I suspect it has something to do with federal funding, but that’s just speculation.

That’s neither here nor there though. When supper was in the over, I turned the TV to the Canadian Antiques Roadshow last night. I hadn’t seen it yet, and figured it’s a good type of show to only watch a few minutes of, since I planned on working with the computer most of last night. Well, surprise surprise, the episode last night was the one in Saskatoon. Kind of an odd coincidence. My only comments are that when the guy with the “travelling medical kit” was on, one of those jars probably contained cocaine ;)

Oh yeah, and there was a really cool collection of old pilot pictures/autographs (like Orville Wright, Amelia Earhart, Howard Hughes etc.) The interesting thing about that is that when we were talking about it at coffee this morning, it turns out that it was one of my coworkers’ brother who had the collection on there (so by extension, the collection was gathered by his father back in the 30’s and 40’s.) Kinda neat anyway.

I spent some time working on the new computer after that, and got the sound card working, which is something I expected to be a lot more difficult than it was. I tested it by playing back an mp3, and everything sounded just fine. I think the machine is getting close to being ready for the magical command “emerge mythtv” Well, maybe not super close, but close enough that I can see the end of the tunnel.

Then there’s the NHL lockout situation. I had TSN on in the background while I was working with the computer last night, and they had a poll that asked “Do you want the NHL season to be saved” It was pretty much 50-50. Not a big deal, you’d think, but they were running the poll during an airing of one of their classic NHL games. That means that half of the people who are big enough fans of the game to watch a playoff game from 1990 don’t want the season to be salvaged. If I’m the league or the NHLPA, that scares the crap out of me.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Is there some confusion about this? Take it! Take it, you poor shmo!” - Mr. Burns