I realized today that I am my dad. I'm pretty cool with it, but I didn't think it would happen so soon. Or at least that I'd realize so soon.

Oddly enough, it's Mother's Day.

EDIT: Lets see how well these Last FM widgets work...

I now floss daily. Who am I and what have I done with me?

If you look up "love-hate relationship" you will find this picture:


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This just in:


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If there's a class that has thirty or fewer people in it, I think UC's bookstore should be required to have enough books for all of the students in that class to get one. I mean granted they have to keep their own costs in mind, everyone might not buy a book, etc. But come on. We pay a shit ton to go to UC and the mark up on text books has got to ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got a new pair of glasses. This might seem to break the rule I have about updating with stupid day-to-day shit, but no. I had that last pair for four years. This is big news. This is the same as if I got a new arm or something. My only complaint is that they have those little plastic clamp thingies that hold them in place on your nose. ( Read more... )

This is pretty crazy. I was recently directed to the Website of something called Canada Reads. It's a competition where five Canadian celebrities choose a fiction book and try to convince the rest of the panel that their's is the most worthy choice. The website describes it as similar to Survivor, in that the five member panel widdles down and ( Read more... )

I am a little early, but Happy Birthday Journal! On March 10, my Journal turns two years old. To be honest, this window into my mind is pretty embarassing when I go back and read some older entries. Some of them have been pretty out there. Some of them have been really out there. There have even been one or two that I've deleted, hoping no one had ( Read more... )

Normally, after a show as good as the RX Bandits I would rant and rave for paragraphs on end about how good it was. I'm not going to do that here. I will abstain from word play and euphemisms, leaving it at "It was a really good show."

However:

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The world has changed since we were kids. First off, we've traded in a planet (Pluto) for an extra ocean (The Southern Ocean). Secondly, it is now apparently cool to smoke opium again. Opium? Really? Are we going to start riding bikes that have gigantic front wheels too? Finally, listening to the Police apparently now makes you cool, as apposed to ( Read more... )