Crap. Â Blew right through yesterday. Â Forgot all about it until I was drop-dead exhausted. It’s cold here in Vancouver, which is rare. We’re not used to it. Â Okay, *I* am not used to it. Â I’m getting over a cold-ish-eque thing I had starting Thursday afternoon. Â I’m *mostly* over it, I think. Â Never really turned into…
Category: Hey Cool
Chatting with a Virus Bot
Guy I used to work with suddenly started talking to me after about a year and a half of nothing. Looks like he got hit by what we at EA used to call an “MSN IQ Test.” Gotta give them credit for incorporating that INTO the bot itself. Remember kids, just ’cause someone you know…
You Down With LHC? (Yeah, You Know Me.)
The Large Hadron Collider is this most amazingly technical thing, and yet I have absolutely no idea what it does. I mean, I get that it’s a thing that catches particles and whips them around in a gigantic circle (27 kms or something, right?) and then they… uh… measure the… trails… um… with the uh……
I dunno, where do YOU find them?
This evening I was bombing around Hintertubes looking for clues about a new album by Burial, and was reminded of how I found this weird little bubble of sound in the first place. Rather, I was reminded how I did NOT find this artist. I didn’t find them on the radio, or a magazine, or…
Bluesy Monday, That’s the One Day…
Oh man, I just sneezed, and now I instantly have a headache AND feel like I have a cold. Yaaaaay. Wow, today was a hardcore Vancouver rainy crapfest. Welcome to Winter. Last week was Fall, this week is Winter. The way Vancouver works though, next week will be Spring, after our obligatory three days of…
If this keeps up, I’m going to end up vegan and running a Mac
So, after much kvetching and grumping about how it was all going to work, and how was any of this possible, Arwen happily let herself be convinced by a telemarketer to move our phone service to the same company that handles our television. Unlike my recent excursion into the deep waters of RRSP transfer and…
17: What have you been DOING to this guitar?
Just caught a commercial for Guitar Hero World Tour (looking suspiciously like some OTHER three-piece band game by another company who simply bought the development company) but here’s the cooperative cross-over from hell: Kentucky Friend Chicken. Really? REALLY? Anybody’s who’s ever been passed the five-buttoned Guitar Hero controller immediately after a particularly sweaty-handed rendition of…
12: I’m indirectly annoying people overseas, h’raaaay!
Arwen was going through our inbound links, and found out there’s an IT videoblog overseas (well, maybe not, maybe they’re just both English) that’s using a track (titled He Feels Guilty Now) from my first album as their closing credits. This is seriously surreal, since that track was started some time in ’97 or so,…
N’mo Day 6
Life on Mars should be a very bad show, based on the elevator pitch: A cop in present-day New York gets hit by a passing car, and wakes up in 1973, still a cop in New York. There’s some odd crossover from present day (people he knows in 2008 are younger in 1973), and the…
Nablopomo Day 3
In which our hero finally sits his two little ones down in front of Star Wars. It might be the “fixed” version, but it looks pretty good. When they get older, we’ll get into the whole thing about how the “real” version is the “best” version. Han shot first, dammit (but in this version they…