Jingle Bells

I don't typically buy into these "this song has a demonic message when played backwards" things, but they're still entertaining.

Jingle Bells Reversed

Okay, now I'm upset.

So I tried to go to my favourite tab site (MXtabs.net) yesterday and it wasn't working. I figured their server must be down. I tried again today and it still didn't work, so I figure something must be up. It turns out that the Music Publishers of America are trying to do to tab and lyric sites what the RIAA is doing to file-sharing.

Link

Now I didn't get all up in arms when the RIAA started taking down file sharing software, it may have sucked but they did have a point. But doing it to tab makes no sense. An mp3 is a direct copy of something that's available to be purchased, tab isn't. There are tab books out there for some bands that you can purchase, and occasionally you'll actually see a tab that's been taken from a tab book, but probably 98% of the tabs out there are simply by-ear transcriptions.

What's worse is that they won't stop it. They may take down the big sites, but all you have to do is go to a fan page for a particular band and they will often have a better and more diverse selection of tabs for a particular band.

Once again, this proves why big business has no place in music. With all the copy protection on CDs and now the tab stuff, they've pushed me over the edge.

I bought my first CD in 1996, and since then I've spent between $1,000 - $1,500 on music. And now I'm being told that I can't enjoy it the way I want? To hell with all of them.

911 for Emergencies Only

Link

My dad told me about this last night and I found the story online today. Basically, the OPP is getting annoyed with all the people calling 911 for non-emergencies.

I think you should be fined for making calls like that. I'm sure there are some things that are in a grey area, but not these:

Calls asking for directions from Kitchener to Toronto, conditions for ice fishing, and road conditions a month away don't qualify.

Police say 90 per cent of 911 calls are not emergencies.

Personally, I've called 911 once for an incident at Shell, and that's it.

2005 Grey Cup

Just got back from Wheatley where I was watching the Grey Cup. It was one hell of a game, with everything a football fan could want.

I only had two complaints, and they both had nothing to do with football, but rather with music.

First, Jully Black "performed" the National Anthem. And I chose the word performed intentionally to raise this point: Anthems should not be performed, they should be sung. It was nowhere near as bad as some anthem performances I've heard, but why do people feel the need to overkill it?

The second complaint was the half time show. I was impressed that the CFL was able to get the Black Eyed Peas to perform live, but maybe you should actually watch these bands perform live before hiring them, because they absolutely sucked. I used to respect them as a band, but in the last month any interest I might have had in them is gone. They've written some good music, but if you can't perform live then there's no point as far as I'm concerned. I even caught the girl in the band lip synching. Here's a tip. If you're going to lip synch, then maybe the track you're lip synching to should sound good. That "My Humps" song was almost enough to make me hate them, but this "performance" pushed it over the top.

Fortunately, a great game kept the focus on the field.

"Religions"

Which religion do you subscribe to:

Last Thursdayism (the belief that the world was created last Thursday)
The Invisible Pink Unicorn (how can a unicorn be pink AND invisible...hmm)
Flying Spaghetti Monsterism (may you be forever touched by his noodly appendage)

And if those don't float your boat, you can always try Open Source Religion

And no, I'm not making this up, click the links to see for yourself.

Another crazy idea

I think this is my best one yet.

We need stores that prohibit Christmas shopping. I just spent two hours trying to shop at two different stores for non-christmas related things (cleaning supplies, hygiene stuff, etc). I only bought maybe 8 items total, but by the time it was over I was ready to hit people. I have a question. When a person is driving down the street and they see something interesting, it's generally not a good idea to stop in the middle of the road to look at it. So what makes it okay with a shopping cart? Why do people not get it. You ask them to move, and they just stand there. How can these people have drivers licenses if they can't even operate a shopping cart?Then when you get to the checkout, there's the person who stands there doing nothing while their 83 items are scanned, then only when they are told the total do they begin to get out their wallet/purse/whatever. Shopping isn't that complicated people. If you want to browse the store I have no problem with that.

Just get the hell out of my way.

How fast can you click?

Click Click Click

See how fast you can click your mouse. It's exciting I tells ya!

BTW, my high score is 65, but now my finger is tired.

Jokes

TEXAN: "Where are you from?"

HARVARD GRAD: "I come from a place where we do not end our sentences with prepositions."

TEXAN: "OK - where are you from, jackass?"

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A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: “That's the ugliest baby that I've ever seen.” The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: “That driver just insulted me!” The man says: “You go right up there and tell him off – go ahead, I'll hold your monkey for you.”

Unending Wisdom

"A pool is the place where water is".

I love marking tests.

Why can't I do cool research like this?

It seems that researchers have discovered that monkeys will "pay" to watch "images of high-ranking monkeys and female hindquarters".

Monkey Pay-Per-View

It does have practical uses in Autism studies, but it's humourous nonetheless.

Monster Mash

For anyone who watches SportsCenter on TSN, they've been milking this for the past week or so. But considering the audience of my blog, that amounts to zero of you, so I thought I'd share.

Bobby Brown and Mike Tyson sing Monster Mash

Mythbusters

This might be the most entertaining show on TV. These guys have the greatest job.

Where else could you learn that you can't glide off of a tall building using a sheet of plywood, or that a tissue box isn't a lethal projectile in a high-speed head-on collision?

Man banned from electric wheelchair

Some guy in Germany got a DUI while in his electric wheelchair. He's been told he cannot use an electric wheelchair for the next three months, only a normal/manual one.

Link

I'm getting sick of this

Diversity lacking on White Sox

The gist of the article is that there are no black players on the Houston Astros (one of the teams in the World Series right now - why it says White Sox in the title of the article, I don't know).

Hall of famer Joe Morgan was quoted as saying "Of course I noticed it. How could you not?" Well, Joe, I've watched a good chunk of all three games so far, and I didn't notice it. Why? Because I wasn't looking for it.

Later in the article, it talks about how only 9% of players this season were black.

But let's crunch the numbers. The average major league roster probably has about 25 guys on it at any given time, and there are 30 teams, that's 750 players. At 9%, that's about 67 black players, or an average of just over 2 per team. At an average of 2 per team, there's obviously going to be some teams with no black players, while other will have 4 or 5, it's simple statistics.

