The BBC is reporting that Ray Bradbury, a sometimes brilliant science-fiction writer is furious over Michael Moore's use of his Book name Fahrenheit 451 to name his far left wing propaganda film: Fahrenheit 9/11.

I was just talking to the girl from Italy who is living in the house (she's doing a post-doc here) and mentioned that I'd been shopping and picked up a few books, one of them was a book by Nabokov.

So I'm going to take the bike out for some off roading. This will be the first time in nearly three weeks that I'm going to exercise. I can't wait. That and I can finally play my didge again, and blog. Course that's only a respite, for half a day.

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neverkevin has a few Gmail invites in his journal, I just got one. Anyone interested?

This is a random root for Roots . Their clothing is incredible, it beats The Gap hands down, and I was a huge Gap fan. I wish their prices were a little lower though. I can now get decent clothing and not support the exploitation of Korean workers who IIRC asked the west to boycott The Gap, something I'm finally now doing.

Graduation ceremony today for three years of Mechanical Engineering at college. Only about 1/4 of the class turnt up though which was a disappointment - all the guys that counted did though (friends).

Macross Zero Episode Four [Bit Torrent Site] is out as a sub of the initial raw. When ANBU-AonE gets their own DVD they will rerelease it properly. Still, its great to see and I can't wait to watch it.

All hail the Fansubbers!

Just before the storm hit I managed to run to the university's bookstore and pick up an umbrella. Its cheap and nasty and plastic and I paid twice the price as anywhere else as it's logo'ed, and because the bookstore was the only place I could reach that had umbrellas in the two minute rain window given.

So I'm out off-road cycling today up Hamilton Mountain and I take a new shortcut I've discovered which leads straight up the side of the Escartment: its dirty, stoney, and steep, and goes directly though the forest which surrounds the Escartment's cliffs.

Saw Supersize me with a buddy tonight and what a total blast the picture it was.

For those who haven't heard, the premise of the picture is that the filmmaker (Morgan Spurlock) eats nothing but McDonald's' food for one month: breakfast, lunch, and supper, in an attempt to raise awareness about the obesity problem in today's America.

The film is very funny, witty, fascinating, and kind of scary.

Time for a brief break in my boring stats hwk:

Napster Canada has launched, as reported here on /. a few days ago.

This morning I read a McCleans Magazine article on the television watching ratings amongst young men (18-30 IIRC) that have fallen a staggering 17.6% and of the straws the networks are grasping at to save themselves. This is old news, everyone knows it. What was new to me was the networks' desperate efforts to prop up their dying businesses. The reasoning given in this article for their inability to bring back the male audiences is that they are not allowed to show excessive violence or

This deserves a medal. I'm not sure what kind of medal, but it deserves one.

"In all its practical uses, science works to entrench anthropocentrism." -- John Gray, _Straw Dogs_

(1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the 5th sentence. 4. Post the text of the whole sentence in your journal along with these instructions).

Third nearest fiction book (I passed up the textbooks and the first quote was a scandalous quote of Nabokov's which I'm not about to post (and the second one was too for that matter, but thats Nabokov though).

Well, I just got turned away from an introductory Linux course by a fat bastard. Here's the story, i want to blow off some steam.