tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41325992012-01-08T05:14:29.612-05:00Hey, man, no one's forcing you.Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.comBlogger1361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-63307247203223970862010-11-15T22:25:00.000-05:002010-11-15T22:25:48.561-05:00

After stumbling with WordPress the first time, I have decided to go ahead and relocate this blog. I just kinda enjoy working with WordPress better... The address of my new blog is lornebeaton.wordpress.com and I look forward to blathering some more at you there!

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Follow-up to the last post. That guy whose house got foreclosed on even though he never, you know, actually had a mortgage on it, is named Jason Grodensky. And as for the financial élite which is running civilization into the ground? Well, read all about it.

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For Which They Scam It may come as a surprise to some (it certainly would have surprised myself of a year ago), but I have developed an interest in the financial news recently. Don't get too excited, it's not as though I'm going to become an investor or start wheeling and dealing – at least not any time soon, not with my head for business or lack thereof. It has simply become increasingly clear

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-30786403603955004882010-09-29T16:17:00.000-04:002010-09-29T16:17:16.047-04:00

"Basic Religion Test Stumps Many Americans" -- Except atheists, that is. I am an atheist, in a world of mostly theists, or at least of people who pay lip service to theism. As such, whenever I get into an argument with someone over religious belief, it behooves me to be humble and try not to come across as a ranting, obnoxious know-it-all, no matter how strongly I disagree with them. That's the

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-1524525035905655012010-09-06T16:52:00.000-04:002010-09-06T16:52:29.568-04:00

My universe got a little more bearable today... iTunes 10 is out, and the user interface has finally been revamped to be MUCH less sludgy and slow to respond. It used to be I could practically go get a coffee in between clicking a control and seeing the results. Of course, it would be much better still if Apple didn't force me to use their gatekeeping software for every last aspect of managing my

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-89424166691500780902010-09-06T16:39:00.003-04:002010-09-06T16:40:46.658-04:00

Hmmm! What with the financial meltdown, environmental degradation, the specter of peak oil and all the rest of it, there are fields of endeavor where we're still making progress, or trying to. Take astrophysics, for example. It turns out that the fine structure constant might not be a constant after all. Isn't that gnarly? Okay, okay, I'll explain. The fine structure constant is what you get

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-57825475605798538472010-08-23T20:35:00.001-04:002010-08-23T20:35:49.411-04:00

Warning: WordPress's iPad app is a worthless piece of horseshit. I just spent well over an hour writing and refining a blog post, which I then attempted to post. The program hung for long enough that I assumed the posting had failed, but it wouldn't respond to any clicks; so, to make something happen, I hit the button to return to the home screen and try again. The local copy of my post was gone

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-50069451606586737872010-08-17T19:27:00.000-04:002010-08-17T19:27:38.371-04:00

I've been thinking for a while of moving away from Blogger (actually, I've mostly been thinking of things other than my blog, as you can tell by my posting frequency). Looks like Lisa beat me to it, at least in theory -- in practice, it looks like new motherhood has taken precedence. My new, experimental for now, blog location will be lornebeaton.wordpress.com. Hope to see you there!

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-32663837910625972792010-05-27T12:28:00.000-04:002010-05-27T12:28:54.844-04:00

Have a look at this post. It gives a rough cost-benefit comparison of the $8 billion invested in the Deepwater Horizon (the drilling rig responsible for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill) versus an equal investment in offshore wind power generation. All I could think while reading was that I wanted to see The Onion do a spoof news report about an offshore wind spill. I'm picturing fake newscasters

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Son of the Return of It Came From OFTAA Towers! Sigh... It's Friday afternoon and I decided to treat myself to a few minutes' reading and relaxation beside the river before heading home after work. So I pull up stakes around 5:30 pm and lordy, I come home to an ambulance out front of the building. There's police and fire out there as well as I type this. I come in the side door, and as two

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-35908155743869316602010-04-10T16:25:00.000-04:002010-04-10T16:25:30.530-04:00

If you know me, you know of my fondness for consumer electronics. That's why shopping at factorydirect.ca has started to seem a bit like I've developed a mild gambling habit. They sell refurbs, closeouts, overstocks, liquidations, etc. and all kinds of other junk cheap-cheap-cheap. It's all great, as long as the stuff works and doesn't fall apart five minutes after you get it out the door, but...

