February 24, 2006
googlefun
I google'd talbotsite and one of the results was this... Jer, what have you been putting in your games???
Secret Messages in Republic Commando
'talbotsite dot com' -that one is apparently a link to The concept art guy's site. MULTIPLAYER MAP: GARDEN: 'Love Hugs XXX" MULTIPLAYER MAP: LOCKDOWN: '11 ...
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February 23, 2006
snake hair lady
Alright here it is...
I havnt posted much lately because ive had nothing to post. After the cream ad i figured i had hit rock bottom. As it were, i gave up, resorted to music to sooth my worries and what did i find but the most beautiful website for tunage in the world... Totaly quality for workplace listening and jazz of the sort. Kind of an internet radio, but so much more comprehensive.
PANDORA
From what i understand it was created by a couple guys from MIT or some smarty pants school like that. Essentialy what was created was a rough map of the music genome
"We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony." (Westergren : 2005)
Listening to thousands of artists, each was catagorized on some sort of matrix i would imagine. What resulted, was artists grouped by their specific sounds. All that was left was to create an engine to support the matrix and BLAM, pandora's box opened up :P
I just tried it with death cab for cutie a band ive known rather well from over the years and already ive been introduced to about 3 new groups, all sounding similar but not the same... I guess, if you want to keep on with the same theme, they are artists that are part of the same family.
Check it out
http://www.pandora.com
Pinback is touring
You should really go check them out...
Apr 21, San Francisco - Bimbo's 365 Club
Apr 22, Berbatis Pan - Portland, Oregon
Apr 20, UCSB - Santa Barbara
May 04, Lee's Palace, Toronto
February 17, 2006
Not that anyone cares
Most of the people that come to this page don't hail from Ontario, but I grew up in Hamilton in the 70's and early 80's. When I was sick at home from school, I would lay on the couch and watch the fine programming of TVOntario. Shows like "Fables of the Green Forest" and "The Bear called Jeremy", were sweet like triaminic, or vicks vapo-rub.
Someone put a page up with a little index of all the shows.
You can find anything on the internet these days.
February 13, 2006
tahoe is beautiful
I remember why I moved to california.
February 7, 2006
Move over "Slanket"...
For those of you who can't handle gettin stuck in your sleeping bag: http://www.thecoolhunter.net/lifestyle/SELKBAG/
YES!
Im sorry, i know Talblog isnt really for product endorsements but I think that this needs to be said.
For years ive been suffering chronic knee pain in my right knee. Its the reason why I did cardio on the bike and was afraid of running for the longest time. About 6 weeks ago I started running on the treadmill much to the discontent of my knee. I figured as I progressed through a running program (which is comming along very well) the pain would go away. In retrospect, that wasnt the best hypothesis. Instead, as im sure many of you have already assumed, my knee got worse and worse and worse untill last week when it was a task just to walk after my run. That was the point where I had had enough! My first call was to the physio therapist, then to shoppers drug mart (canadian wallgreens).
Enter ICY HOT Cream.
MY GOD, i put this stuff on and the pain melts away. Sure it doesnt fix the problem, but neither does tylenol. Icy to dull the pain, Hot to relax it away. First of all, i cant belive something like this was invented. Its a chemical compound that im sure cant be better than aspritame or any of the other suposed cancer causing goodies, but again--tylenol... Secondly, its cheap, like 5 bucks a tube and it looks like its going to last forever.
I guess ill end it here, because im sure you're either bored with my talking about cream, or your already gone to get some, ha!
February 6, 2006
Steel It
First of all ........... *go steelers* ........... now i know a lot of you aren't huge football fans, or sports fans at all. i, however, am. i love football on tv or live, and can usually enjoy any sport if i'm actually at the game and within throwing distance of a frosty beverage. so clearly when Super Bowl Sunday XL (heretofore named "game day"), came upon the horizon, i began the intense search for an appropriate game day party.
my roommate bess knows anything and everything about college football. she's southern, so i think "football 101" is part of mandatory freshmen curriculum. I prefer pro-football...mainly b/c i'm getting old, so it's creepy when i'm fawning over a 22 yr old quarterback from kansas.
after some picking and choosing, i decided that a frat-style party being thrown by a coworker was the "best" option. the evite was littered with tawdry tales from the previous game day party, as well as the promise of endless beer and dips. **cha-ching**. i didn't know the host very well (i.e., at all), except for two drunken conversations at work functions. reaaal professional missy. so naturally bess and i latched onto a couple of invitees i did know. i threw on my game day "GAME ON" t-shirt, grabbed a handle of tequila, spinach dip and ran out the door just in time for kickoff.
the crowd was everything i expected, totally fratastic/sorority-rific...a predictable bunch - full of stories, knit caps and tank tops. most of you would probably have thrown up at the sight, but i had fun. the trio of dudes hosting the party had just invested in a flat screen tv the size of my apartment, there was a table of dips n desserts, a grill was fired up precariously on the 4'x6' balcony and the keg was chilling happily in the kitchen. excellent.
bess and i settled in a safe spot and watched the steelers knock the seahawks around. (ftr - i don't think that Roethlisberger's borderline TD should have counted, but i'm glad it did). Amid laughing at the raucous group around me, a coworker informed us that a fellow partier worked for hustler and edits porn. naturally, this meant that prizes for one of the many football pools was free porn. after each quarter, a squirrelly, unkempt and moderately unattractive guy would stand up and announce the latest recipient of "luscious latinas" and "anal action" DVDs. hoorah!
the porn awarding was overshadowed only at half-time. by the Rolling Stones you ask? not at our party. half time was a seemingly prime opportunity for our hosts to show their 30+ guests highlights from "Dancing with the Stars." yes, you read that right. apparently someone in the crowd had a little fetish for Stacey Kiebler, the "smokin" WWE female wrestler who's cleanin up on "DwtS." her legs are about as long as my entire body and she wears only glittery scraps of fabric....need i say more?!? but they actually had it tivo'ed. =\
4 quarters deep, the keg was kicked, bottles of less-filling miller light were carted in and the steelers danced their way into XL history. we thanked the people we didn't know, geared up for Grey's Anatomy and headed out. game day XL made me realize that the problem with crappy beer is you can drink multiple solo cups-worth (like i did) and still not really be blitzed. *how obvious of you missy* ..... alas, both good beer and bad still make you believe you really need that burrito at taco bell. i did.
February 2, 2006
the hoff
i don't understand it. the world's fascination with david hasselhoff. he's terrible, so terrible. worse than terrible. "can't believe he got away with it" terrible. why do millions of europeans love him whole-heartedly? why do americans still fund his projects? why did i watch this entire video from start to finish and want to watch it again? why am i forwarding it to others?
Almost done....
So now with this, hopefully you can visualize my living room a little bit better....feast your eyes on the new sound system. Small yes, but perfect for a single male living in an apt. in San Francisco.....
