BONUS FUN CHUCK NORRIS FACT: Before internet nerds decided that the Vin Diesel Facts meme was funnier with Chuck Norris, he was Kirk Cameron with a beard.
18
Nov
BONUS FUN CHUCK NORRIS FACT: Before internet nerds decided that the Vin Diesel Facts meme was funnier with Chuck Norris, he was Kirk Cameron with a beard.
18
Nov
Carla Hoffman was one of the first people to spread the word about my blog when I got kicked off of Livejournal in 2007, something I appreciated dearly. She is a semi-regular commenter here and she is good people.
I mention this because Carla and her husband Lance had the bad luck to get caught in the California wildfires, and who are currently still in very bad shape (with life-threatening burn damage) in the hospital, and who have not incidentally lost pretty much everything they own in said fire.
A Facebook group has been set up to keep people updated and to give information as to where people can pass along helpful moneys and gifts and so forth. If you don’t have Facebook, you can send a cheque, made out to “The Lance And Carla Burn Fund,” to:
Santa Barbara Bank & Trust
1483 East Valley Road
Montecito, CA 93108-1248
If you can afford to send a little money their way, they could really use it.
18
Nov
17
Nov
That my weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.
17
Nov
FLAPJACKS: So guess what I saw today?
ME: I am fairly sure I don’t want to guess.
FLAPJACKS: Aw, come on.
ME: The new Bond flick?
FLAPJACKS: Nope!
ME: Watchmen six months early?
FLAPJACKS: if that was the case, why would I spend valuable lording-it-over-you time making you guess?
ME: Porn?
FLAPJACKS: Other than porn.
ME: Then I have no idea.
FLAPJACKS: Tomcats!
ME: I thought you said it wasn’t porn.
FLAPJACKS: Google it.
continue reading "Things we talk about."
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15
Nov
Experts blame rise in violent offenses on kids being willing to mug people for iPods.
Choice line: “We propose that over the past two years, America may have experienced an iCrime wave.” (You just know that some thinktank dork came up with that and thought it was so clever.) Of course, you could just as easily correlate the last two years to the notable rise in child poverty or the suffering economy and with it falling incomes, all of which traditionally increase youth crime rates, but hey, let’s just blame those fancy doodads the kids like these days!
Hint: when people mug other people for iPods (like they did here), it’s not because they want an iPod – it’s because an iPod has a guaranteed resale value of $100 to $200 easy. Think of iPods as $100 bills. What mugger isn’t going to snatch a $100 bill? (Note that in that story the muggers also stole cellphones, which have the exact same obvious value isse as iPods do, but the study people didn’t say shit about cellphones.)
I would also like to point out that nobody ever mugs you for a Zune. ZUNE: like an iPod, except better in just about every conceivable way, not the least of which is not having to install fucking iTunes.
15
Nov
This post over at Ezra Klein’s, explaining some more reasons why letting GM go bankrupt is a bad idea.
14
Nov
“Trend predictor” who predicted the 1987 stock market crash, the Asian currency crisis and the subprime mortgage crisis predicts “food riots and tax revolts” by 2012.
(Of course, it is also worth pointing out that lots of other people predicted these things too. And for someone so notoriously good at predicting trends, why doesn’t he have at least a Wikipedia entry…?)
13
Nov
…because I only just finished watching it about half an hour ago.
Firstly, WTF is up with the top ten episode only being one hour long? Yes, I know the ratings have dropped since the show’s impressive debut, but A) it is competing against the major network fall lineup and B) guess what, CTV, the ratings will drop if you replay the fucking show twenty times on Muchmusic because people won’t feel the same need to watch the original performance. Now Muchmusic’s retarded “play ten shows twenty times per week” policy is killing shows on OTHER channels. Way to go, CTV and Muchmusic! You’re retards.
As to dances:
Izaak and Natalli: hip-hop. Izaak floats through the routine all airy-fairy like always; it’s just his style, his melding of contemporary and hip-hop, which would not be a problem except that he can’t stop doing that which is why the judges keep ragging on him, and rightfully. Natalli is her usual mix of intensity and not being quite on time, and since Izaak is his usual kind of boring the judges slobber over her. Unfortunately, the judges were so harsh on Izaak that I’m betting we see the backlash support vote show up and he stays around to make the show suck for another week.
Nico and Allie: waltz. Very showy and theatrical waltz, but entertaining despite some remarkably crap footwork at times (but only times). Nico is at this point the favorite to win the whole thing and everybody knows it; Allie is probably a ninety percent chance right now to make top four because she is cute and adorable and from the Maritimes, where their only claim to fame is producing reality show winners these days. Nothing here to hurt either of their chances.
Kaitlyn and Danny: mambo. This was a lot of fun and it was good to see Kaitlyn get a chance to dance with somebody who wasn’t Izaak. Danny, unfortunately, may have made a bad choice by doing a boring, slow-paced solo.
Arassay and Vincent: disco. Thoroughly entertaining, although we do get disco-level choppiness at times and the routine didn’t quite flow. But the two of them performed the fuck out of it and they both looked really good. I think both are safe.
Lisa and Miles: contemporary. First off, Sean Cheesman yelling at the judges from the audience at how Miles killed his routine was hilarious (“SYTYCD Canada: Where Everybody Gets Their Say”). I am of course not entirely skilled at judging contemporary dance but I thought Miles did fine and Lisa was excellent. The routine itself was also pretty good.
Should go home: Izaak and Natalli.
Will go home: Danny and Natalli.
13
Nov
If you live in Canada and have ever linked to anything in your life ever, then you probably want to go read my article at TheCourt.ca about the decision on Crookes v. Wikimedia, AKA “the linking case.”
Heck, if you live in a common-law country you probably want to read it too, because it won’t be binding precedent in your country but it’ll be persuasive.
13
Nov
All I do when I look at these guys is think of the Smurfs. Except, you know, in space. It’s mostly the “there’s only one girl, and with the exception of the leader they all look the same” thing, you know? Instead of wearing red trunks rather than white, the leader (who is named Lyle) has blonde hair rather than brown.
Maybe there’s one that wears glasses and constantly tells everybody “Lyle says that when we fight the Space Trolls of Planet Blorkon, we should fly in zeta formation.” “Lyle says that if you keep your laser in good shape, it’ll keep you in good shape.” And then the other Knights of the Galaxy get pissed off and kick him out an airlock, and he says something hilariously self-pitying.
I am willing to lay odds that at some point in their comics run, they fought an evil space wizard who had an evil space cat. I am not kidding in the slightest about this.
Of course, the Knights of the Galaxy are not three apples tall and do not sing as they travel from place to place. (Well, actually, who knows, maybe they did sing. It was the Silver Age.) They do not each have their own etoseric specialty. There is no Knight of the Galaxy who is particularly good with tools, nor any Knight of the Galaxy who is unceasingly vain (and probably gay), nor any Knight of the Galaxy who is a psychotic mad bomber type. So they are obviously not Smurfs.
Obviously.
I mean it.
Also, man, are they incredibly Aryans of the Future or what?
12
Nov
…but it is a flying car.
12
Nov
No, seriously, the designers of this game expect you to be able to “run” one hundred metres.
FUN FACT: If you somehow make it to 50 metres, there are hurdles.
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