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I think the best Canadian war movie is Passchendaele, although technically, Dunkirk counts as well.

I was writing subjectively, which necessarily means speaking from my own perception and point of view. Counting the number of times a person refers to themselves in a piece of writing has never been all that effective a means of measuring their humility. Especially when they are the only...

Makes sense to me. :)

I've been trying to see if it is possible to recreate as a short film. :)

Exactly how I try to do things with my company. We have no physical office, so interact through a series of chat/workrooms. The only "production" work room I'm in is for the design and update of our web presence, simply because I've been requested to provide oversight for marketing/PR purposes...

A story from a friend of mine, dated about 14 years ago. ~~ http://lifeisaroad.com/stories/2004/10/29/neighborhoodHazardorWhyTheCopsWontPatrolBriceStreet.html I never dreamed slowly cruising through a residential neighborhood could be so incredibly dangerous! Studies have shown that...

One of the key reasons I've been continually reappointed to chair the board of the game development company I helped found in 2012 is because I have always been honest that I am only there for so long as people want me to remain. I'm not on the board because I want to be, nor am I the business...

I do. My mother is an early childhood educator (semi-retired), so she didn't need a high level of technological sophistication. This means that I get to practice the skills she taught me about teaching with her as a very willing subject. Besides, I much prefer receiving physical letters rather...

One is perhaps lucky to have a mother who is not technologically sophisticated.

I remember a gag I pulled on one of my professors in college - he had a rather young child at the time, so I figured it was worth the risk. I'm utterly baffled as to why people complain about having to write 2 000 word papers, considering that if you've done the research properly, it's less...

I go back for Medical on the 24th, so yeah, good news.  ;D Will probably also be grabbing lunch with a childhood friend I've not seen in over a decade, now serving as an Artillery Major.

A moment of black humour: Can you imagine how Reagan's hot microphone moment would play out if it instead occurred on this system?

Quite. Regardless of what happens now, I'm very pleased with how today went.

Since I have my interview in a little over 14 hours, a last minute thought comes to mind - I have not gone in for the medical evaluation yet, due to the need for me to complete the extra testing for pilot positions. Nor have I completed the extra testing. Is it inaccurate to presume that there...

True, as what I mean is that there's a threshold at which an honest mistake becomes a lie, and it falls to the intent of the statement to determine the difference. There's a concept I like to use in fiction which I refer to as a "truthful lie" - a statement which while objectively true is stated...

Having watched both during the proceedings, I'm led to conclude based on body language and other cues that both Kavanaugh and Ford were lying at times. Which makes things quite interesting in my opinion, because it's entirely possible for someone to lie without even realising it due to the...

Makes sense. The first recorded instance of the term "Sturmtruppen" or "Stormtrooper" was in a letter written early May 1915, by one of the German soldiers who fought in II Ypres - in direct reference to the Canadians he faced.

Kind of an interesting twist - I've been asked to come in for my interview on October 3rd, despite not yet having done ASC. A happy surprise, I think.

I think I'm deep into the waiting game for the moment - I was asked in July to select three possible dates to go to Trenton for the ASC course, later being informed that due to operational requirements, I needed to select three different dates. While I have been nominated to the courses for the...

I've decided that I want to have finished reading the books I was left by my grandfather, so my current reading list for the next week are quite reasonable: Ernest Hemingway's Men at War Lewis Henry Morgan's Iroquois Pierre Berton, both Marching as to War and The Invasion of Canada and for a...