katiestuart: HAPPY SNOWFLAKE DAY!!

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HAPPY SNOWFLAKE DAY!!
Happy Holidays, greetings and salutations my friends. I hadn't actually planned on posting until the new year, but I heard a great rumour (though I couldn't find it anywhere in any of the journal responses - I really just scanned through). I heard that I was congratulated on "the new baby". I'm not exactly sure where that one came from, but sadly I am not expecting (nor did I recently acquire) a new baby of any relation.

*I promise to let you guys know if anything THAT exciting happens*

As for excitement, other than a few days on a local-ish series called 'Exes & Oh's' and a couple days shooting with second unit on 'Fantastic Four 2' recently, there hasn't been any excitement on the work front.

I've mostly been playing hockey and hanging out with friends who are back in town for the holidays.

I'm looking forward to the start of a new year, this year, more than ever. I'm planning on planning. There's plenty that needs to be done, and none of it will happen if we don't each take it upon ourselves to do it. The world is changing, fast; faster than we care to acknowledge; but we can change faster and we must.

*Our sober discussion about the state of the world was interrupted by my raucous laughter. My best friend had put it so simply, so perfectly, a summary of all the blaming, whining, lethargic energy of our generation:

"..The world is dying and it's not our fault." - J

Truer words were never spoken. However, if our children are born and raised into the same predicament as we were, who's fault will it be then? We will have run out of people to blame and be left with no time and fewer resources to fix the problems we're all so eager to complain about, yet so overwhelmed by we do nothing else.

We are the children of the technological revolution. We are born with headphones. We are born with cell phones. We are bombarded from the moment we take our first breath with images, sounds and information. In an age when all the information you could ever handle is at your finger tips. Literally. We are fast running out of excuses for our ever delaying reaction to our various environmental blunders.

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	Happy Holidays spookus 2006-12-24 01:32 pm UTC (link)
	Ahh, rumours, never know how they get started, only how they end. Well, you raise an interesting point there. Definitely something we're going to have to think about in years to come, I guess it is our responsibility not to treat the world as a infinite resource. Take care and have a Merry Christmas. (Reply to this)

realityoverride
2006-12-24 02:56 pm UTC (link)

Katie! :)
Nice to hear from you again. Merry Christmas! This new posting is indeed a pretty nice christmas gift. ^^
That was quite an interesting rumour. Pretty much right after being posted in your blog I was notified about it in mine, so I instantly forwarded the exciting news to the katiestuart.net forums. We were kinda starving, which made them spread quite quickly. ^^
As a computer science student I guess I am part of the technological revolution that takes away mankinds excuses. Maybe I should quit my job to give us some more time. ;) Or we could just do what we can do best, keep in mind that we're not handling infinite ressources while we're doing that and keep an open eye on possible opportunities in every day life.

Fuv,
Daniel

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angelwithsoul
2006-12-24 04:31 pm UTC (link)

Have a happy holidays Katie!
Thanks for clearing up that rumour.

And you are right,

The world is changing very fast, And if we don't change with it it will soon be too late.
We blame everything on global warming, Not realizing that WE cause it, and WE can stop it.
The time to change is now, We can not wait much longer or our children and our childrens children will grow up in a world far worse than we could ever imagine.
It's up to us to make people aware of this because the generation before us does not see the same way we see.

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	(Anonymous) 2006-12-24 04:45 pm UTC (link)
	A guy named Frank posted the said rumour. It's on the second page of the responses to the previous comment. It looks like you've just been Punk'd! :) But hey, he made you post! :) It's been a while... That's a great idea though, maybe we should start some more rumours if you haven't posted in a while ;) Hehe! Just kidding! Merry Christmas Katie! --Vlad. (Reply to this)

	amanda_raven 2006-12-24 11:33 pm UTC (link)
	have a good christmas and a happy new year, hope to see you in more films (Reply to this)

(Anonymous)
2006-12-25 01:18 am UTC (link)

It's great to hear from you again. :) You have a special writing style and I like it.
Regarding the rumour, it's good that you are setting things straight and stopped it immediately. We haven't heard from you for so long, that's why I thought, ..maybe.
What happen with your picture? Did you wash your foot? :)
What is the new picture of? Your room in the night?
Please feel free to post another interpretive dance or recite a poem, if you don't have any news.
I wish you the best, and a great 2007.

Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year, to all!
Christer Karlsson

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	nomahira 2006-12-25 05:21 am UTC (link)
	Gotta love how fast rumors spread, almost as fast as technology upgrades. Well glad it was all resolved. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family Katie. (Reply to this)

	I'm the culprit (Anonymous) 2006-12-25 07:39 pm UTC (link)
	LOL ha ha ha....wow katie, it only took a little more 12 hours to provoke a response. The site was so dead i thought it would take weeks or months before anyone noticed. LMAO...Merry Christmas Sincerely, "Frank" (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: I'm the culprit nomahira 2006-12-25 11:54 pm UTC (link)
	It may be dead because there's nothing to say, but I try to make sure I check all the websites I have bookmarked at least once a week, some I check everyday. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: I'm the culprit realityoverride 2006-12-26 12:41 pm UTC (link)
	There are 20 websites that automatically open up when I start my browser. This is one of them. So - yeah - I check that almost daily. There's also Harmonys good old messageboard, which has been practically dead for 2 years now, among those websites. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	1127wolf 2006-12-26 05:32 pm UTC (link)
	hey!!!! Happy holidays. mike (Reply to this)

Welcome Back!

redman69_117
2006-12-31 04:22 pm UTC (link)

Glad to see you're back for... whatever reason. The "baby" reason
gave me a chuckle.
Yes, our technology is causing the world's problems but it can also
solve it if the right solutions can implemented in time. If not, the
world will be like my aquarium. If I don't attend to it, it becomes
overcrowded and dirty, then most die off and leave just a few and then
it clears up again. A new begining.
Best wishes for the New Year!!!

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	crispinhellion 2006-12-31 10:14 pm UTC (link)
	Happy New Year, Katie! :D (Reply to this)

	nomahira 2007-01-01 02:13 am UTC (link)
	Happy new year all!! (>'.')> (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2007-01-01 04:24 am UTC (link)
	have fun playin hockey! xD countdown to the new year of 2007....forty minutes happy tooth ow! sand and sive. an!!! ¡Feliz año nuevo! in other words, happy new year!! (Reply to this)

just being a devil's advocate

ecddude
2007-01-01 04:46 am UTC (link)

some argument about your message...devil's advocate...
Maybe the world doesn't need us to change. Maybe it's the rest of the world that NEEDS to change.
maybe just changing the world one generation at a time is all we need to do to stop the world from dying.
While it's not our fault, per say, it IS our fault.
make your new year's resolution to do SOMETHING to change the world.
(or was that what you meant??)

Try a day without your cell phone. No computer, no TV, and go for a walk. See your surroundings and see what the world is coming to. If you're dissapointed with what you see, do something small to change it.

Or you can be like everyone else in the world who's not doing anything. Leave the mess for the next generation to clean up
but what happens when they do the same thing???

anyways, happy new years katie and everyone else
hope your year is amazing!!

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Re: just being a devil's advocate

katiestuart
2007-01-08 06:41 pm UTC (link)

I think you're sort of arguing the same point as I was. Except for the whole change the world thing. All I'm saying is, the world was a near perfect example of symbiosis before we got to it and started building and taking. The world doesn't NEED to change. It IS changed. Because of us. We took what we needed: We chopped, ground, dug, and bled out the natural landscape of the only home we know. We consume. And our efforts have not gone without comeuppance. Thanks to our burning and building; our cultivating and "civilizing"; thanks to our quintessential, tunnel-visioned, selfishness and our burning curiosity we now are faced with holes in our ozone layer, global warming weather (and other side effects), and the indisputable knowledge that we are causing it.

