Try this:
I’m off to see U2 in Montreal. Back in three days with details.
Update:
excellent conversation, pseudo-review, and setlist
It’s true.
After writing my last post, where I linked to Online Support (OLS), I tested the links to make sure they were all pimp-tight.
I started combing through the OLS page and giggled when I saw the link “OLS is about people“.
I giggled further when I saw “Our Front Line” after that.
I turned bright purple when I saw who’s “I’m quitting on good terms and I might want a reference later” email was quoted.
As I was making my daily visit to Vince’s fine page today, the image next to the day’s post reminded me of a site I would frequent when I worked at Online Support which (among other things) made great product spoofs.
This site is the headquarters of the Afrosquad. I was pleasantly surprised to see how much it had changed over the past few years. The part that amused me specifically was the movies section. The movies themselves aren’t high quality, but, the effort put into them makes up for that. My favorite so far is the one for ‘Asswipes’ (so your hand don’t smell like ass).
They average a delicious 3 minutes each, totally worth your time. The rest of the page is also full of good material.
It’s spring clean up time in Charlottetown and that means crap on the streets. It doesn’t bother me so much, but a lot of people are understandably pissed of at how long it’s taking the city to pick up the many piles of leaves, rusty fridges, and other assorted eyesores.
In one situation, a woman’s daughter was getting married and she particularly concerned about the rubbish on her street as she would be entertaining at her house. She called her city councillor, who called the garbage people, who picked up some of it. Still, there was enough stuff let on the street to cramp the style of a good wedding party.
What’s a good city councillor to do? He, his wife, and his youngest son get a truck and clean up the street themselves in time for the wedding. There were no cameras or reporters. He didn’t even tell anyone he did it.
While I am not the son who helped him with the trash, the city Councillor is my father, Bruce Garrity. Sure, he may double-click on web links (all the time!), but this genuinely impressed me.
The value of random music picks on the web is directly proportional to the number of available gigabytes on Napster. The chances that you will go buy a CD based solely on my recommendation are slim so all you can do is take my word for it. Since Napster is starting to suck, so will this post.
The Watchmen have been touring Canada for years. In 1998 they released Silent Radar and I saw them at The Barn a year later. This is a fantastic album. The Watchmen walk that fine line between critically credible and radio friendly, ala Counting Crows. If you see the Silent Radar in bargain bin at a second hand music store buy it and listen to Brighter Hell in the dark with headphones.
There is a good intro the world of web logs in May’s issue of Brill’s Content called Human Portals. Matt Haughey of MetaFilter graces the cover. I suggest you print it off and read it on the lawn like I did (sunny day recommended).
“Sleep to Dream”
This is a very different song when you realize the line is actually:
I could swallow the seas to wash down all my pride.
That’s seas and not seed. A world of difference – but still a decent song, albeit certainly not the best on the album. Nice title though.
A great open letter to IslandTel by Peter at Reinvented.net. As a member of a company in exactly the same scenario, I won’t shed any tears for IslandTel if they can’t leverage 100 years of monopoly to provide adequate service at competitive prices.
update: it’s not so much macs, but the people who use them
I want a Titanium PowerBook as much as any self-respecting web designer, but this quote from a News.com story about the opening of the Apple store (QuickTime) in Washington D.C. gave me the creeps:
More than 500 zealous Mac fans lined up as early as 4 a.m. EDT for the chance to be the store’s first customer and to support Apple Computer’s retail experiment. The crowd–which earlier broke into chants of “Apple! Apple! Apple!”–roared when the stored open at 10 a.m. EDT.
These people have clearly not read Brave New World.