Ever wonder what would happen if you tried to call Jenny at 867-5309? These guys have figured it out.
[via Yes But No But Yes]
[tags]867-5309, jenny, tommy tutone, jennyscan[/tags]
Category: Humour
Jack LeStat
Link dump:
- From Econbrowser: a GDP density map of the world.
- From the Toronto Star: France to ban smoking. I might actually visit some day (but not until 2008).
- From The Onion: Nations Gays Demand Right to Library Cards.
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24 started last night, as everyone now knows. Already it’s totally predictable, and yet I’ll watch the whole season. It’s like watching sports: you watch 60 minutes for the few brief flashes of interesting, compelling action scattered throughout. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
[tags]gdp density, france, smoking ban, the onion, 24[/tags]
Winter my licious
I’ve noticed a spike in the amount of junk mail arriving in my (paper) mail box over the past week or so. It seems to be mainly flyers for two things: gyms and junk food.
The eternal struggle continues.
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We made our winterlicious picks today: 1055, Canoe and Savoy with T-Bone, and Jump with another friend. We start the night I get back from my stats course and end shortly before Nellie’s birthday dinner. It’ll be a fortnight of decadence, without a doubt.
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This movie looks horribly inappropriate. I can’t wait to see it. Super bonus points for using a Black Keys song.
Any bets on the Oscar for best song going to “It’s Hard Out Here For A Nympho”?
[tags]junk mail, gyms, junk food, winterlicious, black snake moan[/tags]
It's like a time machine (which I'm pretty sure I was asked to build once)
Today’s Dilbert pretty accurately describes what I did for a living between 1999 and 2001.
[tags]dilbert,, truthiness[/tags]
That's reassuring
The National Post has declared our nearly-completed condo building to be “the most beautiful new tower in the city”. That’s nice to hear. It was a little nerve-wracking, wondering if our tower would end up being considered a blight on the skyline.
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From an old issue of The Onion which somehow showed up in my feed reader today:
WASHINGTON, DC—Telephone logs recorded by the National Security Agency and obtained by Congress as part of an ongoing investigation suggest that the vice president may have used the Oval Office intercom system to address President Bush at crucial moments, giving categorical directives in a voice the president believed to be that of God.
$5 says this is one of those Onion articles that ends up being true down the road.
[tags]national post, most beautiful new tower, toronto, onion, bush, cheney, intercom[/tags]
Firestarter v2.0
If I heard a little girl saying something like this, it’d probably freak me right the hell ass out. [via Torontoist]
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Rent-o-meter is fun. More fun than a rent analysis tool should be.
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Also fun: this “How Canadian are you” quiz courtesy of POGGE. I’m proud to say that I scored 100%, even though the last answer was a hail mary.
[tags]fiery little girls, rent-o-meter, canadian quiz[/tags]
Theta to the left of me, sigma to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with mu
Mahir! Mahir is back! He kiss you!
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I am now officially at the low point of this MBA program. The administrators warned us we’d bottom out somewhere around the beginning of the third year, and they were right. It feels like we’ve been at this forever (it’s been just over two years, in fact) but it also feels like we’re still far from finishing (just under two years, obviously). We also just finished off one of the worst courses (as far as workload) and moved immediately into another — quantitative methods — which is as boring as watching paper turn yellow in the sun.
Quants is no picnic either when it comes to the amount of work to do: in order to avoid schoolwork over the Christmas holidays I have to read about 30 pages — of stats, mind you — each night and work on perpetual assignments. I’m trying to run 2-3 miles 5-6 times a week, plus there’s work and the usual errands like groceries. There’s also my daily RSS compulsion; I feel a little lost if I can’t see what’s going on in the world. I’d love to write more interesting things on the blog but I just don’t have the hours. Luckily Nellie takes it upon herself to cook for my sorry ass pretty much every night or I’d be the walking dead.
I’ll be really glad when I can watch TV or go see a movie without feeling guilty for not studying.
54.62% down. 45.38% to go.
[tags]mahir, i hate quants[/tags]
It makes sense that the guy who owns gapingvoid.com would understand Hollywood
Hugh sets a trap
This cartoon from Hugh MacLeod over at gapingvoid.com has generated lots of commentary. It was a nicely executed little bit of wit from Hugh; I suspect his point was less about the existence of god(s) and more about how some people — atheists or theists — will wig out when their beliefs are challenged. Some of the comments are quite insightful, some are specious, but it’s an interesting conversation no matter which side of the fence you’re on.
90 Day Night Day Nights
Today had been supermega cleaning day. Our apartment has been neglected and, as such, has turned on us. There’s still more fun to be had, like ripping the cat hair out of the carpet, but it’s nice to have a (somewhat) livable environment again.
Really, we’re just phoning it in now. Our condo is set to be ready for us by early April, and we just don’t care about the place we’re in anymore. It’s a rental, so we’re not destroying the place or anything, but there’s not exactly a pride of ownership right now either.
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Day Night Day Night, one of our favourite films at this year’s TIFF, has won the award for best feature film at the Woodstock Film Festival. I’m glad; it deserves more attention than it got here in Toronto.
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Scott Adams is at it again. This time he thinks he has an idea that will win him next year’s Nobel prizes for both peace and economics. It relates to the old no-two-countries-who-have-a-McDonald’s-have-ever-gone-to-war maxim, which is really just a symptom. Open trade with a country makes it much harder to go to war with them (unless you plan to overrun them completely). For example, the US will never attack China; Wal-Mart gets most of their cheap goods from China and would likely go out of business, or at the very least drastically increase their prices.
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Late last night we watched Henry Fool (imdb | rotten tomatoes), the precursor to Fay Grim, another film we saw at this year’s festival. It was good, but I think I was expecting the style of Fay Grim, which was far more frenetically paced. And, of course, I wish there could have been more focus on Parker Posey, but I guess the title should have made it obvious that there wouldn’t be. I would definitely recommend watching Henry Fool before watching Fay Grim, though; it would’ve helped us out a lot.
[tags]day night day night, scott adams, dilbert, henry fool, fay grim[/tags]
Skirl | Dan Dickinson 