atomicfern

I can listen to this stuff forever.

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WTF @ Israel: http://lilysussman.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/im-sorry-but-we-blew-up-your-laptop-welcome-to-israel/

One of my good friends has had the misfortune of bad interactions with guards at the USA-Canada border. Reading about it makes me feel ill.

He describes it more succinctly here:
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=932

And this person describes it even better and mentions where you can donate money to him for lawyer fees:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/11/dr-peter-watts-canad.html

Peter Watts is a very talented Canadian sci-fi writer and scientist. He has written such The Rifters Trilogy and Blindsight. Some of the concepts he considers in his books are mindblowing, and who doesn't like gigantic deep sea fish combat and weird space monsters?

It would be a shame for the scientific and the science fiction communities to be barred his visits for research and/or sci-fi conventions. Also, wasting 2 years of his life in prison would suck, so it would be a nice thing to help him out if you could. The paypal for donations is: donate@rifters.com.

I remember the fun of dealing with border guards when I used to go back and forth to St Louis via Windsor.
Some of the highlights are:
"You lie, you could not have known your travel companions for 5 yrs, the internet where you claim you met them has not existed that long!!!"

"How do we know that you are not paying your travel companions to get you across the border by giving them blow jobs when you get across the bridge into Detroit?" (asynja, that was your husband and E.D. that she was referring to!)

"How can you expect us not to stop you? You look like a bunch of freaks!" (meanwhile, she was the one with the rainbows airbrushed on her ridiculously long fakes nails)

Just for the record, so my stance is clear: I'm absolutely indifferent towards snow, although admittedly I don't have to either shovel or clean off my car.

Winters in this part of the country are all wrong anyway. It ain't a winter until rivers freeze. :)