dewline | Entries tagged with polite behaviour

There's a petition making the rounds re: Ford's tendency to remote-hijack municipal governments across Ontario...

https://www.horizonottawa.ca/back_off_ford

Current Mood: determined

For consideration: if you comment on a topic where I can see you and you don't state otherwise and/or actively prevent replies, I assume that there is an implied invitation to reply.

(Not sure whether to be angry with myself, certain other people, or both here.)

Current Mood: annoyed

It occurs to me that I've given out my cell phone number, via my resumé, maybe a thousand times - perhaps more - via conscious choice over the last two years of Pandemic time. All of those instances involved job applications of some kind. Assorted relatives across two countries already know that number as well as specific friends of my choosing.

In addition, I'm registered on Indeed, and I've also given that contact information to a couple social support agencies and non-governmental organizations. Some companies that I do regular business with also have that cell number, possibly because they believe themselves legally obligated to acquire it for their record-keeping.

When someone texts me via said cell phone without announcing their identity and/or affiliation - just the phone number - asking "Dwight Williams" how I'm feeling, I get suspicious. I might even be inclined to track the number as best I can. Yes, I'm aware that phone numbers can be "spoofed". So are various people better able to pursue the matter.

I am stressed in many ways right now. So this is a line I'm drawing in the "sand" of computer circuitry.

Current Mood: annoyed

Listening to this one at the moment:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/our-futurecestors-deserve-a-voice-in-today-s-decisions-says-author-1.5710902

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Ideas on CBC Radio

I just spooked the Hell out of a longtime friend with my reply to an e-mail this morning. There's me nonchalantly telling them that I was planning to heed some advice of theirs re: upcoming software purchase ideas. I don't believe that I was paying proper attention to the tone I was putting into that e-mail. I say that because the next I know, their reply to that reply is one of shocked apology for having given offence.

When they'd given me no offense at all.

I need to be more careful in my conversations in e-mail. Clearly.

Current Mood: worried
Current Location: Home

Jon Klein notes a new Conservative strategy for defeating the purpose of Canadian federal elections law. He doesn't call it that, but I will.

(Also, he pointed out a new satirical account on Twitter: the Alberta War Room.)

Daniel Oberhaus at WIRED notes a new aviation/spacecraft fuel that has several advantages over hydrazine.

Mainland China continues to insist upon Canadian surrender in the matter of Meng Wanzhou.

Current Mood: busy

Some of you have already seen this. I needed to see it. And keep it where I can see it again.

Current Mood: contemplative

For all the problems they're having with these town hall meetings, I can't help but consider these town hall sessions Mr. Trudeau - I no longer feel comfortable calling him "Trudeau the Younger", for several reasons - has been hosting as a good thing. He's taking hard questions directly from the public. The answers he gives are not always comfortable ones for him to give or for the audience to hear, but I get the sense that they are largely honest ones.

We'll see how things go.

Anyone? Am I alone in thinking Mr. Vrooman's got a point that makes sense?

Current Mood: curious

We had a bit of a blow-up at a press conference here in Ottawa last week involving Global Affairs Minister Stephane Dion and mainland China's Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi with iPolitics reporter Amanda Connolly. Something to do with whose idea of proper behaviour on the part of reporters should dominate press conferences held in Canada.

In my opinion: one of the more insightful commentaries on the incident and its immediate consequences was written up by CBC's Terry Milewski.

A word he taught me via that essay in the link that I need to remember: hòuyánwúchǐ. Apparently, it's roughly equivalent to the Yiddish word chutzpah.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: The Current on CBC Radio One

For your review and opinionation:

Oh, and the reaction to Ruth Ellen Brosseau's reaction to being jostled? At least, the ones I'm reading the most about? Ridiculous, rude, and just plain Wrong. And more than a tad on the cruel side too...which is part and parcel of what makes it Wrong.

I'm glad that I got to read Rod Serling's "The Monsters are Coming to Maple Street" as part of the curriculum.

For many reasons, some of them reflected in the news headlines of recent days. Others, in my friendships here and elsewhere online and in person.

Remembering the G-20 in Toronto from a couple of years ago, and thinking...that this latest imposition by our current Prime Minister upon my home city by choice is not a good thing. Maybe I'm under-reacting here?

You tell me.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/07/07/tpp-talks-ottawa-vancouver_n_5564683.html

It's just Wrong and Sad.

Case in point: a recent item involving Marc Garneau.

Current Mood: disappointed
Current Music: "Call It Democracy" by Bruce Cockburn

I'm "hearing" some appalling things tonight about how it was handled. Many of which simply affirmed my sense that watching Republic of Doyle's latest installment instead - as is my normal Sunday night practice - was the best choice.

Then, I read this particular appalling thing:

http://blog.sfgate.com/thebigevent/2013/02/25/biggest-oscars-snub-a-shark-attack-on-the-vfx-industry/

That's just bloody rude, that kind of interruption. And the context makes it worse.

Speaking as someone who studied animation, who enjoys film and TV in a general sense, who appreciates the work that VFX houses do to make the stuff I watch that much more enjoyable. This was just Rude and Wrong.

And something troubles me now. It's this question: Should I have watched the Awards Show, at least to bear some kind of witness?