Refraction

So you remember how I asserted that all of Dan Brown’s novels are the same?

Well, it seems I’m not alone in thinking that. Use this generator and you too can write a Dan Brown novel! (Or three.)

I figure the people who read this blog probably know me the best of all the people I know online (and offline.) So, please do this personality meme if you’ve got a chance.

CORE OF SOUL is breaking up! This really quite upsets me :depressed:

And here I was thinking that all the releases were a sign they were still going strong. I guess not. 🙁

Happy birthday to Anthony, who uh… I dunno. Can’t think of a snarky remark right now. I’m too busy studying for MIDTERMS T_T (I’ve got two on Wednesday.)

CORE OF SOUL is shortly going to release a “Best of” album (middle of March), which is always fun. The best part of this was that fans were given the opportunity to vote on what songs should be included (well, at least, we were given the illusion of being able to vote… I’m always suspicious about these things; I think they’re about as effective as online petitions.)

So because I’m such a fan, I signed up for their (Japanese-only) mailing list, and today, the tracklisting was “released”.

And, as far as I can tell, there will also be a limited edition including acoustic versions of some of their recent songs, and their previously unreleased… demo, I guess? Something before their debut.

(My comments on the selection of songs follows.)
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Happy birthday to Sam, who is now (officially, about three times over) OLD.

So m-flo, my favourite J-whatever-you-call-that-type-of-music group recently released a music video featuring none other than Sonic’s evil lookalike. It’s amusing. It’s very amusing.

All kidding aside though, I quite like the song. LISA, of course, used to be m-flo’s vocalist before she quit. Since then, they’ve started their “m-flo ♥ …” collaborations. Well, at least it keeps them from getting into a rut.

So, for your reading pleasure, some caps with accompanying commentary. :star:
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• Whoa, why does Steven Harper’s speech suddenly sound like an Oscar acceptance speech?
• Why is Steven Harper still so scary?
• I like the fact that Paul Martin played cards while the election results were coming in. It reminded me of a certain game played in a certain green room (which wasn’t really green and didn’t have much in the way of food, as I recall). That was awesome.
• Some of those races are really close O_o
• Not in the city, though, sadly. 🙁
• Oh ho ho, and it was Richard’s sister who took my ballot. Then again, the only other time I remember seeing her is at 7 am in the morning five years ago, so…
• I have nothing to say about Jack Layton. This makes me sad. I’m glad his wife got elected, though. That’s going to make for some good newspaper fodder in the months ahead.
• I thought it was kind of obvious that a Liberal-NDP coalition was a possibility even before the TV guys swarmed all over it. I also thought it was equally obvious that it wasn’t really going to happen, especially given that the last time such a coalition was formed was in 1925. I mean…. really.
• Oh, I do have something to say about Jack Layton after all. I was disappointed that his supporters booed Harper. Not really necessary, and it just makes you look like sore losers anyway. And this coming from someone who really, really doesn’t like Harper!
• Do you ever wonder what those ‘congratulatory’ phone calls are like? “Hey, Steve? It’s Paul. Good job on the election, buddy. ‘Grats.”
• I really wonder who the one “other” candidate elected is.
• Did I mention that Steven Harper is scary?

There is only one word to describe this site, and it is “awesome.” XD

MyStickies lets you put little yellow post-it notes all over the Internet! Okay, so I haven’t really found a practical use for this yet besides “it’s fun.” Still, I suppose that if you needed to make notes to yourself about the content of a certain page, this is one way to do it.

Another, of course, is to use del.icio.us, which is a “social bookmarking system,” or just a fancy phrase “something which lets you see what other people think is worth your time.” I’ve found some very cool sites (including the one above!) this way, although the popular sites tend to be a little heavy on the IT nerd-type things.

Posted a few days late because WP was acting up.

A couple of musings after watching about ten minutes of the French debate–closing statements and random “oh, let’s see what they’re talking about” moments (politics isn’t my favourite thing in the world):

• Why does the Bloc Québécois even exist? Yeah, yeah, to speak for Québec, to promote sovereignty, yadda yadda yadda. But it can never form a majority government, and even if it won all the seats it could and formed a minority government, what would it do? Declare immediate separation? Dunno if the 50%+1 who voted non in the last referendum would like that.
• New thing I learned: Paul Martin is Québécois? QUOI?! Not only that, he’s got Métis ancestry? Double QUOI?!
• Yes, Steven Harper, we know that French is not your first language. Thanks for clumsily bringing it to our attention again. Also, you’re still scary.
• The subjunctive, Mr. Layton, the subjunctive!

Ahhh, my mouse is slowly dying on me. It keeps double-clicking when I only mean to single-click. And the volume down button on my mp3 player doesn’t work anymore. 🙁