I grew up on a four and half acre piece of forest where the Lake of Two Mountains flows into the Rivière Des Prairies. Our immense Tudor style home was on the western tip of Ile Bizard, at the end...
December 2003 Archives
Collapsing
We have relationships with every person we meet/know. We have relationship networks which connect all these people to us and to each other. We manage relationships by being nodes and establishing identities (identity facets). So if we think of ourseleves...
Happy happy
I wanted to send out some sort of holiday greeting to my friends, but it is so difficult in today's world to know exactly what to say without offending someone. So I met with my attorney today, and on...
Drugged and abandoned
Well well well... Correspondences - News By the People For People: Who captured Saddam Hussein? Hussein was betrayed to the Kurds by a member of the al-Jabour tribe because Hussein's son Uday had raped a daughter of the tribe. Saddam...
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
From a mailing list I am on. (My comments follow) "I try not to forward too many depressing articles. But this rates up there with the biggest outrages. Not only is the deed itself an abomination, but the way it...
Revisiting ironies
I just got an impulse to drive out to the suburbs where I grew up and visit the private french school I attended for eleven years. It was the kind of business where we wore uniforms, stood when the beloved...
No Comment
As part of my cable television package, I ordered EuroNews. Nevermind that the news reported is from a european perspective (a welcome change from the CNN et al), but there are two other major characteristics of this All-News network I...
Content & Relationship
During a "Content" conversation, I was brought to realize that things like "bar talk", "chewing the fat", "shootin' da shit", et al... are Relationship conversations. It was further pointed out that these are just as important as "real", or "Content",...
The Merry Blues
Manu Chao Esperanza listen (temporary) So many nights With your shadow in my bed. So many nites Baby you whisper in my head. So many nites Sing along the Merry Blues. So many nites... I told you once. I told...
Michael Moore publishes letters from U.S. soldiers in Iraq
I just received an e-mail from good friend and former employer, Warren Wilansky. Warren and the gang at Plank Design do all of Michael Moore's websites. He sent me the text of the latest Mike's Message. A small excerpt: What...
Remix culture
Creative Commons put together a Flash animation, Reticulum Rex, giving an update on what's going on with their effort. Re-democratization of "culture". Remix. Author? Editor. "The Library, which some call 'The Universe'..."...
I lied and the Ville de Montreal are jerkoffs
I ended last night's entry about the whole snowclearing/parking fiasco by stating that by 3am my street had been cleared. This was a lie; a bit of poetic license I exercised to give the story a nice ending. Not to...
Oh I so didn't need this though
After the trek up Mount Royal, I came back to see that the signs were up indicating the snowplows would be clearing the side of the street I was parked on, sometime between 7pm and 7am. So I shoveled...
Oh I needed that
I haven't gone jogging since about mid-October. Two months, and I've been feeling it. As soon as I woke up today (at 2pm) I decided I'd go Up Mount Royal, in the Snow. Pictures! Especially worthwhile is comparing some of...
Read on Emergent Leadership
I few months ago, I wrote about a book I had started reading: Herbert Read's "To hell with culture". The volume is essentially made up of a number of papers Read published between 1941 and 1961. The aforementioned post was...
Stick this in your Google and smoke it
In a comment on Joi's site, Stewart Butterfield remarked: I have no idea how to settle an argument about this, but I contend that, for the overwhelming majority of blog readers and writers, blogs have almost nothing to do with...
Cable
Today I took some drastic first steps. Today, I switched from Bell Sympatico DSL to Videotron Cable Internet access. So far, the speed increase is, to put it mildly, reality-bending. I also switched from crappy old normal cable TV to...
A great Canadian scandal
In a "Life and Times" TV profile of Canada's exiting Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, in regards to a corruption scandal he was accused of a few years back involving some investments in a golf club and a contentious phone call...
Talking to myself
Continuing on the cyborg theme, I thought to myself: I've been here on the sofa all afternoon, fumbling with my awkward iBook, and yet it is here, with this sub-par setup, that my thoughts flow most freely into the computer,...
Lawnmower Man meets the Puppet Master
Part of an e-mail exchange with Aaron: > I WANT what Kevin Warwick is working on! Hrm... Garr... :\ Ah come on, Boris. I know Kevin's all about thinking inside the body but try thinking outside the blog. You want...
Working in timezones
For Mac OS X users who need to keep track of time and date across timezones, Aion does a great job of it. You tell it which timezones you want, which one is your default et voilà, menubar International time....
Some small good
I'm not going to get into the politics of Québec's "Office de la Langue Fran√ßaise" (a.k.a. "The Language Police"), but at least there is some small good that comes of it: Le Grand dictionnaire terminologique is one heck of a...
And on that note
Cleaned up in here. No more violet. Decided not to drive myself batty with color choices, so grayscale it is, with a touch of red. Four thirty in the morning. Sheesh. Odd, possibly tangential observation. Three hours ago I was...
Ohhhh design
I few years back I worked in an honest-to-goodness (emphasis on the goodness) design firm. Small, cool, fun, good friends, great space... sigh... Back then, I was surrounded by design. Everyday I'd check out the various design websites and the...
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