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Word watch: Milli Vanilli-fication. As in “Digital vocal tuning is contributing to the Milli Vanilli-fication of pop music.”

I saw Ralph Benmergui in the hall at work today. I couldn’t stop giggling.

I think the Fates wanted me to stay at home and play Starcraft all weekend.

After sleeping through my stop on the train yesterday, I took out an Autoshare car to do some grocery shopping Sunday afternoon. Beige must be a very good urban camouflage colour, because I swear I never saw the other car coming.

I managed to brake enough to slow down quite a bit, but not enough to stop before I hit the car. I busted my plastic bumper moulding and his driver’s side fender.

So, that was two afternoons in a row down the tubes. I want my weekend back.

I wish the train station in Kingston were closer to downtown.

An unexpected trip to K-town might be fun in that case.

Well, it looks like all my NovaNewsNet articles in my online section here are dead links.

So are all the Chiroclinix articles, but they have been for a long time.

I really gotta update this site, man. My “recent articles” on the front page are from 2001.

Dammit. I really did intend to go to karate today.

This napping in the afternoon plan sounded like a good idea.

My response to Pony’s blog entry on the blackout:

See, you’re smart. You found out what was going on and then went out with a bike and digicam.

I went out not knowing the scale of the blackout, thinking there might be power elsewhere in the city.

I took the bus and left my camera at home.

It wasn’t until I heard someone on the street say “It’s in the States, too,” that I bothered to check the CBC news on my cellphone.

Then I was stranded downtown for a couple hours waiting for the bus as the city got _very_ dark.

I could have had some cool shot of people directing traffic and lining up for street meat. *sigh*

My job just got a little bit easier thanks to Google’s new calculator feature. I’m always looking up metric conversion sites to change distances in American wire copy into kilometres or do other conversions.

Now I just type 15 miles in km into Google and, whoop, there it is.

I just played with it for a few minutes, doing strange things like figuring out how many calories the earth would make if converted entirely into energy.

I could do this all day. It’s not like there’s news going on or anything.