Now, maybe back in the early 90s you were aware of Paula Abdul — or even, god forbid, LISTENED to her. And maybe you remember her video for “Opposites Attract”, which featured a cartoon cat that did a little rap break in the middle of the tune. TWO WHOLE YEARS after that one tune, the […]

From an explanation of a connectivity problem at one of our colo centres: Cable intrusion maintenance by a third party telco vendor caused outages on all backbone circuits […] “Cable intrusion maintenance” hereby supplants “overenthusiastic deinstallation” as best NOC euphemism.

So having recently “met” the lovely and intriguing Ardently after seeing her posts to Found_objects, I decided to browse through the list of LJ users in Ottawa to see what other interest people might be lurking about. While doing so, I found the community (which is not to be confused with the Recordrunner user!), which […]

I picked up the White Stripes’ Elephant tonight, and am listening to it for the first time as I write this. Now, White Blood Cells is one of my favorite albums, and the one that got me listening to, well, whatever genre that is, and then got me rediscovering punk. So I’m pretty fond of […]

So I’ve started playing the bass again. This might not sound like a big deal, but it’s been four or five years since I put it down for a bit, and I’m pretty happy to have finally gotten past whatever was in my way. What happened? The jazz performance program at McGill does not adapt […]

I purchased two CDs today, and both have left me scratching my head. The first is Daft Punk’s Discovery. I opened it up to find a hinged middle bit as if it held two CDs, but it only contained one. I didn’t expect it to be a two-CD set, but if they were going to […]