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Top Five TV Shows of the Aughts

5) How I Met Your Mother First off, Willow’s in it! She’s dreamy. Secondly, Doogie’s hilarious. Finally, it’s damn funny. 4) The Mighty Boosh This BBC3 comedy focuses on Howard Moon (an incompetent, small-eyed jazz fan), Vince Noir (a fashion conscious simpleton), Naboo (a shaman), Bollo (a gorilla) and Bob Fossill (the manager of the zoo the main characters work in during the first series). Each series has a different theme, during the first, the cast work in a zoo, the second, they’re roommates, the third, they work in Naboo’s shop. There’s not much sense of continuity to the series, but it’s fuckin’ funny. 3) 30 Rock I love this… Read More »Top Five TV Shows of the Aughts

Top 50 Albums of the Aughts

1) Sleater-Kinney – The Woods (2005) 2) The Magnetic Fields – i (2004) 3) Belle & Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2003) 4) The Flashing Lights – Sweet Release (2001) 5) Neko Case & Her Boyfriends – Furnace Room Lullaby (2000) 6) The Joel Plaskett Emergency – Down At The Khyber (2001) 7) Julie Doiron – Woke Myself Up (2007) 8) Neil Young – Live At Massey Hall 1971 (2007) 9) Valery Gore – Avalanche To Wandering Bear (2008) 10) God Help The Girl – God Help The Girl (2009) 11) Wilco – A Ghost Is Born (2004) 12) Joel Plaskett – Three (2009) 13) Neko Case – Fox Confessor… Read More »Top 50 Albums of the Aughts

fstemp

Thought I’d post this in case anyone else has a similar problem. Our Head of School’s MacBook Pro was having problems. It was eating up disk space for no apparent reason. It seemed to be happening during the synchronization of the mobile home directory. Running lots of apps including OmniDiskSweeper were reporting that while the disk had 216GB used, it was only cataloguing 50GB. With the suggestion of a fabulous engineer at Apple, I ran the program as the superuser sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper and it found hundreds of gigabytes in the user’s desktop directory all called silly names like… .fstemp.+PHD-L-hDjzWLUASp4 … 3Z1.noindex I’m deleting those.

Learn To Party

Been cleaning up old files on my computer and found a rip of Thrush Hermit’s Learn To Party, which I had digitized from VHS years ago.

Being There

What’s a good level between easy of use and security? I’m not sure. I’ve installed reCAPTCHA on instance of WordPress, I don’t think it’ll stay, I just wanted to try it out and see if it works. It does. I installed it on Being There’s instance of WordPress and there it’ll live, but is it too annoying for the average user, thus stopping them from commenting?

My Fair Clavin Part II

I think I should revisit this post. I think the issue is the shoulder pads.

Schomberg Fair

Went to see the Schomberg Fair last night at The Garrison, here in Toronto. Fab show.

Being There

Four years ago, I, along with a handful of other amazing people started an online web magazine called Being There. We’ve been on a bit of a hiatus. It’s back! Check it out!

Twizzle

I posted this on YouTube a while ago, and I constantly get emails saying someone’s commented on the video. Thought I’d share.

Back Home Weather’s Got You Down

Listening to Matt May’s “Back Home Weather” off of his first and self-titled record. Back home weather’s got you down Looking to move on and skip town You’re looking to get lost to be found ‘Cause back home weather’s got you down You say you got somewhere to go Where the palms grow tall and the air lets you know Roll the windows down as far as they’ll go So you say you got somewhere to go Take your time, enjoy the view Don’t let ‘em get to you anymore Let everything slide, go along for the ride Make sure that you decide where you’re going Foreign car with northern… Read More »Back Home Weather’s Got You Down