So…let me get this straight: they didn’t complain about the episode called “Red Hot Catholic Love”, in which the Vatican convenes a special conference to determine how they can continue to abuse little boys, but they have a problem with this new episode?

Wow. Sites like Ask Metafilter and the new Yahoo! Answers are just amazing. I think I blogged about this one a ways back, where some guy — within an hour — locates a ton of information about where his grandfather lived in Vienna before fleeing the Nazis.

And it ranges from something heavy like that to something as fluffy as this; check out how vague the question is, and how someone nails it just over an hour later.

This is just cool, cool shit. MeFi is such a great way to people-watch online.

I’m LURVING the new computer. So…much…faster…

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One of the funniest things I’ve ever read. I was literally crying today at my desk as I read them.

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I realized today how busy I’m going to be in the next 13 days. Re-imaging the old computer, buying xmas gifts, studying, playing basketball, going to a Rheostatics concert, packing, working on an economics assignment that I haven’t even started yet, doing festive gathering type stuff…yoish.

Following a conversation with M² this morning, I thought I’d list the Canadian music you should be listening to (if you’re not already):

Five classic albums by Canadian artists that most people have heard of. Popular, but not in that horrible Bryan Adams / Celine Dion / Shania Twain kind of way:

• the band . the last waltz
• matthew good . last of the ghetto astronauts
• rush . moving pictures
• sloan . smeared
• the tragically hip . fully completely

The best albums by five Canadian bands who’ve received all manner of buzz in indie music circles over the past year or three:

• the arcade fire . funeral
• the constantines . tournament of hearts
• metric . old world underground
• the new pornographers . mass romantic
• wolf parade . apologies to the queen mary

Older (meaning anywhere from 1980 to 2000) albums that are VASTLY underrated.

• big sugar . five hundred pounds
• godspeed you! black emperor . lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven
• rheostatics . whale music
• stan rogers . fogarty’s cove
• neil young . mirror ball

Five recent albums you might not have heard of but are well worth a download.

• black mountain . black mountain
• great lake swimmers . bodies and minds
• the hidden cameras . mississauga goddam
• magneta lane . the constant lover
• a.c. newman . the slow wonder

This Calgary Flames music (and I use the term loosely) video from 1987 is one of the most godawful things I’ve ever watched.

[via Mighty MJD]

I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW MUCH I WANT ONE OF THESE!!!!

Just got back from the doctor. Good news, all in all. All the bloodwork was good. Total cholesterol was very good; good cholesterol was not great (need more fruit & vegetables…no surprise there) but bad cholesterol was excellent.

I actually assumed it would be kind of high, given my past love for the fried & fatty.

Oy and argh. I finally got around to setting up the new computer last night. I took the 120 GB drive out of the old PC and tried to put it into the new one…unfortunately, it’s not compatible. At all. Doesn’t fit in the slot, uses different connections, etc., etc. I was well and truly pissed off for about 20 minutes there.

Luckily the new one comes with an 80GB hard drive (not 40 as I’d originally thought) so I can move everything I have onto the new machine. I hooked it up to the router and transferred everything over, so now it should just be a matter of plain old setting up a new machine. And I have to say, I love me some 19″ Ultrasharp LCD. It’s also pretty sweet that this bad boy has 7x the processor speed and 4x the memory of my old one. That’s what happens when you go 6 years between purchases.

In unrelated news, anybody out there need a Western Digital 120GB hard drive? Less than a year old. Just askin’.

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Nellie, rock star that she is, got most of the xmas shopping done yesterday. Hooray for wives on their days off.

Get it.

If you want to have some new music thrown at you head over to 75 Minutes. I’ve been downloading their “podcast” (still hate that word) for a few months now and it’s usually good for a one or two good songs. I’m a few weeks behind right now but the last few episodes I’ve reviewed have turned up some good stuff:

• The Decemberists convering Joanna Newsom’s “Bridges & Balloons”
• “Wake Up, Ma and Pa Are Gone” by Bound Stems
• “Werewolf” by Cat Power
• A band from the American midwest called Raccoo-oo-oon with an amazing song called “Stick Eaters”. I’ll be looking into this band some more, but they’re pretty obscure so…c’mon internets!
• A L’Spaerow song called “Bridges”
• A band called Ufomammut with a song called “Hellcore”. Or it could be the other way around, I’m not 100% sure.

Angels Twenty is another source for good music; not as prolific as 75 Minutes, but less random.