I have a tendency to keep a whole bunch of tabs open in Chrome that I want to think about or talk about more. I have not been doing a great job of blogging, there is much else taking up a fair bit of my time these days. Including the band. That being said, I
This is not really the thing to come back to blogging with, but yeesh. You should never have to ask Facebook if you are on a boat. And I'm fully aware that this is a song by the Lonely Island.
John Doyle has a surprisingly cynical take on the Susan Boyle phenomenon. I have to be honest and say I have yet to see the clip but Doyle's point digs deeper. We think we root for the underdog, but we don't really. We are a superficial, catty and vapid culture. We aren't interested in authenticity.
How does it not occur to some of these people that spending ten million dollars on a sporting event might tick off the taxpayers who just supported a billion dollar bailout of your bank. Despite a near collapse that required $45 billion in federal taxpayer bailout funds, Bank of America sponsored a five day carnival-like
I'll be honest. I could never stand Bob Dylan. I know his songs are brilliant, I love how Dave Matthews Band does All Along the Watchtower. I just can't stand Bob Dylan's voice. The reason I say all this is because I've also been known to turn off a catchy song with a great melody
You can send me letters, postcards, hatemail, etc. at Liam Kinnon MSB PO Box 545 StFX University Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G 2W5 Canada I finally confirmed that my key worked and that MSB PO Box 545 is really my box after deciding to order a couple of books off of Amazon. Thanks to a gift
G.K. Chesterton on progressives and conservatives. "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." From his Wikipedia entry.
Due to recent discoveries by leading linguists, software engineers at the University of Toronto are developing Automatic Messaging software. "What we've discovered is that there are roughly 5 IM (instant messaging) conversations that people have" saidTracy McMillan, head of linguistic studies, at a recent press conference detailing the new software. John Claverty, head of the
Well it's another Friday and another top five for you all. I've been listening to more music but don't think I have enough new songs to give you a good new selection of music. This week instead will be the top 5 things to come out of the eighties. That is right, I'm under the
I think it would be better not to kill people. It seems protestants are no less guilty than catholics of persecution, even killing people. I had realized that there had been violence in protestantism; but looking at people like Zwingli and Calvin made me realize that people are people. And power will corrupt anybody who