Digitalism - Pogo It's been quite of a while since i could experience your brightness Now you've got a brighter smile and i think i'm going to like it Talking 'bout the better things, you know how to maximize...
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Sir Richard Branson in Casino Royale
Noticed him and looked into it. Sure enough, it's Branson. In 2002 or so I did a mockup of a public access WiFi portal to be used by Virgin that I know he saw. Haw haw....
autoplay off
heh. sorry about that. Karl mentioned it to me the other day and I thought I fixed it. Sometimes forget that every parameter in an object embedded is duplicated (and I turned off autoplay on only one of them). what...
Music is my...
Grab this nice long mix of last year's great tracks. This is the stuff I have been listening to mostly. This is the kind of stuff that gets me moving in tiny sticky basement nightclubs and swanky undergrounds in Tokyo...
Le Talkie-Walkie
de Serge Gainsbourg J’avais en ma possession un talkie-walkie Made in Japan Il ne m’en reste à présent qu’un grain de folie Un point c’est tout J’avais donné le même appareil à celle que j’aimais On s’appelait pour un...
So out of shape
(sorry about posting these... having fun ;) And the course I ran, mapped on GMap Pedometer. (Funny how mapping a jog like that brings the enormity of Tokyo down to a personal, human scale. If my lungs held out,...
Warming warning
Hiromy posted this photo comparing the same spot in Niigata one year apart almost to the day. Last year was unusually much snow; this year, unusually little. Key word here is "unusual"....
Alternate use
Not jogging, but a leisurely evening with friends visiting an exhibit and ChinaTown in Yokohama. (Train rides of course not account in distances.) Note: The iPod frequently "paused" the "workout"--sensing prolonged periods of immobility--hence it's shortness. The trip lasted...
Toasters
A general statement: "When people buy a toaster, they know it's probably not going to blow up when they plug it in. But when they buy a consumer device like the Nike+iPod kit, they have no idea whether the device...
Texture
Been wearing camo pants ($30 @ Uniqlo) for the last 3 weeks. I am suddenly comfortable with the idea of patterns on my legs. Subtle, ton-sur-ton patterns. Hmmmm... Aside, I was looking for "digital camo"... I didn't know where I...
this is the time on sprockets vere ve ... pump yoo ahp
After Jan called me a weakling in that heavy german accent that could only remind me of Hans und Franz ("you are litta giwly maan! we are gonna pump j00 up!"), because I said it was too cold to...
What the font?
I got an email this morning from "zazaaaaaaa" Azamit: Hey u Would u know anybody that can help me find the name of this font ?....huh!!?? Thx Daah, I thought... I *hate* font searching. Is it Helvetica? No, no, it's...
Today
all actionable. and these are not related to my main client/project. e-mails from that are sorted into 5 other folders, all with lists similarly long....
Stamen hiring
Stamen Design's most recent "Hiring designer" posting is almost as insane (but right on) as any "hiring!" post I've ever written in my head (yeah, I've done that, a few times). We want to see that you are comfortable making...
Mémoire courte
Je ne me souviens plus de ce que je croyais. Tant mieux. Beliefs are memories twisted out of shape by desires....
re-make-up-your-minder
Being indecisive gets you nothing. You may not always know what you want, and you may not always be sure you can handle it. But it's a safe bet that it's better to find out than to always wonder and...
beyond legit
talkin smack mikeIm going to have to get some klaxons, huh bopuci was just listenng to some.. not bad... trendy mikenew rave, here I come! bopucshudder hmm their cover of justin timberlake is not bad wow. very cool mikehehehe dick...
1 minute english
This morning, I picked up Jeremy, my erstwhile assistant who had been backpacking around Delhi for the last 2 weeks, at Shinjuku station. As soon as we boarded the Yamanote train, heading for our connection at Shibuya, a Berlitz commercial...
Twits
twit (twÄt) tr.v., twit·ted, twit·ting, twits. To taunt, ridicule, or tease, especially for embarrassing mistakes or faults. See synonyms at ridicule. n. The act or an instance of twitting. A reproach, gibe, or taunt.Slang. A foolishly annoying person. twitter twit'ter...
Seigneur
Forgot, way back when, to point out one of the nice and playful linguistic corollaries in the whole Web 2.0 / Esclavage 2.0 (Slavery 2.0) metaphor rant. In french, the master of a domain (DNS?), the guy who essentially and...
Updated string 2 color
I needed to update my string to hexcolor function to also check the luminosity before returning a color cause I was often getting colors too bright to be legible when applied to text on a white background. It now takes...
Quarto
Waiting for my laundry this evening, I went for a walk down St-Denis to find some food. Walking buy a "smart games" boutique, I decided to duck in and see if I could find... Quarto is the game Chicken...
Words of wisdom
Mike couldn't remember the source, but I needed to take this down one way or another: tell em what you're going to tell emtell emthen tell em what you told em However, now that I think of it, I do...
Everything part II
continuation of previous post They say there is opportunity in chaos. The chaos they speak of exists generally outside, and on the fringes of, "The System". Humanity, for better or worse, seeks always to order, structure, the chaos and...
Create a culture of design
This is exactly what I hope to set up around me, for my eventual team, modulo all the emphasis on games/gaming: pasta and vinegar � Creating a culture of design research 1. Create a space that encourages design research: “the...
So you wanna buy a computer eh?
From Revenue Canada: If you lease computers, cellular telephones, fax machines, and other equipment, you can deduct the percentage of the lease costs that reasonably relates to earning your fishing income. You can also deduct the percentage of air-time expenses...
Royducord
This afternoon, Boris zipped into downtown, to return a pair of heavenly soft flannel black wide-set chalkline pinstripe slacks because, frankly, he just can't get into slacks. Even though they were a size too small, the feeling of nakedness was...
