Yes. Leonard Cohen is famous and Canadian.
Yes. k.d. lang is famous and Canadian.
Yes. The Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" is very well-known and beloved and it can send chills down your spine.

However, it's not exactly an upbeat ditty with which to open your Olympic games. I mean, it could be, some covers come close, but Lang's arrangement is ( Read more... )

I ache. Not much, and at least I'm still young enough that it holds off until I stop moving, but it's there.

As ragnvaeig mentioned, we are getting ridiculous amounts of snow piled on top of the ridiculous amount of snow our apartment complex failed to finish dealing with from the weekend. Seriously, there's over a meter of total accumulation out there by ( Read more... )

If you were heading out to see The Book of Eli anytime soon, see if you can find it at a discounted matinee. If you can't, you might want to wait on renting a DVD. Explanation of this would be spoileriffic, thus I'll hold off for the moment, but it's chock-a-block with fridge logic and straight-up headbangers on nearly every front ( Read more... )

It was with palpable pain that I noticed that my copy of the third Riverworld novel was splitting along a bend in the spine. I put it down that night, and even though I was a couple chapters in, I haven't picked it up since. In part, this is just because, as mentioned earlier, I am ludicrously kind to books, and for some reason anal-retentive about ( Read more... )

... inspired by watching the last episode of Monk.

Why are people never charged with "battery" on television? It seems like it's always just "assault", even when they actually strike someone. Do writers just not know the distinction? Is it just that I don't watch enough police procedurals to see it done right?

Caution: Knife is sharp. Keep out of children.

5.11 Tactical® Knives Recalled Due to Laceration Hazard

(Yes, yes, it makes more sense in the actual recall notice. Still... what a choice of title.)

... talking about things to be included in his Bumper Book of Magic, the mass-market grimoire/magical history book he's working on with Steve Moore (no relation):

We're hoping to have a fold-out kabbalah board game. The winner is basically the first one that reaches enlightenment, as long as they don't make a big thing of it.

It seems increasingly as though I should learn to program in Python.

For those to whom that is just so much gibberish, I present a link to the Hellenic rendition of Chick Tracts.

If neither of those makes sense... why do you read this blog, again? ;)

Wow. I had totally forgotten the fun things you could do with actual DTP software - and how much easier it is to do them. Scribus has some learning curve to it, but I'm already seeing ways to do more or less what I envisioned but couldn't accomplish in OpenOffice.Org Writer or Impress. Things line up! I can set up regular horizontal guides matching ( Read more... )

The horror of spending so much time learning about good design and coming up with ideas... is discovering the degree to which your tools seem inadequate for the implementation thereof. *sigh* I knew there was a reason I kept Publisher installed for so long.

Somebody stop me before I lay out a resume in Photoshop.