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-41106408427644700432010-04-10T12:47:00.000-04:002010-04-10T12:47:07.484-04:00

A haiku: I am self-obsessed My white earphones scream "douchebag!" I own an iPhone

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-18649015028343856092010-04-06T14:16:00.000-04:002010-04-06T14:16:14.744-04:00

So the iPad overheats in sunlight and has spotty and unreliable WiFi. I'm told I can't tether it to the 3G coverage I'm already paying for on the iPhone - I have to *COUGH*jailbreak*COUGH* pay all over again. (In fairness, I don't know yet if this applies to Rogers/Fido.) And, there seems to be no such thing as a legitimate movie-, TV- or music-streaming app that can be used in Canada: Hulu,

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-67915190459616634642010-03-24T13:38:00.000-04:002010-03-24T13:38:03.748-04:00

Oh, brother -- the sun is shining, and Ann Coulter is out there making hay courtesy of a big, fat gift from Canadians. *sigh* Her appearance at the University of Ottawa -- to be attended by about 100 students -- was cancelled due to a rowdy crowd of protesters. Even someone on my Facebook feed posted about how proud he was of what happened. For the record, I'm not. The value of hate speech laws

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-2563686885390220112010-03-16T13:34:00.003-04:002010-03-16T13:47:34.195-04:00

I don't know if the Windsor Star will be printing my letter in response to Chris Vander Doelen's article from last week, so I thought I'd post it here.Mr. Vander Doelen:I have read your column from Thursday's Star objecting to the planning department's proposal to restrict new commercial building in Windsor. Requiring developers to re-use existing vacant space, or at least to show that new

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-51517154110756065672010-03-08T15:31:00.003-05:002010-03-08T16:10:49.472-05:00

Now this is cool. A photographer was walking through a shopping center in Hawaii and spotted a crowd of tourists. He walked over to see what the deal was and took this photograph (yes, a photograph):The model is wearing full-body paint, with some strategic underwear, and holding very still while blinking as little as possible. Colour me impressed.

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-38684310006254553882010-03-03T19:15:00.002-05:002010-03-03T19:16:05.310-05:00

Two words: Holy fucking shit!http://www.videosift.com/video/OK-Go-Rube-Goldberg-Machine-Version-of-This-Too-Shall-Pass

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Following up on yesterday's post about the underwhelming (but still a relief) announcement of a replacement for Windsor's old train station. Lately I've been developing more and more enthusiasm for the scale-down, pro-public transit, anti-automobile movement and some of the thinking that goes into it. Actually living in Toronto is debatable for me, but one of the reasons I love taking the train

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-12479323001020966562010-03-01T18:37:00.003-05:002010-03-01T18:46:48.044-05:00

So, Windsor's getting a new train station. I wish I were more enthused. It sounds very much like a stopgap. Sigh... Well, at least *something* will be replacing that dingy old coffin within our lifetimes. But I had hoped for much more.According to the city's transportation master plan, Windsor's rail lines were supposed to be rationalized and the Walkerville line would have been freed up. It runs

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-69778116119707125922010-02-27T10:16:00.002-05:002010-02-27T11:10:58.691-05:00

On my Facebook news feed just now, someone has posted a link to R-word.org, a site which promotes eliminating the "demeaning use of the R-word" -- meaning 'retard', 'retarded', et cetera. They're even promoting 03.03.10 as a day of action and offering themselves as a forum to organize local events to change the conversation. This comes a few weeks after Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-54306984896071885122009-09-25T17:23:00.004-04:002009-09-25T17:42:14.163-04:00