The real problem, if you want more black players, is to get more black children interested in the game at an early age. The article addresses this, noting that most black athletes are choosing other sports (baskeball and football).

If you want to get people interested in baseball, maybe you shouldn't take 3 and a half hours to play a game.

God Tower

I apologize in advance for all the time you'll likely waste on this one. Don't start it if you've got work to do :}

God Tower

It's basically a series of riddles/puzzles, whose solution results in a password. You enter the password, you get to the next puzzle. There's apparantly 99 puzzles. I just started, I'm on the 4th one, but I think I need to get work done now.

MY SHOULDER WON'T CRACK!

Just thought I'd share...it's been like a day and it's driving me crazy.

One thing's for sure, it'll be loud when it happens.

Podcasts

These things are popping up everywhere, and I don't quite grasp the name. I know it comes from the iPod terminology, but a "Podcast" is no different than any other mp3 you would rip from a CD or download. Why should it be inherently related to an iPod when there is no relation?

Okay, my rant's over.

Perplexing

It seems that the University of Windsor has perfected a time machine, as this e-mail I received suggests:

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Thu Oct 20 11:25:02 EDT 2005


Dear McCarthy, James Dwight


Hello,
The University of Windsor Students Alliance is holding its fall bi-election
on Oct 18th and 19th from 9:30am to 7:00pm.
The current contested positions are:
UWSA First Year Rep
UWSA Residence Rep
UWSA Science Rep
UWSA Arts and Social Science Rep
Drama Society: Bachelor of Fine Arts Rep
Polling locations are available at the following buildings:

CAW Student Centre
Essex Hall
Odette Building
St. Denis Centre
Drama Building
Vanier Hall
Lebel Building
Please have your student card or other form of Government Identification
so the clerks may verify your eligibility.
If you are unsure about the polling location, you can vote at the
CAW Student Centre
It's your right to vote! Go cast your ballot now!
Al Maghnieh
CRO - UWSA

Neverending White Lights

I just found out about an album that a guy from Windsor (Daniel Victor) put together. It's got tracks from a bunch of different artists, including the lead singers from 311, Our Lady Peace, Finger Eleven, Switchfoot, and Alexisonfire.

The only track I've heard is "Liar" by Raine Maida of OLP, and it's brilliant. I've heard nothing bad about this album, though it's definately not a pick-me-up album. I'll probably be picking it up in the next few days.

Find out more here.

We're all doomed

So I'm marking some tests, and I've begun to realize why we're in such sad shape in this world. We have people in University (where the future leaders of society are supposed to come from) who:

• Leave the answer to true/false questions blank
• When given the choice of A, B, C, D, or E, choose F, cross it out, then choose S
  

Stewie

Meant to post this a few days ago but forgot.

Stewie

Now you can control the world's youngest evil genius.

Idiotic

I usually don't pay attention to celebrities...if they don't care about me, why should I care about them?...but I had to post this.

Nicholas Cage has named his new kid Kal-El, which was Superman's "real name". I can't believe this is serious. Was he sitting there thinking, "how can make sure that my son will get beat up at school every day of his life until he's 18"?

You know, if we all start ignoring celebrities, they might just go away. Then we'd all be better off.

Shameless Self Promotion

University DailyNews article about my scholarship win a few months back.

Chris Cornell, Canadian Rock

I'm listening to the new Audioslave album right now (it was part of my shopping spree in Toronto, but I didn't get to it before the new OLP album came out), and I have to say, Chris Cornell might be the best rock singer ever. There is no note he can't hit. He can sing pure rock or power ballads. Just spectacular.

Another music note, what is it about Canadian rock that makes it stand out? Bands like 54-40, The Hip, The Odds, The Trews, etc. all have a certain sound to them that makes it "Canadian" rock. I can't put my finger on it, but it's there. Canadian rock tends to have a cleaner, more stripped down sound, but I don't think that's all there is to it. Am I the only one that thinks like this? When you hear a band like The Trews or Sloan, you just know that it's Canadian music, even if you don't know the band.

Ping Pong...Matrix Style

http://crass.on.ru/flash/pingpong.html

The Amazing Race 8: Family Edition

I don't think I've ever told my TV to shut up more than I have tonight. I think I hate everybody on the damn show, but it's so hard to tell when there's 40 different people to keep track of. Some interesting tidbits so far:

The token black family was introduced as "The Black Family" (Black is the family name, but it was still funny).

The family who lost their husband/father in an accident at a race track when he was hit by a car lost control of a buggy and just about ran over the mother.

Those little kids singing "She'll be coming around the mountain..." drove me nuts.

Some great quotes:
"Pennsylvania is a state I think."
"Doesn't anyone wish we had a handicapped kid so we could get a better parking spot?"

The team of pink-wearing blondes makes my ears hurt. Their typical conversation goes as follows:
Blonde #1: "Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeech."
Blonde #2: "Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee---"
Interrupted by Blonde #3 with the ever so informative: "Sqwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak."
Then #4 would chime in with: "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Then they all start yelling and screaming...and they won the first leg...my ears are bleeding.

Random Internet Stuff

I have no idea what this is supposed to be, but it's catchy.

Declaration of Revocation

About driving. <- this one is pure genius. For the programmers in the group.

Politics Explained
(CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and shoots you.
BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.)

Cool Geography Game

Well, I've successfully wasted an hour of my day.
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EDIT: I've found some more

Why Can't I Own A Canadian?

Shirt Folding (I want to learn how to do this)

OLP: Healthy In Paranoid Times

I've been listening to this album for the last few days, though not quite as insanely as I have done with previous OLP albums. It's a quality album, with no drop in the strength of the music anywhere. It's probably their most complete album since Happiness. It's a more mellow OLP with a bit more simplicity in the lyrics, but it's still conveys emotion.