Ooohhh
Phoenix If I Ever Feel Better They say an end can be a start Feels like I've been buried yet I'm still alive It's like a bad day that never ends I feel the chaos around me A thing I...
DuHL
another silly IM convo... #dumb dt{font-style:italic;}bopuca DHL delivery bounced today and looking at the tracking it left Sacramento yesterday...bopuci didnt order anythingbopucmaybe it's...bopuca brocoli pizza from Arnie!!!stemanshahabopuchehestemansEsti de Calisse de Sacramento! bopuchahahahastemanshehehehbopucseriously thobopucNOBODY ships as fast as DHL... i've NEVER...
GVO has won the 2006 Knight-Batten award for innovations in journalism
Big congrats to the team. This is a pretty big deal. The Knight-Batten awards were created by combining the existing "Batten Awards for Excellence in Civic Journalism" and a new endeavor by the Knight Foundation, of James Knight Batten, founder...
Borisu in Korea
Karl found this gallery/café in Seoul. In Japan I am sometimes called "Borisu". It's a written language thing....
Audio moblog halted
Since I got this Nokia N80 with WiFi, I've felt the very strong urge to use it to do multi-media mobile logging, and alot of it. Like, every moment of the day... ;) Yes. Mmmoblogging. Deal. Anyways, so I thought...
BoTone
This morning I received a parcel from Toys'R'Us. It was my copy of ElectroPlankton. What a treat. Trying to relax on the couch this evening, I noticed in one of the modes you could turn on a display ("A" button)...
Chu chu rockets
Just because I came across it in my video archives (dated April 2000). An old TV commercial for a Sega Dreamcast game. At the time it was one the first things that made me really think "whoa, what's going...
Beach Borg
"Everybody's Photos" on Flickr popped up this one. In it's "next" box was this one. The juxtaposition seemed obvious (even if my execution is terrible... ;) ooookay, back to work. :p...
Video blog
So I've started playing with Vimeo since I got the email-over-WiFi from my mobile to work... ;) You will notice the new thumbnails in the left side navbar on the homepage here. So far, clips from the counter of a...
Odd thematic concurrence
From the Montreal Craigslist "Pets" listing: - Pet caretaker for hire (Plateau) - 2 cats for adoption - moving out of country, please help (montreal) - BEWARE: A cat killer/torturer is loose in Montreal! (Montreal) - Sweet cat about 2...
You have nice boots
Actually, new bag. Thank you for suggestion of Sudahanp, Hiromi. (The title of this entry is an inside joke between some old old friends of mine back home. It is said with a heavy french canadian accent and is...
Moved
So if you see this, it means the move went well and we are live from my new server. Big.Evil.Grin....
Thoughts on this morning's train ride
There are 6 billion kinds of people in this world... Fast food slows you down. It is incorrect to say "A was drowned by you and you were drowned by B". More correct would be: "A allowed herself to be...
Exotic flavor
---- From: Dich Thuat cwe99@hn.vnn.vn Subject: DINH THUAT DA NGU Date: May 31, 2006 12:13:49 PM JST To: boris@ ---- Sven: you're getting email from vietnam... sweet... bopuc: spam from the 'Nam Sven: oh, hehe From Ho Chi Minh... to...
About the fitness ball-as-desk chair
I'm about 6 foot tall. For a comfortable seating experience I recommend the 55cm ball, inflated to be quite firm; or the 65cm ball, left kinda squooshy. They key being to have your knees bent at around 90 degrees when...
Inspiring, and well written, obituary
Last night, after returning to the Stamen offices with Eric Rodenbeck and his wife Nikki to pick up my bag, we ended up in a raucous and rolling conversation while finishing off a bottle of Veuve Clicquot. At one point,...
Say what?
According to the Rosetta Project, which is "Building an archive of all documented human languages" (though judging from the casing of their banner blurb, proper english escapes them), no one in Canada speaks english or french. Funny... I though those...
Classic
I know you know how this feels. (thx Stevey. Everyone, go see Stevey, he blogs neat stuff! Like robot sharks with frikkin' lazers! And that guy who makes ski area maps!)...
Peach, plum, pear
from "The Milk-Eyed Mender" by Joanna Newsom JoannaNewsom-PeachPlumPear.mp3 We speak in the store I'm a sensitive bore you seem markedly more and I'm oozing surprise But it's late in the day and you're well on your way what was golden...
re: 101 word short story contest - 9/6/95
"The year after the Last Century" Nobody expected not to wake up; so nobody didn't. No one thought it was strange and, even if one had thought of it, no one thought anything of it. The fact was, that nothing...
Notes from a bookstore visit
(CCA Bookstore, summer 2005) Aberrant presupposition & Aberrant decoding, Umberto Eco Eco reworks the standard communication model by expanding the message as a text subject on the side of the addresser to presuppositional influences (private biases, orienting circumstances, ambiguities relating...
Not my father's encyclopaedia
What should I do with my complete edition Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961, white leather bound, gold leaf trim, which I inherited? Perhaps ship it off and donate it to Jimmy Wales... or Tim Berners-Lee... or Google... ;)...
Yuki's t-shirts
Yuki is selling a bunch of her very cool t-shirts... T-Shirts by MaIL-s: We still have a lot left from the festival.....
Here we goooo
So like... where is everyone? (I will write more about this later... seriously weird stuff.)...
My black iPod nano for sale
Yup. One month old black 4Gig iPod nano. Perfect working condition, all original packaging included. Reasonable offers welcome. (To keep in mind: I paid $300.00 CND + tax, only 4 weeks ago) I'm gonna hold out for someone local who...