Thanks to a recent CRTC decision, smaller Internet service providers in Canada may be forced out of business because larger carriers will be freed to employ monopoly pricing against them. With only the big telcos and cable companies left, we may all soon see our access to the Internet reduced, monitored, shaped, curtailed and put behind toll barriers... but at least, due to the lack of effective

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-92147074447516767062009-09-03T09:27:00.002-04:002009-09-03T09:38:47.736-04:00

Alan Turing was one of the great minds of the 20th Century. Not only did he lay the foundations of computer science, but he went on to do cryptography at Bletchley Park in the 1940s as part of the war effort. By breaking the Enigma cipher, he may have contributed more to the defeat of Nazi Germany than any other single human being.His reward? Chemical castration, of course, after authorities

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A nugget from my childhood:Oh Jonathon Bing, oh Bingathon JohnForgets where he's going and thinks he has gone.He wears his false teeth on the top of his head,And he always stand up when he's sleeping in bed.Oh Jonathon Bing has a curious wayOf trying to walk into yesterday."If I end with my breakfast and start with my tea,I ought to be ablt to do it," says he.Oh Jonathon Bing is a miser, they say

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-5783703178163811002009-06-24T18:27:00.003-04:002009-06-24T18:33:58.530-04:00

So I come across a Yahoo News headline that reads: "Scientists find explanation for mysterious space blobs". WTF? What is that, a Z movie someone saw at three in the morning? So I click through, to get a news story with the following headline: Telescope finds space blobs are pubescent galaxies."Space blobs"... "Pubescent galaxies"... So, Yahoo News is apparently staffed by closet creationists,

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-26965746876992686332009-06-16T08:57:00.001-04:002009-06-16T08:57:03.792-04:00

About a year ago I posted a rant about the iPhone, about cell phone pricing in Canada, and especially about why I would never, ever sign a cell phone contract again. I've been pretty firm in my resolve up till now, but a couple of weeks ago Apple announced the latest version of the iPhone, the 3G S, and I just had to take a look. This in turn led me to take another look at the available plans,

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-47645336272070632092009-06-10T20:23:00.002-04:002009-06-10T20:28:50.178-04:00

Just caught wind of something cool whilst surfing on Videosift -- seems I'm late finding out that Sarah Atkinson's bro (and tunesmith of Teach Yourself Piano) landed a gig programming real-time digital video goodness for WETA Digital down in New Zealand. Congratulations Kevin!

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Terry Pratchett has Alzheimer's. Not a revelation, really; the news came out in 2007, and it's as heartbreaking today as it ever was. But the BBC is now showing a multi-part series about Terry's experience with the condition that I am going to have to watch.And it was just as I thought of writing this blog post that it finally clicked: In Vernor Vinge's most recent novel Rainbows End, he depicts

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I'm always lusting after new technological toys, and I'd still like to get myself one of those nifty netbooks. The only thing that stops me is that I have absolutely no real need for one (of course, that's the definition of a toy). I even test-drove an Asus Eee PC when they first came out, only to return it; the first generation came with excessively tiny screens and cramped keyboards, but

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-59883031366653724312009-01-22T11:36:00.001-05:002009-01-22T11:41:10.772-05:00

Obama's InaugurationThe festivities around Obama's inauguration are already receding into the mists, but I've been "challenged" to write something on my blog about the big event, so here goes.The main thing that strikes me about Obama's election is the aura of unjustified high expectations that came with it. Maybe it's just the contrast with his hated predecessor -- the excellent syntax; the air

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-57158608776054562912009-01-20T20:41:00.003-05:002009-01-20T20:43:24.172-05:00

WhoopsThe cell phone has been showing two bars a lot lately. It was becoming increasingly clear that the battery is dying and wouldn't take a charge, so today I finally bought a replacement. Toted it around all day, then finally cracked it open this evening to put it in and get it charged up.It... doesn't fit. Darn, they sold me the wrong battery. My fault too, though, I never checked. Back it

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-47332851090081283132009-01-18T21:43:00.001-05:002009-01-18T21:43:02.770-05:00

It's baa-aack... Or more properly, it never went away.Exhibit A:Exhibit B:The Apartment Building From Heck! Oh OFTAA Towers, without you, where would I be?