I fear that the children of the next century will not know wild animals but in books, on TV, or perhaps in zoos. I fear for the animals whose homes are rapidly receding like the shoreline of some awful mechanical ocean. I see the small grey boxes sweeping ever further from sight, ascending and descending every year, further and further north. I predict soon I will not see mountains of green, purple, blue and white as I have always seen, and thought I always would. Soon they will no longer be the wild pine-swept mountains of my Vancouver youth, they will be rolling hills of progress. Busy people coming and going, driving their hummers, and heating their pools.

This is not necessarily the way of the future, certainly not the near future, and I hope for the sake of our planet and all its innocent inhabitants that I'm completely wrong. But how can we continue to watch it all going on. It's too far along now for us to be still waiting to see what will happen. We already know. Now what are we going to do about it?

The answers are there, we simply need to prioritize our questions.
Peace, Love and Teamwork, kids.

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Re: just being a devil's advocate

ecddude
2007-01-08 09:55 pm UTC (link)

eh, good poing. but of course another aspect of it is that *hopefully* life as us humans know it will be over by the point you were describing. And also, I’m one to hope that we don’t go to another place in the solar system and screw it up as we’re doing to the earth. That’s semi-related, but...could be a heated discussion or not...anyone for moving mankind to the moon?

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	Re: just being a devil's advocate (Anonymous) 2007-01-08 09:55 pm UTC (link)
	ahem i meant good point... (Reply to this)(Parent)

Re: MACTASTIC
(Anonymous)
2007-01-10 06:52 am UTC (link)

MAC friend,

Adding on to the technological revolution is the revolutionary new iPhone (http://www.apple.com/iphone/) which was just announced today. Have you seen it? Phone, iTunes, email/internet. It's insane. Bittersweet and insane to say the least.

I'm curious. Did you happen to watch "An Inconvenient Truth (http://www.climatecrisis.net/)" recently? I'm just wondering what brought on the "need for a change" movement. I watched rewatched it a few days ago, finding it a little ironic as I found your most recent post.

And a somewhat random question, yet in a way kind of relevant: Are you going snowboarding at Whistler this season? \m/

More peace fuv and teamwork.

Fan, Fellow Philosopher and Filmmaker

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Re: MACTASTIC

katiestuart
2007-01-13 08:22 am UTC (link)

I actually started watching An Inconvenient Truth on Christmas Eve, but it was so depressing we turned it off about 15 minutes in. As for my Envirorants: I have felt for a long time that we owe the world a serious once over and a thorough reevaluation of our PRIORITIE$$$. I confess, I'm a tree hugger all along. I do apologize for the continuation of the rambling complaints and no answers. I feel slightly hypocritical. So here it is. Here's how it starts:

1) REDUCE - Try and buy items which have less plastic wrapping, or which have biodegradable wrapping. Try and avoid using disposable food wraps when you can use reusable ones.
2) REUSE - Before you throw something away, ask yourself if there's ANYTHING else you can make from it, or anything else you can use it for. If you can't think of anything try a friend or, if it's in good shape, give it to a second hand store. Remember: One man's garbage is often another man's treasure.
3) RECYCLE - Sort all your cans, bottles, juice boxes, jars and containers. (I realize that not everyone has access to pick up recycling, but do what you can). Make a trip to your local bottle depot and get some coin for your trouble.

These are the three R's. They're an old notion, but just as relevant today as they always were, if not more so.

There are lots of other ways to help out and clean things up. I'll be posting more suggestions as the year wears on, but even just these three things can make a difference.

I will watch "An Inconvenient Truth" some time this week and probably post on it then. I read the article about the school ban on the movie and, while I certainly respect the parents' wishes to raise their children in a certain belief, I also find it hard to imagine that just because you believe the world is a certain age, or was formed a certain way, you can't also believe that we (all humans) would have any effect on it. You don't have to be omnipotent to destroy an ecosystem.

