seeing bell orchestre the other night placed them as my number 2 montreal band (just behind priestess) - truly amazing. but also made me remember i have to be on the lookout to catch another show by plywood 3/4

you can undo send on gmail now....and no it isn't april 1

wow
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/21/george-galloway-canada

hmm - listening to the everly brothers' walk right back i realize that neil young lifted (paid homage) to the riff

i guess i could have figured it out with a tennis ball and light-bulb but why the moon looks different in india from here

euler's formula intuitively explained by pictures

I found this song on my computer - I recorded it late at night on October 16, 2007. I have vague memories of doing so....I would have to figure out the song from scratch by listening to it....but I know it is in "Nick Drake" tuning. I guess I was thinking about music for soundtracks....

This is it

i love the graphics in fancy pants

finally made a jr myspace page

amusing message from rola

Did Georg W give Barack a "soul shake" (1:05) before boarding his helicopter into oblivion?

what are these guys thinking?
Originally uploaded by prasun

Retrieved from the current (Jan 14, 2009) wikipedia entry on Charles Leblond:

To mark his 65th birthday in 1975, Leblond was honored at an international symposium on the existence of stem cells in adult tissues; the resulting book, Stem Cells of Renewing Cell Populations, was the first formal, comprehensive account on the subject.[16]

16. Cairnie A.B., Lala P.K. and D.G. Osmond. Stem Cells of renewing Cell Populations Academic Press. N.Y. 1976.

Hmmm - my dad edited the first book on stem cells....

The engineer's disease and here

madoff homepage

When a community or society is so repressive and unwavering in ideas and ideologies - is it memetic inbreeding akin to genetic inbreeding?

My dentist who I have been seeing since th eage of three is retiring....I am thinking of sending him this painting

Are You There Google? It's Me, Margaret
With the advent of Google Chrome....I'm starting to get really scared.

Eric Bachman acoustic Web in Front and others....

One of the coolest animations I have ever seen

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

C Lambert Badge 15625 should be fired 1

C Lambert Badge 15625 should be fired 1
Originally uploaded by prasun

good list of quebec brands of yesteryear (i was searching for perrette's)

wow - i know the term is "influence" - but my first time hearing wes montgomery and pat metheny is almost a "rip-off"....

Habs'n Skate
Originally uploaded by prasun

A skateboard and a Habs flag (courtesy Boni Enseignes) attracts a lot of attention....

why are most montreal street kids anglophone?

something like one third of McGill Elec & Comp Eng and Comp Sci graduate students don't take evolution as fact....
personal (unscientific, incredulous, sample size of not a lot) survey done at CIM
ps - doubters all went through the Montreal highschool, CEGEP, and university systems....
required reading

My theory:
A lot of Beatles' hits using a descending chord progression (Cry Baby Cry, Michelle, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Dear Prudence) are derivative of the Lenny Welch version of A Taste of Honey.
Bealtes songwriting 101 - Listen to their version of A Taste of Honey

I just found a site talking about the roots of the Beatles

someone is stealing my electricity but hydro won't help me....i will have to do some home PI work....

this company lied to me. they left a voice mail message saying i had 5 minutes of free long dustance - it is a scam

Field Sense - training the Gretzky/Nash touch

sorry - the fda thing again:
Raja Foods Issues Nationwide Recall on SWAD BRAND ABIL, GULAL, KANKU, KUM KUM, LAGAN SAMAGRI, AND POOJA SAMAGRI Containing High Levels of Lead
i didn't even know i made kum kum....

listening to neil young's massey hall concert lead me to find this interview - excellent

i keep resisting posting fda notices (like an erection aid that has been recalled because it *actually* has viagra in it) but here's one i couldn't resist - my emphasis added:
Harry & David Operations Corp., of Medford, Oregon, is voluntarily recalling approximately 5880 tubs of the Milk & Dark Chocolate, White Chocolate Macadamia because they may contain macadamia nuts not declared on the ingredient statement, and 4400 tubs of the Peanut Butter, Milk Chocolate, Macadamia Nut because they may contain macadamia nuts and peanuts not declared on the ingredient statement.
from http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/harrydavid11_07.html

position number four in category # 5

you would think sir paul would not be so keen on a coffee chain distributing his music....cash crops and all

yup - i would call this jay leno clip racist

remember this moment of dr who when living in australia

i really like this guy's concept of a pixel....