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-82710465437516820162008-12-29T09:49:00.002-05:002008-12-29T10:24:15.759-05:00

A choice quote from Juan Cole's new article about the pending U.S. withdrawal (maybe) from Iraq:Perhaps never before in history has an invader that won a crushing military victory, and that continued to occupy its prize, voluntarily accepted such humiliating terms from the vanquished. It is difficult to discern how Bush's agreement differs from the "surrender" Democrats were accused of advocating

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-56492935673804831362008-11-29T20:14:00.000-05:002008-11-29T20:14:39.336-05:00

Canada's Internet is crap - Boing BoingWell, duh.

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-3790221344724468202008-10-10T23:01:00.000-04:002008-10-10T23:01:45.749-04:00

Mathematicians talk about invariants -- quantities that, no matter how they're transformed, never seem to change. Some examples are:- In topology, the Euler characteristic is represented by the Greek letter chi (χ). In any topological space, where V is the number of vertices, E is the number of edges, and F is the number of faces, the equation χ=V-E+F always holds true. In 3-D space, for any

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-11387984110209369422008-10-03T19:42:00.000-04:002008-10-03T19:42:55.301-04:00

Lately I've been worrying that The Onion might be slipping, but that's probably just jaded nostalgia. This week, at least, they're in top form. Check it out.

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-38496754757707088542008-09-15T17:21:00.003-04:002008-09-15T17:30:04.554-04:00

Po-mo scribe David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008. Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, 1943-2008. Recquiescant in pace.These things always come in threes. Who's next?

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-49111164776735160282008-09-15T10:30:00.002-04:002008-09-15T10:33:50.231-04:00

Now, I'm no budding financial genius, but I know enough to be scared when this happens, followed by this – all in the wake of this, and this, basically as a result of this, more than likely stemming from reckless this. Who knew the day would come when I'd actually be relieved not to be a homeowner?P.S. Just noticed my last post was #100. Hmm, that averages to about twenty per year. None too

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-24736164822231243392008-09-07T15:58:00.004-04:002008-09-07T16:14:04.661-04:00

Remember a couple of months back I posted about the Spore Creature Creator? At least, I think I posted about it -- or maybe I only did a Facebook status update. Anyway, the full game came out today, and I was out at Future Shop early to pick up what is certainly the most eagerly awaited PC game of the year.Even though Will Wright's latest opus is a single-player game and can be played without the

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-89637552020786792862008-08-08T13:01:00.003-04:002008-08-08T13:06:22.124-04:00

Here's a funny-slash-jaw-dropping follow-up to my rather sour previous posting about the iPhone. Apple's online store lets you download approved applications to run on your iPhone; some are free, but most come with a price. Apple takes a 30% cut off the top from every sale for ahem "upkeep".The joke? Some created an application titled I Am Rich and, with Apple's permission, posted it for the

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-39213956331456290272008-08-05T10:01:00.000-04:002009-01-20T20:36:26.743-05:00

Who exactly was firing shots on Ottawa Street late Saturday night or Sunday morning? Julie tells me she was in a friend's back yard around 1:30 AM when he not only positively identified the sound as gunfire, which may or may not have come from two separate guns, but found a spent shell casing in front of his house and handed it in to the police. There was a brief mention at the top of the A

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-4760033507292160762008-08-05T09:02:00.000-04:002009-01-20T20:36:26.758-05:00

This week I'm driving up to Toronto to visit Cam at his new place. I've been looking forward to the trip for several weeks, so it's too bad Mary told me last night she has to work Saturday and Sunday. It's still looking like a busy weekend, though, since Mom will be in town too and I'm stopping off to visit Lisa and Derek overnight on Friday. And now Karl has entered the mix as well. A social

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-85738934414815764552008-08-03T12:03:00.001-04:002008-08-03T12:03:20.991-04:00