As for terraforming, I too fear that we would only make the same mistakes on any other planet. I'm of the opinion that we have made our bed and if we can't clean it up now, maybe we deserve to lie in it.

* My pessimistic scrutiny of humankind should not, however, be mistaken for a disinterest in space exploration.

As for the iPhone... well I really can't even begin to explain how much I love Steve Jobs. Yes I had heard of the iPhone (I highly recommend everybody watch his keynote presentation, because it is an hour and a half presentation of the future. I want one so badly. I just recently had to replace my cell phone. After 3 Motorola phones in a row, I was finally ready to move on. They were nothing but trouble. Totally incompatible with Macs (useless) and always breaking JUST after the warranty was done, and always in the same way. I am now the proud owner of a SONY ERICSSON W810i. It's brilliant, but, that being said, there are no words in any human language to describe the wonder that is iPhone!! I can't wait to see what they look like summer 2008 (roughly one year after they're due for release in the US). If there's one thing I've learned from over 2 decades of macintosh fellowship it's; ALWAYS wait for the second release. There's more ram, better pixel quality, it's smaller and cheaper. Also I suspect that Singular (which has been given an amazing opportunity at the very forefront of communications) will take some time catching up to what this new apple technology is capable of. Working out bugs and widening bandwidths. I could be wrong. Ideally, Singular has also been slaving away these past 2 and a half years in preparation for the unveiling of this phenomenal new technology. Your whole life, right in your pocket. Only Apple.

As for boarding at Whistler. Certainly. I'll be up as often as I can get away. I love it up there. Great snow this year I bet.

Keep on philosophizing kids. In this crazy day and age it is the philosophizers and not the politicians who we must rely on.

Plant a tree.

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Re: MACTASTIC
(Anonymous)
2007-01-13 08:29 pm UTC (link)

Yes. Apathy is the scourge of our generation. For every person trying to make a difference there's 100 who just can't be bothered...I'm sure we need some kind of Hearts & Minds/Shock & Awe campaign against ourselves. I think the fact that we needed to invent plastic carrier bags really says something. It doesn't kill you to bring bags. 3 Rs apply...
Though now we live in a huge token economy...It'll be nice when people realise life & the world are worth more than money.

On the other hand I think the planet has a knack of looking after itself. It'd just be nice if we do something before it does so by some kind of mass-extinction of man. etc. You can think of the way we're making the world worse, or the way it's slowly getting rid of us.
As a great man once wrote:

Mother Nature it is who gives,
you are just the man with the watering can
who does not wait for rain...

On a more positive note, pointy hats brighten everyone's day.

Peace, love, drink tea, listen to good music, boomshanka etc...

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Re: MACTASTIC

nomahira
2007-01-14 04:28 am UTC (link)

I kinda wish there were more people that actually cared in the world. I work at Toys'R'Us and I cringe at the thought of the waste. I would make a guess that we go through at least 20k+ bags in a week. Every time I get a return and they tell me to just throw away the plastic I get annoyed. Personally I reuse bags I get from stores all the time. I don't see the difficulty in trying to follow the 3 R's.

Well on another note, I saw twins at work today that look very much like Katie from when she was in Stargate. I smiled at that.

Well I'm off to go organize and such.

Nite all

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	Re: MACTASTIC realityoverride 2007-01-14 06:18 pm UTC (link)
	I always reuse my plastic bags. A few times as carrier bags and then I finally hang them on a certain spot as a substitute for a trash bucket. That way I even save those bags you'd usually put in there. It works just fine and it saves money, space and the environment. (Reply to this)(Parent)

Re: MACTASTIC
(Anonymous)
2007-01-13 08:54 pm UTC (link)

Hehe, I had a feeling you might love the iPhone :) ... and, I agree with your recommendation to watch the keynote. I was following transcripts of the keynote live but even then, I was blown away when I saw the actual video later that day. You have to see it to fully appreciate the iPhone. It very much reminded me of something you might see in Sci-Fi movies like Minority Report or The Island. The excitement level was unbelievable. I was in a such an adrenaline high after watching the keynote, I barely slept that night! Even Steve himself was so excited that he hadn't slept the night before the keynote.

