Virtue and Moir make history with ice dance gold. Seriously, if you did not see them, I will tell you now: they melted the ice. So fluid, intricate and seemingly effortless. And their chemistry. I kept wondering if they were together, but honestly in the end it doesn't matter. They've been skating together for 13 years, since they were tots, thanks ( Read more... )

We won gold at men's moguls! Alexandre Bilodeau. I'm so freaking stoked. Most of the team is from Quebec so that was cause for some celebration here. Fourth was also on the Canadian team (Vincent Marquis). We're now third overall (tied with France), after the US and Germany :) I watched a while last night but I totally missed Jenn Heil (moguls) and ( Read more... )

This week I'm leading discussion in Philosophy class. We had to read two texts. Karen Barad broke my mind over three days straight of trying to harangue the meaning out of her text. Claire Bishop, though? A breeze, though I'm writing an assignment (a précis, or summary) on her text so it took twice as long as it should have since there I was ( Read more... )

Dude, the Montreal Police are wearing camo pants now. That's sending a wrong message already, but to add insult to injury, it's not even standard Canadian camo (i.e. pixellated). Anyway, saw a couple of them hanging around at the Sherbrooke metro station, and to add a bit of weirdness to the whole getup, they're wearing a Flash-like logo on their ( Read more... )

In my eternal journey of computer suckage at work... The printer problem is fixed, now for some reason I'm stuck in 8-bit display (!) What the hey, it wasn't like that yesterday when we fixed the printer problem. Bah, probably the hacking program that's having fits and giggles over pissing me off. Or it may be the source puter that's having a rough ( Read more... )

In the north of China, there is a water drought. Why? Because the Chinese government is diverting all its water supplies toward Beijing. No... comment, it's been said before I'm sure. I just read about that, though, and... yeah. No comment. Water can't be replaced by money, people ( Read more... )

Huh. I subscribe to several design RSS's. Don't always keep up, but I try. Here are 192 clever ads from around the world. Gems, I say. The one with the plastic lungs and cigarettes is especially noteworthy, IMHO ( Read more... )