Angels/Losing/Sleep: The chorus to this song has two words repeating over and over, yet it's brilliantly done. There's a neat little guitar riff that pops up through the song, it's an effect I can't really describe, but it's a neat sound.
Will The Future Blame Us: Destined to be the next great OLP hit in my opinion. I hope they choose this as the next single, it'll be a smash. It has the radio friendly feel of "Innocent" and "Life", but it's a better, more complete song.
Picture: The guitar lick that carries this song is simple yet catchy. Raine hits a note during the second chorus that's absolute perfection. It's a little bland lyrically, but the vocals are strong. It's also begging for a better guitar solo in the bridge, hopefully they do it live.
Where Are You: The first single off the album. It's good, but it's missing something. The little guitar licks in the background really pick it up, but I miss the chorus of the demo version I heard. It's still a good driving/singalong song.
Wipe That Smile Off Your Face: I'm rather dense when it comes to lyrics, but I'm quite sure this is a knock at George Bush and his war in Iraq. Raine had a visit to Iraq during the making of the album. It's one of the best songs on the album, it has a distinctive feel, and it breaks into this killer riff that's completely unexpected yet very cool. It's nice to hear some classic falsettos too. Another song that's begging for a wicked solo during the bridge.
Love And Trust: This song has a great feel to it. It's almost ambient in the verses, yet the chorus is really engaging. Another song about the state of the world today. I'm digging this song more and more every time I hear it.
Boy: Strong U2 vibe from this song, I keep expecting "With or Without You" to break out. Great vocal range in the song, Raine doesn't use the deep part of his voice enough. Very uplifiting and inspiriational song.
Apology: Another mellow track. It's got haunting vocals, strong guitar, a just-hard-enough drum line, and just a great vibe to it. I'd expect a song like this from Incubus, but OLP do a fantastic job with it. This might be the best song on the album, but I can't decide.
The World On A String: The first time I heard this song, I was like "What the hell?". The opening guitar riff is so anti-OLP. It's this cheery, bouncy kinda sound. I get the vision of the band dancing around rainbows with goofy grins on their face. The chorus kicks it up a bit, and the bridge is very catchy. It's a catchy song overall, it's just that it's so different from anything else I've heard from OLP. But it's a good different.
Don't Stop: Very strong guitar in this song. The song doesn't do anything to stand out from the rest of the album, but it's a good song. The bridge/instrumental is strong, and it's where the album title comes from.
Walking In Circles: My other early favourite from the album. I like everything about this song. Bass, guitar, drums, and vocals all mesh perfectly. The verse builds up nicely to the chorus, which is the best part of the song. The "Cirrrr-cles" part is chilling.
Al Genina (Leave A Light On): A song about Raine's trip to Darfur. It's just him and a guitar, very mellow, very passionate, very powerful. My only complaint is that it's too short.

Overall I really dig this album. I have a feeling that this might be up there with Happiness as their best work yet, but it's too early. Quite a step from their last album which, despite it's commercial success, isn't as popular among traditional OLP fans. It's a completely new sound from them, and I think this is what Gravity was trying to be but never acheived.

Hurricane Katrina

This storm seems to be bringing out the best and worst of the human population. People are donating money, supplies, time, and even empty rooms in their homes to help out, yet snipers are trying to shoot patients being evacuated from hospitals and parts of New Orleans are off limits because people are getting raped. First off, this is a case where martial law is appropriate. If someone is looting, law enforcement should tell them to stop once, and if they don't, shoot them. I'm not talking about people stealing food and water, but someone taking a TV from WalMart has no sympathy from me.

Besides, I don't think the looters are thinking this through. TV's work better when there's electricity to run them and houses to put them in. I understand that people are frustrated, and I would be too, but help needs to be organized. If you drop supplies into an area with thousands of people in it, you'll have violence and rioting in seconds.

The thing that bothers me the most about this, is that state officials have apparantly been pushing for stronger levees around the city for the last few years. Apparantly their complaints fell on deaf ears.

As far as gas prices, Sara's blog put things into perspective, so I won't touch that one.

The other thing that's pissed me off is the politicking that has been going on today. I saw a leader from the black community on a stage saying "The government didn't respond fast enough. Aid agencies weren't organized. This was completely unacceptable...but this is no time to place blame." I've never heard so much hypocrisy crammed into ten seconds quickly enough. People are trying to push this as a race issue, and that's their perogative, but this isn't the time. We're going to be experiencing fallout from this for the next year, and there'll be plenty of time to place blame.

Right now, it's about helping people.

Things I Learned From A Week In Toronto:

• U of T is massive
• The homeless are less pushy than people think
• Some of them have a sense of humour (one street kid's sign read "Need money for pizza and beer", another read "Need money for pot"). I give them credit for being honest
• Eaton's Centre is horribly designed
• River City Sports is no longer in the Eaton's Centre
• The World's Biggest Bookstore should update it's name
• You can't get anywhere without walking though one of those covered sidewalks used for construction projects
• The hockey hall of fame seems smaller nine years later
• You can't weave in and out of pedestrian traffic like you can in Windsor, there's just too many people
• Eaton's Centre has the same number of CD stores as Devonshire Mall
• One of those stores is HMV...there is another one about half a block away
• Sam the Record Man rules all
• Edwin's "Another Spin Around The Sun" CD does not exist anywhere in downtown Toronto.
• Every restaurant and bar has at least 8 types of beer on tap, and one is always Keith's
• Thai food is good
• Thai food service is not
• You can spend 4 hours at a Thai restaurant without ordering more than two rounds of drinks
• Waitresses with braces serving me Thai Spicy Noodles are sexy
• When walking in Toronto, one must always watch out for vomit on the sidewalk
• Starbucks are everywhere
• I was in 5 different Starbucks in 8 days
• I saw 2 Tim Horton's during this time
• Big box stores don't exist, they are crammed into downtown shops
• So are fast food places and basically everything else
• Union station is very cool
• Mr Greenjeans has decent food and mediocre service
• Thai Palace has great food and poor service
• The three different pubs I went to had great food, great beer, and great service
• "Salad King" is the name of a Thai restaurant
• When you put four long rows of tables into a hall and seat everyone for a banquet, everyone at the table will draw immediate comparisons to the "Harry Potter" movies.
• Chapels with lots of direct sunlight and no curtains are not good places to hold presentations
• Average people in Toronto are no different than anywhere else
• When you want service, however, these same people become much less friendly
• VIA Rail seats passengers at Union Station in the following order:
• Families and handicapped
• People sitting in the waiting area
• People waiting in line at the gate
• Rye and Gingers at the Delta Chelsea Hotel bar cost about 6 bucks.
• I spent 24 bucks at the Delta Chelsea Hotel bar on Tuesday night.
• IAMG and organized cannot be used in the same sentence without heads exploding
• Professors are as geeky as the rest of us once you get them out of the classroom and into a bar
• Owning a car in Toronto serves no purpose when car traffic moves the same speed as the pedestrian traffic
• Free lunch is good
• Free continental breakfast is better
• Brian Trottier, a former 50 goal scorer in the NHL, shot 1 for 8 at the target shooting game at the hockey hall of fame
• I should not be allowed into the hockey hall of fame gift shop with money

