Though I like to deny it sometimes, and though I’ve tried my best to shed my technical past, deep down I’m a geek. I know this because I understood this bumper sticker:
There’s no place like 127.0.0.1
Sigh.
Author: Dan Dickinson
Neutralize every man in sight
Time for a High Fidelity moment: I’d say that if I were to put together my top five side one, track ones (I dare not start, as I could easily waste an entire day doing so), “Angel” by Massive Attack would be on it.
Off the top of my head I can think of another song that would definitely make the list, and I suspect it’d be high on TimmyD‘s list as well: “Break On Through” by The Doors.
How about y’all?
[tags]top five, massive attack, doors, high fidelity[/tags]
Sabotage
Thank you, Prime Minister Harper, for giving Canada the reputation of Kyoto-killer.
[tags]kyoto[/tags]
Mmmmmmmm, cod mash…
I missed this entry in James Chatto’s blog from two weeks ago (probably ’cause it doesn’t have an RSS feed…booo!) about the sale of Luce, a restaurant we tried for the first time on Nellie’s 30th birthday. Farewell, Luce. We hardly knew ye.
[tags]luce, james chatto[/tags]
What were people expecting?
We went to see The Da Vinci Code (imdb | rotten tomatoes) this afternoon, just so that we’re not the only people in North America who didn’t see it this weekend. It’s been getting rotten reviews, so I was a little surprised that I didn’t mind it. I mean, it wasn’t a triumph of filmmaking or anything…it was just the book put onto the big screen. That’s it. That’s all. It was nothing more or less than the book (save a few minor alterations). This wasn’t The Godfather or All Quiet On The Western Front; this was a summer book made into a summer movie. Anyone expecting groundbreaking cinema or religious enlightenment was looking for the wrong thing and judging the movie on the wrong merits. It’s a decent, slightly-more-intelligent-than-average summer movie. The fact that it’s getting worse ratings than R.V. suggests The Da Vinci Code is bearing the critics’ hipper-than-thou wrath.
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Umm…I think I know where 24 is taking place next season…
[tags]da vinci code, 24[/tags]
R.I.P., Connor
CBGB had some folks over to their place last for night for a housewarming…ironic, since yesterday was an unseasonably cold & windy day. Still, GB fired up the barbeque in style and dashed off more than enough food for all. There were even some thai appetizers that I avoided…wisely, as it turns out; Nellie had one and spent ten minutes fighting off tears. A good time was had, etc.
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I know a few friends who could use the services of LBA (Lip Balm Anonymous). Time for an intervention.
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We watched The Wild Parrots Of Telegraph Hill (imdb | rotten tomatoes) over the weekend after it sat on the PVR for months. It was yet another documentary that deserved to win the Oscar more than March Of The Penguins, but whatever. I figure I must be getting soft in my old age, ’cause the personalities of the parrots and the dedication Mark Bittner showed to them were pretty touching. It sounds like it’ll be a boring movie but it’s not. Highly recommended.
[tags]lip balm, wild parrots of telegraph hill, march of the penguins, documentary[/tags]
"A four-minute f*** you to the format and our listeners"
I don’t like country music. At all. But this CNN story about the Dixie Chicks is right when it says “it’s tough to deny that by gambling their careers, three Texas women have the biggest balls in American music.”
Twenty years from now I wonder who people will remember as being groundbreaking, pioneers, important…Faith Hill, or the Dixie Chicks? My Chemical Romance or Green Day? James Blunt or Sufjan Stevens?
[tags]dixie chicks[/tags]
Elaborate, expensive porn for women
Salon talks about how Grey’s Anatomy is “just elaborate, expensive porn for women“, which would explain why I couldn’t stand the 30 seconds that I watched once.
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The Toronto Star asks whether Jon Stewart is helping or hurting.
But is his sarcasm turning those who watch him the most — young adults — into giant cynics with a diminishing trust in politicians and the institutions of democracy?
One new study, published this month in the journal American Politics Research, says yes. Reseachers have connected The Daily Show to lower opinions of politicians and greater cynicism toward the mainstream media and the electoral process itself.
My own opinion? It’s not Jon Stewart that’s making people cynical…governments and news media are doing that all on their own; Jon Stewart just calls bullshit. Maybe, though, he’s speeding things along…
[tags]jon stewart, grey’s anatomy[/tags]
Shitty newspaper? Check. Flimsy propaganda tool? Check.
This false story that was leaked (and reported by the National Post) yesterday about Iran planning to require non-Muslims to wear badges (a la Nazi Germany…a parallel they’re still drawing graphically even after removing the original story and posting a half-hearted retraction) could be seen coming a mile away. Antonia Zerbisias fills in some detail about the origins of the rumour and how it got planted in media circles, and POGGE sums it up well:
“It’s true that Ahmadinejad is a nasty piece of work. It’s also true that we’re being conned. Again.”
No kiddin’.
[tags]iran, badges, national post[/tags]
The ICB is not filling me with confidence right now
As you might be able to tell from past blog postings, I’m in an MBA program that’s done jointly by Dalhousie University and the Institute of Canadian Bankers. I’m almost halfway through the program right now, so I found it odd this morning when I received an email from the ICB telling me that, because I have some credits with them, I could apply for this exciting joint MBA they offer with Dalhousie.
Now, granted, screwups happen like this sometimes. Email marketing’s an inexact science; trust me, I know that from past experience. This, to me, seems like kind of a rookie mistake…like the marketing people just didn’t think to check their mailing list against the list of people who’re actually taking the MBA program they’re trying to pitch. What bothers me is this: the MBA course I’m taking right now is the ICB marketing course.
I find myself questioning their expertise.
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I’m excited that my oldest brother might be flying over to spend some time with us here in Toronto this summer. He’ll be back in Nova Scotia this summer, but between the Montreal and New York trips earlier in the year, the Rockies trip in the fall and the aggressive saving for the condo closing date in April it was just too much of a squeeze for us to make that trip as well. But ifhe shows up here in TO, I’m sure we can get into some trouble.
[tags]mba, dalhousie, icb, marketing, family[/tags]
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