only ones
lipsynching and live

excited about maurice sendak and spike jonze

i am on an fda mailing list for life threatening recalls:
FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company. This listserv covers mainly Class I (life-threatening) recalls. A complete listing of recalls can be found in the FDA Enforcement Report at: http://www.fda.gov/opacom/Enforce.html

beyond blowfish being labelled as monkfish - i thought this recall is pretty funny considering the product name:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Atlanta, GA -- August 27, 2007 -- Bella Cucina of Atlanta, Georgia is recalling units of Death by Chocolate cookies [my emphasis] if your bag does not correctly state that the product contains walnuts. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to Walnuts run the risk of serious or life threatening allergic reaction if they consume these products.

celine can't be that bad:
Although the Academy Awards ceremony didn’t sit too well with Smith, and he, as well as his bright white suit, was trashed on television, he says it did force him to change his mind about Celine Dion, who performed right after he did. "She was really sweet, which has made it impossible for me to dislike Celine Dion anymore. Even though I can’t stand the music that she makes -- with all due respect I don’t like it much at all -- but she herself was very, very nice. She asked me if I was nervous and I said, ‘Yeah.’ And she was like, ‘That’s good because you get your adrenaline going, and it’ll make your song better. It’s a beautiful song.’ Then she gave me a big hug. It was too much. It was too human to be dismissed simply because I find her music trite."

i want

my favourite segment on fame....except it doesn't show that jimmy osmond FREAKS OUT when all the students rush to congratulate him....

tom jones and janis joplin

angry about pet food contamination and so on? they executed the guy!....

worthy of dangermouse...

i think i actually walked by this guy playing in a frantic michael hedges stylee on prince arthur - i was wowed but in a rush so didn't stop....although i almost just stopped to buy his cd

this american life:
Glass, who personally contributed over 2,000 anecdotes from his own life for documentation, called the project's conclusion the "end of an era."


onion article

gauchos

best article i've read so far on the pet food recall. i have a je mondou can of tuna on my desk (possibly part of the recall - ups number same but not the expiry date)
which i've marked "poison"....i realize that might be a little too close to "poisson"....

baden powell plays samba triste

and him many years later

From a document on the Quebec government's site

A quote from what I assume is associated with the Protestant School Board (I need to read the whole doc):

At the same time, the Committee points out the importance of emphasizing the Judaeo-Christian heritage of Québec society. Québec’s cultural, religious and ethnic diversity, it says, should not neutralize our own convictions and values (p. 4).

i love playing takamine acoustic basses - i want one of these

joni

the police

spoof of herouxville - that sad, sad, little town....

here are some excerpts from the letter section that do a pretty good job of following the actual site:

Salutations,

Moi j'ai une farme pis j'ai pas envi ki fassent pousser des légumes bizarres pis que ma terre soit pognée avec des bebites de pays chauds. Chu ben près à les accepter mais pas à n'importe quel prix.

Jacques Éroule
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Bonjour ,
l faut pas généraliser quand même, y prennent pas tous du sang de chrétiens pour faire de l'Azyme ! Moi je connais un japonais qui est vraiment cool pis sage à l'intérieur de lui. En plus il y a ceux qui apportent des affaires le fun comme le karaté ou les tacos. Pis aussi, il y a ceux qui sont d'apparence immigrants mais que dans le fond y son québécois.

Bon succes ,

Guy Éroule

Terrebonne

nusrat video

why
google suggestions for why
i assume these are the top why questions....

hum a song and it will find it
pretty impressive - it actually got every song i did (if it was in the database)....content based indexing of music. whois says the domain is owned by this guy who heads this company

gingerbread hindu man

gingerbread hindu man
Originally uploaded by prasun.

rupe's baking

the google toolbar
i was impressed enough by the google search capability of doing calculations like
37 choose 9
but now they have added that to the suggestions for the google toolbar
look in the top right corner
wow
btw - that is the total cortical surface area in the human brain....

eyeyeye

eyeyeye
Originally uploaded by lawlawland.

i get this type of spam all the time but seeing the first line made me laugh out loud and read the rest. i love the fact that the spammer doesn't care but they have some stats to back up who does...:

Hello sir

I don't care why your weenie is so small, but 86% of women do.
They are pretty sure that bigger meat will make their desire
stronger. You have the chance to change your life.

Here (link deleted) you can get the thing.