With the 2008 Summer Games only a few days away, anticipation in China is running high… One enterprising petit-bourgeois wanted to promote his restaurant to the world, so he plugged his Chinese-language text into an online translator, took the English result that came out and paid for a sign which he hung for all the world to see. What did he get for his troubles? "Translate server error".Now, go

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-31357368945415928802008-07-29T21:27:00.002-04:002008-07-29T21:33:21.435-04:00

You heard about the 5.4 earthquake that struck southern California this morning, right? Well, in Burbank the TV cameras are always rolling, and Ain't It Cool News has kindly posted some video clips of people caught in the moment of reacting to the quake.Ever wonder how you'd do in an earthquake? Hmmm, I'm not sure if my pectorals are quite, uh, rippling enough... (Watch the first clip, you'll get

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-58862861707923350322008-07-28T22:16:00.002-04:002008-07-29T21:32:35.070-04:00

So I read on the news that today was the big unveiling of White Knight Two ('EVE'), the new semi-spaceplane that Virgin Galactic will be using to loft rich tourists 65 miles up at $200,000 a pop. Hooray! Now, if only I could see what the thing looks like… Unfortunately the website is totally slashdotted, so it'll have to wait until Google News catches up. Also, Richard Branson should be paying me

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-32990772813880394092008-07-24T11:37:00.000-04:002008-07-29T21:29:38.451-04:00

Nice to see Gord Henderson's column in today's Star suggesting that the city might be putting some effort into improving Transit Windsor. God knows it could use the help -- the system we have today is so grossly inadequate that I still have a bad attitude about it, more than ten years after getting my own set of wheels. He even makes his own version of the same thing I've been saying for a while,

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-22791530603485372212008-07-21T18:52:00.001-04:002008-07-21T18:52:21.739-04:00

I was chatting briefly with Melinda last week and she complimented me on my blog. She's very impressed with my writing style, and she singled out what I seem to recall was my very first post, complaining about the failed delivery of a boxed set of Cosmos DVDs, for praise. (Reduced to reading back issues of my bitching and complaining… I'm sure the poor dear will feel better once her kids get back

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-45599996616085760792008-06-27T21:36:00.000-04:002008-07-29T21:29:38.613-04:00

It was this past Easter at Doug and Tara's that I decided I wanted to have a Wii, but since then I've been struggling to justify the purchase. I love the control system, and since I had no prior experience with modern platformers, Super Mario Galaxy blew me away easily. Nonetheless, as a gamer, I have a simple problem with the Wii: As far as I can tell, most of the other games for it are

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-44447090899514632008-06-20T07:42:00.003-04:002008-06-20T07:49:52.455-04:00

My favourite living American is Rachel Maddow. Click below and find out why! (Fair warning: It's eleven minutes long, so get comfy. Click here for the NY Times article.)

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The Man Who Grew A FingerBecause computers are my hobby, I often say to myself that I love the 21st century. Now, the 20th century was fine too, when that was all we knew (remember playing Space Invaders on the Commodore PET, fellow Beaton siblings?), but nowadays Windows XP-era tech is the least I would accept. Turns out, though, the biggest deal in the 21st century isn't

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Jessica Rabbit lives and breathes! Don't believe me? Check it out:She's not bad, she's just computer-generated that way... Make sure to view the full-size image to get the full effect. Hubba hubba!

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There always seem to be more interesting books waiting to be read than I have time for -- for example, I never even finished Steven Pinker's latest work before I was on to the next one. Now this week I spotted at least two more books that just look too interesting to ignore, and I don't know when I can get to them. The first is McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Underworld, by Misha Glennie.

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Fascinating (albeit slightly disturbing) web find: In Vestimentis Ursum. What's in bear's clothing? Click and you'll see.

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So Lisa tells me she's reading The Three Musketeers, based on my recommendation... Cool, I know you'll enjoy it! I happened to be reading it during my trip down East last fall, and as it turns out, there's an odd set of connections that surrounds that occasion, as I'll explain.Late in the book (don't worry, it's not a major spoiler), the action moves to the town of Béthune, near the Belgian

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Can you believe I only got 8/10 on The Star Wars Music Quiz? Honestly!

