Ryan Paul

Archive for May, 2009

Britain Really Does Have Talent

Like holy cow man…   I now wish more than ever that I could get British prime time television here in Canada.   I’ll let the videos speak for themselves…

Important places on Google Maps for me

  • My mother’s last house
  • My last apartment in London
    There were four apartments – mine was the lower right above the garage.   The SMOKING HOT crackhead Lisa lived above me.   The thin side window on the right closest to the edge of the building on my apartment is the window that Lisa’s crackhead buddies crept in and burgled my place.
  • More House
    The place where I spent most of my formative years rebelling against Father McCabe.   The newer buildings in the back didn’t used to be there, and neither did the newer building to the left of the main house.   This is the place where I still have most amount of my happiest memories.   Seeing the house redeveloped like this makes me a little sad for some reason.
  • Crendon Park
    This is the road where all of my worst memories and childhood experiences happened.   In the main group of houses in the centre, on the bottom row… the fourth house from the left is number 8. That is where (to my knowledge still) Myra and Derek Anscombe live.   Without going into too much detail they are my former foster parents who abused me terribly – so badly their son Martin checked himself into a psychiatric unit when he was an adult.   If you view this shot of the football fields near their house… you’ll see a small path going along the right side of it.   That path was paved with sharp stone chips when I was six years old and that path holds very bad memories for me.     In the centre of this image you can view a group of flats (apartments) where I had to go and scrounge food daily from the dumpsters in the concrete parking lot on the lower side of the flats.   Very many bad bad things happened to me there which still have an effect on how I react to various situations nearly twenty-five years later.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I used to idolise Arnie back when he made movies. Then when I found out his old man was a member of the Nazi Party I disliked him.   I then disliked him even more after he refused clemency for Tookie Williams (who I used to think was innocent of the crimes for which he was being executed).

But since he became Governor of California my admiration for him has shot through the roof.   Contrary to popular opinion he isn’t a muscle-bound meathead but is extremely intelligent. Check out the following Youtube video of him speaking at CSULB:

The thing that’s given me the most admiration for him is his willingness to go against the previous White House adminstration on various issues about greenhouse gas emissions. He’s also converted a Humvee he owns to use Hydrogen which apparently cost him $21,000 for the conversion.

Check out this story about the California Hydrogen Highway Network initiative.

I don’t see many other politicians around the world putting words about the environment into action like Arnie is.