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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • In Western quebec, along the Ottawa River, we have a citizens group that is working hard to get the word out about radon testing. Our local government has tested all of the schools, and is putting radon detectors into libraries so people can borrow them and test their houses.

    Some municipalities in Quebec are requiring that radon remediation be done on any new house that is built, because it’s significantly cheaper than retrofitting it.

    Even so, the retrofitting is only a few thousand dollars, and I believe that the Canadian Cancer society will pay for half of that.


  • A podcast I listen to recently stated that between 10 and 20% of the North Korean population was killed by us bombing during the Korean war. 85% of buildings in the North were destroyed. They may have used more napalm there then in Vietnam. It was so indiscriminate that B-29 bombers were sent out with no targets, just told to go and bomb stuff.

    It puts North Korea’s hatred of the Americans in a bit of context.



  • I think they should be upfront with people that when they go to her concert, they’re not hearing her sing live, at least most of the time, and they are not hearing the band play live.

    It should be obvious that no singer could do several 3-hour shows a week for more than a year, and not have it affect her voice.

    Just check out the Wings of Pegasus YouTube channel, to see where two different concerts in different countries had exactly the same music (vocal and instrumental).

    I know several people who spent thousands of dollars to see her in concert. I’m not going to go out of my way to ruin the memory for them. They got the experience they wanted. But I’m also not going to pretend that it was a musical experience.