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Books On The Go Everyone thinks I'm a big reader, but reading books doesn't actually take up as much time as people might think. Books cost money, after all, and there are so many other diversions like the Web. But I have been reading a few things lately that I think are worth mentioning. When my car got broken into a few weeks ago, they actually stole my copy of The Portable Atheist edited

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Wii Video Games Blamed For Rise In Effeminate Violence.onion_embed {background: rgb(256, 256, 256) !important;border: 4px solid rgb(65, 160, 65);border-width: 4px 0 1px 0;margin: 10px 30px !important;padding: 5px;overflow: hidden !important;zoom: 1;}.onion_embed img {border: 0 !important;}.onion_embed a {display: inline;}.onion_embed a.img {float: left !important;margin: 0 5px 0 0 !important;

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Thanks to Tara+Doug and to Cam for hosting this Easter weekend. An excellent time was had by all, especially Mom, who so totally kicked butt at Wii bowling that I had to buy an extra seat cushion for the drive home. Sorry, Tara, I forgot to claim my extra slice of cheesecake that you promised me, so I guess you're stuck with it, poor thing. Cell phone videos and pictures now posted -- see links!

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At last, I know the truth. It isn't my aging paleolithic brain that can't handle the music anymore, it's the music that can't keep up with me. Until now, that is. The truth has at last been revealed to me, courtesy of The Coconut Monkeyrocket and Martinibomb.Follow the link. Click on the .MP3 files, if you dare, then get ready to move. I am way behind the times, but no matter -- this music makes

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Having gone tubing earlier this year (actually, late last year) up in Huntsville, I am so totally aware of what a bad idea this was:Nice recovery, though!

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So I've been messing with Windows speech recognition. Fun toy, but not quite sure how useful it'll be. Since I'm a fast typist it will need a lot of training to be a net gain in speed plus accuracy for me. Thought I'd try dictating a paragraph from last night's blog post and see how it comes out. Ahem:Bravo to romp on the opening of his new production, working out my quote when the nation's quote

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Bravo to Rob on the opening of his new production, Working Out My "Women Issues" last night at Mackenzie Hall. Their run continues through Saturday March 29, so if you get a chance, do yourself a favour and check it out.Since I've been neglecting this blog again there's been no mention of my car getting broken into a few weeks ago. I've vented enough to people about it, so I won't do that anymore

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Went to the movies this weekend. Verdict: 10,000 BC sucks ass. Avoid.Edit: Geez, nearly six months since my last blog post. Half-assed resolution: Write something every day. If it's good enough, post it.I'll leave the resolution posted to give hilarious context to my next posting. Watch this space.

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Promises KeptSeveral weeks ago as I was driving away from the movie theater (I've already forgotten which movie it was), I tuned in to CBC Radio as I often do, and was treated to an interview with David Cronenberg about his new film, Eastern Promises. At first I was pleased, until I heard the director discussing what sounded like important plot details. Not only do I hate spoilers -- in fact, I

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Bell recruited for first lead roleHooray!

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I have been able to listen to Mary Fahl's version of The Dark Side of the Moon several times now and sadly, it's pretty much a bust. Rather than pointlessly reproducing the original too closely, to make the exercise worthwhile, she understands that she has to find a new and updated sense for the material. Unfortunately, the results are mostly inadequate. Although the performance is broadly

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Mary Fahl update...... There is none. Can't find any new info about her redo of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon except this one guy's blog entry, which actually links to MP3s of two of the tracks. Interesting, but I need to hear the whole thing. Actually, I need to own it. And Mary needs to get paid for it. I'll keep trying.Actually, there was one other thing that irks me a bit: Last.fm

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Tonight I did something I don't do nearly often enough, attended a lecture. The speaker was Noam Chomsky, who for some of you will need no introduction. For the rest, he's a professor at MIT, now retired, who made his academic reputation in the 1950s and 60s with highly technical theoretical work with implications for cognitive science, computer science, and God knows what else, but is almost

