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, [...]

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 [...]

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:

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 [...]

I’ve had a lot of fun recently listening to Jonathan Coulton, a computer programmer turned musical artist and creative freedom activist. All of his music is licensed under the Creative Commons, meaning it is free to download and free to share. Of course, on his website, he prefers to offer people the option of purchasing [...]

As I am sure many of you know, today marks the effort of Earth Hour, a day when people all across the world will turn out their lights for one hour, from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone. I modified the theme a little bit to show my support for the effort (although [...]