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Kyiv, Ukraine

I am so happy to have been given the pleasure of posting this essay from Ahren Brunow, who is a very good friend of both Mike and I, and who is also a University of Guelph undergrad. Thanks, Ahren, for writing this extremely amusing piece and I’m really glad to have given you a place to publish it. Can’t wait to read more of your adventures… — Marc I have been living abroad...

Oct 30th

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Baby corn scares the shit out of me.

I made a great, tasty mix of different vegetables with chicken and noddles, and other crap today, and I did my best to avoid ANY baby corn. It was definitely a conscious decision, but one I forgot about until I was almost finished my bowl. Sitting at the bottom, among some chickpeas and celery, was an ear of baby corn. I think I may have made an audible gasp when it caught my eye. A mutant! What...

Oct 28th

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New Bloc Party

Bloc Party’s new album “Intimacy” (released digitally in August) is finally seeing its physical release today. Included on the physical release are two new tracks. Check out the stronger of the two, “Letter To My Son” , below. I’m really enjoying it. It’s definitely the closest they’ve come to achieving the same kind of raw sound that made...

Oct 27th

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Bloc Party - Letter To My Son

Oct 27th

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Vidblog?

Sorry for the huge amount of video posts lately and lack of essays. I think the posted videos are unique and definitely worth watching, but they’re not the focus of this site. I know I can also speak for Mike as well when I say our intentions with this blog was to make it more about writing than anything else. I like the photos, links and videos a lot too, but I feel like the site is more...

Oct 25th

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Oct 25th

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Watch

I thought that this was an absolutely fantastic ad. It isn’t new or anything, I just hadn’t seen it until tonight. Have any of you already seen this?

Oct 24th

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Oct 23rd

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Stress

I’ve been really stressed this week. I have two assignments I’ve been working on that are due tomorrow and Friday along with a midterm on Friday too. I think it’s also the upcoming projects that are due in the weeks ahead which are a big part of the stress. I’m also helping out with a great fundraiser tomorrow night, Think Pink, which is organized by a student association...

Oct 23rd

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Keyboards "not safe to transmit sensitive... →

In their work the researchers used a radio antenna to “fully or partially recover keystrokes” by spotting the electromagnetic radiation emitted when keys were pressed. Students tested 11 different keyboard models that connected to a computer via either a USB or a PS/2 socket. The attacks they developed also worked with keyboards embedded in laptops. Every keyboard tested was...

Oct 21st

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Oct 21st

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Why being 12-years-old was better than being 20

I know that these aren’t the Kool-Aid ones that we had as kids, but it’s the closest thing that I could find. These things were a downright staple of my childhood and I still think of them from time to time. Try to think of your most traumatic childhood memory and I promise you that it pales in comparison to the discontinuation of Kool-Aid’s plastic twist-off bottles. Yet...

Oct 21st

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Oct 20th

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Oct 19th

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Ray LaMontagne; the sound I've been missing

I won’t say too much about Ray LaMontagne, mostly because I know very little about him. He just released his third LP, “Gossip In The Grain” last week. I feel like somewhere Damien Rice is kicking himself for not writing it first. “Gossip In The Grain”  is produced by Ethan Johns, who was also behind all but the newest Kings Of Leon releases. At 35-years-old,...

Oct 19th

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Ray LaMontagne - You Are The Best Thing

Oct 19th

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AMAZING - 38% of people aren't entitled to their...

Thought this was absolutely hilarious… A study condudcted by the University of Chicago’s School for Behavioural Science found that 38% of Americans are “neither entitled nor qualified to have opinions.” The following is a quote from research Professor Mark Fultze who conducted the study: “On topics from evolution to the environment to gay marriage to immigration...

Oct 18th

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Salad Dressing

I am over salad dressing. I don’t know why I always thought garden salads needed salad dressing. I first ate a salad a week ago without salad dressing only because I had none available. Tonight I had a salad and decided I didn’t want to ruin it by adding superfluous flavours. Obviously I really enjoyed it. If you’ve always stuck to your preferred dressings, try eating a...

Oct 17th

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SNL Weekend Update Thursday (and links to a couple...