Noguchi
Stevey sent me this a few days ago and I chuckled and thought to myself "yup, that's how I file files on my computer" and moved on. Michal just wrote about it with some deeper pondering. Some quick thoughts of...
Self-lessness
A good artist is conscious of his environment. A great artist is unconscious of himself....
On *isms
Cynicism is, IMHO, the worst *ism there is, for it is the only *ism that cannot be cured with more education. That said, here is a nice set of guidelines for civil discourse....
Safe travels gaucho
So, Steven's probably sitting on the tarmac at Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport right now, beginning a 2 month trip to Cuba and, I suspect, to the core of himself. No, he's not going to go sit on the beach. He's...
Dude, yer waiting on a Dell!
Monitor update. So, they are out of stock and estimating another 5 days before they get them in. Then, if they do, it's a few more days to get it shipped to me. To make matters worse, this info is...
I can see!
(merci Francis!) Update: The so-called leader in e-commerce computer sales failed to send me the expected email confirmation, and upon logging back into the e-commerce site, it told me it had no record of my order. Calling the 1-800-WWW-DELL...
Enoshima Jump
Enoshima Jump, originally uploaded by mmdc. Jim's really hard on his photography skills. Needlessly. Wonderful shot. :)...
Enoshima Jump
Enoshima Jump, originally uploaded by mmdc. Jim's really hard on his photography skills. Needlessly. Wonderful shot. :)...
Be careful what you ...
I'm somewhat late delivering a project. I'm workin workin workin to get it done. The plan was to wrap it up tonight and start migrating parts before morning. I've been pulling all nighters for the last 2 months so it's...
Attention Siobhan
You just sent me an inquiry via my contact form. But you did not supply a valid email address. (I need to pop in some kind of validator...)...
Long ride
14 miles... 21 kilometers. Olympic Stadium and the "Biodome" geodesic dome on Ile Ste-Helene. We stopped for japanese dinner at Osaka on way home. :)...
Global Voices
So, we launched our redesign of Global Voices this evening. We absolutely had to "let 'er rip" today for various reasons, and as such we've allowed a few loose ends which I need to nail down over the coming days....
Slow motion cold
I've had a raw sore throat for well over two weeks now, and horking up small wads of mucous from the back of my throat. At first it was just annoying and, in typical fashion, I just bore it and...
Contact form snafu
I just realized my contact form was busted. I received three blanks from it recently and just now decided to investigate - and fix. Please, if you've tried contacting me via it in the last 2 weeks, give it one...
Been busy much?
I rarely talk about work here - and I will soon have a place to do only that - but I figure I should mention some of what's been keeping me busy lately. Summer started with a bang really. On...
Test two
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } -->NSFW ;) 007, originally uploaded by gzcjun. Steven: how come you're not in the pics?...
Just a thought
(to be expanded on) Is it not entirely possible that we are rapidly approaching the point in time where we will no longer have the resources and/or organizational stability to save ourselves from our then inevitable extinction? In other words,...
Eyes??
Hah, I just noticed the theme in my last two posts. What a totally unconscious coincidence......
Shady fellows in the environs
bopuc:what is aloft, George currency?sven:Oh, thou art aware how we proceed in this district.sven:How goes?bopuc:oh, merely striking the vixens and pleasing the strumpets...sven:Very well; carry on good fellow!bopuc:may I "notetaker-connected-by-electric-means" this conversation?sven:Indeed, daring would not I be to forbid thee...
Yes, Minister
It always seemed rather strange to even myself that I thoroughly enjoyed watching this British political satire situation comedy. The writing was simply superb, the characters equally profoundly witty, when not nit-witted, and the clever pace helped via laughter, one's...
Seekrit... aaagent man
Dav says he feels Agents will make a comeback. I agree 200%. We should talk Dav... ;)...
Funner
Steven dreams out loud about where he'd like to be someday: I managed to hitch a ride on the floating city 'GCS New Mosul' by agreeing to give my presentation 'Safeguarding your cyberprivacy - without slowing down your interface' at...
I'm not gullible
It's just that when you don't believe anything, everything becomes plausible/possible. ;) Water on Mars I hate Japan...
Firefox behavioral mystery solved
So, I had mentioned a while back that I was seemingly unable to get Firefox to run on my system. I had tried everything and basically given up. Then, "miraculously", one day, it worked. Now, I haven't switched from Saf...
What I Heard about Iraq
London Review of Books | Eliot Weinberger : What I Heard about Iraq Loooong and anger inducing....
Survivor
Warren from Plank just emailed to share the info that a former coworker of ours, Jen, was in Phuket, Thailand, on "the day". Her personal account....
I dropped it off
I dropped off my car at the VW dealership. (The passenger side window dropped into the door again and my mechanic said I might as well go to the dealer. This apparently is a VERY common problem for Mark V...
Happy merry
"Je ne discute pas le principe, je dis simplement ceci: ce n'est pas le moment." "I am not disputing the principle, I am simply saying this: now is not the time."...
Inexplicable mushy thought of the day.
The greater your fear of losing me the tighter you hold on to me the more forcefully I will implore you to let go. Hold me as if we are never to be apart so that we may never be....
Open Source Religion
"Release early, release often." (disclaimer: many of the facts - names of cultures, places, people and dates - are not terribly known to me. I am not a scholar, I'm a hobbyist.) There exists a fantastic Open Source project...
Headed out
to Chinatown for a Pho. Decided to take the camera along and play with some long exposure shots (something I have wanted to do... pretty much all my life...) Some very nice results. This narcissistic one being just the...
