Hi, I’m an ibm’er!

[Ali]

Hi and welcome.  Will have to do more research on what an ibm'er is.  I would have thought it was a person using a certain type of computer. 

[ibm]

Hello!

I'm in Ottawa, so I'm very close to Québec! My father was born in Montreal
I'm afraid my french is very poor, though.

I hope you like it here!

Thanks. Ah Montreal, it used to be called the city of a hundred bell towers. There's not that many left today, I'm glad. I love taking the Metro in that city and randomly pop out at a station and take a walk.

Hopefully I'll be going to Ottawa this spring and visit Vincent van Gogh's special exhibit at the National Gallery of Arts. Vincent's my favorite.

IBM, I didn't even know the National Gallery was putting on a Van Gogh exibit this spring! Thank you! I'll be in Ottawa this spring and I'll need to go check that out! The last time I was at the Gallery, there was a gorgeous Carravagio exibit I really enjoyed seeing.

Yep, from 25 May to 03 Sep. Fifty, count them, fifty van Gogh paintings under one roof. "C'est du jamais vue à Ottawa" it has never been seen in Ottawa. I'm impressed by impressionists.

http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/exhibitions/upcoming/details/van-gogh-up-close-70

I may bring my I-Pod with me. My hobby is to mix'n match masters' paintings with masters' poems i.e. song writers. It keeps me out of trouble, most of the time.

In that case, Don McLean's "Vincent" (Starry Starry Night) is an absolute must. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM

You took the words right out of my mouth ... errr ... keyboard. Yep, it's a dead giveaway. Thanks.

If ever I go to London, it's a sure bet that I'll see "Music in the Tuileries" at the National Gallery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_in_the_Tuileries

And on my I-Pod, I'll play "The Carpet Crawlers". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrclBlJ39r4

To be brief: On Sunday afternoons they would lay down a carpet of wool so not to dirty the aristocrats' shoes, and bugs would be "crawling" under that carpet. Beautiful song. There are so many of them.

[ibm]

Hello ibm
All the Canadians here are quite nice, all except one

Hello Ibm.  Umm there are canadians here? I thought it was mostly cheeky british people ay.

Well now that there's wireless, we now have Internet service in our igloos. We share a power generator amongst ourselves. In the summertime (3 days), there are more bugs outside than bugs in our computers.

[Amicale]

Hello ibm
All the Canadians here are quite nice, all except one

Hello Ibm.  Umm there are canadians here? I thought it was mostly cheeky british people ay.

Well now that there's wireless, we now have Internet service in our igloos. We share a power generator amongst ourselves. In the summertime (3 days), there are more bugs outside than bugs in our computers.

Yup. And we ride our pet polar bears to work, and if the mosquitos only carry off our firstborn child rather than all of them, we consider it a good day.

[DeterminedJuliet]

Hahaha, this reminds me of Rick Mercer's "talking to Americans".

http://youtu.be/hs1UiT4GEIQ
lol

[Amicale]

Hahaha, this reminds me of Rick Mercer's "talking to Americans".

http://youtu.be/hs1UiT4GEIQ
lol

I LOVE "Talking to Americans".

[Sweetdeath]

Hello ibm
All the Canadians here are quite nice, all except one

Hello Ibm.  Umm there are canadians here? I thought it was mostly cheeky british people ay.

Well now that there's wireless, we now have Internet service in our igloos. We share a power generator amongst ourselves. In the summertime (3 days), there are more bugs outside than bugs in our computers.

Yup. And we ride our pet polar bears to work, and if the mosquitos only carry off our firstborn child rather than all of them, we consider it a good day.

Ahaha. I so wanna ride a polar bear. <3

[Amicale]

Hello ibm
All the Canadians here are quite nice, all except one

Hello Ibm.  Umm there are canadians here? I thought it was mostly cheeky british people ay.

Well now that there's wireless, we now have Internet service in our igloos. We share a power generator amongst ourselves. In the summertime (3 days), there are more bugs outside than bugs in our computers.

Yup. And we ride our pet polar bears to work, and if the mosquitos only carry off our firstborn child rather than all of them, we consider it a good day.

Ahaha. I so wanna ride a polar bear. <3

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/polar_bear

I love The Oatmeal.

[Sweetdeath]

I had NO ideas polar bears could slow their own metabolism down. That is freaking awesome!

[DeterminedJuliet]

I love the Oatmeal, too! He caused a shitstorm on Facebook the other day because he posted a few atheist cartoons.

[ibm]

Yup. And we ride our pet polar bears to work, and if the mosquitos only carry off our firstborn child rather than all of them, we consider it a good day.

And there's only one road in Canada. The big thrill of the day is when we cross a time-zone. Honey, why do we have to reset our watch?

[Amicale]

Yup. And we ride our pet polar bears to work, and if the mosquitos only carry off our firstborn child rather than all of them, we consider it a good day.

And there's only one road in Canada. The big thrill of the day is when we cross a time-zone. Honey, why do we have to reset our watch?

True story: I have two friends who live 30 minutes apart, but are in 2 different time zones. That's just crazy!

[Sweetdeath]

I love the Oatmeal, too! He caused a shitstorm on Facebook the other day because he posted a few atheist cartoons.

Blurg,,really?
I want to see~ i'm gonna head over to fb.

Btw, I treat Fb comments on their communities like youtube ones; I don't bother to read or take them seriously.  If I did, I would be crying and feeling hopeless for all of humanity.

Don't get me wrong, my faith that humanity will weed out the religious fools is still 5%, but at least when I come to HAF, I feel "evolution seemed to have worked for some people. "  <3

[Anti-antidisestablishmentarianism]

Hello ibm
All the Canadians here are quite nice, all except one

Hello Ibm.  Umm there are canadians here? I thought it was mostly cheeky british people ay.

Well now that there's wireless, we now have Internet service in our igloos. We share a power generator amongst ourselves. In the summertime (3 days), there are more bugs outside than bugs in our computers.

Yup. And we ride our pet polar bears to work, and if the mosquitos only carry off our firstborn child rather than all of them, we consider it a good day.

Wouldn't riding a large group of penguins be safer?!?!

[DeterminedJuliet]

There are no penguins up north! Only at the southern pole