New Team Canada Jerseys

I haven't made up my mind yet. They're pretty simple looking, I'd like a stripe around the waist to fill it out. The technology behind them is very cool. There's tons more ventilation, and they supposedly cut air resistance by 15% since they're so tight fitting. The people at Nike modeled it after Lance Armstrong's cycling jersey.

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What a great day.

These next three weeks are shaping up to be awesome. Once I've got my exams done and my thesis paper finished by the middle of next week, I get to go to Toronto for a week at no cost to me. Once I get back it'll be a nice week of relaxation before hitting the books hard for grad school.

Also, today was my last day at Kelsey's! No more dishes, no more poly bags, no more day dots, no more trail mix, no more feta...I could go on, but I won't,

And, to top it all off, we're only 16 days away from a new OLP album! Even though I've heard parts of 6 of the songs plus the new single, I'm still uber excited.

BoreIS

So I gave my presentation about BoreIS today (BoreIS is the software I've written for my thesis project, for those that don't know).

It went rather well. I was nervous, and my mouth was really dry by the end, but I got through it unscathed. I stumbled once or twice, but other than that it went well. I also forgot to discuss a couple things, but that's okay since it ended up as a 19 minute presentation, and I had 20 minutes. I was at my best answering questions afterward, as I usually am. Now the fun begins, because I have to give this presentation again in a couple weeks in Toronto at the IAMG conference. Except there I only have 15 minutes including questions, whereas today it took me 19 minutes just for the presentation, no questions. So I've got some trimming to do. I have to say though, considering this was the first time I've given a presentation with no notes at all I did pretty darn well.

Of course when I typically give a presentation for a class I just have a basic knowledge of the subject, and if I stray from my notes I lose my place. However, this is a project that I've built from the ground up for the last eight months, so I can ad-lib a little more and just talk about the slides.

It's quite the load off though, now I can concentrate on scrambling to get the rest of my course work done.

Learning about computers

You think you know computers? Not as well as this person.

For instance, did you know that: "Every Hard drive has a unique IP address. An IP address is used by the internet so the governmnet can keep track of you. That way if someone is doing something illegal, such as hacking, the government or police can identify this person by their IP address, simmilar to a cars liscence plate." (sic)

She also discusses HDD Disk Drives (which, as far as I can tell, means "Hard Disk Drive Disk Drive").

I really like her disussion on the CPU, the Central Programming Unit (which is apparantly the same thing as a motherboard).

All that time wasted in my computer science classes.

Internet Grammar

After spending years reading forums, I've become sick of seeing the idiotic use of the English language, so here's a guide for those who write at a 1st grade level but are somehow able to drive a car:

"B" is not a word.

"4" is not a word. Subsequently, "B4" is not a word.

"ur" is not a word. It's the noise the third Budweiser frog makes.

"2" is not a word, it's your IQ.

The following sets of words are not interchangable:
"your/you're"
"there/their/they're"
"then/than"

Placing a "Z" at the end of a word does not make you cool. It might have been cool the first time it was done, but not the thousands (thousandz?) of times since.

I'll think of more later I'm sure.

Simpsons Words

This is the kind of thing you would never see in a traditional encyclopedia:

Made-up words in The Simpsons

There's a bunch I'd forgot about, and some classics like:

• Embiggens
• Cromulent
• Debigulator
• Kwyjibo
• Superliminal

And of course my all time favourite (and one that I enjoy using): Jerkass. This one is best used in the phrase "Out of my way, jerkass".

This is freakin' weird

Okay, so it's creepy, then it's strange, then it's creepy and strange, and yet, I cannot look away.

Rubber Johnny

It's a couple minutes long, so slow connections beware. It's definately worth checking out, I never should have watched this before my exam.

Giggidee Giggidee Giggidee Goo

Family Guy was awesome last night. That part where Chris gets pulled into the A-Ha video was brilliant.

The whole thing with Quagmire was great too. I love his theme song.

It's Over!

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!

It's time to do a happy dance.

And to top it all off, a brilliant quote from Don Cherry:
"After a year, I got so much to say I can hardly wait to hear myself."

Intelligent Advertising

So, I'm searching the web for a recipie for trail mix since I'm addicted to the stuff we have at work. And one of the brilliant "directed advertisements" google puts on their sidebar has the following advertisement:

Trail Mix Sale
New & Used Trail Mix
Check out the deals now!
www.ebay.com

Doesn't that sound appetizing?

It's people like this

that piss me off the most

Riot police clash with protestors

How long until the protestors claim that their "right to protest" was violated. I admit I'm not an expert in Scottish Law, but come on.

"Dozens of protesters broke away from the agreed route of the planned march and scaled one of the security fences installed along the edge of the site before being detained by police"

"Scottish police at first called off the march because they said public safety could not be guaranteed after about 100 protesters smashed car windows and attacked police with stones, sending at least eight officers to hospital."

These idiots give democracy a bad name.

Have some fun

with the Alanis Morissette Lyric Generator.