Sa photo préfèrée
The Prairies, looking west, MB, 1858 Humphrey Lloyd Hime 1858, 19th century Mono no aware - Áâ©„ÅÆÂìÄ„Çå "Je l'ai toujours sur moi", avait-il dit non sans quelque g√™ne, comme s'il était puéril de garder constamment près de soi ce...
How am I not myself?
- Do I bring my own chains? - We always do... I ‚ô• Huckabees‚òÖ‚òÖ‚òÖ‚òÖ‚òÖ...
[this is aaron]
Because, while I can respect it, Aaron's quiet, "I'll be over here" demeanor drives me batty sometimes, I am going to take license and point out his freshly published résumé. While I'd love to expound on how he's actually publishing...
email UI
email has been much on my mind again lately. The fact that no email reader (client, MUA, etc) does things the way I'd like is frustrating, and many powerusers I have spoken to agree... This evening I hooked up with...
I'm an Iraqiii in New Yooork
i want to redo my cityscape panoramics, get a 360° of the city from the empire state Me: "hey, you!... St: Wear a big puffy jacket with your arms inside, and run in circles yelling "ALAHUU ACKBAR!!!!"
Lost in connections
Just noticed that in his track "God Only Knows" off of Fantasma, Cornelius samples The Jesus & Mary Chain's "Just Like Honey", which is the closing track of Lost In Translation as the credits begin to roll.
Albert's wisdom
"I'm all for good judgment, but bring on the bad decisions!""When in doubt, make a mistake.""Oh yeah? You wanna piece of me?
A9 leveraging Amazon
You don't need to do anything to get this discount except keep using A9.com as your regular search engine.We don't advertise this additional discount that we give in exchange for using A9.com, so if you want your friends to know about it, please tell them.... To see how this works, do some A9 searches from your computer at work and then sign in to A9.com from your computer at home.How can we afford this additional π/2% discount?Sponsored links revenue -from the small text-based ads on A9.com and Amazon.com search results pages -will help offset costs we incur through the Rewards promotion.
Memories of perceptions
The first thing that comes into my head, you mean?Guildenstern: No--the first thing you remember.Rosencrantz: Ah.... What's the first thing you remember after all the things you've forgotten?Rosencrantz: Oh, I see.
More thoughts on Björk, Medúlla and the music biz
Context: Previous Björk entry: Björk's Pirate Flag Björk.com Medúlla Interview This Blog Sits at the: Björk: Shapes, not patterns Voir.ca - Le chant des possibles (fr) First of all, Medúlla is still standing at the gates of my ear, ring the bell hoping to get into my head.... ;) Second, as far as being "Avant Garde" or "fresh and new", lest it be noted that many have done technically the same thing (produced music from "found sounds"), not least of all Björk collaborators Matmos.
Smaller and smaller
Reading the IHT article on Ars Electronica, mildly surprised (not really) by how much verbiage Joi gets in it.
Old man
Or: "Helping folks with their webpages since 1995!" The Papa Page I would also like to thank Boris Anthony for his ongoing support and advice on technical and layout matters. -Marcel Mitran, 24th of September,1995 Yeah yeah yeah, I am...
"UN travel documents for a stateless person"
Bloomberg: Bobby Fischer wants to give up his US citizenship Onetime world chess champion Bobby Fischer has submitted to the U.S. embassy in Tokyo a letter of intent to renounce his U.S. citizenship, said John Bosnitch, the head of the...
Laundry?
Just logged into one of my online banking accounts whereupon I was greeted with a quick questionaire. I wonder what response this would get me......
Flexible rate experiment
Some context: I do freelance web specialist work: web design, architecture, etc... I'll often take on small jobs for extra disposable income (or paying off the debts incurred from thinking I have disposable income... heh.) You know, those little brochure-type...
Dawn
Couldn't fall asleep. My bedroom is all white, cream to be specific, teak wood and black leather. The curtain is a thin pale yellow. I sleep in warm glowing clouds. When I sleep....
Strange cold
It is 4:53am, Saturday morning. This past Monday afternoon I felt the hallmark scratch at the back of my throat which invariably signals that I have passed the point of no return and I will now spend at least a...
Psst, wanna buy a talking car?
Thursday, July 22, 2004 3:50:53 PM America/Montreal 03:50:53PM Me http://cgi.liveauctions.e...98346&category=12527# Steve wikkid! you bidding? Me u on crack? Steve heh we can put our money together and buy it Me suuure Steve you can drive it during the week...
Avoid incurring obligations
Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom 47. Avoid incurring obligations. This is one of the chief aims of prudence. People of great ability keep extremes far apart, so that there is a long distance between them. They always keep...
Take me home
The weirdest thing about this is that the marketing company that came up with this silliness is located two blocks from where I live. The bottle reads: "My values are those of a generation that has taken control of...
An example
Here is an example of information hunting and establishing connections between bits of data online. This story will remain intentionally vague and short on specific URLs for two reasons: to protect the individual's privacy and to keep my Google rank...
Zatoichi
Takeshi "Beat" Kitano as Zatoichi, the legendary wandering blind swordsman. What a riot! I liked it a lot, despite the totally absurd tap dancing routine. ;)...
Mi-Ne no longer
In a quiet backstreet of Kyoto, after visiting a temple there last year, I came across one of innumerable cigarette vending machines. My eye was caught by the aesthetic beauty of a single pack displayed. A bronze box, silver...
Scary thought
MJ: Well... we have come to the conclusion that tornados and the like must have tastebuds. KB: Do go on. MJ: And that trailer parks must taste like bacon....
Rastafarwe
I am wearing this t-shirt by one Geoff McFetridge, at this moment, as a pot of pho bo (vietnamese beef broth) simmers in the kitchen. Roast onions, garlic and ginger under broiler until burnt. Cover beef bones with water...