Weekend Update has always been my favorite recurring segment on Saturday Night Live. Last week, SNL introduced the first of four special prime time editions of the segment on Thursday night. The first 10 minutes involved a sketch of the 2nd U.S. presidential debate, which I thought was hilarious. The following 20 minutes featured an extended version of the regular Weekend Update segment which...

Oct 16th

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A bittersweet farewell to yoga; the fruitless...

Yes - I am still alive and my lack of posting is beyond unnacceptable. This week was full of ups and downs, but mostly academic-related downs. In a last ditch effort to save my looming average, I decided to drop a course - which is something that I never thought I would have to do. So goodbye ‘Yoga in India and the West’ (yes, I too was fooled by the relatively easy-sounding nature...

Oct 16th

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“Apple doesn’t make computers that people have to buy. They make computers that...”

– Blog post by John Guber

Oct 16th

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Oct 14th

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"Nooooo!"

As a young child I had a scarring experience when one of my favourite sweaters had shrunk in the wash. Ever since then, my laundrying takes a little bit longer because I refuse to ever use the dryer. It might take longer but I never run the risk of shrinking any of my clothes. I like how they fit; when I buy something new I don’t try it on and consider how it will fit on me after it has...

Oct 14th

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Oct 10th

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Watch

This is my haircut. (This was streamed live from my phone as it happened btw, so you could have watched it as it was happening. Anything I stream off my phone will automatically show up on my “QIK” profile here so check that out!)

Oct 8th

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Tindersticks; for fans of the national (?)

I thought I would go out on a limb and post something that very few people this side of the Atlantic have likely heard.  The band is called Tindersticks - a three-piece from Nottingham, England who recently released their first album in 5 years, albeit missing three of its founding members. The band has been kicking around since 93’; but I am only now slowly making my way through their...

Oct 8th

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Tindersticks - Patchwork

Oct 8th

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Random Internet find: a tattoo for the ages

Now I am usually the first person who will point out how stupid I think your tattoo is - but as much as I want to hate something this loud, I can’t. It’s perfect. If you can’t make out what it says, it’s a famous excerpt from Jack Kerouac’s novel On The Road: …the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be...

Oct 8th

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Oct 6th

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http://www.theofficequotes.com/random-the-office-qu... →

Spent the entire day in the library getting the ads at the top middle of this page running. I hate ads, but click the small link that says “read why this is necessary”.

Oct 5th

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My favourite Subway sub

Just finished eating this: Footlong chicken breast sub on whole wheat bread White cheddar cheese Toasted Lettuce, tomatoes, onions, a few green olives Mustard and a small bit of light mayo Black pepper

Oct 4th

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“Live every week like it’s Shark Week”

– Tracy Jordan; 30 Rock

Oct 3rd

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New TV On The Radio (let's dance)

Where to begin. I don’t think I even have the ridiculous vocabulary that seems to be necessary to write a proper review of TV On The Radio’s new album, “Dear Science”. I’ve never seen such a wide variety of adjectives used to describe a collection of songs. In a sentence – it’s a masterpiece. TVOTR’s last LP, “Return To Cookie Mountain” virtually defined the term...

Oct 3rd

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TV On The Radio - Halfway Home

Oct 3rd

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"That's so pro!"

Now there’s something you don’t hear me say anymore. Rewind to grade 8 though, and I would call anything cool “pro.” And I could justify it to myself (and others) too: “It’s short for ‘professional.’ So if I really like something, it’s on par with being professional.” I don’t know how I remember my justification of using the word,...

Oct 2nd

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Wise words from Pitchfork Media

I’ve increasingly come to resent Pitchfork over the past couple of years. Whereas I used to enjoy reading countless reviews that tore albums apart with little restraint, I’ve grown quite sick of their pretentious and overblown commentary on the music I love.  Visiting Pitchfork has become kind of like coming home to that roommate who you thought would be great to live with but just...

Oct 2nd

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Google Search, Circa 2001 →

From Google: In honor of our 10th birthday, we’ve brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001. A couple interesting searches demonstrate how much the Internet has changed since 2001. One absolute gem I was able to find was one of my first and absolute favourite sites I ever built…. unfortuantely it’s now LOST FOREVER, but I guess...

Oct 1st