Why I Love Canada

I'm sitting here watching Live 8 right now, and it's been pretty good. The hosts came on stage and said they were about to go to Las Vegas, and immediately the crowd starts booing. The hosts tried to cover it up, but everyone knew what Las Vegas meant...Celine Dion. And that's when it hit me, one of the great things about this country is the fact that we speak our mind, even against our own. We're not afraid to say when something pisses us off. Why boo Dion? Well, maybe because miss "I don't want to lose any of my millions and millions of dollars by missing a Vegas show, so I'll just show a taped broadcast of one of my vegas shows, that way I don't have to lose any money" didn't feel like actually coming to Canada for the show. There are 2 or 3 artists I've seen on here already that have said they're double booked today with shows in other parts of North America, and they're flying out to those shows straight from here, but they still came.

She already has the sellout reputation, and this sure as hell didn't help her. Well, I'm going to go listen to some more music. Not long till OLP baby!

Oh, and not to be a shill, but sign the Live 8 List.

Where Are You?

...
Tonight,
Did Jesus get it right,
Or is the devil behind the light?
Are you happy now, are you happy?

Where are you?
Where are you?
Kicking and screaming,
You're not listening.

Where are you?
Where are you?
Everything I've believed in,
Has lied to me.

This could be the best day,
Of my life.

Sons and daughters,
Mothers and fathers,
Everyone's waiting for our luck,
To change.
...

If I may quote the Legion of Doom...

WWWWWWWWHAT A RUSH!

Those that know me know that I'm a punctual person. I'd rather be 15 minutes early than 5 minutes late. So when I submit an assignment 47 seconds before it's due, it's a strange feeling. I ever so slightly mistimed how much work was left to do, and ended up spending damn near 13 hours programming. Lets just say, if I didn't have to work in the morning, I'd be like my south park counterpart in the previous post.

Oh, and by the way, I didn't get it done.

Scott took the guitar, so I've got the next best thing. :) 

Boom Goes The Dynamite

This poor guy, it's probably his first time doing a sports report, it's brutal to watch because you know that this 3 minute report feels like it's 2 hours long for the guy. But, he inspires the newest catchphrase in the process.

Boom goes the dynamite.

Heh, I feel a little better after a visit to Engrish.com 

Now I'm Angry

Alright, so I'm playing through Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II. I played the original, and it's up there with Final Fantasy 7 as one of my favourite games. Awesome story, great visuals, it was like being an actor in a movie. And before I go any farther, if you haven't played KOTOR II, I may spoil some things, so if you don't want that, stop reading.

Okay, with that out of the way, I'm playing along, enthralled in the story, and I can tell I'm getting to the end of the game. I come up to the final battle, and it was the most anticlimatic battle I've ever had in a video game. What pissed me off most, is that after you beat her she summons these floating lightsabres to try and kill you, and while you're fighing them she just stands there. After you beat them, she doesn't even try to fight, she just talks. Then she starts telling you about what's going to happen in the future (if you ask her to). I figured I'd get a video of each character and what they end up doing, but instead, I get a 4 or 5 sentence explanation of SOME OF THE CHARACTERS. Some of them she just says "I cannot see their future". What the hell kinda crap is this? I'm waiting for something to happen and it doesn't. Your ship comes and gets you and you fly away into the credits. Even in the last conversation she gives you a few options as to how you may spend your time after the battle, but you never get to choose. Then there's the freakin droid thing that never got resolved. You use this one droid to set up this thing to blow up the planet as a last resort, and the droid waits there for your command to blow up the planet...which you never get a chance to give...and the planet blows up anyway. Also, there was an evil droid that was supposed to try and stop the good droid who was waiting for your command. If you gave the command, the evil droid would try and stop the good droid...but you never find out what happens with them.

You never even get to talk to the other members of your party after the final battle. It's so damn frustrating to spend almost 30 hours getting to the end of a game and have it ruined due to the most crappy ending ever. I was all ready to play through it again until the ending, now I'll never play it again. It's like the developers just ran out of time and didn't bother to finish the game.

Here's the ultimate metaphor. This game is the opposite of The Sixth Sense. The Sixth Sense was a crappy movie with a good ending. KOTOR II was a good game with a crappy ending. Crappy isn't the word. It's beyond crappy. It'd be like watching the last Lord of the Rings movie and when Frodo finally gets to Mount Doom, and is struggling to chuck the ring into the fire, it cuts to a scene of Frodo saying "Well, I through the ring in the fire, the end." And it just cuts to black.

Colds suck

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. That's how I feel right now. I can't remember the last time I was awake at 4:30 in the morning. I have to wake up in 3 and a half hours to go to a meeting, followed by a shift at work.

I wonder if it's safe to take the vacuum to my sinuses, I'm guessing it's not. Ah well, I'm going to attempt to get some sleep, just thought I'd share my misery with the world.

Now that's interesting

So I hear today that Belinda Stronach has moved from the blues to the reds just 2 days before a house of commons vote on the budget that could take down the government if it does not pass. Currently the Liberal/NDP alliance has 152 votes (including Stronach's), and the Bloc/Conservative alliance has 152 votes (obviously excluding Stronach's). So assuming everyone votes along party lines, everything falls to the 3 independents:

Chuck Cadman - former Reformer, Alliance, and Conservative party member.
Carolyn Parrish - 10 plus year liberal before leaving the party over the sponsorship scandal (if memory serves me).
David Kilgour - 14 plus year liberal before leaving the party around the same time Parrish did.

One would think that even if the former Conservative (Cadman) were to vote with the government, that at least one of Parrish/Kilgour is still holding a grudge with the Liberals and will vote against them. If at least two of those three vote against the budget then it's election time. Although I wonder if there will be any more crossing of the floor between now and Thursday, this stuff seems to happen in streaks. It'll make for an interesting vote.

Thunderstorms make for some amazing pictures. I stole this off Matt's blog. He's taking this picture of Jay taking a picture of me flaked out on the little deck thing. 