It will help you for sure.
The remedy can be sent worldwide.
If you wont be satisfied - we will return all you money.
No bullshit.

bombs and guitars

merry christmas

merry christmas
Originally uploaded by princesselizard.

i think liz used a long exposure....

live music

favourite snl musical guest performance

i did a search for the word porn in my gmail account. it seems that almost every single village voice newsletter that i have received (since 2004) has the word porn somewhere in it.

recovered from my semi outdoor storage - one casette tape with chrw recording (30 min of it) of the archers of loaf playing at the embassy hotel in london, ont on thursday march 23, 1995.
near the end you hear tom and i challenging the archers to a cage fight....matt gentling responds in kind.

listening to some vinyl i snagged from my dad - and suddenly realized the pixies stole from (paid homage to) sammy davis jr. i have but one life to live (a song i remember well from my childhood) starts with a drumbeat and sammy screaming "hey! get it on!" (or is it "get it off"?). can't remember the name of the pixies song that copies it (although i can hear the riff) but black francis sure draws from a varied bag of tricks....

halloween in quebec....'nuff said

goose giving me another hear attack two stories up....

Untitled Sundae #1162256232

Untitled Sundae #1162256232
Originally uploaded by straup.

halloween/alexander's bday 2006

Indradg... doing something.

Indradg... doing something.
Originally uploaded by sayamindu.

this was geotagged in kolkata....what the ????

so what

rich solo

i remember seeing this live - bing and bowie

gilbert gottfried's voice lent to clippy as microsoft announced they were getting rid of him with xp...what happened?
too bad - there was another cartoon (i couldn't find) where he types up a resume - was funny....

on the "very freaky because it's scary" front - an organization called the cult awareness network was driven to bankruptcy by the church of scientology
and then a scientology member bought the name and assets at a bankruptcy sale and they now run it. whoa.
on a related note - chris (or was it mike) reminded me that when we were at expo 86 in vancouver as teenagers scientologists tried to recruit us and showed us some film at their spaceship HQ....my memories are vague....i think the film was....amusing.

babs made up a new word: pissable.
an excerpt of my msn conversation with him (in munich):
A.N.R.A. says:
I didn't think that was pissible
A.N.R.A. says:
possible
Prasun says:
but he made a very good point about wiki
A.N.R.A. says:
either way
A.N.R.A. says:
wait I just coined another term
A.N.R.A. says:
pissible
Prasun says:
it is funny though - i am using wiki a lot for looking up advanced math
A.N.R.A. says:
l..... :0
Prasun says:
i think pissable might exist
Prasun says:
if i swallow a radioactive spider - do you think the radioactivity will be pissable if i want to mark my name on a wall and have it read by a geiger counter
Prasun says:
e.g.

i freaked out - my two favourite acoustic guitarists together

i actually remember this episode of square pegs....i didn't remember it was john densmore though

saw a disturbing vid on youtube of maggot being removed from someone's head (i think the term maggot must be wrong since it was feeding on live tissue)....anyways - seems to be true according to the bbc

Magic parking lot

Magic parking lot
Originally uploaded by prasun.

hmm does that mean you can pretty much always park there or never park there?
in practice...."always"

i love alvin lee live

i never even saw the original movie - and i still find this hilarious....

the resto owner is changing the name

i cannot believe that it is only the indian jewish community that is protesting the new "hitler's cross" resto in mumbai. it is not like india is normally big on "freedom of speech" with its recent controversy about shutting down blogging....incredible.

my hard disk on my server crashed last week
on the advice of fellow student aptly named lucky13 - i froze the hard disk for 1/2 hour and was able to boot it again and backup data....it really wouldn't boot until i froze it in a ziplock bag. so the internet rumours are true - apparently it works about 50% of the time....
i found an old disk that wasn't needed - installed everything - but then realized it was SO noisey i couldn't take it. so i removed it....finally found another that wasn't needed and just finished reinstalling redhat + all appropriate directories....hopefully this disk lasts longer....

barbara dennerlein - watch her feet...

turns out was not in the apartment itself in the back storage...still disgusting...but less so...

maybe this is not appropriate to have online....but....
mon voisin - martin - il est fou. il composte.
his compost exploded a few days ago. it smelled like shit (not in my apartment though).
i had my fears.
i just found out from another neighbour that it litterally dripped down the walls of martin's downstairs neighbour....
the feces is apparently his own.
i have a feeling i am soon going to have a new neighbour....

ok go

Archers of Loaf in Montreal in 1995....I was at this show.

hacked
won't get into details - but my computer got hacked because i was using a version of realvnc that had a bug letting anybody remotely log onto your computer without a password. very annoying.

pirates and emperors
schoolhouse rocks! gets a great face lift:

i just submitted a typo to the nobel prize people:

Hi - I just wanted to let you know about a typo on this page:http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/biographical/index.html
Alfred Nobel (1883-1896) – was born in Stockholm, Sweden on October 21, 1833.
I assume the initial 1883 should read 1833!

i'm pretty sure bjork's song cvalda must have been inspired by gainsbourg's comic strip

this is how you cause a riot