A while ago, I speculated on the possibility of a forthcoming live recording from Matthew Good. I’m a little late bringing you my overwhelming joy with this news, however we are indeed getting a Live At Massey Hall recording. Basically, the release is going to go something like this: October 7th — iTunes release (first 12 tracks) October [...]

I know that I haven’t been around much lately, but don’t worry, I’m working on a couple posts regarding A) my new apartment and B) my new M.A.Sc. position at UTIAS/SFL. In the meantime, I nearly fell off my chair watching this video: I don’t know what they were dangling to make that cat come forward, [...]

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, [...]