November 2011
1 post
summer
wsmd:
montréal - québec - toronto (or new york) - calgary - maui - montréal
it is looking very, very good so far.
I live in New York now. If you come, please, let’s hang.
Ian B.
October 2011
2 posts
Cheating
“I win!” “No! It’s not a staring contest unless I know we’re playing!” “You’re just sore - I won!” “Did not! You cheated.” “I ain’t no cheater.” “Well I say you are.” “Nobody says I’m a cheater - I’ll make you eat your words!” Amid the playground chaos, a long time passed before...
August 2011
2 posts
Spending the Night in Japan
xoxo Meg, sorry I missed talking to you during your last hours in Calgary. We’ll have to figure out some way of getting audio communication going when you land!
mbhammer:
aka family I am alive!
April 2011
5 posts
“Tell you about cockroaches,” said Clint with intense enthusiasm, leaning...”
– Jack Kerouac The Town and The City
Honestly I’m jiving this book so hard. And I jive all you too, so hard that I just spent all that time typing that out - my wrists hurt now.
“There are greater and finer things than dallying around with mad strumpets.”
– Jack Kerouac The Town And The City
There are some lines in this book that I just like too much!
mbhammer asked: do you have a doppelganger (an evil twin)?
March 2011
1 post
Ask me shit.
On the recommendation of my friend noahshark, I’m opening up my tumblr for questioning.
So ask me shiv.
February 2011
1 post
December 2010
1 post
October 2010
3 posts
Lately I've become a bit of a hypochondriac
Lately I’ve become a bit of a hypochondriac. Keeping in mind that I thought I had a minor rash of some sort, which turned out to be shingles (aside: shingles suck, and are mad painful). I now am under the impression that I have strep throat. Statistically though, the only people who get strep throat are under 16. Also, statistically the only people who get shingles are over 50.
Anyways...
ponymalta: grumpy mood →
ponymalta:
The following things did not improve my day:
The long line at the library, which I had to use because Battle Royale wouldn’t scan in the automatic check out.
The man on the bus who thought it was appropriate to read over my shoulder and comment on it
The same man who I ran into again on the…
“Sugar in coffee tastes like what I imagine a toe that’s gangrenous from...
September 2010
2 posts
April 2010
2 posts
I am at work
I can close the door, and listen to David Myles. That’s what I do sometimes. I have a meeting in ten minutes, and then I have to set up my pre-record at the radio station, and then I have presentations I have to float through. Then guitar lesson, then I have to work at home. My god. I really need to get some work done.
I am marking
and I realized I was drooling on my shirt.
Nice.
March 2010
3 posts
I'm having a day where I think I won't finish
So why bother trying?
I beat facebook
Not really sure why. Maybe my thesis will get done this way.
You can get me on my email, which is my firstname . lastname @ gmail.com
February 2010
3 posts
Canadian bands who have my attention
Hinterlandband
Here is What is
Girl and the Machine
Gravity Wave - Gambol (*)
live how you live - don’t stop continue
The Ins and outs
little foot long foot
Love it.
noahshark:
The best advice I have ever heard about sex, romance, and masculinity is from porn star/P.T. Anderson muse John Holmes in Exhausted: John Holmes The Real Story.
“You don’t have to be overly macho. You don’t have to be over-complimentary. Gain her respect. And that’s treating her as an equal. Don’t bullshit her. Treat her as a human being. Treat her as you would treat yourself. As...
January 2010
2 posts
I'm procrastinating again
I have found this girl who gets me out of bed before 11:00, so I find myself at work at 8:30 these days, and it is really good for getting work done. But then 12:00 hits, and I’m a bit tired, and a lot lazy, and I feel vindicated because I’ve been working since 8:30, and then I don’t do anything for an hour.
So, it’s one oclock now, and I am trying to convince myself to...
You know what is super inconvenient?
Still not having a phone charger! Gah! Seriously, how did I get so used to being connected?
December 2009
6 posts
It snowed again
For like 30 mins, but now it’s sunny again. Of course, I happened to go for coffee during that time, but I don’t regret it.
Wait, is that snow?
First snow in Kingston today! Now it is sunny though. Also, it wasn’t so much snow, as little hail-ey-bits. BUT, all the promises of horrific cold, oppressive winter weather are still failing to come through, and I have no complaints about it. Last night, December 3rd, I sat with a friend, on a rock, outside, by the water, for almost two hours before being too cold. (hoorah for...
Beardo, '24 Hour Party' -- Video Premiere -... →
Fuck school
I can't find motivation
And I really need to.
I have a 20 page paper to write by Sunday, and I have plans to go out tonight, tomorrow and friday. I’m kind of a stupid head.
Okay! I Can do it! I can do it!
Blah.
Inspiration, where you at.
Remember that list I wrote a while ago
Cisc 836:
Ass3 - Question 1, Question 2
Project
Proposal (2 pages) [stupid acm format grr…]
Presentation (25 minutes)
Final Report (5 - 10 pages) [again, stupid acm format]
Project Work itself
GUI
Backend
Cisc 879
Project
Find Papers
Report (20 - 40 pages)
Cisc 860
Project
Writeup (20 pages)
Presentation (25 minutes)
Cisc 868
Homework
#5: 8.3, 8.4, 8.6, 8.14, 8.16...