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Got some e-mails from Tara today. It's good to see that someone is reading my blog and taking the trouble to comment, but she didn't use the public comment system. Hmmm... not getting the message, I've decided on a public airing. Don't worry, it's harmless, and besides, I'm hard pressed for topics nowadays.First: My younger sister took exception to my remark about a "reproving" look at John

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If I ever meet Harlan Ellison in person, he and I are going to have words over a certain waste of time he once perpetrated on me. Nonetheless, I plan to forgive him. In the meantime, there's this forthcoming film...

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Lisa and Derek offered their usual fine brand of hospitality this weekend… Too bad the weather didn't cooperate, but still, a fine time was had by all. With one exception: looking for something amusing to watch on Friday evening pay-per-view, our unfortunate (and in retrospect shockingly ill-advised, or at best deliriously optimistic) choice was Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny. I will leave it

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YEEEAAAAHHHH!

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Courtesy of The Onion:

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She's back...Although her namesake website is growing increasingly long in the tooth (it's still the same one from her last album on Sony Classical), Mary Fahl hasn't gone away, and from what I read this evening, her latest album should be out about, oh, two months ago from an outfit called V2 Records. Their artists supposedly include Moby and the White Stripes, but there's no sign of Mary Fahl

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And now for something completely different.(Warning: If you are on a slow or dialup connection, it will probably take too long.)

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Looking back over the blog recently I noticed a post I made about Robert Fisk's book, The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East, which I praised based on the two or three chapters I had read. This was on my mind when I heard an interesting interview with him on The Rachel Maddow Show yesterday, where he had a great deal to say (all of it critical) about the current

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Heard Julia Sweeney on The Penn Jillette Show a week or two back – good stuff. Supposedly it plays on 97.1 FM from 2-3 pm out of Detroit, but I never get to listen to the radio on weekday afternoons so I listen to the podcast (RSS) instead. Check it out if you get a chance. For those of you who don’t remember, Julia is a former Saturday Night Live cast member best known for her heavily

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Just discovered online: Indexed. Jessica uncovers the hidden connections in our lives and renders them visible using friendly charts, graphs and Venn diagrams. Be sure not to miss my personal favourite.My baloney has a first name, it's J-E-S-S-I-C-A.

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The building now has a new name: OFTAA* Towers. That's because I go downstairs this morning to see this:The garage door is completely busted and no one can get in or out. Here's the broken mechanism:You can see the damage better from the outside:* One fuckin' thing after another.

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Update: The fire alarm kept going off. And going off again. Every. Half. Hour.All night.I just looove this building.

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As my many legions of fans know, I love my building. I can't really blame this one on the building, though; it was just life, in the form of a fire alarm. At about 12:15 a.m., to be precise, and the bell has only just stopped ringing even though the firefighters have been gone for close to half an hour and everyone has gone back to their apartments.Woken, though not quite from a sound sleep (

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The other CSI Effect...Back in 1981, I went to see Raiders of the Lost Ark at the Devonshire cinema (it was a mere triplex at that time, they have four times as many screens there now) and endured several genuinely tortuous nights afterward. Although I thrilled to the action-adventure heroism of Harrison Ford, and still do at age 36, my tender ten-year-old brain was not quite ready for the kind

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Okay, they've officially gone too far. They're messing with Guinness. The next step, of course, is obvious. All in favour of opting out out of the devil's bargain, say aye!

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John Allan Cameron. 16 December 1938-22 November 2006.Recquiescat in pace.

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Why don't I listen to music anymore?That might be a bit of an exaggeration, but there's a lot of truth to it. Despite the big deal I made in a post not long ago about the return of The River to the Windsor/Detroit airwaves, I've hardly listened to the station. When WDET dropped all its daytime music programming a while back, it wasn't nearly as big a deal to me as it would have been ten

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Here's an update on my earlier post about how my building... Here's the sight that greeted me when I looked out from my balcony a few minutes ago:What exactly is going on that requires the presence of three police cars? Do I want to know?

