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GREEN CARD: “It’s no fun, being a legal alien”
In: Canada| Immigration| Life| RANTING
13 Jul 2007As many readers know, I am going through the process — if you call filing a bunch of paperwork and not hearing anything for 2 years a process — of obtaining Permanent Residency in the United States, often referred to as the Green Card.
This morning, on NPR, there was a story about a foul-up in [...]
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Happy Canada Day, 2007
1 Jul 2007It’s July 1, meaning that it’s time for Canadians around the world have launched into their recently re-invigorated day of jingoistic pride. Living next door to the definition of jingoistic pride has set the bar pretty high, but based on the last couple of trips north, great strides have been made since we left our [...]
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Flickr: HDR and Victoria, BC
In: Canada| Life| Technology
13 Jan 2007I have recently discovered the amazing beauty of HDR (High Dynamic Range) images. The amazing vibrancy of the colours seems to fire of the neurons deep in my brain.
And tonight, I found a photographer who is experimenting with HDR pictures of Victoria, BC [here]. The places I know, exploding my crazy mind, reminding me of [...]
My California Vanity Plate
9 Dec 2006When we lived in California (1999 – 2003), the CrazyCanuck-mobile had the following vanity plate.
Likely only Canadians will get it.
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What American Accent do I have?
2 Dec 2006What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland
“You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of [...]
Lord Black wants to come home…NOT!
26 Sep 2006Conrad Black, who gave up his Canadian citizenship to sit in the House of Lords, wants it back.
Problem: he faces eight fraud charges in the US [here] . Takeaway quote from the article:
“I have settled into my new life as a freedom fighter,” said Black.
I think that he should be held to exactly the same [...]
Enemy Alien Status: Uncertain
1 Sep 2006I just remembered something this morning. Starting October 7, 2006, I will be officially a man without a Visa. My final H1-B renewal expires on October 6, 2006, and although they have applied for an extension, and I am at some indeterminate point supposed to get a Green Card, I will be of no status [...]
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Why it’s time to go home to Canada…part infinity
28 Jul 2006It appears that I will likely have to be fingerprinted every time I come into the US from now on. [here and here]
I love being an “enemy alien”.
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BC: Hotel Avoidance Warning — Travelodge Merritt
10 Jul 2006We stayed at the Travelodge Merritt last night. A word of advice: don’t.
Pillows that were non-existent…errr, wafer-thin.
Ice machines that didn’t work.
Unheated pool (try about 75F — the boys were freezing in 10 minutes).
Breakfast? Sure, as long as you eat it in their cramped and soulless breakfast room, not your room. And selection was Superstore muffins [...]
Canada: Drive-Thru Starbucks
10 Jul 2006I am ot sure why these happy discoveries have not made their way south of the border, but here in Canada, some of the Starbucks’ stores have drive-thru windows.
However, I can tell you that the one we had coffee at in Westbank, BC showed that the drive-thru folks got preference over the people in the [...]