November 2009
6 posts
My eye is okay
I got up early this morning. I went to the hospital. I checked in. I sat in a waiting room. I got called into an office. A doctor checked my eye pressure. A doctor shined a bright light in my eye. A doctor told me to look left. A doctor told me to look right. A doctor told me to look up. A doctor told me to look down. A doctor told me I was fine.
Momma said there would be days like...
Look at this guy walkin'
The other night I was walking home around like one thirty or something, and this big motherfucker walks out of a house. He lights a cigarette, and stumbles (clearly drunk), then he levels his gaze on me.
Sam: "Look at this guy", loud enough that I was supposed to hear it.
Sam's Friend: "Sam, let's go!"
Sam: "Look at this guy walkin'."
Sam's Friend: "Come on Sam, let's go!"
Me: "Hey Sam! How's it going?"
Sam: "How do you know me?", looking very confused.
Sam's Friend: "Sam, we have to go now."
Sam: "How does he know me?"
By then I was far enough away, and nothing else happened.
Weird shit.
My checklist
Cisc 836:
Ass3 - Question 1, Question 2
Project
Proposal (2 pages) [stupid acm format grr…]
Presentation (25 minutes)
Final Report (5 - 10 pages) [again, stupid acm format]
Project Work itself
GUI
Backend
Cisc 879
Project
Find Papers
Report (20 - 40 pages)
Cisc 860
Project
Writeup (20 pages)
Presentation (25 minutes)
Cisc 868
Homework
#5: 8.3, 8.4,...
I technically graduated yesterday
and everyone who reads this blog knows that already, so we can move on from that old hat.
I was also offered a PhD promotion by my supervisor, and that is considerably frightening. I don’t think I am going to take it though, because I feel like I should do a PhD on my terms, when I feel like I should do it, where I feel like I should do it. Oh, and I would have to stay in stinky old...
People who take coffee seriously,
seriously make me laugh.
Because, it’s a beverage, and it isn’t serious.
Would you like some humour with your life? I sure would!
Cheese however, is serious business.
August 2009
1 post
She Broke a Needle, and She Can't Sew
I keep one foot on a line, and when I step forward, I keep my eyes pinned on the horizon, and I try and get some movement on. It’s a bit of a task to keep the world from tumbling around me when I feel like this, but there are people relying on me. I am not a preacher, I’m not even a good man, but I feel like I can justify this feeling if I tell you that I am. There isn’t a...
July 2009
2 posts
Fuck
It is so goddamn hot in this fucking lab. I do not approve.
Fuck.
Why does today feel like monday, and should that...
There was a car that pulled up to me that night. It pulled up slowly, and made me shudder. I knew he was coming, but I could have happily stood for another two hours bracing myself for his inevitable arrival. Still, here he was, and here I was. The car sat parked, windows blackened and rolled up, it was my move. I was looking the best tonight, my top chop gear all right, top chop tonight. ...
June 2009
12 posts
Say what?
Turn it up,
That nice radio show,
Turn it up,
Let’s hear the snow.
When you sleep,
I listen to the sounds,
When you sleep
you breath aloud.
Shoop da woop
Slept last night. First time in a while. Feel good today. Plan to get code working by later this or next week. Exciting. Taking long weekend. Salt spring island. Camping. Yay
In the Crowded Hall, I am not King
Said the prince to his lover “I wish I could walk away, and forget this feeling.”
Said the lover to his prince “One word and I am gone.”
Said the prince to his kind lover “I could never say that word, for I love you too much.”
Said the lover to his prince “Then I shall not make you. I will leave of my own inspiration. If ever you need me, seek me near...
Walking down a street at night.
There are two cars in front of me. One is metallic, nearly silver, but tainted with rust. The other is more appealing, it’s nearly in ruins, like a rotten apple, too stubborn to return to the earth. I see much futility here, and also so much beauty. To strive toward perfection, continuation with no reasonable hope of success. So like a man. And also, so like men. But I digress. On...
We are the modern lovers, isn't that a shame.
Sometimes the moon is big, and it fills the sky. Sometimes I feel like if I were to reach up, and brush it aside, I could see forever. Forever into the darkness like forever into the light, like forever into the warmth, and like forever into the night. But it is dark inside too, and I worry that without the light of the moon, I might be lost, never to find my way home. That without the light...
Four score and eight days of hell
Come on, let’s do it! There isn’t any reason that we are still sitting, leverage like woah, and yet, oh yet. ’Cause it is easier not to do what we been feeling for years. It’s like we are apathetic or some shit. That isn’t really true, see, because I been feeling for years and it aint apathy, it’s straight up disappointment. Not disappointment with you...
I may have slept in today, but at least I can...
I was up pretty late last night. Not late for me, mind, but late for regular people. I slept quite a long time (five ish hours), but it was quite poor sleep. I am not really a sleep person, but I do recognize it’s effects on productive work. Sometimes. The point is, I would really like to write something right now, something automatically, but I can’t tap into that right now. ...