You can’t let the little motherfuckers generation gap you.

The CBC is an amazing network (I’m including CBC newsworld in this statement). The fact that this is our national network swells me with northern pride. You’re never going to get generation gapped watching the CBC.

A billion people obese, an epidemic. 800 million people starving. The hour long show Hot Type tonight examined the global food issue with a broad variety of perspectives. They had someone from Dupont arguing the benefit of GMOs such as Vitamin A enriched rice and BT protected plants. There was an argument that food is more than plentiful enough, distribution and spoilage issues are the problem. A journalist made a case that the problem was consumer ignorance. The green revolution, soil deprivation and farming with chemical dependance were examined. The business end of it and the organic food movement was discussed. They even had someone making a case for brand name chicken. It was really comprehensive. What I noted was how prominent African leaders are really calling for the technology to increase yields, ie. biotechnology and equipment to improve their poor crop outputs. It sounds hypocritical to hear experts from wealthy nations telling them no, this won’t help you, even when it has been shown to work in India and many other places dramatically. The anti-GM movement irritates me. I recognize that it is a necessary check in the system but there is a lot of ignorance and excessive fear mongering coming from their side.

Tomorrow, the same show examines the modern male and society. It looks good, if not better than tonight’s show.

Hee Hee. I had a really close call today. I submitted my final algorithms project JUST before the prof submitted the marks for the course. It was just good enough to get the mark I needed to. I feel like I’ve really dodged a bullet… because I have! It was a core course in my degree. I’ve never been so excited for such a low mark (a 60, the lowest possible mark you can have in an honors degree! Woohoo!). It is because I missed a whole 14% assignment and had a lackluster exam. That really hurt me. I’m very proud of this 60 more so than my other higher marks though. It is very difficult to find the motivation to fight for such a crummy result. It would have been much easier to have resolved myself to failure and maybe ANOTHER year in undergrad. That would have been very bad. It is almost ridiculous how much my expectations have shifted over the last few months.

I came home after submitting it and slept all day long. The marks were posted when I woke up. I watched a long interview with Paul Martin tonight too. I like him. He has honest eyes and good ideals. Sometimes I forget the Liberals held on to power in Canada. It is because I can still taste the taint of a Bush win.