On my own advice
I awoke this morning thinking of a friend who seems to be at one of those crossroads in his life where the next incarnation of himself is unsure. I thought of what advice I could possibly give him. Perhaps because...
Bad timing
It is 8:30pm and I am so hungry I am shaking. Problem is I decided to do a complete scrub down of my kitchen and the floor is still wet, the furniture still packed into my living room and the...
Meshing storylines from my life
There are narratives in my life that have quietly threaded along in the background, closely following me. Slowly parts of these stories have meshed into my "real life", and this morning another part intersected for the second time with my...
Down to earth
Telegraph | News | 'Buddha' sweet has sour taste in Japan I'd like to think that Buddha was a down-to-earth kinda guy, who occasionally DID pick his nose... and who most likely would laugh at such things. En-lighten up people!...
Who, what, when, where and why, and the death of the author
After reading Foucault's short piece "Author Function", I thought the following. Take any expression, be it a text, a song, a painting, and label it "The What". Label the author (composer, painter, etc) "The Who", and and attach it as...
Interconnectedness and patterns, knowledge and freedom
Mark Federman, over at the McLuhan Program, offers up this great entry. While the framework of his entry is based on how the limitations on media use that the RIAA (and MPAA) are seeking will effectively limit access to information...
Brilliant t-shirt folding technique
It looks a bit tricky but by the second or third try you too will be a master t-shirt folder. Try it. Now. Thanks Jim!...
Sweet
From A girl in Tokyo: News of love From Yahoo!Japan News (This page contains Japanese) It is very heart warming, lovely news. April 20, Kyoto: A female swallow fell down from the nest and then didn't move for a while....
Quote of the day
"I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. And I have failed over and over...
Can't wait to pack
Just picked up a new suitcase. (Mine is nicer than the one shown... mostly black with a red trim.) The little forest green piece of crap I've been carrying around just wasn't cutting it. Besides this new one is almost...
While in Austin
Others took pictures of me: Justin snapped this moment with Cory. Min Jung Kim going crazy with the lipstick. Group photo in Bruce Sterling's washroom for The Mirror Project Dav Coleman's gallery of SxSW2004. Thanks Dav! Jon Lebkowsky's Gallery has...
Learning Kana from a monkey... or two
In San Francisco I picked up this book. While it is definitly playful and aimed at children, it is a wonderfully effective way to learn Hiragana. (The bookstore had copies of it in both the "Learn Japanese" and "Children's"...
That what is true for you
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all...that is genius... A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his...
Right, right.. I had forgotten what we were all doing here...
"correct, we are advancing civilization so that we might get obliterated by an asteroid" (Overheard in #joiito)...
Skewed logic
Nika: I only blog from work. I don't even have a computer at home! Aaron: Hm. Me: If I didn't have a computer at home, I'd kill myself. Silence Maciej: I'd just go out and buy one... Does that...
This phone will self destruct in 10 seconds
Imagine this was your ringtone... "Oh! My phone! It is ringing! I must answer it!" Do-do-doooo "Where is my phone? I must find it! The song is coming from..." Doom-doom-doom-doom... "Will I make it!? Will I be too late! I...
One ringtone to, in the darkness, bind them
This would drive me sailing clear over the edge. Make sure to listen to the whole thing... It starts out quite appropirately, as a sweetly rythmic tonal melody and WHAM! You best make sure to answer that phone before it...
Busy busy
I use the excellent Codetek VirtualDesktop Pro. Without it I think I'd have gone totally insane ages ago. Some days, however, I think it contributes to my encroaching insanity. Nobody should have this many apps and windows open at...
For the impatient...
First upload to my gallery of California trip pictures. Will do more when i get back home. Stage two of the road trip (Los Angeles to San Francisco) involved almost plunging into the Pacific off of Highway 1 numerous times,...
Over my neighbor's shoulders
(See previous entry's picture.) An extremely strong urge when surrounded by laptops is to look over at your neighbor's Desktops and read their notes, emails, IMs......
The sound of a hundred keyboards
California ballroom sprinkled by a light spring rain. The tap tap tap of a hundred keyboards typing....
Flying coïncidence
Tomorrow, all members of my immediate family will be airborne. My mother back home to Tampa, from Caracas. My sister and nephew to meet her in Tampa. And of course me to San Diego. Weird....
On unfashionalble sources
I picked up a very large but seemingly very interesting book this afternoon at one of these liquidation bookstores. Five hundred plus pages about democracy; it's history and what "the trouble is" with it. I sat down and started reading...
Promise
" href="http://www.planetaryexploration.net/patriot/abbey.html">Edward Abbey: One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am -- a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and...
Gonna be somewhat busy
Yeah. I'll be in and out of town, two to three days at a time, for at least the next two weeks. Balancing this with my other obligations will be tricky but doable. The drive to Burlington is not...
Forgotten weblog entry
I had started to compose a really good entry in my head sometime today... or was it yesterday? Well actually, this happens about four or five times a day, everyday, SO, anyways, yeah... I forgot to actually type it up...
Green Mountains
I'm off roadtripping till maybe Sunday. Burlington tonight and tomorrow and perhaps swing back up to Stevey's cottage Saturday and hit Jay Peak on Sunday for some snowboarding. I need this bad. I am so looking forward to the conversations,...
Collapsing
We have relationships with every person we meet/know. We have relationship networks which connect all these people to us and to each other. We manage relationships by being nodes and establishing identities (identity facets). So if we think of ourseleves...
Happy happy
I wanted to send out some sort of holiday greeting to my friends, but it is so difficult in today's world to know exactly what to say without offending someone. So I met with my attorney today, and on...