I Proclaim This "New Southwester Ontario"

Okay, I don't want to go all Homer Simpson on everyone, but Windsor is about to turn into Springfield:

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/NEWS/RELEASES/2002/r020422.htm

I'm now waiting for my invitation to area code camp. Stupid 10-digit dialing. Where's Phoney McRing-Ring when you need him?

"Excuse me, Phoney, I have a question". Classic.

So, do I get to be mayor of new Southwest Ontario? Is The Who gonna play here? What about the wall of garbage? I bet no one thought of that did they?

An open letter to television broadcasters

I'm so sick of having to change the volume to adjust for each station. It's so annoying when you're flipping back and forth between 2 shows and the volume on one is a bunch lower than the other. So you get watching one at a normal volume, and when you flip you can barely hear the other, so you have to turn up the volume. Then when you flip back, the volume is rediculously loud. I typically set the volume to around 17-20 on my tv, and today I was watching a movie and had to turn it up to 30 to hear it, and then the commercials were obnoxiously loud and I had to keep switching back and forth. It really took away from my studying time having to keep changing the volume. So if I fail my exam tomorrow, it's the Space Network's fault.

And on a side note, the movie I was watching was one of the older Star Trek ones, which I've seen a couple times, but I always miss the first part and have no idea why they have to travel back in time to save humpback whales. Hell, I don't even know which movie it was.

Hearing music without a speaker?

I know, you think I must be on an acid trip, but check this out:

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2005/apr/21/042104146.html

This guy invented what I'll call a "Direct to ear" sound system. He points the antenna at you and you hear it, but no one else does because there's no speaker.

This guy will be a very rich man.

So Stupid

Okay, I'm watching the Amazing Race, and the challenge for the teams was to push this 700 pound elephant on wheels through this town. So while everyone else uses both team members to push the thing, the old couple decides that one of them should ride on top. After all, what's easier than pushing a 700 pound object? Pushing a 700 pound object with a 150 pound woman on top...who's yelling at the local children to help push the thing. Here's a thought:

GET OFF THE DAMN ELEPHANT AND HELP PUSH THE BLASTED THING. I know they aren't the most athletic, but at the very least get off so the thing your husband is pushing is significantly lighter.

I don't know what's worse, her stupidity or watching her order around small Indian children.

Badger, badger, badger, badger...

you know, I saw this thing like a year ago. I knew what it was, and knew that the second I clicked the link it'd be in my head for the next week and a half. And yet, I couldn't help but click it. I think I enjoy punishing myselft.

Badger badger badger badger badger.....It's still playing in the background.

Thanks for bringing this menace back into my life Sara.

Anyway, on the topic of punishment, I had a staff meeting this morning, and on the ride home from work it hit me: I left for work at 8am, and got home at 5:45 pm, and I was paid for four of those hours. Now granted the staff meeting lasted for 1 and a half of those hours, and we don't get paid for our staff meetings, but still. Oh well, at least I've only got a few months left before graduation and probably grad school. And one of the best things about grad school? No spending almost 4 hours of my weekend travelling on and waiting for busses.

Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger

Oh my god, I should have done my climate change presentation on the effect of the climate on badger populations, I could have had this thing playing in the background the whole time. Why must I always have the greatest ideas when it's too late. It's like George Costanza's "jerk store" incident.

That's Right Bitch!

I'm pumped, today has been a good day. Today's one of those days when you want to walk up to people and just tell them "I Own You!". What am I talking about? Well, my day started by getting a letter that confirmed my acceptance for a presentation at a conference in August about the software I'm writing. Then, while programming that software during the day I overcame a few hurdles that have been slowing me up. Then I just checked a test mark in my databases class and after getting a 14% on the first test and a 66% on the midterm, I rocked the second test with a 100%. I'm so happy.

And on top of that, it's now April 7th, which means just one month till vacation!

I'm off to go do a happy dance.

Brain Chip

"He can think his TV on and off, change channels and alter the volume thanks to the technology and software linked to devices in his home."

"Mr Nagle has also been able to use thought to move a prosthetic hand and robotic arm to grab sweets from one person's hand and place them into another."

This is pretty fascinating, it shows real hope for people with paralysis.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4396387.stm

Decisions Decisions Decisions

So it's the first day of Spring, and it's bitter cold. Why must Windsor have such wierd weather? Stupid great lakes!

Otherwise, right now I'm stuck making decisions about what to do with the next couple years of my life. Grad school? Maybe. Work? Maybe. Who knows. On one hand grad school is guaranteed money, but working is not guaranteed but more money. And to commit two years of my life to grad school to do research isn't a simple decision. It's a lifestyle choice.

But enough seriousness. I watched "The Iron Chef" for the first time, and that might be the stupidest thing on TV that I've ever seen. Actually, stupid may not be the right word because it is entertaining. It's just so...over the top.

"TODAY'S SECRET INGREDIENT IS.............................................TURNIPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Dude, it's turnips. Relax fella, you need a rest. I just don't get it. A memo just went up at work for our company's Iron Chef competition. I think I'll spice up my mac & cheese with a delicate blend of MSG and heroin. I may not win, but a week later I'll have the most popular mac & cheese on the planet.

Okay...could they not be more innovative than "Kitchen Stadium". I wonder what the translation actually is. Oh, we're about to find out about todays challenger. I love how the host shouts out a string of Asian language and throws in english. "Toi cha nee no baa IRON CHEFS!"

Okay. Okay, here comes todays secret ingredient. Oh no they didn't. It can' be. That's insane. It's CABBAGE. OK, who had cabbage in the pool? My money's on the iron chef. What the hell, how they're telling a story about cabbage. This is getting stupid. I'm done.

This is...odd

It was the racist chicken wing that made me a violent alcoholic

This guy found a half eaten chicken wing in his potroast at denny's, and took it as a racial comment and thought he had cought a disease from the food. Here are some excerpts:

"...white workers put the chicken wing on his plate as a joke and that he feared he'd contracted AIDS from eating someone else's food"

Which white worker would that be, the "Indian waitress" or the "Latino cook".

"But the stress he felt from the incident was strong enough, he said, it caused him to regularly fight with his wife, lose sleep and drink half a pint of liquor a day."