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Looking back, I think I've been pretty lucky in my moviegoing -- I've almost never missed out due to technical problems, power failures, etc. I noticed this now because this evening I got burned for the second time in nine months. The first time was when I saw Peter Jackson's King Kong last December; I think someone forgot to rewind one of the reels, because the movie suddenly started running

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Warning: Venting ahead."Home was a condo on the fifteenth floor of a filing cabinet for widows and young professionals. The walls were solid concrete. A foot of concrete is important when your next-door neighbor lets their hearing aid go and have to watch game-shows at full volume. Or when a volcanic blast of debris that used to be your furniture and personal effects blows out of your

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An odd feeling came over me this afternoon as, sitting in one of the less-unhealthy fast-food joints around, I began to focus on the piped-in music. Inexplicably, they were playing an endless series of clips, each from 15 to 30 seconds long, of one song after another: What's So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding , So Far Away , How Long , Let's Dance (the album version), et cetera. At

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I wasn't quite sure that I believed it when I first saw it, and I'm still not quite sure, but here it is: TheStar.com - Cape Breton joins space race .So Tara, now you can stop off at the Shoe before you head for points elsewhere. Great deal!

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Tara admonished me this evening for not updating my blog. I took a look and... Hmm, five months is excessive. But things are rather quiet just now, so perhaps just some quick notes about what I'm reading nowadays.1: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is Douglas Hofstadter's Pulitzer-prize-winning "metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll". What that means

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Wojo returns to prime-time television... be afraid!

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So I'm sitting at home, minding my own business, watching My Name Is Earl, right? And the theme of this week's episode is, he doesn't have enough time to get his good deeds done because he only gets up at 11 am. So to illustrate the point, there's this shot of his watch:So then I look at the watch on my very own wrist, and I see:Same watch. What could it be? Karma? No, I just need to get out more.

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On Friday I went to see The Exorcism of Emily Rose, which claims to be based on a true story. Now, I suppose it might be possible to make a movie about exorcism that amounts more than a thinly disguised and badly-supported argument that demonic possession is real, but this movie wasn’t it. (There can’t be a well-supported argument for something that doesn’t exist.) That’s disappointing, since

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Remember the days of heroin chic? Well, they're actually still with us, and it seems that exhibit A is having a nasty comeuppance. Who will succour her in her hour of need? Wherever will she go, whatever will she do? To whom can she turn for help to rebuild her shattered life? Never fear, for these assholes are on the case!(If you actually followed up on the assholes link, better scrub your brain

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Since moving out of my dad's house for the first time about, oh, a dozen years ago now, I have managed to keep moving into a new place at an average pace of once per year what with one thing and another. Thankfully things have finally slowed down the last couple of years, but there always seems to be something urging me to hold my nose and take the plunge once again.A couple of moves ago I came

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When life begins to imitate David Cronenberg, be afraid. Be very afraid.

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Some of you, particularly former Lancers, may be aware of the three-day novel-writing contest that runs every Labour Day weekend, where the grand prize is you get published. http://www.3daynovel.com/ I never quite felt quite like taking up that particular challenge, but this site looks interesting. Instead of an apocalyptic three days, the much more leisurely challenge here is to write a

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Life imitates Fight Club. (Warning: Adult content.)

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-1092703801830260482004-08-16T20:50:00.000-04:002004-08-16T20:50:01.830-04:00

Hey, look! Non-contact ultraviolet photon-induced electric field poling of ferroelectric non-linear photonic bandgap crystals! Hot diggity! Ahem. Supposedly, that's the technology that will enable a disk the size of a 3.5-inch floppy to hold approximately 125,000 CDs' worth of data. Which is actually pretty cool. Sounds expensive, though.

Lornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991273109047535620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132599.post-1092010387927029572004-08-08T20:13:00.000-04:002004-08-08T20:13:07.926-04:00

Lost any photos lately? Because somebody found them.

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