I lied and the Ville de Montreal are jerkoffs
I ended last night's entry about the whole snowclearing/parking fiasco by stating that by 3am my street had been cleared. This was a lie; a bit of poetic license I exercised to give the story a nice ending. Not to...
Oh I so didn't need this though
After the trek up Mount Royal, I came back to see that the signs were up indicating the snowplows would be clearing the side of the street I was parked on, sometime between 7pm and 7am. So I shoveled...
Oh I needed that
I haven't gone jogging since about mid-October. Two months, and I've been feeling it. As soon as I woke up today (at 2pm) I decided I'd go Up Mount Royal, in the Snow. Pictures! Especially worthwhile is comparing some of...
Cable
Today I took some drastic first steps. Today, I switched from Bell Sympatico DSL to Videotron Cable Internet access. So far, the speed increase is, to put it mildly, reality-bending. I also switched from crappy old normal cable TV to...
Lawnmower Man meets the Puppet Master
Part of an e-mail exchange with Aaron: > I WANT what Kevin Warwick is working on! Hrm... Garr... :\ Ah come on, Boris. I know Kevin's all about thinking inside the body but try thinking outside the blog. You want...
Online travel booking
I don't understand. I must be missing something. All the advertising, all the hype, all the talk... How convenient and money saving, etc... For example, online, I cannot find a flight to Tokyo for under $4000CND. $4000CND!! Who in their...
Human genome anyone?
Ensembl Downloads Ensembl presents up-to-date sequence data and the best possible annotation for metazoan genomes. Available now arehuman, mouse, rat, fugu, zebrafish, mosquito, Drosophila, C. elegans, and C. briggsae, Others will be added soon. I am nowhere near capable of...
Layin' low
Not much to report really. I just rebuilt Joi Ito's Web with the new templates I have been working on. I'll be doing the same to Joi's japanese blog soon... maybe even later tonight. At this point, not only does...
It's Oh So Quiet
by †Bjork Shhhh ,Shhhh It's , oh, so quiet It's , oh, so still You're all alone And so peaceful until ... You fall in love Zing boom The sky up above Zing boom Is caving in Wow bam You've...
IKEA is swedish for...
brandchannel.com | IKEA Brand | Furniture Retailers Ingvar Kamprad founded the company in Sweden in 1943. He named his fledgling business by using his initials and tacking on the first letters in Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd, the farm and village where...
IKEA is swedish for...
brandchannel.com | IKEA Brand | Furniture Retailers Ingvar Kamprad founded the company in Sweden in 1943. He named his fledgling business by using his initials and tacking on the first letters in Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd, the farm and village where...
Overheard in a dark place
Yo no naka tadashii koto bakari de wa arimasen. O-ki wo tsukete. "In the world there are more than just good things. Take care"...
Orgelet?
The pharmacist called it an "orgelet", the french word for "sty". Reading up on it however, and seeing some nasty pictures, I'm not so sure that's what it is. We'll see....
Sunday stroll
(Bain Lesvèque - Rue Marianne Est - Built in 1908, or so it says.) I took a walk this afternoon through the eastern part of The Plateau. It's an area I have been driving through every Sunday for the...
Close your eyes
She closed her eyes as the unagi passed her lips, into her mouth. - "Mmmmmm" she let out. - "What did you see?" I askd as her moment ended. - "What did I see?" - "Yes, what did you see?...
ps -ax
For years I've been playing with the idea that man created the computer in his own image. Memory, I/O, software, hardware, etc. Most of my friends have heard about the "scripts" I've "written" and "run as background processes" in my...
Memorisation
Very interesting. It seems that *somebody* at the University of Alberta refuses to memorise my URL... This person, let's call him "N", rather remember that he can find me in a Google or Yahoo Search if he queries for my...
Indigo
A quick stop at the patisserie across the street afforded me one again a brief conversation with an old friend. A former english professor from college, whom I never had as a classroom teacher but with whom I'd spent some...
Snow day
I don't know how much fell but it hasn't stopped since last night. Shoveling this out will take upwards of a half an hour, at least. It'll wait till tomorrow: from experience I know that the snowplows will come...
Switch!
Ok, switched to MT tonight. Bear with the look until I can squeeze some time to change me templates... :)...
E-Commerce/Bricks-and-mortar
The U.S. electronics megachain "Circuit City" has a brilliant feature in it's online store. It allows you to pick physical store locations near you and, as you browse around the site and look at products, it will tell you if...
Charlie Clements, MD: A Report from Iraq
Bombing the Starving, Sick & Homeless Mark Federman, of the McLuhan Program at U of T, commented as follows:His Report from Iraq is both heart-wrenching and serves as a dire warning to the Western World about the Reversal effects we...
Logging and annotating what one's reading
'PR'-otaku: Logging and annotating William Gibson's 'Pattern Recognition' (Joe Clark: fawny.org) This is interesting mainly because I started taking notes of books I read on a Wiki site I have. But looking at this makes me thing we need a...
Cars
Oh me oh my... My first car was an '83 Subaru GL (2 door sedan). I loved it. I killed it. I was so stupid. Last fall, parked across the street from my appartment, lo and behold, an '83 Subaru...
I-rey!
Mi iPod be a natty congo mon! Both me iPod and me iTunes seem to have a predilection for Bob Marley. The Pod currently has about 4Gigs of various MP3's on it, 400megs of which is Marley. In shuffle mode,...
Foyle's War
I guess you could say I'm a bit of a World War II buff. Nothing too in-depth, mind you: I don't know any dates by heart or any such thing. It's mainly due to the fact that when the kids...