It just gets stupider. You can read the rest for yourself.

I'm Rich!

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I'm loaded. It's official. I'm the 826,752,911 richest person on earth! How rich are you? >>

What would we do...

if computers ceased to exist.

You may be thinking "What a strange question". But the reason I ask is due to an experience I had at work today. For those that don't know I work in a restaurant, and all the orders are punched in on computers and are automatically printed up for the cooks. Today, the computers went down. Now, notwithstanding the fact that the only way to fix them was to call someone from head office in London, the kitchen became completely frantic.

The servers had to write the orders down by hand and give them to the cooks, they had to calculate bills and prices by themselves on a calculator, and it just seemed like a madhouse even though it was only slightly busier than your average Sunday day shift.

My point is that we've come to rely and depend on computers, and all in all it's a good thing, but it's still kinda funny to see what happens when people are forced to think for themselves.

The Amazing Race

This is my all time favorite reality show. Now that isn't a big pool to choose from, since the only other ones I watch are Survivor and recently Big Brother. And even then, The Amazing Race is the only one I actually plan ahead to watch. The others are more flipping through the channels and saying, "Oh yeah, Survivor's on".

Anyway, I was extremely disappointed that the Survivor couple is on there. It reeks of desperation from CBS. And if they happen to win, they damn well better donate the money. One of them already one on Survivor (I think it was the allstars one). They don't need any more money.

So, I'm looking over the people in this Race at CBS.com and I'm noticing more and more the "token" people.

For example, I see a picture of Ray and Deana, and I can almost guarantee that they will be screaming at each other every week. Then of course there's the token senior couple, the token brothers, etc. And while the eye candy has been nice in recent seasons, I'd love to see a season with no "Dating Models" or "Dating Actors" or "Actor/Models". This isn't a soap opera, just pick people with personality and some sense of intelligence and the show will work fine.

Here's to another season of the only reality show on TV worth dedicating an hour of your week to.

Here's a thought

I was in my climate change class tonight and a very interesting point was raised.

If we all became vegetarians, would animals like the chicken, cow, and pig go extinct?

The vast majority of these animals on the planet are there because we breed them to be there. So if we all stopped eating meat we would no longer raise these animals. Well, cows I suppose we would still use for milk. But the chickens and pigs would be in trouble. I can't imagine chickens and pigs in the wild. I know they must exist in the wild, but I've just never thought about it. So, would these animals just die off from predation, or would they find a way to thrive in the wild? I guess it would take a biologist or wildlife expert to find out.

Where's David Suzuki when you need him?

Laughing out loud

It's something none of us do often enough, but this got a little chuckle out of me:

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The doctor said, "Joe, the good news is I can cure your headaches. The bad
news is that it will require castration. You have a very rare condition, which
causes your testicles to press on your spine, and the pressure creates one hell
of a headache. The only way to relieve the pressure is to remove the
testicles."

Joe was shocked and depressed. He wondered if he had anything to live for. He
couldn't concentrate long enough to answer, but decided he had no choice but
to go under the knife.

When he left the hospital he was without a headache for the first time in 20
years, but he felt like he was missing an important part of himself. As he
walked down the street, he realized that he felt like a different person. He
could make a new beginning and live a new life. He saw a men's clothing store &
thought, "That's what I need - a new suit."

He entered the shop and told the salesman, "I'd like a new suit." The elderly
tailor eyed him briefly and said, "Let's see ... size 44 long." Joe laughed,
"That's right, how did you know?" "Been in the business 60 years!" Joe tried
on the suit. It fit perfectly.

As Joe admired himself in the mirror, the salesman asked, "How about a new
shirt?" Joe thought for a moment and then said, "Sure." The salesman eyed Joe
and said, "Let's see, 34 sleeve & 16-1/2 neck." Again, Joe was surprised,
"That's right, how did you know?" "Been in the business 60 years!"

Joe tried on the shirt, and it fit perfectly. As Joe adjusted the collar in
the mirror, the salesman asked, "How about new shoes?" Joe was on a roll and
said, "Sure." The salesman eyed Joe's feet and said, "Let's see ... 9-1/2 E."
Joe was astonished, "That's right, how did you know?" "Been in the business 60
years!"

Joe tried on the shoes and they fit perfectly. Joe walked comfortably around
the shop and the salesman asked, "How about some new underwear?" Joe thought
for a second and said, "Sure." The salesman stepped back, eyed Joe's waist and
said, "Let's see... size 36."

Joe laughed. "Ah ha! I got you! I've worn size 34 since I was 18 years old."
The salesman shook his head, "You can't wear a size 34. A size 34 underwear
would press your testicles up against the base of your spine and give you one
hell of a headache.
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You're welcome.

Welcome to the blog world Dani

Everyone visit Dani's blog, it's amazing.

http://bobanie.blogspot.com/

Here's what'll happen

The NHL offered $42.5 mill, the PA responds with $49 mill. Sometime during the night or early tomorrow morning the NHL will reject the PAs proposal, the PA will come back with another offere which will be rejected, but then tomorrow's press conference will be delayed till about 5 pm, where they'll anounce a deal in the neighbourhood of $45.5 mill. Take it to the bank.

They're only $6.5 million dollars apart now, and if they can't bridge that gap then Gary and Bob both deserve to be fired.

Onto other business, my thesis project is moving along nicely. The pre-development phase is taking longer than I thought. I kinda figured I'd be programming by now, but I've still got over 6 months to get it done. No problem...right?

They're finally talking!

If only they had started this process two years ago when it was sensible to do so, we'd be speculating about this year's trade deadline and who would win the Sidney Crosby race. Instead we're speculating about if there will be a season and who will win the ego battle.

I've been thinking the last week that this whole thing would have been different if there was a player's strike instead. The speculation was that if Bettman didn't lock the players out that they would have went on strike. If that was the case, then the players couldn't go around stealing paycheques from players who actually need it (Hatcher, Draper, Chelios, Jackman, etc). We also wouldn't keep hearing "It's Gary's lockout". As if they players had nothing to do with it. Of course with a strike, bringing in replacement players would have been easier provided they could get through the pickets.