Its a bummer we have to wait so long before we can get them here in Canada. Expensive as the may be, I might not be able to resist getting one when they do become available.

As a self-proclaimed PC-er, I have to say Apple is shaping up to be a really kewl company! (and that's saying a lot because companies are hardly ever kewl!).

--Vlad.

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	Re: MACTASTIC ecddude 2007-01-18 09:29 pm UTC (link)
	I've heard about that movie...I heard that it was mostly about Al Gore and something about his son..but I don't know the details. so has it been an incredibly warm winter for Vancouver so far too?? it's not global warming, but sure it could play a part. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: MACTASTIC katiestuart 2007-01-20 05:54 am UTC (link)
	Still haven't actually seen the movie. Will report once I have. Vancouver has actually had one of the coldest, snowiest winters in recent history. Definitely the most snow I've seen in the last decade. And we're barely half way through January. It looks like it's going to be a crazy great year for our local mountains. Peace, Love and Don't eat yellow snow. Katie (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: MACTASTIC ecddude 2007-01-20 03:27 pm UTC (link)
	Really? wow {at least} Pennsylvania has had one of the warmest. sixty degrees last week, but it's starting (finally) to get cold. we've got about a quarter-inch of snow here. wEiRd... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: MACTASTIC

nomahira
2007-01-21 08:02 pm UTC (link)

same here. In New York we've had warm weather up until this week, just in time for my birthday.

On another note, I sent a very angry letter to my school's student life department. We switched the company who supplies the food to the school this month, and the changes have been fine. Except for the fact that they replaced the plastic washable cups that the reused every day, with Styrofoam cups. The college may only have about 2,000 undergrads, but that's a lot of Styrofoam being used.

hopefully they will switch back, but only time will tell.

Hope you have a great, and snowy, winter Katie

-Nick

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loki1978de
2007-01-12 09:04 pm UTC (link)

Sweetness, Katie, finally you post again and i need almost a month to notice it.
Very deep thoughts you brought through, your hopefully cheerfull and exciting, holidays and into the new year. I agree to the post you made and the answer to a comment you made a few days ago. The whole world changes, and not on own will, but by mankind's force on it. I notice the same changes here as you do in Vancouver. The landscape changes in shape, colour and the weather changes. People told me that i imagine things and romantisize my not so far away early youth, but i know i don't.
Actual example: Winters DID have more snow.
These days, there is no snow here. Don't anybody tell me that was the same in ....1984
These are fast and big changes in the weather pattern that dont come naturally
Neither do grey mountainsides. They've been in millions of greens from grass and trees.

I was not born with a cell phone. I can do for days without and most days it wouldnt make a difference anyways.
LOL unless i would need it to be on for you to call me, cause you need one more in your hockey team

Keep on thinking and keep on posting, you're great

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ecddude
2007-02-13 08:10 pm UTC (link)

it's not just man's fault.
and i will say that there has been weird weather patterns like this in the past, and there will be weird weather patterns like this in the past
as of now, it's not so warm anymore
at least on the east coast
new york has at least....say seven or eight feet of snow
winter came late but it's not our fault
completely
just sorta as my previous comment said
same perspective
sort of the same argument...but whatever

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	nomahira 2007-01-13 06:25 am UTC (link)
	speaking of changes has anyone read http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/299253_inconvenient11.html The fact that a school would ban a documentary that states facts is kinda sad. I mean the facts are there, Mankind (especially the US) will have to face it eventually. Well I had to let out that little rant before I go to bed. Nite all (Reply to this)

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