Silly goose
While at the faubourgh Ste-Catherine yesterday afternoon, I bought some ham. Or so I thought. After paying for the "ham", I walked over to the SAQ ("Société des Alcools de Québec" - government body that sells all booze here) to...
Potholes?
No sir. These are not potholes; these are tire shredders. The radical warm up and rain of the last few days has caused severe frost heaves and asphalt decay. It doesn't help that Quebec's road-makers seemingly have NO know-how when...
Sellout post
I thought of a bunch of interesting things to post this weekend and never did. Now they are gone. Obliterated by a staff dinner and party last night. I don't know how I got home last night, or when... or...
Semiotics
Victoria College Academic ProgramSemiotics is the science of communication and sign systems, in short, of the ways people understand phenomena and organize them mentally, and of the ways in which they devise means for transmitting that understanding and for sharing...
Congress Meets Wall Street
State of the Union Poster "How Big Corporate Campaign Contributors are Buying America...And What the Rest of Us Pay"...
Crookedness
I got a letter today from the Internet Search Registry. A *real* letter, as in "in an enveloppe, with a stamp in my mailbox" It's not a letter so much as it is a "bill", or rather, in the words...
I killed my Safari
A friend wondered if it was possible to have Safari's built in google search do it's thing on google.ca instead of google.com. So I searched the contents of the Safari package, found the instances of google.com in "/Safari/contents/MacOS/Safari" and replaced...
Pi
Watched "p" for the second time last night... "Eleven seventeen, note to self: <strumming lips> WOOLOOWOOLOOWOOLOO</strumming lips>" Hehehehehe. Still unimpressed with this movie. Bad acting throughout (except for that main Hassid character), overly dramatic, and I take issue with the...
He danced on snow.
Sad news. This man. Craig Kelly. Not only was he the Michael Jordan, Tony Hawk of snowboarding. Not only was he four time World Champion. He was also a truly remarkable human being. I have never forgotten, nor will I...
My comment
On this thread. Hrm... an OS with all apps integrated, apps "as OS". What I think we should do here is step back a moment and look at our computers as a tool, and not a tool box. Nevermind the...
Repeat after me.
The word "cloaca" has been popping up in my head all morning. Literally. It'll just "pop up"... cloaca cloaca cloaca... For some reason I thought it was that little bulbous thing at the back of one's throat... So just before...
Velocity
Despite the stack of "theory" books I want to get to, as well as the two recently gifted Murakami novels (thank you!), I sat down with an earlier acquisition which was still staring at me from the coffee table: "You...
Bread in a glass
I saw a TV commercial last night about getting St-Patrick's Day to be a national holiday. It ended with "Imagine, a day off for St-Patty's! Now who do you think came up with that? ..." ... And then they flash...
Second wind
After a sleepy day spent meeting a new friend for coffees, watching "Pi" and just generally lazing about and getting nothing much done, I try to go to sleep at 1am. Wouldn't you know it, that's when I wake up....
Fortune cookie mishap...
Chinese buffet for lunch with co-workers today. "You will get what you want through your charm and personality." Never has there been a greater case of a fortune cookie fortune being given to the wrong person. At least that was...
Television
I just finished watching the last installment of "Tuning In: 50 years on the CBC" (http://www.cbc.ca/tv50th/tuningin/index.html) hosted by that guy there... whatshisname... Rick Mercer, right. Realy quite enjoyable! I even felt nostalgic... and proud! That's saying alot for me, actually....
And now this...
I've been very quiet lately. Languishing in a limboish haze of holiday partying and extreme procrastination. The site I've been obsessing over for the last 2 to 3 months is ever so near to completion, and has been a painful...
The Night Before Christmas 2002
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the land, not a critic was stirring, for stirring was banned. A thousand brown prisoners, snug in their cells, all held without charges or tinsel or bells; and mamma was wrapped in...
Technorati: Sidebar
Technorati: Sidebar When you find an interesting site or blog, simply cut-and-paste the URL into the Technorati sidebar, and get an up-to-date list of blogs that link to that URL. It's like getting instant reviews and commentary on what's going...
Oh damn.. somebody stop me...
Somebody remind me how utterly financially irresponsible it would be of me to go and buy an iBook right now. or a T68i. Argh!!! Damn you hyperconsumerism!!!...
The power of voice
Phonetic searching. All we need is IO's to this and integrate it with OS's... and polish off voice recognition software and bingo: bye bye keyboard!...
High-pitched whine
I had a root canal done about 4 months ago. Now contrary to what I'd been told, it was a totally painless affair. Chalk it up to state-of-the-art dentistry I guess. Anyways, point is that ever since I've had discomfort...
In the epicenter
I truly don't know what got into me. Wait, that's not true; I do. It's not like I bought everybody drinks. Wait, that's not true either; I did. You know when everything just comes together? When everything you know and...
Finding files by their contents
From The Mac OS X Help: The Finder can search the contents of files for specific text. To search for the content of items, choose Find from the File menu. Type the word or phrase you want to search for...
"Process Is More Important Than Results."
[...] to achieve results, you've got to do something.† If you do something, you'll make mistakes.† Mistakes are, by definition, a process violation. The context is public service (government mainly), but it's interesting to consider it outside of that....
Cruelty
Just chatting with a friend at one of the major New York "Webdesign companies" (if you can call them that nowadays), which recently got bought by a mormon compnay (name changed to protect the innocent): Mustahfa says: The funny thing...
GUI design and dumplings
Here I am agonising over how to present the reeeeaaams of data the engineers want to display on the "wireless bridge stats" screen of our product's web-based GUI (which I am the Lord and Master of, thank you very much).....
Well put...
