Thinking of Indie Music? ha ha

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Indie Music. The most important aspect of the indie music culture is discovering bands that nobody else likes. But how's an over-educated 32 year-old to decide between all of the weirdly named

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What the Heck am I reading? - pt. 6

I think when we look at the summer weather and say, "Doesn't this weather suck?" we should in the next breath be thinking about the Inuit who would be saying, "Doesn't this weather really suck?"The video gives you an idea of what he's writing about.

What the Heck am I reading? pt. 5

This one put me back into the sci/fi head space.

It's a bit old, but who cares, because the ideas are very intriguing. The reason I picked it up was because Allen Steele, author of Coyote, mentioned it in his reading lists at the back of his series.

It is economically feasible, for instance, to establish a fleet of low-orbital, reusable space craft for the purpose of travelling from place to place on earth. Can you imagine flying to Australia in 45 minutes?

The chapters on terraformation, or changing a planet to make it suitable for habitation, are really stretching my imagination. Who would have thought that Mars could become habitable if you could warm up the planet a few degrees using a giant mirror, and by adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere?

Microsoft School of Counting

Let's see...

First comes 3.1
Then... 95
After that... 98
Next? 2000
And then... ME
Followed by... XP
Then: Vista!
And of course after that we have .... (fanfare please) 7!

It makes perfect sense, don't you think? 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7

Not getting excited about Twitter? For good reason

Now that I know what a narcissist is I'm glad I did so crappy on the test!

Check out this graphic (click to enlarge) -->


"narcissist" –noun

inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity.

Psychoanalysis. erotic gratification derived from admiration of one's own physical or mental attributes, being a normal condition at the infantile level of personality development

What the Heck am I reading? pt. 4

Just finished this one last night. Another book about the Arctic, sailors and high adventure. What is it with me and the Arctic?

A great lesson on the changes wrought in Inuit life on Baffin Island during the great whaling era of the late 1800s. My sense of understanding about Inuit culture has greatly increased.

James Houston lived in the Arctic from 1948 to 1962, and was largely responsible for introducing Inuit art to the rest of the country. He has written several other books about his time in the Arctic.

Tornados Happen in Ontario

This is what happened last Thursday in Vaughan, a suburb just north of Toronto.

That string of storms just brushed by Hamilton, we got lucky this time.

44 houses there are beyond repair.

I'll bet these are two of them!