The view above is common in Tokyo: rough, old and weathered giant stone block walls. Images of ninja scrambling along them... er I digress. Walking back to Shibuya from Harajuku a few weeks back, I noticed this wall: Obviously,...
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Everything
(rambling alert!!!) Everything is a node. And every node can be, at once, part of many contexts, and can also, just by being, create many contexts. Every node has many properties. And contexts can add and modify properties of nodes....
re: 101 word short story contest - 9/6/95
"The year after the Last Century" Nobody expected not to wake up; so nobody didn't. No one thought it was strange and, even if one had thought of it, no one thought anything of it. The fact was, that nothing...
Been busy much?
I rarely talk about work here - and I will soon have a place to do only that - but I figure I should mention some of what's been keeping me busy lately. Summer started with a bang really. On...
Money, death and the French
The word "mortgage", which is french, translates directly to "death bet": when the bank gives someone a mortgage, they are essentially gambling on the hopes that the poor sod will pay them back before he dies. In french however, a...
Yes, Minister
It always seemed rather strange to even myself that I thoroughly enjoyed watching this British political satire situation comedy. The writing was simply superb, the characters equally profoundly witty, when not nit-witted, and the clever pace helped via laughter, one's...
Funner
Steven dreams out loud about where he'd like to be someday: I managed to hitch a ride on the floating city 'GCS New Mosul' by agreeing to give my presentation 'Safeguarding your cyberprivacy - without slowing down your interface' at...
The Old Man and the Sea
On monday night I went and watched "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou". I went alone. It took until last night for me to fully absorb it and realize that I really liked it. A straight-faced dead-pan comedy adaption of...
Open Source Religion
"Release early, release often." (disclaimer: many of the facts - names of cultures, places, people and dates - are not terribly known to me. I am not a scholar, I'm a hobbyist.) There exists a fantastic Open Source project...
Minutiae
Some little stories from the last 24 hours of my life. Not in any order. Generic brand mouthwash. Unlike seemingly everyone on The Plateau (the part of Montreal where I live), I like going to the new PharmaPrix pharmacy. It's...
Meshing storylines from my life
There are narratives in my life that have quietly threaded along in the background, closely following me. Slowly parts of these stories have meshed into my "real life", and this morning another part intersected for the second time with my...
The California Road Trip Fiasco
Sitting down for lunch on the last day of the ETech conference in San Diego, I pull out my mobile to find it is turned off. It's been off for at least two days. Damn. I have a hunch that...
Skipping stone
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...
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...
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...
MontrÈal, are you ready to ROCK?!
Well, this weekend I finally make it down to New York City, but more importantly, Joey DaVilla, a.k.a. Accordion Guy is visiting Montreal! In exchange for lodging, Joey agreed to feed my cat. Fair deal, methinks. :) So if you...
As long as you don't get caught
- "Hello again!" say I. I'd met her the previous evening sitting with a friend of mine in the self same bistro where we now were. - "Hi! Can you watch my stuff while I get something to eat? I'm...
Accordions
Slowy getting to blogging more bits of last week's Toronto trip (I know I know, a week + later.. what can I say...). As I said, I hooked up with Joey a.k.a Accordion Guy. Here's a small video montage of...
Cruise control
I really wanted to get home. I set my cruise control at 150km/h and cruised. Bloody Ontario drivers who never learnt that 1- the left lane is for passing and 2- when the guy behind you is coming at...
Toronto Blackout!
Four and a half hours down the 401 and I'm in Toronto. I race up Yonge, twist around Dundas Square and park half way up to College, pararllel on Baldwin, behind the Deconism Gallery. Ken has already sensed my...
My father's eyes
My eyes are actually my mother's. One of the few traits of hers I inherited. Her dark eyes, as well as her love and ability for driving. Fast. (Not in the least reckless, by the way, as some of...
First leg
See picture gallery! Departure from Montreal delayed 2 hours. Means little for me: it was either sit for 3 hours in Detroit or in Montreal. Just before boarding I see Maria, whom I know from CEGEP days. She's ended up...
Float
I've been online since only 1996 or so, but I have never gotten into IRC (Internet Relay Chat)... until this past week. It is total virtual world immersion/time limbo induction. The week gone by seems like a speck of dust...
Shpeech impediment
Shometimes, online and off, I'll put on that shpecial kind of shcottish acshent that only Sean Connery sheemsh to do. It'sh shomething she and I youshed to do alot, after sheeing that Jeopardy shend.. ahem... send-up on Saturday Night Live......
Recent travel pics
These are temporary "galleries" of pics I took while on my recent travels. There are no comments, no stories no metadata of any kind. Why? Becasue I have yet to find a tool that does an acceptable job. ;) Enjoy....
<<What are your thoughts on Lily Chou-Chou?>>
<< [[ some thoughts about the movie "All About Lily Chou Chou" ]] >> <<Erm... Not sure... I found it very difficult to follow (who is who, who does what, what are the relationships between the characters... When is what...
Cheap quick videocams
Here is why a videocamphone could potentially be a TON of fun. My friend Louis recently bought a $150 "webcam" with integrated Flash memory, which means he can run around with it. Here is his document of a trip to...
Café
Mmmm... I just opened a new package of Lavazza coffee grinds and made myself some with my stove-top espresso maker. I usually only make myself coffee on weekends, so one of these freeze dried packages tends to last me for...
Go east, young man.
Tout au long d'un souper sushi avec Karl, celui-ci me torturait: "Jaaaaapon... Jaaaaaaapon... tu dois aller au Jaaaaaaaapon... Jaaaaaapon..."...
À la mer
Carole Guevin & hubby, J-F, took Karl and I to "Jazz", a cajun restaurant/bar, for lunch. After a half-pound of "u-peel" shrimp (served cold and covered in cajun spices. Yum!) three of us were simply blown away by our chosen...
Pho
First meal in Austin, Texas and what do I order? A vietnamese beef satay soup. And oh my what a soup it was. Standard soup-meal bowl size: I managed half of it. I had not eaten since the day before,...
Hot legs
Forgive me but I must say this: I have never seen so many hot chicks driving hot cars in my life. Rock on, ZZ-Top!...
Off I go...
Running a tad late but eh. Just hope this chest cold that is developping doesn't get too much worse... :\...
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