A comment to a blog posting about MBTI Thinking, but because I'm raised by a psychologist who emphasised the importance of being aware of other people's feelings I as a very rational thinking child added "emotions" as a datatype to...
Just what I was waiting for
Ananova - Tattooing robot unveiled at hi-tech trade fair Brilliant! Unique, automated, moderne und Östereichisch! Z'is ja'r a Vahnzinn!...
Favorites
I was asked this morning what my favorite {something} is. Thought about it for all of 10 seconds and realised that I don't have a favorite anything. 10 more seconds and I came up with these thoughts: - too much...
Monday mooonday
Ok, I'm in a dastardly mood today. Has to do with going on a bender all weekend and basically wasting alot of time recovering from the hangovers. And then I have to read this. (By way of Doc who also...
Gimme gimme!
I want a combination Apple iPod and SonyEricsson T68i (WITH the "CommunicCAM" camera... and why not a CHA-30 digital pen). First let's mention the obvious reasons: one device for portable music, cellphone, contacts, calendaring, file storage and little digital pictures....
Sleeplessness
Because sniffles asked for people's experiences with various degrees of insomnia... :) I am one of these low metabolism people... If I don't keep myself in check I could possibly sleep my life away as a hunk of flesh comfortably...
Dedication
I dedicate any and all endeavors I may yet accomplish to my father and mother. To my father, the memory of whose sparse use of words, humility, patience and honesty are a life-long inspiration to learn, teach and seek the...
Communication / Learning via patterns
Arranging data objects in a pattern. Learning to speak/understand a language this way. specific sound pattern = meanings specific sound pattern -> reference of experience (read out loud, sounding out each "aural data object" [syllable] slowly, repeat each line at...
Wheels within wheels.
--> Ten years ago, the summer between highschool and CEGEP (a college-like construct of the Quebec education system... essentially it represents 2-3 years between highschool and university) I spent in my '83 Subaru GL in the parking lot of...
Perfect Memory
About a month ago I started thinking about developping a web-based system for myself which I dubbed "Perfect Memory"... The idea being that I would start capturing any and all text based communication (emails, instant messages), writings (quick thoughts, articles,...
Jaunt to Toronto
I am off to Toronto tomorrow till Thursday. I have one friend in TO and I hardly expect him to be at my beck and call sooo... If anyone wants to hook up for a coffee/drink/meal/walk and chat about whatever...
Quotes from Naz
Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is only stupid. - Heinrich Heine Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. - Groucho Marx It was a blonde. A blonde to make...
Sugar Daddy
About 2 weeks ago I ran out of sugar. The regular white granular kind. Not a huge surprise but nothing I had anticipated either seeing as I barely use sugar at all. In fact I use it almost exclusively for...
Quick thought
"Time is the corkboard to which we pin the events of our lives." Date and time stamps are essential for perfect memory for they add a useful and universally accepted dimension to the indexing and searching features of our mind....
Let me write that down...
(I was debating whether or not I should give the full context of this line, and decided that I will give a minimal explanation here, and the full context will appear in a comment to this posting.) Heard on a...
truth and lies?
(originally posted as a comment on Dandruff. ) The very first thing I did the very first time I sat at a computer with DTP sofware (Aldus Pagemaker), was print out a sheet which looked very much like this and...
YUL!
Sooooo... The Queen of Lazy Webmasters has finally updated the YUL list and lo and behold there I am. Thank you Bill, if that's your real name... (Willhelmina? Hmmm)...
Save MY money?
Ok... So I got an ING Direct savings account cause that dutch guy just so inspires confidence. Save YOUR money! Anyhoot. Today I recieved my ING Direct debit card, sos I can get to MY money from any Interac terminal....
Top Ten "Must Avoid" costumes:
( from a japantoday.com reader ) 10. Bomb-strapped Chechen Rebel Chick 9. Gay Atheist Boy Scout 8. Superman in a Wheelchair 7. Saddam Hussein 6. Invisible Clothes Man 5. George Bush 4. Pantsless Priest 3. Japan Tobacco Industry Lobbyist 2....
Surveillance
At work today I was shown a web-based interface to a video-camera surveillance system (via some seemingly proprietary browser plug-in, mind you, but that's hardly the point). We accessed a live camera in a grocery store in the West-Island. We...
Sigh...
I tried to do this layout in CSS... I am a failure... Could not get the damn divs to align center. I hacked and hacked and hacked away at antipixel's code, but it just wouldn't do it for me. So...
tailored shirts!?
Can somebody please let me in on this little bit of fashion necessity? It seems I keep buying shirts that are meant for... bellied... men. These things billow like sails in the wind when untucked. And yet, I see the...
Did I mention I am a "geeque"?
Yeah. Web. Since '96. So I guess I'll be adding "categories" to this blog... and start ranting and raving about "web standards" and Mozilla... and IA and UE and UI ad nauseum... I might as well. Have tons to say......
Blaaahgh
Wow, i am thoroughly depressed. I haven't been this down in ages. I hate this damn job; I feel trapped, without any challenge and no advancement. I have to sell this car. It's sucking me dry. If you ever need...
Social Skillz
First of all I must say I am, by nature, a loner. However I do have social skills and am quite sociable. I have many friends of all different walks of life who have gone so far as to tell...
General Tao's Chicken Balls
All of a sudden it isn't so flattering to have a dish named after you anymore......
You're just arguing over semantics...
I think I hear this statement more often than any other conversational opt-out; and it always has the same effect of turning my crank. In communication, it is of utmost importance to be as unambiguous as possible. This means, among...
L'amour à la robote
Un homme écrit à la machine une lettre d'amour et la machine répond à l'homme et à la main et à la place de la destinataire Elle est tellement perfectionnée la machine la machine à laver les chèques et...
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