The Mac Dad will make you Jump Jump
The Daddy Mac will make you Jump Jump
Kris Kross will make you Jump Jump
uh huh uh huh
Jump Jump
The Mac Dad will make you Jump Jump
The Daddy Mac will make you Jump Jump
Kris Kross will make you Jump Jump
I let myself knockin’ knockin’
I love it when a girl is play jockin’ jockin’
The D-A-double D-Y-M-A-C
Ya you know me
I got you jumpin’ an’ pumpin’ an’ movin’ all around G
In the mix I make ya take a step back
They try to step to the Mac then they got jacked
To the back you’ll be sportin’ the gear that’s coincidental
And like you knowit so don’t be claiming that it’s mental
I’m starting to get back into the swing of things, the newspaper is already starting to eat up time. The first PressNite is this coming sunday, hopefully everything runs smoothly. I’ve been relaxing, trying to have some downtime before things get crazy.
The Sex Pistols concert happened but didn’t so much happen for us, we left the tickets in the car. Oh well, I wasn’t too attached to the idea of going, it was more of a, “Hey, the Sex Pistols are still sort of alive and playing, I should probably see them.” Ended up having a good time regardless, just chilling in downtown Toronto, I had a good time.
One of the better parts of the pseudo-weekend was seeing Buffalo Soldiers, one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time. I need to see it again, but so far it’s only opened in limited release despite that fact that it’s been in the can for almost two years. It’s good, if you know somewhere that’s playing it, you should go see it. You should also bring some rum or something with you and pour it into the movie theatre cup. Putting a bar in a movie theatre is a brilliant idea.
I can see why they avoided releasing it for awhile, it’s pretty anti-military. Something the country doesn’t need right now! They held off after 9/11 and after the whole Iraqi war thing. Anyway go see it, I laughed a lot out loud. It takes a lot for a movie to do that to me anymore.
Freddy vs. Jason was tops at the box office this weekend, raking in over thirteen mil. Wow! And it suffered a drop of over 60%. It really says a lot about the movie industry. I blame it all on the text messaging.
Yeah, I did a good job putting everything online and getting the site in nice working shape so I could avoid doing anything to it for a week. I’m done work now, pretty much anyway. I still have a bit of stuff to do; a transition manual and some computer stuff.
The last week of camp was a lot of fun. It was a bit of a mess because the university was closed on monday, but we got everything off to a nice hungover start on Tuesday. We had staff drunkenings on Monday and Wednesday night. The Wednesday was a good dinner, with lots of wine, followed by going to the opening night of the Peel Pub in Kingston. It’s cheap and I can see myself spending too much time there this year.
I finished up and came back to Brockville for a couple of days. It seems like everything has been people people people for the last couple of weeks, I need some downtime. The house’ll be empty this week, so I can get some cleaning done, get working on the transition manual and start doing some stuff for the paper.
I did manage to get the new layout up before I disappeared for the weekend, i don’ t think there were any major glitches. It wasn’t a bad weekend to end up in Quebec, no possibility of rolling blackouts with them on a different power grid.
We made it to the Radiohead concert on time, despite the fates conspiring against us. Although, we missed Malkmus opening up. We’ll say that I did all together too much drinking that night, past sunrise, and had a rough time saturday afternoon. Alanah crashed, she’d done a lot of driving. Dave and I wandered around downtown for awhile and stayed up until the sun arrived.
Partied at Dan’s house in Montreal, that’s about it for the weekend. We played a drinking game involving typing in random word combinations that could be taken as sexual and seeing if they came up as porn sites. Yeah, we’re all dorks. I wrote down a bunch of the good websites that we came across:
www.cowlove.com
www.nasalsex.com
www.poop.org/
www.pooooo.com/
longest domain name
www.jesussex.com & www.smallballs.com
www.horseballs.com/
www.monkeyballs.com
www.elephantballs.com/
www.cloaca.com
None of those link to anything bad, but most of them made me laugh. Monkeyballs.com is probably the best one that we came across, so is horseballs.com (find the t-shirts).
It’s kind of funny, Americans are blaming Canadians (article):
Mr. Pataki said the current theory that state officials were pursuing is that there was a surge of power somewhere in Western Ontario that triggered the domino-like cascade of power plants’ shutting down.
And the Canadians are blaming the Americans (article):
The Prime Minister’s Office first said lightning had struck a power plant in the Niagara Region on the U.S. side of the border, but subsequently said there had been a fire at a Con Edison power plant in Niagara Falls, N.Y.
I’ve heard that it was an explosion in Manhattan, lightning strikes in Niagara, nuclear plants in Pennsylvania, somewhere in southern Ontario. Who knows.
Update: Turns out it was the Americans.
Well, that was fun. The power came back on in the wee hours of the morning. I was able to set my alarm clock, but forgot to set the right station/volume, so I ended up being late for work. I’m supposed to be seeing radiohead in montreal tonight. I know that the show is still on, but I’m not really sure how I’m going to get there.
The camp is a gong show, how are you supposed to run a computer camp when the network is down and they don’t want anyone non-essential on campus? Play games outside? Yeah, the computer geeks like that idea.
