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 →
Author: Mr. McLaren
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 →
Minor cosmetic changes
After losing almost all of last night to a hot problem at workWhere “hot problem” can be read as “Mr. Thinks-He’s-A-Bloody-Genius McLaren made a really stupid, and avoidable, mistake that could have cascading impact on schedules”. I managed to find a bit of time to make some minor cosmetic changes to the site. These things have been bothering me for… Read more →
Patience is rewarded, at least sometimes.
I see from John Crowley‘s Livejournal that the 25th anniversay edition of Little, Big is a go. I’ve been waiting to hear that for something like a year and a half. Originally the go-no-go decision was supposed to be made in March of this year, but the subscription period was extended, and then in July the limitation was reduced (and… Read more →
From the Pizza Road
So, a while back I alluded to my last decade’s employment in what is essentially the same “white collar”Actually, I normally wear a t-shirt and jeans (when I even bother to wear pants!), I just mean “as opposed to really working for a living”. job. However, this doesn’t mean I can’t understand people with different types of jobs–as I commented… Read more →
Awwwwww yeah!
Bring on the brand new renaissance ’cause I think I’m ready I’ve been shaking all night long But my hands are steady. Read more →
Who has left this hole in the ground?
If I ever meet Keith Olbermann, I am going to buy him a beer. An expensive, fancy beer. This snippet is just an excerpt from one of the reasons why. Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Bush, September 11, 2006 Terrorists did not come and steal our newly-regained sense of being American first, and political, fiftieth. Nor did the Democrats. Nor… Read more →
Saturday Link-blogging
I wish more North Americans had travelled enough to have a picture of how the world really is, outside of North America. Watching the miniature earth movie is a good way to start getting the idea, without spending years travelling. Think that the $8.3 trillion dollar national debt that Bush reports is a sign of absolute unmitigated fiscal disaster? What… Read more →
