OMG blast from the past

Demeter ordered to hand over DNA sample
Last Updated Mon, 29 May 2006 23:41:33 EDT
A judge has ordered one of Canada's most notorious murderers to provide a sample to the country's DNA data bank.

Peter Demeter, 73, was in court Monday acting as his own lawyer to argue against a request by an Ontario regional police force to provide the DNA sample.

Peter Demeter was one of my computer class students at Kingston Pen back in 1996. At least, I'm almost 90% sure he was. I know Demeter was in the school, and I know I know the guy in the video - talked with him several times, spent a great deal of time with him in the seven months I was there. The only thing that's making me doubt my memory is that the guy on the video looks a lot less clued-out than the student I remember. My memory of him was that he seemed to be in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's, and was often barely able to remember how to turn the computer on. And the guy in the video, though he looks and sounds like that student, is completely alert and lucid. So maybe Demeter wasn't actually my student but just spent a lot of time in the computer room (there were a lot of guys who did that) and the guy I remember as my student was another elderly inmate with a European accent.

Still, whoa. I had no idea what Demeter was in for. It was Kingston Pen, so I knew it had to be something bad - murder, aggravated assault, rape, child molestation, armed robbery or drug dealing were the most frequent crimes. But I think I assumed he was a child molester though, because he was elderly and didn't seem able to commit murder or drug dealing or anything requiring physical strength.

Well. That was an unexpected start to my morning.

potpourri

It is freaking hot (33.3°C - 91.9°F), we just came back from our first date in... way too long, I still have to post pix of Justin's dance recital where he was the only boy among about 150 little dancers, I have no idea what the difference is between R-rating and NC17-rating, Siam Bistro has really good food, we're going to Hawaii, and Canadians healthier, have better access to health-care than Americans: study and the kicker of the study is that There was one area where Americans fared better than Canadians. Despite being less healthy and having less access to a vastly more expensive health-care system, Americans are happier with their care than Canadians are. Which is funny because we were just talking about this over dinner on our date.

That's my day in a nutshell.