What was I saying about misusing the power of education? Man would I have done poorly at that school. This is a computer-generated image. I would have been fooled. Is there a Turing test equivalent for this kind of thing? The idea of Statler & Waldorf doing a Siskel and Ebert routine is pretty solid gold. Somehow they manage to… Read more →
Month: September 2006
Stop the continent, I want off.
Only 28% of Americans believe in evolution (and two-thirds of these believe evolution was “guided by God”). 53% are actually creationists. 80% of Americans expect to be called before God on Judgment Day to answer for their sins. 90% believe in heaven. 77% rate their chances of going to heaven as “excellent” or “good.” 83% of Americans believe that Jesus… Read more →
Bookish links of the day
Rick Kleffel has really been burning it up over at The Agony Column. There’s been some really top quality stuff there over the last couple of days, including: A lengthy interview with Naomi NovikI think I wanted her to sound like Patrick O’Brian or something. (mp3), A lengthy interview with Charles Stross…who does not sound “Scottish enough” to me. I… Read more →
Hanging Around The House 12: Updates & Unhung
And this will bring to a close (at least for now), the series of posts that try to capture the various pieces of art I have hanging around the house. It’s hard to believe that the first of these was posted around 18 months ago. Remember that these posts are made up of quick snapshots–these are hardly professional images, and… Read more →
Sunday Night
On Sunday night I was invited to join the aforementioned comic creators, the people from Strange Adventures who had worked the booth, and Toronto comic scene Svengali Christopher Butcher, for dinner at the Economy Shoe Shop. Much fun was had by all, and after we had all eaten (and drank) on Cal‘s tab, several of us ended up visiting a… Read more →
Sunday Afternoon
That’s the stack of books I took to the Word On The Street on Sunday to have signed, sketched, remarqued, or whatever the creators felt like doing. (Yes, I am that guy.) All the creators seemed friendly, and interested, and were in good moods. I was particularly impressed with how well several of them interacted with the younger children. I… Read more →
The good thing that’s happening this weekend…
After the old men are done their rocking, Sunday will bring us Word On The Street. And this year Halifax’s Word On The Street has a large comics component in addition to the usual celebration of bookery. All the locals and a whole pile of Toronto types are going to be here for the showWeirdly absent is Mike Holmes, who… Read more →
I am so sick of hearing about the Rolling Stones.
Yes. It’s true, that the Stones, and Alice Cooper, and Sloan, and Kanye West, are playing a big show in Halifax tomorrow. Yes, it sometimes seems like this has been the only thing people have been talking about for weeks. Christ. Nothing says “small town” quite as loudly as getting just a little too excited that you’re a “just like… Read more →
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What you are looking at there is the cover of Lacunal: Volume 1, the just-announced-today first book of photography by my evil genius pal Alex Wilson. If you click through, you will get a chance to find out more about the project, to sample some images from the book, and if you are interested, to buy a copy. The book… Read more →
Some really deep geekery
So, I finally got fed up today and took the plunge. I warn you that the elaboration on that statement is going to get pretty nerdy. My primary router is a Linksys WRT54G. It’s on the old side–it’s the V1.1 hardware. Over the years I’ve made some changes to get it the way I want it: I’ve replaced the default… Read more →
White, check. Nerdy, check.
UPDATE: As Mr. Rowe points out below, the RIAA has had YouTube pull this video. Creative people will still be able to find copies at the usual sources. My friend GeorgeWho, while no longer “Undead” probably still does look like a burned-out truck driver much older than he actually is, and who is possibly wearing a work t-shirt with an… Read more →
Hanging Around The House 11: Laundry Room & Garage
Continuing the series of posts that try to capture the various pieces of art I have hanging around the house. Remember that these posts are made up of quick snapshots–these are hardly professional images, and the upstairs images are worse than the downstairs ones since the angles I could use to take the snapshots are much more highly constrained. The… Read more →
The Disappeared
So, after literally years of denying it, Bush finally admits that there were secret prisons, and that they are being shut down with the 14 people left in them transferred to Gitmo. The AP has a slightly different story, with 14,000 people in the U.S. remote gulags. In the few short years since the first shackled Afghan shuffled off to… Read more →
Teetering On The Precipice
In something between one and two generations we’ve gone from the single income family being the standard to the two income family. You might think this would result in an increase in average family financial security. It’s not true. You might also think that the fact that this isn’t true is because of overspending and consumption on the part of… Read more →
A few words about headlines.
My evil genius pal Alex points out this headline. It took me an embarrassingly long moment to realize just how funny it was, but then it clicked and I realized the thing was worthy of Fletch. The Daily Mail has a headline that’s just as funny, but for different reasons. (Be warned: the page linked to there includes a picture… Read more →
