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The wonder of CSI shows

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I can’t believe I’ve only watched on CSI show this week! We copy all of our favorite shows on the DVR and watch them when we have time. This week Chris has been working until 8 pm so we are way behind watching some of our favorite shows.

This weeks CSI Miami was a bit strange … first Wolf is a journalist and by the end of the show it sure appeared that he’d be going back to work as a CSI. The show was different than the usual CSI too wasn’t it? Did anyone watch it.

What I really like about the CSI shows is how they figure out everything from one tiny drop of blood tracing it to someones DNA, or a tiny peptide molecule. I know that real life CSI’s solve cases in this manner as well but in real life it takes weeks, months or even years … yet almost every CSI case is solved within a day. If only crimes were solved that fast in real life eh? There’d probably be a lot less crime!





They could be twins

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I didn’t have the best day today. Got up early and had an appointment with the pain doctor who I’m starting to think is talking in circles and not thinking things out. I’ll get more into that perhaps in another post.

Anyway, I wasn’t feeling up to par so around 5 pm I decided to lie down on the couch for half an hour or so and have a nap. I was hoping I’d feel better when I got up.

Well, I didn’t fall asleep until after 6, and then I was awoken at 7 pm by my elderly neighbor banging on my door and coming right into the house! That’ll be yet another post. Don’t worry Chris was there, I wasn’t sleeping all by myself with the door unlocked.

I awoke to see that Chris was watching a television show called the Sea Hunters. To my amazement this one man, James Delgado, the Canadian Executive Director of the Vancouver Maritime Museum and one of the world’s leading maritime archaeologists looked very much like one of my favorite CSI characters.

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Gil Grissom

Watching him talk about the dive they were doing and the shipwreck that they’d discovered from the late 1800’s in the Baltic Sea I noticed that not only did he look like Gil Grissom from CSI (Las Vegas version, played by William Petersen), but his facial expressions and mannerisms were very much like Grissoms’.

I couldn’t find a photo of Gil Grissom that look as much like James Delgado as I thought he did on the episode of Sea Hunters, but even in this comparison they could at least be brothers couldn’t they? Just watch the first minute or so of the first video on this page, at about 50 seconds you’ll catch a good look of James and he looks an awful lot like Gil.

What do you think? Close enough to be brothers? Fraternal twins? At the very least relatives?

Grey’s Anatomy debut’s Addisons new show

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So, who watched Grey’s Anatomy last night? I didn’t realize that it was going to be a two hour show, but after watching it i can see why. They kept flitting back and forth between regular Grey’s anatomy and as far as I know the as yet unnamed new show that Addison (Kate Walsh) will be moving over to next season.

I kind of liked what I saw of the new show … it was a good introduction to the characters and I certainly like all of the actors that will be in it. Mmmmm Still, as my husband said it’s got a soap opera kind of feel to it. He compared it to Desperate Housewives which he dislikes. I don’t think the new show will be quite like D.H. but from what I can see it’s not going to be at all like Grey’s Anatomy either. I can also tell you that neither show comes close to a real life hospital either!

I found myself teary eyed several times throughout the show. Yes I’m a sap! Too many of the story lines hit close to home I guess. Chris and I want to have a baby and due to my illness it’s not happening so it kind of hit me when Addison was going through her emotions when she found out she couldn’t have children.

Also, the death of Meredith’s step mother hit me too. The anguish on her lost fathers face got to me, and I could understand his anger at the medical system first being told that it was just a simple infection and not understanding how it could get so out of control.

I keep wondering if George (T.R. Knight) is going to leave the show. I mean if he transfers to another hospital … well it’s not the one that Addison will be working in next season so where does that leave him? If he does leave I wonder if has to do with all the ruckus about Isaiah Washington’s remarks earlier this year when he called him a fag? You gotta wonder.

What did you think of the episode?

The lengths people go to …

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I didn’t realize that people took me so seriously about some of my blogrolls. Lately I’ve had a string of people wanting to get on my “I am Canadian” blogroll and they’ve been writing me to me with proof of just how Canadian they really are. LOL

Really I’m not that stringent with the rules. I can often tell by how the person writes or some of the cities or cultural references that they make on their sites that they really are Canadian. I mean we are a unique culture even if we do sometimes struggle with the onslaught of American culture that comes our way 24 hours a day.

We spell words differently. That’s right this site is not full of spelling mistakes like some people probably think. We do spell many of our words the British way, after all we are still part of the Commonwealth, even if we’ve formally declared our independence. So when I slip and spell words like honour, behaviour, neighbourhood, cheque, barbecue, favour, jewelery and so on they are not spelling mistakes.

We have phrases that are particularly Canadian, and passions that go unmatched against our American counterparts. Hockey and beer come to mind.

There are also foods that are unique to Canadian culture such as Beaver tails, peameal bacon (Americans call it Canadian bacon), Tourtiere – a fantastic french meat pie, Poutine, Smarties- ours are chocolate rather than sour candies and so on.

One of the latest people to join the I am Canadian Blogroll sent in her proof of her Canadianesse by writing a post about being Canadian. It’s fantastic. I didn’t get too far into her post before I was adding her to the blogroll. Cori’s a great read too so I’m happy to add her to the list.

I just love it when people get creative!

images.jpg Speaking of something truly Canadian, definitely cultural icons, and somewhat creative … Bob and Doug Mackenzie are coming back!

On May 24th, which is our Victoria day long weekend to celebrate the former Queen of England’s birthday, and traditionally known as the “May 24” when Canadians tend to go camping, party and drink cases of beer – all containing 24 bottles or cans of course – a one hour tribute to Bob and Doug Mackenzie will be aired on CBC.

It’s really poor planning on the Canadian Broadcasting Companies part because as I just said this is the weekend that Canadians go to the cottage or go camping and most often do not have access to TV.

So if you do have plans that weekend set your VCR’s, DVR’s or TIVO to tape the show for you. I’m certain it will be a good one.

One final peek at our Canadian icons Bob and Doug MacKenzie

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BTW I know that the infamous Ted Murphy is a fan of Bob and Doug – hope he’s taking note of this too.

My husband got all excited about this too and is working on a post that will hopefully contain a video. I’ll link to his post when he’s done. He needs a beer for inspiration, he’ll be done soon. It’s done – check out his view of Bob and Doug.

Turning the TV off

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Ok that does it. Now they have the contestants on stage, behind small swinging doors peeing in front of the audience in order to answer questions on that game show Distraction that I just mentioned in an earlier post.

I think it’s time to turn the TV off and either go to bed or visit the forums that I usually read at night.

That show is just sickening. I’m glad it was canceled. Now if they’d only stop showing it on the Comedy channel I’d be happy.

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