Oct 31 2008
CBC Radio Wants Us
Phillip and I have been contacted by a local CBC Radio producer about a story idea. That’s all I can tell ya! I’ll post more about it when I can (if I can).
Update: The story was about scotch!
Archive for October, 2008
Oct 31 2008
William Wharton, 1925-2008
As a commenter noted on my previous post, William Wharton, Author, Dies at 82:
William Wharton, a successful impressionist painter who at 53 published his first novel, “Birdy,” which won a National Book Award, became a critically acclaimed movie and led to a dozen more books, died Wednesday in Encinitas, Calif. He was 82.
Phillip and I [...]
Oct 31 2008
How Long To Figure Out Your Password?
Password Brute Force Calculator provides an estimate on how long a computer would take to figure out (i.e. crack).
Your password is 13 characters long and has 367,034,448,698,777,600 combinations.
It takes 7,121,405.58 hours or 296,725.23 days to crack your password on computer that tries 25,769,803,776 passwords per hour.
Try your bank PIN!
(via LifeHacker)
Oct 27 2008
Skype - an early review
I have a few friends living overseas. Calling them long-distance ain’t cheap. So I installed Skype today. And guess what? It works. I talked to a friend of mine in France and although there was a slight delay in the signal, it was negligible. We started with a regular audio call, no video feed. The [...]
Oct 26 2008
Tearing Down a Shed
A couple bozos came over the other day and tore down the shed behind my house. Of course they video taped themselves.
Oct 25 2008
Bob Dylan - The Cairns Collection Vol. 3
I resequenced my favourite tracks from Bob Dylan’s Tell Tale Signs on to a single CD (or 80-minute playlist). I offer it up for the few who still like listening to CDs as albums without random play.
1. Tell Ol’ Bill
2. Dreamin’ of You
3. Everything is Broken
4. Mississippi (#1)
5. Most of the Time
6. Dignity (piano)
7. Dignity
8. [...]
Oct 24 2008
Good Health Stinks
Flatulence’s stink may be linked to lower blood pressure:
The gas responsible for the foul odour of flatulence and rotten eggs may play an important role in regulating blood pressure, Canadian researchers say in a study released Friday.
The findings could lead to new treatments for high blood pressure in humans, said the study authors.
Makes you wonder [...]
Oct 24 2008
Black Ice, AC/DC’s New Album
I’m sick and tired of people saying that we put out 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we’ve put out 12 albums that sound exactly the same.
- Angus Young, AC/DC
That’s an old quote; make that 17 albums!
Their new album is called Black Ice, and I haven’t heard anything from it since I [...]
Oct 23 2008
Atheism is a Non-prophet Organisation
Atheist Bus Campaign for the British Humanist Association:
AtheistCampaign.org began when comedy writer Ariane Sherine saw an advert on a London bus featuring the Bible quote, “When the Son of Man comes, will He find Faith on this Earth?” [sic]. A website URL ran underneath the quote, and when Sherine visited the site she learned that, [...]
Oct 20 2008
Irishtown Park In Moncton, NB
Our Sunday morning trek was in a park we never visited before: Irishtown Park, located just outside Moncton’s city limit to the North. There was a rumor once that Mick Jagger once hiked there with his family during the Rolling Stones concert in Moncton a few years ago.
The park is big. There are [...]
Oct 15 2008
Forbidden Planet ! ! !
Forbidden Planet is the ultimate “sci-fi” B-movie. When one of the opening credits reads, “Electronic Tonalities by Louis and Bebe Barron,” you know it’s going to be a fun ride. Pick any five minutes from Forbidden Planet and you’ll see evidence of its influence on Star Wars, Star Trek and even Alien. It’s a [...]
Oct 13 2008
Tom Waits and Jolie Holland News
I’m at work. I can’t ramble on pointlessly like I usually do. So here it is.
Jolie Holland has a new album called The Living and the Dead. Click the link for more details and a free track. I like it!
He’s the love child of Howlin’ Wolf and the Cookie Monster’s sister and he’s only getting [...]
Oct 13 2008
A Vasectomy Revisited
This is a recycled post I discovered through Random Posts. Jody wrote it.
I got a vasectomy today. It took about 10 minutes: you put on a backwards gown, lie down, they shave you a bit, wipe iodine or something over your groin, insert a needle to freeze your balls, massage your scrotum to find the [...]
Oct 12 2008
My “Hockey Night in Canada” Theme Song
Hockey Night in Canada has a new theme song:
They could have saved themselves some money and re-used the theme to The Beachcombers:
Now that’s a theme song!
Oct 10 2008
A History of Robert Johnson
Anyone read the Vanity Fair article by Frank DiGiacomo called Portrait of a Phantom? It begins with the story of a guy finding what he believes might be a photograph of Robert Johnson and his efforts to authenticate it.
In the seven decades since his mysterious death, bluesman Robert Johnson’s legend has grown — the tragically [...]
