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Concerts
A couple shows I'm planning on attending:
15/5: RJD2 (actually am more interested in Peter Bjorn and John but they're sold out)
21/5: Patrick Wolf
24/5: Kompakt records tour
30/5: Japanther/DDMMYY
31/5-2/6: MUTEK27/7: Daft Punk/Rapture ( Read more... ) -
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Last weekend I bought a turntable finally, so I can play my records.
(I don't have a better place than the floor for it now...)
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I'm not that picky about audio (due to crappy speakers, not liking to wear headphones for extended periods of time, etc.), but when I listened to The Field-Sun & Ice, around 4:45 into the track, I had a major "what happened there!?" moment. Then I read an interview:
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Random Connections
Any of you Waterloo ECE-related people remember Aagaard? I recently met somebody whose company is funding Aagaard's research, and that his group will eventually benefit from whatever tool that comes out of it. This person's take on the research is "a bunch of math that I don't really understand, but when we get the tool it'll do what we want". Ah, ( Read more... ) -
Exhilaration
LCD Soundsystem!!!
I thought it was a better show than the one I went to 2 years ago in Montréal. They started with a couple songs from Sound of Silver (a fine album) that were warmly received but the audience went nuts for "Tribulations" (still their finest song ( Read more... ) -
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When I saw Mono last year (?) in Toronto I thought they were pretty cool, and thought that when I grew up I'd like to be cool like them. One year later I'm not any cooler, but fortunately neither are they ( Read more... ) -
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This is probably the first time I've commented on the issue of women in engineering outside of 1-on-1 conversation. caffeinemonkey's post came at the right time, I guess ( Read more... ) -
Moscow, 24 Apr
This is part 7 in the eastern Europe trip series.Once we found the building (a nondescript grey tower among many other nondescript grey towers), Sergey tried to check us in, armed with our passports and the confirmation the Toronto travel agency gave us, while the rest of us sat around in the lobby. We got our rooms hours later. Apparently, the ( Read more... ) -
Pre-trip
This is part 6 in the eastern Europe trip series. I resolve to finish the 5 remaining parts before one year is up.When Luke and I were thinking about the trip we were keen on visiting Russia. However, it seems like Sergey was much less keen about the idea. I don't know about Luke, but I have a great fascination with former eastern Bloc countries, ( Read more... ) -
New hardware
It's been 16 months since my unsuccessful surface piercing and time to get something that works better. Here it is:
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