No need to ask my name

Randomness:

Fewer ants. YES.
Winning a Chapters gift card. YES.

I have been sort of starting to get a cold for the past five days, or thereabouts. Not fun.

Cookie baking is, I think, in my near future. Probably next week. Pretty much they are going to be delicious, maybe I will put up photos? Or if I know and see you in "real life" maybe you can eat some. It will depend on how fast I eat them, haha.

Current favourite song that I am playing rather frequently is "DVNO" by Justice. I enjoy it, makes my foot tap.

The character of Ethan Jarlewski was wearing this Threadless t-shirt in a recent episode of jPod.

This is an interesting glance at how our culture and society have changed, in what Barry Wellman calls "Cyber Times". It's a neat way to show the fluidity of experiences and how they evolve or are revolutionized, although arguably things don't "revolutionize" as much as we think. There's a long history behind most anything that exists today. Take text messaging, for example: an evolved form of email, letters, telegraphs.

And that's all from my thoughts for now.

True Story of the Day

Best summed up by this personally customized image:

St. Patrick's Day Mixtape

There has been some confusion as to the actual St. Patrick's Day this year; it was technically observed (by the Roman Catholic Church) on March 15, due to this week being Holy Week.

But, in the spirit of celebration, I suppose, I made a St. Patrick's Day Mixtape for today, the usual St. Patrick's day. All the tunes are by Irish artists.

Download from here.

Tracklist:

1. Rolling in the Ryegrass – Caoimhin O Raghallaigh
2. I Don't Like Mondays – Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats
3. Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2
4. Streams of Whiskey – The Pogues
5. Wild Child – Enya
6. Eve, The Apple of My Eye – Bell X1
7. C'est La Vie – B*Witched *
8. Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
9. Dueling Bagpipes – The Chieftans
10. Trying To Pull Myself Away – Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova & The Frames
11. Chocolate – Snow Patrol
12. Linger – The Cranberries
13. Blown A Wish – My Bloody Valentine **
14. Who Died And Made You Elvis? – Stiff Little Fingers

*Had to include some 90's girlband stuff for fun.
**I don't like MBV. They only got a place because they were big in the Shoegaze movement and inspired a lot of bands that I like.

3/14 1:59

Happy Pi Day to all!

I am extremely excited for this year's Pi day, as I have lots of Pie collecting/making/consumption planned, and also it is Friday. Pi Day on a Friday! How witty.

Apparently Kate Bush sings a song called Pi in which she recites digits of Pi (and also messes up the order).

Sweet

Happy International Day of Awesomeness. I am celebrating by being awesome.

Also, Happy Birthday Chuck Norris.

Lightbulbs

How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?




You mean you don't know?!

I'm free?

Randall Munroe said it, so it must be true, right?

"A generation seraphically free from taint of personality"

Science fiction is rather important to me, as a genre of literature. I don't mean the campy, sell-by-the-millions fluff SciFi (although, to be fair, I'm not really sure how you would qualify that. Plenty of the good stuff has sold well. And I think we all enjoy some fluff, no matter the genre, every once in a while). In any event, I mean the SciFi novels that do justice to literature, and deserve to be called literature. Stories that look at society and create a commentary that makes you stop and think, or stories that stand the test of time in their applicability. Stories that predict or shape the world culture and development.

One such story that has recently quite impressed me, particularly in terms of its applicability, is E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops". It was written in 1909 - nigh on a hundred years ago - and some of the issues he deals with are just as, if not more so, relevant today as they were then. I won't spoil it, but I highly suggest you read it if you have a bit of time. Me, I'm going to go do some work. Enough screen-communication for now.