With a degree in Psych. [no thanks to the Faculty of Arts at *this* place!] and most of one in Bio, I am, natch, interested in the biological and environmental bases of behaviour; not to mention ecology and a myriad other things (including music and assorted arcana.)

Past and Present

Long long ago Pt. 2: I wanted to be, oh, I dunno, David Suzuki or Ralph Nader. Or Birute Galdikas! :) Then OPIRG-Carleton got stuck with me.

La Webslinger

Et j'suis aussi la Webslinger at the Dam-Reservoir Impact & Information Archive. The Dam-Reservoir Working Group grew out of the James Bay Working Group (later as the Hudson Bay Working Group, before morphing to the DRWG).

DRIIA exists through the generosity and foresight of the inimitable Michael C. Richardson, who gave me the webspace on his pizza box and LAN in 1994, when the web was a twinkle in many people's eye, and browbeat me into learning HTML. :) Michael is a UNIX god - check out his Sandelman Software Works page.

All about PIRGs

For Good and Not for Evil

Second up is the now defunct Burma-Tibet Group. Reid Cooper and I have the distinction of being the first Canadian activists to get online and use the net and web for good and not evil. ;) -> online since 1991-1992. Well, I still am - Reid's run off to become a lawyer.

If you're interested in Burma I'm gonna have to find some pics that are still online! Suffice to say they are run by a military junta, while keeping the duly elected head of state, Aung San Suu Kyi (say ONG-sa-soo-CHEE) under house arrest. >:-[ Many businesses are doing business with this brutal junta, a good reason *not* to do business with *them*!

After a lot of wrangling and cajoling and explaining I got Terry Cottam to agree to a webpage for LETS, the Local Employment Trading System. Some more wranging and explanations and beer drinking with fellow geeks Russ McOrmond, Mike Richardson, Peter Zanetti and myself got Terry to understand the web and I built their first webpage... Terry saw the potential... and the rest is history. We sure miss you Terry. :-( I don't run the page anymore. And even the person who's name is down on the Ottawa LETS website doesn't run the page! Ah the vagaries of consensus-based anarchic organisations. ;) And on that note... here are... ;) Some links for New Money Systems: The Ottawa LETS Page.

MORE ON OPIRG-Carleton online

OPIRG-Carleton has an electronic mailing list through the miracle of technology and the charity of the inimitable mcr ;), since Grant Neufeld flew the coop and headed back to Calgary... after running it for the first years of its inception.

From Sea to Shining Sea: Some Canadian PIRGS Online

[somewhat dated]

These are in no particular order, except roughly geographical. PIRG's here are so anarchic that the old guard like U. Toronto is as unlikely to have webspace as a young sprout like Kingston is to have it! Such is life... So not everyone is online. For a full accurate snail mail and phone list check out...

WPIRG's PIRG's in Canada. No Quebec links are provided until I can find them. :) soon, I hope.
• Vancouver Island PIRG in Victoria, B.C.
• OPIRG-Kingston at Queens
• OPIRG-Guelph project
• OPIRG-Brock
• OPIRG-York OPIRG-York
• WPIRG at U. of Waterloo They also have a list of PIRGS in Canada with addresses. Canada's oldest PIRG!
• NSPIRG at Dalhousie, in Halifax
• Other Public Interest Related Links

30 Years, In Your Ears! The Mighty 93.1

Check out our new evolving webpages! check out CKCU's website! CKCU originated and still sponsors the very excellent Ottawa Folk Festival.

We also were the ones who first brought you the Ottawa Busker's Festival.

It's funding drive again - So dial and donate & give till it megahertz! ;)

Other Stuff I'm Into...

AQUATIC ECOLOGY

• Canada Centre For Inland Water's National Water Research Institute"
• ecotoxicology of heavy metals, especially Hg
• real impacts of water development, especially hydrological and coastal impacts



BEHAVIOUR and BIOLOGY

• Jane's Brain Page
• comparative psychology (i.e. behavioural ecology and ethology)especially of predators
• agroecology: IPM, intercropping, etc., etc.
• behaviour/environment interactions, especially re: food (e.g. excitotoxic food additives, methylmercury contaminated fish

Gaian Stuff

• RAFI online!
• Bat Conservation International
• Jane's Brain Page
• Cool files at pdx.edu

Other Passions



• writing poetry... it's not half bad - maybe I'll put some up someday.
• I'm fond of gardening, and like flowers! :)
• as well as trying out oddments at Vintages
• ...and I adore music of all sorts! For some fool reason I'm a sucker for almost anything by Alice...

Media Ownership and Culture

• Adbusters and The Media Foundation
• Ryakuga gives the grassroots media tools.

"Down with the *Harris*tocracy!"

Well, Mike the Knife may be gone but the neocons have not forgotten Ontario's premier was a mouthpiece and lightening rod for 7 young neo-cons and their buddies who want to retool the system to create a permanent underclass of workers willing to take anything for pay while they chow down uptown. Mikey took the heat [much like Kim Campbell did for Lyin' Brian before him, at a federal level] for some of the more radical backroom boobs with the Regressive Preservatives (as my grampa used to call them.) Find out what all the fuss is about Ontario's most hated Premier. Who else in Ontario ever had to travel with a cordon of police in riot gear? :-(

Vote and Know The Facts

It got so bad under the neo-con Tories in Ontario that there was actually an "Ontario People's Report to the United Nations" unfortuately the link is now gone. :-/ I don't think Sir John A. Macdonald would recognize the bulk of today's Tories; indeed, Sir John must be rolling in his grave right now. :-( Who would build a transcontinental railway now? The "conservatives"? I Really doubt it! Mulroney presided over the dismantling of great chunks of the CNR/CP lines leaving many Canadian communities without a railline - just *great* for shipping and the economy, not to mention the air!

Meanwhile, is Steven Harper being groomed by the global elite to be our next PM? It seems that way! Very very scary stuff here.And I don't scare real easily. Stephen Harper was seen at the Bilderberg meeting - pretty arrogant for the Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Turns out you can't go unless you get an invite. Hmmm... some hypotheses on why he was there. And speaking of Bilderberger types:

• Billionaires For Bush!
• Bush in 30 seconds>
• The voters seem restless...

Some Homo sapiens cyberii: Friends and others

• Mike Gifford's Cool Links page
• SLR + Coldstream Engineering
• Russell McOrmond's baby: Flora Community Web
• mcr's cool stuff
• Alyssa and Musicnorth
• I said dasA, not NASA! :)

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As Above, So below: Arcana Eclectica

• Katz & Schindler's Original Divination Site at Facade
• Sir Isaac Newton said to Ed Halley of comet fame, "Sir, I have studied it, you have not." End of that argument.
• Pagan Federation International's Page



PIX OF ME, SANS SPECS

Yeah call me vain, but you didn't see what my old specs looked like!

Me, dark red hair bleached, after the ice storm

This pic is of me and S-Quark; beware naming your pets after subatomic particles... they have a bad habit of living up to whatever name you choose! Take for example an old friend's cat Loki, or a current one's, whose name is Goblin. Freaky beasts!:*)

By the phosphor dot light

Me a year ago, having given up on the expensive blonde hair experiments:

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Inspiration!

*Nearly* all the blame for this site can be laid at the feet of several sweetly subversive hackers [mcr, pjk, slr, pcc, mgy, and some others who wish to remain anonymous] who could be duly accused of aiding & abetting my initiation to the etherwaves, from USENET to www to irc to.. well never mind :) ... and a number of *other* things! ;) Thanks, guys!