Chic, sophisticated and so very, very exclusive!

Preparedness is a good thing, of course, but what kind of fucked-up country can’t get essential services like fresh water to its citizens in less than 72 hours?
Oh, right. I keep forgetting this is a country in which much of a major urban center’s business district can be completely shut down when a piece of [...]

Clive Owen in Shoot ‘Em Up:

“I Eat Your Carrot”
Any movie with Clive Owen in it is worth seeing, even Shoot ‘Em Up, with this choice bit of dialog spoken, perhaps not coincidentally, as he drives from Bay to Richmond Streets in downtown Toronto (standing in for Manhattan):
I move my finger one inch to use [...]

At Work, 27 February 2008

One of life’s enduring mysteries — joining “why do women and gay men choose the narrowest, most congested point in any passageway to stop?” and “why do old people achieve sexual arousal through providing cashiers with correct change?” — is how frequently and cavalierly a corporate image is allowed to incrementally tarnish through oversight, laziness, [...]

Signage, Toronto’s Union Subway Station
Toronto Transit Commission Employee: “Can I ask why you’re taking pictures?”
Me: “Well, look at the signs on this pillar.”
TTC Employee: “And?”
Me: “You see nothing wrong with the fact that, in this day and age, with laser printers so widely available, this sort of signage is considered acceptable by the TTC? Or [...]

Ontario Tourism Snow-Globe
Bay & Bloor Streets, Toronto, 7AM, 22 February 2008
Ironically, there’s more snow on top of the globe than inside. Surprisingly clever installation, regardless.

So I’m writing this on the 51st day of 2008, one of the last days during which I’ll be able to give a straight-faced answer of “51″ to the question “how old are you?” without automatically bumping the number up to that which more accurately reflects my chronology. And I’d love to be able to [...]

Finally watched all of Alias Season Five.
Finally watched all of Dexter Season Two.
Fucked around far too long with the remixable datafiles for Nine Inch Nails’ “Zero Sum” (from Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZkkNjVgvBU

.shame on us
.doomed from the start
.may god have mercy
.on our dirty little hearts
[...]

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From “Why Darwin Matters“, by Richard Dawkins:
Charles Darwin had a big idea, arguably the most powerful idea ever. And like all the best ideas it is beguilingly simple. In fact, it is so staggeringly elementary, so blindingly obvious that although others before him tinkered nearby, nobody thought to look for it [...]