Leanne and I are flying to Manchester, UK tonight to spend 2 weeks visiting our friends, Chris and Rachel, who are attending school at Nazarene Theological College. We’ll also get a chance to visit Mike and Rachel in Bristol and perhaps others.
It’s been a few years since I’ve been away from work for this long at one time so I’m looking forward to the break. Not that my job is that stressful on most days, but it’s still suppose to be good to get away.
Keep an eye here for updates and photos from the road.
Filed under: Travel , Manchester, Travel, UK
Disney sucks and here’s why.
Die Hard 5: Death 2 Pinochio.
The man who slowly, painfully murdered Bambi’s mother.
Stephen and the opium farm: A story of why hard drugs are bad.
Caution! Contents Smoking Hot!
The fundamentals of economics.
The disease that killed everyone.
When good princesses go bad.
The screwed-over orphan girl.
Cinderella V.
(With thanks to the Splat crew!)
Filed under: Lists , disney, list
On the same day that my little brother was testing for a job as a security screener at the airport, I downloaded a game on my iPhone called JetSet.
The idea is that the airport tells you which items need to be confiscated from the travellers passing through the security checkpoint. The tricky part is that the list of banned items is always changing, so you have to both keep a close eye what is currently being banned and move fast enough that the line doesn’t backup.
One of the really cool things about this game is that it uses the location in your phone to determine if you’re near one of the airports loaded in the game and getting a high score will award you prizes unique to that airport as well as putting you on the high score list for that specific airport. Sweet!
(Via Near Future Laboratory)
Filed under: Location, Travel, iphone , airport iphone games security
February 22, 2009 • 10:13 pm
I’m still in the process of listening and reading all of this, but Carl Wilson (aka, Zoilus) has an article in The Globe and Mail about The Happiness Project, a solo album by Charles Spearin. He’s known for his other contributions to Do Make Say Think and Broken Social Scene.
This album uses the recorded conversations of his neighbors and turns them into the melodies and the music on the album. Carl traces the roots of this and similar techniques through an extensive and interesting post, complete with many links and clips. I’ll be spending some time tonight digging in and welcome you to do the same.
I love this kind of writing, by the way. It’s an interesting and beautiful thing when someone can take a new album and provide context and history for it, placing it within a dynamic chain of influences and inspirations. I love it. This is also why I love Nardwuar’s interviews with rappers. Rappers seem to have a conscious sense of their place within the history and development of rap. They respect their roots and can talk intelligently about them and provide great subjects for Nardwuar who’s always looking for those connections between influences. Watch all 4 parts of his interview with ?uestlove of The Roots as an excellent example.
Filed under: Music , History, Links, Music, reading, The Happiness Project, zoilus
