Editorial

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I usually rarely write editorials, but this week there are a bunch of events that are going to happen (or happened) which, you could say, are kind of important. First of all, on July 19th it was my birthday. I am now officially a year older and to the law of Canada, an adult.

Special Thanks

Thank you to everyone that knew who sent me cards, called or sent me e-mails. My girlfriend went insane and had several bears, flowers and other stuff delivered =)

I would also like to thank everyone that wrote back in regards of the multi-cultural relationships. The response was so great, that Colin and I had been considering putting a message board on our homepage to allow people to discuss topics covered in CoN.

Also, special thanks go to Rui "Tomahawk" Motta for pointing out an error in our mailing script. Our Reply-to: field was mispelled.

Montreal (Quebec, CA)

With the editor of Spontaneously Combusted Literature, who is the same person that has kindly provided space for CoN, we decided to make an attempt at spreading our profound beliefs that we can make the world better. With that excuse we can try getting a few more hits on our pages, and some more readers involved in our propagation. Again, there is no money in this for us, in fact we are using our own money and time. We just want to do it for the fun of it, and to see parts of a province we live in and we've never seen. It is probably embarassing to say that I've seen more of the US, Europe and the Middle East, then I've seen of Canada.

Gard, myself and most probably a third party from the newspaper Toronto Sun will arrive in Montreal (each one of us on a different date.. unfortunately we have to work in life as well). I am scheduled to arrive on Monday, July 21st, at night. I'm not sure about my accomodations yet, but it was theoretically the Reine Elizabeth (The Queen Elizabeth) Hotel. Last I heard from Gard, it was packed. On Wednesday, all of us will hop on our bicycles and start the long journey back to Toronto, stopping at Kingston for the night. Our trip is 500KM, we are expecting an average of 250KM per day. We expect to be somewhere near-by Toronto by Thursday night.

"Ontario: Yours To Discover"

Kind of ironic, that phrase is written on every car's licence plate, and that's exactly what we are going to do. Explore Ontario, and with Gard's excellent photography, probably put up a web page on Scriba Org to show the great things we saw along the way. Just to mention a weird one, "The Lake on the Mountain" is a lake that is 100 feet high on an island on Lake Ontario! This oddity is near Kingston.

TVOntario, CityTv, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

We are going to try to get some coverage from the media, so that we can show the rest of Ontario what we did, and the amazing things that are there to be seen. We wrote a brief, yet weird letter to CityTv for their Media Television program (See: "Mission: somewhat plausible"), but we got no replies. This comes to a surprise to us, since when both Gard and I wrote to them, we always got a response back. For TVOntario and CBC we are still trying to get in contact.

Mission: somewhat plausible by Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro & Gard E Abrahamsen

This is the letter that Gard and myself wrote to CityTv:

"Dear MediaTV/CityTV,

We are a Toronto-based non-profit non-organiztion called Scriba Org, dedicated to making a better world (according to OUR standards). Please don't delete this email just yet. ;^) Since we thrive in cool places with hot chick... I mean an electronic world, and we know that your show deals with various forms of media, including the Internet, we were wondering if we would be even remotely likely to appear on a brief (but still more than 2 seconds) snip of your incredibly fantastic *smooch* *smooch* program. (No, we're not kissing up. It just looks like it. Indeed it does. You're right. It's a bit over the top. Strike the *smooch* bit.) Currently we offer two online magazines (Spontaneously Combusted Literature and Capital of Nasty), soon to become four (add ST News and Twilight World), a software research and development department (Scriba Labs), and many other cool things (such as my poetry collection. Want to buy a copy?). ;^) This probably sounds like a potato salad, and you have probably seen mars probes full of requests like this, but we are real. Please, Moses Znaimer, if you're reading this (and chances are you're not), why not give us a try and join the more than 600 readers who enjoy the stuff we're made of. Our web site is located at http://www.scriba.org/ Please, please, please, (put on Jim Carrey mask) plluheeaaaasseee (ok, stop imitating him, it's irritating enough with one Jim Carrey in the world as it is) let us know even if it is a no. Just don't leave us lingering. We need to know before we go to Montreal to spit at French bagels and pedal for our lives back to Toronto. Oh, ok. You got this far? Wow! Now, anyways, you can delete this email, or it will self destruct in 20 seconds. Bye.

Jurassic Gard (gard@scriba.org - http://www.scriba.org/~gard/) and Leanderthal (leandro@scriba.org - http://www.scriba.org/~leandro/) for a dead cow is a friendly cow (we can explain later)"