It's food for thought anyway.

Inspiration

I must not fear.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.

Only I will remain.

-Litany Against Fear,
Frank Herbert's "Children of Dune"

"We say more by saying nothing at all"

I can't come up with titles, so I'm using random song lyrics from whatever I'm listening to.

Well, I realized today that one of my profs is slightly insane. He's knowledgeable, fun, and a good teacher, but he kept talking about his hamster. I'm sitting at the back of the class next week.

Hey, I just realized that the title I picked completely contradicts the fact that I'm typing in a blog. Oh well.

I must also recognize the newest addition to the blogging community out of people I know. Matt's blog is shaping up nicely, it's in my side panel if you're interested. I also found out today that I have to re-take a road test which I took 5 years ago since my license expired. This is a message to all the procrastinators out there:
GET IT DONE, AND GET IT DONE NOW! I'm not too worried, I'm just out of practice since I haven't driven in over a year. Should feel nice to get back behind the wheel though.

I went to play pool with a friend of mine last weekend and realized how much I suck. I guess it's a matter of practice, I don't play that often. I did manage to win a game, but only because my opponent sank the 8-ball. I can't remember the last time I won a game by actually beating my opponent as opposed to my opponent screwing up.

I also found out this week that I'm going to spend the next 8 months writing a piece of software to display borehole data (among other things) in a GIS. If that last sentence was gibberish (jibberish? What's the proper spelling? I have no idea), then don't worry, you're just like 90% of the population. I'm excited though, and I'll definately learn a lot.

And finally, I'd like to recognize Trevor Linden, as he must have read my earlier post on the NHL lockout and been inspired to restart negotiations. Nice work Trevor! So all you hockey fans, if these new talks end in a new agreement, you have me to thank!

I own all.

Getting To Know Me

Okay, so I got one of those emails where you fill in all this info about yourself and send it to people, so here are my answers:

1. What time did you get up this morning? 10:00 am...then 10:45 am.
2.. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? I want to say Team America, but that's not right, I saw something a couple weeks later.
4. What is your favorite TV show? Simpsons (of course)
5. What did you have for breakfast? Cheerios
6. What is your middle name? Dwight
7. What is your favorite cuisine? Anything with chicken
8. What foods do you dislike? Tuna and Cabbage
9. What is your favorite chip flavor? Lays BBQ
10. What is your favorite CD at the moment? Incubus - A Crow Left Of The Murder
11. What kind of car do you drive? I have a chauffer...the bus driver.
12. Favorite sandwich? Roast Beef sub with sweet onion sauce from Subway.
13. What characteristics do you despise? Stupidity, poor grammar.
14. Favorite item of clothing? My Avs jersey.
15. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Ireland or Australia
16. What color is your bathroom? Ugly Yellow
17. Favorite brand of clothing? Whatever costs the least and still looks good.
18. Where would you retire to? A luxury box at a hockey arena.
19. Favorite time of day? Whenever I get off work.
20. What was your most memorable birthday? The one where I got my tonsils out. That was '94 I think...so, my 12th?
21. Favorite sport to watch? Well, usually hockey, but until it starts up again, I'll have to say...Cricket
22. Who you least expect to send this back to you? Bob Dole...he never answers my fan letters.
23. Person you expect to send it back first? Samuel L. Jackson. We're tight like that.
24. What fabric detergent do you use? Umm, the one in the blue bottle under my kitchen table.
25.Coke or Pepsi? Pepsi
26. What makes you most happy about the world? My unending optimism
27. What makes you sad about the world? People who complain endlessly that have no business complaining in the first place.
28. Order at a coffee shop? Medium double-double, but only at Tim Horton's since what they sell isn't coffee, it's liquid crack.

Excuse me, Mr. Modano...

We really don't mean to bother you, but Bob sent us to talk to you. Hey! Get back here! That's better.

You see Mike, Bob read the comments you made a few hours ago and, well, he wasn't too pleased. Now, you're a superstar in this league, and what you say matters. Your opinion carries weight. We're here to tell you what your opinion should be. Because, well, it seems you were misquoted this morning. Something about the players being nervous? That couldn't have been right. So you are going to tell those reporters that you were misunderstood this morning, and that the players are as together as they've ever been. If you don't? Well, let's just say that there may be an....unfortunate accident. Understand? Excellent. Thanks for the cooperation Mike.


Now, I'm not saying that the NHLPA would resort to these tactics, but it does seem that every player who says the slightest thing anti-union tends to change their tune awful fast. And to be honest, I'm getting sick of it all. The rhetoric, the retractions, the 4 months of complete nothing. One offer, one counter offer. Four months. If real companies and unions operated this way they'd be underground in no time. So now, we sit here for the next two weeks waiting for something, anything, hoping that someone will break.

Hoping that someone, anywhere, will get off their pigheaded stance. The lack of negotiation still boggles my mind. Let's pray that someone decides that the fans are what's important here, and that we are sick and tired of watching a bunch of overpaid millionaires (players and owners) whine about how to divide hundreds of millions of dollars. Fortunately, I have a solution:

-Fire Bettman
-Fire Goodenow
-Fire anyone else who's been directly involved in the "negotiations"
-Bring in Brian Burke to represent the owners' interests.
-Bring in a panel of current and former players.
-Have an independant moderator and debate for 3-4 days straight. If there is no consensus, bring in an independent arbitrator to hear the arguments for another 3-4 days and have the arbitrator draft up a CBA to be used for what's left of this season and all of next season with scheduled negotiation sessions every month from now until a new CBA can be agreed upon.

But of course that will never happen. That would involve putting the fans first. What a concept. We pay their salaries, we fund their arenas, we buy their merchandise and concessions. We spend hours upon hours pining over these teams, living and dying with them. We are the reason that they all have jobs.

I don't care who solves it as long as it gets solved. We all know it can't be solved if the sides aren't talking. I want a solution that is sensible. I want a solution that will work in the long term. I want a solution that keeps this league running healty for years to come.

I want hockey.

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You Are the Peacemaker

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What number are you?

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