I have lost faith in the human race. From the BBC: A man on a Greyhound bus travelling across the Canadian Prairies has killed and decapitated a fellow passenger. An eyewitness said the victim was stabbed 50 or 60 times by the man sitting next to him, who then severed his head with a large knife. […] “When we [...]

Recently, Matthew Good has been experimenting with some possible redesigns for his blog. In addition to a more artistic air, Mr. Good is attempting to bring more focus in the design to his musical endeavors. This includes a more prominent media player, recent del.icio.us links, and a notification area in the header: Several months ago, Matt [...]

No, seriously. I got an e-mail today from UTIAS indicating that three resident professors had requested interviews with me for a Master’s degree program. I have to contact them within the week to set up interviews via phone or in person (the latter is more likely, since it’s only about an hour from Peterborough to [...]

The latest media update at the Firearms 2 website includes a second gameplay trailer (see below). Check it out, its going to be a great game:

It seems that a Japanese company known as Genepax is touting an over-sized battery as a fuel cell that runs on plain old water and air. The system uses what the company has termed a “membrane electrode assembly,” or MEA, to split water into Hydrogen and Oxygen through a “chemical reaction.” Well of course it’s [...]

I currently wear an old set of Oakley E-Wire 2.0 sunglasses. They are now five years old, not polarized, pretty scratched up, and losing integrity of the frame joints. As such, I am in the market for a new pair of sunglasses. I am looking for something that has a full frame, as opposed to [...]

I have always thoroughly enjoyed reading Bill Watterson’s Calvin & Hobbes. I find that Watterson — through Calvin — experiences the world in much the same way as myself, allowing me to connect with his characters on a much deeper level than most comics. One aspect of this is Calvin’s incessant curiousity in the world around [...]

I have been in the process of sanitizing my (ever-growing) music collection. So far I have managed to sanitize 2762 songs in mp3, Vorbis, and FLAC formats, constituting roughly 8 days, 8 hours, and 50 minutes of music. For the past week in particular, I have been working on sanitizing the Nine Inch Nails discography, [...]

A few days ago I decided to hit up Canada’s Wonderland for the first time in several years. One of the triggers for this was to try out their new hypercoaster, known as Behemoth (Wikipedia article). I woke up at 8:00am on Sunday morning and drove up to Bloor St. to meet up with my brother. [...]

As you may or may not know, my mother teaches – among other things – grade 9 science at a local high-school. One of the tasks her students must complete is a “Science Portfolio” – a collection of newspaper articles with summaries indicating how they relate to subjects studied in class, as well as a [...]