The Annekenstein Monster

Recruiting Men To Nursing Remains A Challenge

I didn't read the CBC New Story, but my guess would be it's because most men don't like the taste of warm milk.

PEI Ranks Lowest For Premature Births

The main reason, according to a CIHI (Canadian Institute for Health Information) report, is that, "historically, because of the long waits at Island hospitals for any kind of service, pregnant Island women have become socio-geograpically predisposed to keeping their clams shut tight until the very last second."

see the full story here.

In a related report, also from the CIHI, PEI ranks equal with the rest of the Canadian provinces for immature births.  "It's an interesting statistic," says Eloise Placente, an analytical manager with CIHI. "Every province in Canada reports an almost 100% rate of immature births.  Practically every baby born in Canada seems to be childish and immature."

It should be noted that Placente is not married.

Boo! When You Poo

It used to be that when I'd go to the public men's room on the floor where I work in the ATC, it was practically guaranteed that there'd be someone else, usually more than one, in there already.  If not, then rest assured at least one person would come in before I'd leave.
What I'm saying is:  it used to be a busy bathroom.  Too busy for the two toilets, one urinal and two sinks found therein.
But not so much anymore.  I guess it's a sign of the economic down-turn, or a dis-satisfaction with renting at the ATC, but fewer clients in the building means fewer people in the bathroom.

So much so that now sometimes when I go into the bathroom, the lights are off.  I assume they're on a timer, and when it was busy, the timer never got to activate.

Sometimes when I go into that dark bathroom, I've thought that it would be a neat prank to go into the bathroom, go into one of the stalls, stay there, motionless, until the lights went out.  Then, when someone came in, activating the lights to go on, he'd think he was alone.  Then, you know, you'd start making noises or something to surprise or scare him.

Yeah, I agree:  "neat prank" is far too generous a classification.  Unless your definition of "neat" is akin to "lame".

The real joke would be for you to go to the trouble of going in, sitting there as still as you need to be, lights go out, and then nobody comes in for the rest of the day.  Now, that's comedy!

Home Sweet Jesus 7 Million Dollar Home

Is this the most expensive home ever listed on PEI?  7.75 million dollars.



Located at Cable Head, PEI

More images can be found here and here.  Maybe the same images for both links?

I'd live in it.  Although it does seem a bit sprawling in its design.  And I think some landscaping around the home would really add a lot to the overall ambience.

The Humans Are Live - Flight of The Conchords Live

Here's a video of Flight of the Conchords playing at a record store in April.  Lots of fun.
Question: how long before David Bowie performs "Bowie" with FotC?

Even Fisting? Really?

Michelle and Barack enjoy fisting? Really? Apparently so, according to at least one sexpert.
Too bad the Inauguration Marching Band refused Barack's request to have "76 Rusty Trombones" played during the parade.

NFB = Good

The NFB is offering over 700 videos to stream on the internet at NFB.ca 
Very nice.

I could have selected "Log Drivers Waltz" but I assume everyone would link to that.

Here's a video I'd seen countless mornings on CBC-TV between episodes of The Friendly Giant, Mr. Dressup and Sesame Street.

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Hitler's Mom Speaks Out

That title isn't mine.  It's the title used by, I assume, the news org that posted the video. But I think that title is the best I've seen so far this century.  "Hitler's Mom Speaks Out"

Here's the news story, about a mom who just wants her children back.  See, they were taken from her because Child Services think the childrens' lives are at risk.  Because, you see, the childrens' names are Adolf Hitler, Himmler and Aryannation.  And, you see, the husband's swastika tattoo isn't rascist.  Rather, he sees it as art.

And, see, the logical argument the aunt uses regarding Barack Hussein Obama's middle name is spot-on.  Except, you know, it's not.

Battlestar Galactica - holy shit!

What a fantastic episode!  Holy shit!!

If you're a BSG fan, and you've seen the latest episode, Season 4 Episode 13 "Sometimes a Great Notion", then do yourself a favour and read the following article.  It's got all kinds of inside info.  Really good.

Sometimes a Great Notion

Buy Chimp: Thundercrack! at Amazon

If it's for sale at Amazon.com, it must be real!!

Check it out!

Just 8.99 and you can own the complete album.  What a deal!

Chimp: Thundercrack! Is Up At lala

Chimp's CD Thundercrack is slowly making its way around the internet.  CDBaby sent it out to various online retailers, and I just noticed it's shown up at a site called lala.  Not sure what lala is.  But Chimp is available there.

According to the lala stats, last week Chimp ranked 70,082nd.  This week's rank, 31,806.  We're movin' on up!  With a grand total of zero listens to the Chimp songs available there.  Zero listens!  Sweet!!  Of course, it looks like we're sharing that stat with another band called Chimp.

And check out the accurate Chimp bio.  It starts with "Pan troglodytes..."  I'm not sure, but I think they may be insulting us.


Edit:  Also available at Tradebit.

Ein Zwein Die

In the PS3 Call of Duty game that my son is all into right now, there's a level you unlock after reaching certain goals: it allows you the chance to fight German soldiers who happen to be zombies.  I gotta admit, it's pretty fun to shoot Nazi zombies.  Cameron very much enjoys it.

So, when I showed him the trailer for Dead Snow, a Norwegian film where Nazi zombies attack a group of students on a snow trip, he was pretty excited.
Looks like it could be all kinds of fun.

Here's a photo of Colonel Herzog, the leader of the Nazi zombies.