would have said about the brothel count?). But, accident or not, it's status as the political centre of the country has filled it with so many middle, upper middleclass workers (and their heirs) from both sides of the divided solitude, that it now considers itself as cosmopolitan as the real thing. Like Montreal or Vancouver. The reality is that it's so full of bureaucracy and tourist-first artificial 'prettiness' that it comes off looking more like some bureaucratic theme park than a real city. Silicon Valley north? Well, at least 'Silicon' gives you some idea of it's cultural authenticity (right Pamela Lee?). It's not totally devoid of real art and street-level charm--only, that's mostly in the huge immigrant populaton, and underground, and away from the all-seeing eyes and tentacles of the National Captial Commission, etc.

Montreal, however-- now that's a city that has the real, genuine, and stinky stuff. (I have a growing pet theory that the best things in life all have at least one component that you can call 'stinky', physically or metaphorically). And it makes sense. I mean, anally retentive cities don't stink-- but they're dull as tax assessors. Montreal isn't an artificial construct-- it's a sprawling, often messy, jumble of architecture, cultures, and working class realities. Where passion and vision are less likely to be talked about in terms of Canada Council grant applications, but lived and observed. Love it.

Toronto? A great city too, but in real danger of culturally becoming a backseater to Hab town by virute of it becoming a great BIG city. The whole amalgamation thing just seems to be pushing this place into a bunion of metro-sprawl surrounded on all sides by urban sprawl. Biggest change I've seen is the removal of the average wage earner from the downtown core. Service workers are mostly immigrants from the subs, and the trend continues towards more and more economic polarization. Of course, that's a global trend-- the big cities becoming more and more tourist meccas for the middle-class shoppers, a dirty place to work for the poor, and a place to plunk a huge, glistening condo tower if you are well-endowed. Ah, Jane Jacobs, may your descendants continue the good fight.

[mac.FINN]

Ha Ha! Someone's jealous they're not the Capital. Nyah Nyah!

I just typed a whole rebuttle to that and somehow I deleted it... and I don't feel like retyping it. So I'll just say this.

Ottawa is a great city. Yeah it has problems but so does everywhere else.

Sorry for hijacking your thread Epectasis.

ps where you from Broacher? My guess is TO.

[Epectasis]

Ha Ha! Someone's jealous they're not the Capital. Nyah Nyah!

I just typed a whole rebuttle to that and somehow I deleted it... and I don't feel like retyping it. So I'll just say this.

Ottawa is a great city. Yeah it has problems but so does everywhere else.

Sorry for hijacking your thread Epectasis.

ps where you from Broacher? My guess is TO.

naw, no problem with the "hijack" keeping it interesting. although im curious as to how many people will actively participate in this conversation.

See i've been to TO and Ottawa. Ottawa has a lot of museums, but in terms of cultural heritage...well i dunno, seems to lack a lot of it. Toronto is way too much of a capitalistic city. It's all business there, so cold for the man who isnt rich...Montreal is awesome, but i dont think it could ever be considered the capital of Canada. Simply because it's so different from every single other city in Canada. The mentality, the architecture, the language (being french officially, as opposed to the rest of canada). Montreal is Europe in Canada.

Plus i dont think people would want Montreal to be the Capital. I think Ottawa was the obvious choice because of the fact that it's so dull and neutral. And it's in Ontario, so it's english (theoretically). It would cause too much problems to have the parliament in Montreal, especially with the damn language police. And Harper would not possibly make it through a week without someone pying his ass.

Winnipeg doesnt have anything going for itself, so they should of made THAT the capital of Canada :P

[JPnyc]

Not since they took the Jets away :(

[mac.FINN]

What about the Blue Bombers? At least they still have them... stupid Renegades.

[Epectasis]

What about the Blue Bombers? At least they still have them... stupid Renegades.

well i hear that they're thinking about bringing them back. and there's a group of investors interested in bringing back a team in Quebec city as well. That'd be cool. Could get real competitive once again in Quebec...aaah the good ol' days...