Awesome: Stephen Colbert’s plundering of the Hockey Night In Canada theme song.
Awesome: Bigger sidewalks on Bloor. (Less awesome: lack of bike lanes)
Awesome: watching Portugal play football. Since I cheer for no particular team I just like watching skill, so the game today was like watching a group of painters at work.
Awesome: the weather. Perfect. An ideal June day.
Awesome: being 95% done.
[tags]stephen colbert, bloor street, portugal, euro 2008, toronto weather[/tags]
It felt good to walk into Indigo today and buy five books, like it was some kind of preparation for September. Or maybe it felt good to cross things off my wishlist. Or maybe it felt good ’cause I got a Roots weekender bag with it. Who cares. It felt good.
I got:
[tags]richard evans, richard florida, vasily grossman, christopher hitchens, dan kennedy[/tags]
..here’s what the visitors to this blog have looked like:
Search engines they use to find their way here:
Keywords they use in those search engines (top 15):
Sites they link here from (top 15):
Countries they’re coming from (top 25):
Browsers they use:
[tags]this blog’s visitors[/tags]
Today I bought this tshirt from Threadless because a) it’s funny; b) I bought one for my brother for Christmas and I very nearly kept it for myself; and c) it was $10.
Nellie went the slightly maudlin route and picked the shirt of the polar bear drifting unhappily without an ice floe.
And so my tshirt addiction continues unabated. However, if the weather for the past three days is any indication of what this summer will be like, I will need all the clean tshirts I can freaking get. Today my plastic headphones melted into little puddles of melody in my ears.
[tags]threadless, haiku[/tags]
Now there’s something you don’t see every day. Unfortunately I only had time to grab the little point-and-shoot, which didn’t handle the lighting well. By the time Nellie got to her SLR the rainbows were pretty much gone.
[tags]toronto, rainbow, sunset[/tags]
Another hot day, another evening sitting on the balcony and drinking cold beer with friends. After a day of work and watching football, another couple came over last night. The intention was to either make dinner or go out, but we ended up gorging ourselves on the delicious cheeses they brought: a powerful scotch cheddar, an amazing peppercorn something or other, and a Riopelle de l’Isle. Between that and the perpetual beer we were stuffed and didn’t need dinner, though we did walk down to Solferino around 9:30 to cool off.
This morning we grabbed some breakfast and then spent way too much time (and money, no doubt) at MEC picking up stuff (clothes, mainly) we need for hiking in BC. It’s stinking hot again today, so walking home at high noon wasn’t nearly as pleasant as walking there at mid-morning.
All that done, I shall now go watch Germany beat up on Poland and them spend the rest of my evening wishing I didn’t have to work on MBA nonsense. But I do.
[tags]riopelle de l’isle, solferino, gelato, mec, euro 2008[/tags]
The warm (and by warm I mean screaming hot) weather has made for a very fun 18 hours. After leaving work yesterday I arrived home to a barbeque in progress with Nellie and CBGB. We made veggie burgers and drank (among others) Bavarian Weissbier and took solace in the cool breeze on our balcony. Sometimes that breeze was almost too much; at one point it blew some Tostitos out of the bowl and sent them skittering across the balcony. After our guests left we cleaned up (barely) and watched Battlestar Galactica. Getting! So! Good!
Nellie had to get up early for a hair appointment, so I used the morning to clean up (read: recycle the beer bottles), catch up on my news addiction, run some errands, buy more of that weissbier and take some pictures of all the puppies down the street at Woofstock.
Playing with dogs is good for the soul, even if my cats did look at me askance when I got home. Now I’ve finished off the list of little things that I need to get done before settling in for a long afternoon of MBA and Euro. Life could certainly be worse.
[tags]weihenstephaner hefeweissbier, battlestar galactica, woofstock, euro 2008[/tags]
Sometimes my Zen, which is usually on random, starts playing a song I don’t recognize. I often figure out what the song is, or at least which artist is performing it, within a few seconds. I was stumped on this one for a while though, even though it was a really good song. Usually the ones I don’t know are throwaways from the depths of an otherwise good CD. Finally, once the chorus hit, I realized it was “Boys Wanna Be Her” by Peaches. I don’t remember downloading that or putting it on the Zen, but hey…I’m glad I did. It’s almost as good as “Lovertits”.
Speaking of music, I finally listened to the entire new Death Cab album. It’s good, but it didn’t blow me away. Not that I was expecting fireworks, but because the first song I heard was the 8-minute version of “I Will Possess Your Heart” I think my hopes got up a little too high. Meanwhile, 59.59 by The Sian Alice Group wasn’t great. I like droning melody as much as the next shoegazer, but I think there were only three songs worth listening to again.
Finally, finishing off the topic of music for the day (probably) is word that the CBC will retire the Hockey Night In Canada theme song. Naturally, this rumour has prompted great wailing and gnashing of teeth from coast to coast to coast. Personally, I think the song sounds dated and I have no more love for it than, say, the theme to Mr. Dressup or the nasal magnificence of Rex Murphy’s voice. However, given the recent proclivity of CBC Sports producers to pepper HNIC with gawd-awful versions of Elton John‘s “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)” (Nickelback? For the love of all that’s holy…), I fear what they’d end up with. I suspect the devil I know, in this case, is better than the devil that CBC would almost surely choose.
But for fuck’s sake, retire Don Cherry.
[tags]peaches, death cab for cutie, hockey night in canada, don cherry[/tags]
My eee PC showed up today. I’ve wanted to get a sub-notebook for a while, something I could carry around town easily. Another big factor was needing something on our travels, to blog from the road, manage & upload pictures, keep track of reservations, etc. Thus, our impending trip to Alberta/BC (18 days!) gave me a reason to finally pull the trigger.
I’d considered getting something a little nicer like an HP 2133, but it was twice the cost and harder to find, so I went with the cheap option. There’s so much growth in these devices right now that anything I buy today will be defunct tomorrow anyway.
The wee keyboard might be an adjustment though. “To load Firefox, mash the keyboard with your palm now.”
[tags]eee pc, hp 2133[/tags]
Just in case there was any remote chance of me actually seeing the new Mike Myers film The Love Guru, Deepak Chopra has now endorsed it.
[tags]the love guru, mike myers, deepak chopra[/tags]
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