Red Cedar
More apocalypse, less angst
*Sigh*
After a weekend of union meetings, I slept too long last night and am sluggish and a bit grumpy today. Despite that I’ve started packing the downstairs of my house up.. hoping the motions towards moving will create the karma I need to get a place!
The house I looked at on Charles Street last weekend is looking like a definite possibility, but apparently the owner is having trouble getting in touch with my references! The apartment building I last lived in no longer is managed by the same company and my employer wasn’t getting back in a timely manner (but apparently just did). I’m keeping my fingers crossed though – it’s not perfect, but I really hate looking for places to live – and dammit! i’m a good tenant.
Anyhow – if I do get that place, I won’t be moving until mid-December which gives me lots of time to pack boxes and curse at the amount of stuff I own. I have already managed to throw away a bag of garbage today in the packing process – and filled a couple boxes with sally ann donations. It’s shameful this accumulation.
The Big Snit.
Probably one of the best pieces ever produced by the National Film Board – an eighties animation classic… The Big Snit (and many other NFB animations) are now available to view online….. talk about bringing back my early days when CBC was one of only six channels that came into our house!
Cat Empire.
Anyone want to come with me to see the Cat Empire on Thursday night? They are playing at the Commodore. If I can find a date, I’ll go cause they rock.
A technology confession.
I like the new IE better than Firefox.
There. I said it.
Why? Because one of my biggest problems with Firefox is that it has always displayed HTML in its own way including doing things like putting lines around tables even when you specify none etc, and they still haven’t corrected that in the new version (as far as I can tell). And, the new version of IE makes text crisper and colours bolder – as though I’m working on a Mac (and to be clear, these comments apply only to the world of Windows, I’m happy with Firefox on my Mac).
Anyhow – for now at work I’m switching back to IE – because it is what 90% of the world is using and what I have to design for – and it has tabbed browsing and built-in search now which is what made Firefox rock in the first place.
A comment on the iPod.
The iPod turns ordinary life — riding the bus, waiting in line at the post office, staring at a spreadsheet for 12 hours a day — into cinema. Levy describes the work of sociologist Michael Bull, who, when studying the habits of fans of the iPod’s great ancestor the Sony Walkman, found that people liked to think of themselves “as imaginary movie stars” playing out scenes dictated by the music in their ears.
Guilty as charged – though I never realized this was a common experience. In a way, I’m glad to know it is.
This, from an article at Salon on the iPod. Not much insight beyond the above and I pretty much disagree with the author that the iPod has ruined the way I listen to music. I do still listen to whole tracks and whole albums, despite the array available on the digital device. Apparently his attention deficit problem is something he needs to work on.
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