Gaming when I should be working. Bouncing between Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Hotel Dusk: Room 215 and Rock Band this evening.

Oi.

Saw Star Trek twice within twenty-four hours. I'll probably go see it again at some point during the week. I have not been so pumped about a movie in forever. Not even The Dark Knight had me geeking out the way I was after ST.

Was at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this morning; grabbed a shirt from David at Wondermark, bought a print from Ramon at ( Read more... )

Johnathan Coulton concert last night was amazing!

I had no idea about the venue, the opener or what JoCo's live show would be like, but everything turned out to be absolutely awesome.
* He played the Lula Lounge down near Dufferin and Dundas, which turned out to be a nice, small restaurant/club. We didn't have dinner reservations, but we were seated ( Read more... )

Handed out copies of the independent student newspaper in Vari Hall yesterday morning. I could only stay for two hours, but it was an interesting experience. I was especially intrigued by the pro-Israel protesters who were trying to debate Middle-Eastern politics with me. These are the folks who are throwing newspapers in the garbage because of an ( Read more... )

The best thing about having a PSP is ripping old PS1 games and being able to play them on the go. Finally going to beat Suikoden II, thanks to my trusty handheld! Looking forward to replaying Grandia as well. I haven't really tried anything other than RPGs so far. Might try to rip Silent Hill and see how that plays on the small screen ( Read more... )

After grabbing some food on Queen out front of Nathan Phillips Square this evening, I walked up Yonge, stopping at Dundas Square. There were the usual folks sitting at the little metal tables and chairs that always seem to be around, but I spied a trio of cyclists just sitting on the ground chatting. Upon seeing this I thought to myself "What a ( Read more... )

At the end of March of this year, tenured physics professor Denis Rancourt was dismissed by the University of Ottawa under the pretext of having given too many high grades in his graduate classes. This unprecedented act of ignoring tenured status to fire a professor is of concern to academics, but also to the rest of Canadians as this is indicative ( Read more... )

Started reading Fargo Rock City by Chuck Klosterman today, despite the mountain of other stuff I've been reading, and it's been pretty funny. There seems to be a storybook tale of how Mid-West American kids grew up on 80's hard rock and heavy metal and I feel somewhat alienated from that as I didn't find out about metal as a real genre until Grade ( Read more... )

[1] Make a list of 6 things you can see without getting up.
1) A stack of books that threatens to topple and kill me in the night.
2) A big Akira poster
3) My headphones
4) An old copy of "God and the State" by Mikhail Bakunin
5) My PSP
6) My naval compass

[2] If any hairstyle in the world looked good on you, what would you want?
I like my long hair; I  ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about democracy and freedom lately. Let me explain a little ( Read more... )