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Re: Thoughts On Fredericton

Kalev — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:21:54 -0000

I'm glad I wasn't crazy. Yay not-crazy Kalev!

Re: Thoughts On Fredericton

Beth — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:25:40 -0000

@Kalev - Um, yeah, that could be because I transcribed the matrix incorrectly form my notes to my blog. Oops! I've fixed it now and you can see that high urgency-high importance is, in fact, "top priority" and "out of control" is actually high urgency-low importance. Sorry that you wasted so much time trying to figure it out, when it was really just me blogging while tired.

Re: Thoughts On Fredericton

Kalev — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:14:12 -0000

And I'm not surprised Fredericton is shut down by 9pm on a Friday. Look at our "world-class" city, where most restaurants are shut by 10pm on a Friday... and we have, according to many, a super-livable, highly residential downtown core, where you'd think you'd be able to find decent vegetarian food past 10pm any night of the week, let alone a Friday.

Re: Thoughts On Fredericton

Kalev — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:12:23 -0000

Bruce Willis: ROTFLMAO

We should rewatch that movie this summer.

I don't really get that matrix... I've had to study it quite a while to grok what it's trying to say. In particular, it seems to me that something of low urgency but high importance would be the long-term priority. And "out of control?" Wouldn't high urgency, high importance actually be people's "top priority?" Like when you were doing the crazy grant application? I mean, that could get out of control if you let it but I don't think it is unavoidably out of control.

Maybe the most important, though, is the high urgency, low importance one, which definitely makes sense.

Re: Thoughts On Fredericton

Demonweed — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:34:38 -0000

Down here we all know not to mess with people from New Hampshire. Think all the attitude of Texans scrunched down into 1% of the space. Our partisan primary election process is solidly entrenched and publicly financed (in spite of not even a peep from the Constitution about establishing political parties. *grumble*) New Hampshire always gets the first proper election in that process. In my lifetime, President Obama was the first candidate to win any major party nomination without being an obvious corporate lapdog (perhaps Al Gore is a free thinker today, but he didn't run like one in 2000.)

As such, those primary elections are particularly important. Every few years, the entire population of New Hampshire gets a little face time with each in a parade of Presidential hopefuls. Now that we've developed beyond reliance on horseback couriers, there is a strong argument for one uniform national primary event. Yet no such change is forthcoming. No one else really has the stones to tell the people of New Hampshire to back down from their cherished role as a national political barometer.

Re: Thoughts On Fredericton

Beth — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:39:45 -0000

Definitely go to dinner before 8 p.m. And have you ever been to Oakville?

Re: Thoughts On Fredericton

Darren — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:37:39 -0000

As it happens, I'm speaking at a thing in Fredericton in September, so I appreciate the write-up.