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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007Look at that thing. Feel the terror!
Archive for February, 2007
Melbourne
Monday, February 26th, 2007I made it. Total travel time from my door to the hotel door, approximately 60 hours. All of which I was awake for.
So after this heroic journey, I rolled into the hotel, caught a shower and a change of clothes, and then went and worked a full day at the office.
I am a steely-eyed missle [...]
Travel Notes
Sunday, February 25th, 20071) The sandwich shop in Heathrow, T3, Arrivals, is sorely mistaken about what constitutes a club sandwich.
2) Watching out the window as the plane come in to land in Hong Kong, on a clear sunny day is now my lifetime personal best “looking out an airplane window” experience. I’ve flown into every major airport in [...]
And there was much rejoicing
Saturday, February 24th, 2007Let’s have a big “Yeah baby!” for the Supreme Court, which today unanimously put the smack-down on a particularly egregious example of post-9/11 use of ridiculous police state legislation: the “security certificates”.
Top court rules against security certificates
The Supreme Court of Canada has struck down the security certificate system used by the federal government to detain [...]
Horse Girls
Friday, February 23rd, 2007So you’re a horse girl, he says,
smiles as though we are somehow afflicted,
somehow convergent with dark rutted fantasy.
Yes, we are the ones who dream
in pale sparrow grass,
who tick our tongues at the sunfisher,
climb on, barely breathing,
knowing fear could fill a field,
snap a spine like tinder.
We ride bareback
to watch the boys squirm
at the insistence in their [...]
Not an auspicious beginning.
Friday, February 23rd, 2007The bad: The plane meant to take me from Halifax to London apparently had some serious mechanical problems with the brakes, and they’re bringing a new plane in.
The worse: This means the flight will be delayed at least three hours (I.e. they are now saying 2AM instead of 11PM.)
The even worse: This means I will [...]
Good books, free (Part 1)
Friday, February 23rd, 2007To go along with the expensive limited editions and whatnot that I have been (and will be) talking about, I thought I should take a moment to point out some good books that you can get FOR FREE.
For the science fictionally inclined among you, the first free book is Peter Watt’s Blindsight: Available Free [...]
It has kind of wedge shapes inside.
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007Do you know what this is the symbol for?
Of course you do. It’s the symbol for radiation. Everyone in the West knows what that is, as part of the same popular culture osmosis (and occasionally target childhood education) that tells us that the skull and crossbones means poison, and the skeletal hand means acid, etc. [...]
The american electorate fears me!
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007Or, at least, fears people like me.
(That image links to the source data, as well as a ton of other polling information1.)
I’m actually pleasantly surprised by the first few rows there–I am perhaps cynical, but I expected significantly lower numbers. Of course, this is people reporting on what they say they would do, not numbers [...]
I am not ready for this.
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007Apparently it is 40+ degrees in Melbourne today.
I am Canadian: I can’t deal with that. Forty below I know how to deal with.
Man.
On Adaptations
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007Extracted from a lovely rant1 at Beaucoup Kevin:
While I’m at it, if you’re getting excited over Watchmen as a two-hour movie, then go fuck yourself. No, really, go ahead and do it now - I’ll wait. Superhero comics have their very own Finnegan’s Wake and The Crying of Lot 49 rolled into one, [...]
Small press books, bought and craved (Part 1)
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007Somedays it feels like a full-time job to keep up with all the interesting new releases from the various small presses, and by the various authors I feel the need to collect.
Some other days, though, it’s just like Christmas. Today is one of those days.
It started with a new email from Subterranean Press, announcing Ted [...]
Two stories for a Monday
Monday, February 19th, 2007Things keep popping up in my inbox and RSS reader that I need to share with you guys.
First, a little story passed on from my pal, musical genius Danny Michel:
February 17, 2007
Once again, Magic happens at the Black Sheep in Wakefield Quebec.
“It’s not every day something this special & fun happens at a show. [...]
Three bookish links for a Sunday night
Monday, February 19th, 2007Let’s start off today’s list of linked content with another Alan Moore item. You know we have a lot of use for Alan Moore here at Homo Sum.
This is a three-part podcast interview with Moore over at the Resonance FM weekly show “I’m ready for my close up“.
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
I always enjoy hearing Moore [...]
Evening hobbies
Sunday, February 18th, 2007On evenings when we have no social plan, after my daughter goes to sleep, my wife and I usually spend a few hours in the rec room, with the television, or a movie, on. Some things we actually watch intently, although very few of them1, but mostly it’s background. I usually am working on a [...]
Neil MacFarlane
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