The power went off yesterday between the time I left work and got home. I ended up just chilling and doing some drinking down at the Scherzo. We got there early, had a few beers and left to go barbecue some meat that would have gone bad. There was wine and then back to the pub. Dave and I also wandered around giving out popsicles, they were all starting to melt. It was pretty chill; little noise and an incredibly beautiful night sky. I also found out something about a previous power outage (article):
On Aug. 11, 1996 — almost exactly seven years ago — a squirrel found its way into a grid on the U.S. West Coast and knocked out power in nine states and parts of Mexico, demonstrating the weaknesses in the system.
Yup, it was all downed by a squirrel. I can see it happening, those evil bastards have been acting kind of odd lately. Running around and getting into the garbage. I blame it all on them.
There’s a new design in the pipes; I got in a design groove last night and lost track of time, resulting in a late night and a day with not as much sleep as I was planning on. I’m used to it though.
This new layout should be up in the near future, I want to take some time to implement the template with some of the other sections, so I get a nice uniform feel to the site. I should probably redo all the sidebar posts, the format that they’re in is kind of dumb.
Go windows! With the whole not using windows, i tend not to keep abreast of bug announcements from Microsoft, they tend to find some major exploit every other day. Of course, my mom phones up last night and tells me that the computer is doing funky shit, like RPC and rebooting, I figured explorer was pretty messed on that computer (which it is) and told her to stop using it and outlook express, guess I was wrong. I got to the camp this morning and all the kids had the reboot message popping up on their screens, I didn’t install all of the patches when i created the disk image last week. Oh well, we got it fixed it was a just a bit of pain-in-the-ass with everyone trying to connect to Windows Update server to download the patches. Doing the sysadmin thing this week makes me feel a lot of sympathy for those poor it-support bastards that have probably had to deal with this all day.
The virus doesnt appear all that malicious, just annoying. If you’re using windows I recommend grabbing the patch and the cleaner. That should fix everything up nicely.
Didn’t really do all that much this weekend, just slept a lot and tried to recover from the weeks of dealing with children. It’s back to computer camp with the older kids this week.
I had my Saturday of police movies with S.W.A.T. followed by Narc. SWAT? Well, it’s not really that bad — it’s a popcorn action flick. The script was horribly written with a standard plot and the stilted dialog. It was the actors that made they movie, they managed to turn in some good performances with what they were given. It was entertaining, that’s what it was supposed to be; i just wanted to avoid the thinking and sit in a nice air-conditioned theatre. Narc was pretty good, another actor driven flick, kind of like Training Day. Oh, and Ray Liotta referring to Busta Rhymes’ character as Coolio was kind of funny.
I just did a clean windows install to setup the computers for camp next week, here’s what windows update looks like.
That’s a lot of updates.
And here’s a post office experiment, in which some people tried to see what would go through the postal service and what items wouldn’t make it.
Here’s one of those phrases that I never really envisioned being published:
“In theory you could phone up and listen to dolphins while sitting in a traffic jam in Dublin,
Technology is a wild and wonderful thing. Someday, I want to be able to talk to the penguins or monkeys, give me my monkey-phone dammit.
In news that seems surprising to some, Arnold has announced that he will be running for governor of California. I want to think that politician’s and analysts shouldn’t have been fooled by the smoke screen that the actor put up, but I really don’t know. In completely unrelated news, the now appears to be a monkey vaccine that is resistant to ebola.
I think it’s a great idea to deploy only 7-10 troops in every country that request military aid. That way if one of them gets killed, you can claim losses at over 10% and use the statistics to force a political pullout. It’s great.
Here are the results from my personality disorder test, coutesty of Riz. It’s on and off, but looks kind of pretty (or ugly) on the webpage.
It was a long long weekend. I made it to the Warped Tour, but didn’t end up getting in until after three… so we missed a couple of bands like The Used and Thrice. There was also a downpour, so it turned everything into a nice big wet muddy mess. The sky cleared up later in the afternoon, but everything was till soaked. Some of the bands I got to see were: Poison the Well, Mad Caddies, Bigwig, Pennywise, Dropkick Murphy’s and Rancid.
My runaway favourite for the show was Letter Kills; they played on a tiny stage hidden within the merch booths. The band put on a great live performance and the lead singer has an amazing stage presence, he was swinging off the bars of the tent and came into the crowd, singing into people faces, crawling along and diving onto the crowd, singing the entire time. He sold the band’s cd after the show and personally thanked everyone for buying it and showing up. It was pretty wild. Their website is pretty cool looking too, props on design.
Alanah and I stuck around in downtown Toronto for a bit before catching a mid-afternoon train back to Kingston. I picked up a couple used albums (Pixies, Slaves on Dope, Harvey Danger) and t-shirts to go along with the samplers and stickers that I picked up from the booths (I didn’t spend much time in the pits, it felt like I had elves inside me punching me stomach). We had some lunch and vowed not to drop any more cash with the devil piece of plastic.
There were massive quantities of water pouring out of the sky last night, so I opted not to venture into the outside world. Watched a few movies and some episodes of Invader Zim, a cartoon that’s hit or miss. It has the whole alien invaders thing going on, so it’s targeted at the geeks and dorks among us. The show isn’t limited to that, when it’s on, it’s on. The best character is a really stupid but incredibly funny little robot called GIR. The first episode is a must, he has some choice lines and bits.
I didn’t feel much like updating this week; it’s been a lot of camp and chilling. I’m gonna head to the Vans Warped Tour in Toronto tomorrow, it should be a good time. I’m not as into the punk scene as i used to be, but i recognize some of the bands. Wheeee, long weekend!