Book #11: The Verb For What Visionaries Do

I finished this text a week ago, but I’ve been too busy and also too stunned by it to find anything to say about it until today. Here it is… book #11 of my Lunar New Year readings:
Tomorrow Now: Envisioning The Next 50 Years by Bruce Sterling.
This is a work of futurism. Any resemblance [...]

Some cool NPR stuff

Recommended by my co-worker Mike, this episode of American National Public Radio (NPR)’s This American Life is worth a listen. Did I ever mention I went to school with Jonathan Goldstein, who shows up on This American Life Sometimes? I did.
And from my friend John, fun on NPR with Harvey Pekar. Anyone who tears [...]

A Foretaste: What We Can Learn From The Yellow Dust From China

It’s that time of year again.
If you want a good look at the future, according to the course we have set right now, this is it. Take a good look. It’s someone else’s grandfather on a bicycle, wearing a facemask. Someday, that’s going to be your grandfather—or your mother, or you—wearing a mask. Your [...]

Butt Flower

Gord: Good morning!
Class: Good morning!
Gord: How are you?
Class: Fine, thank you, and you?
Gord: I’m good. It’s a nice day!
One Student: Yes, it is! It’s a warm!
Gord: Yes, it’s warm. Hey, everybody! Look out the window.
Class: (looking out the window)
Gord: Do you know what those flowers are called?
Another Student: The butt flower? Heh heh.
Class: (laughs)
Gord: (gesturing [...]

More Quasi-Propaganda

Marvin linked to the Kingdom Of Heaven movie trailer and this is what I have to say:

How unsurprising, a movie about the Crusades. How completely predictable. You know, it’s interesting seeing this show up on the big screen while reading Edward Said’s Orientalism for the first time. Say what you will about the guy, but [...]

Dixie? eh?

This is just a silly quiz I saw over at Adam’s blog, but I was curious. I REALLY don’t get the results:

Your Linguistic Profile:

60% General American English

15% Yankee

10% Dixie

10% Upper Midwestern

5% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Yeah, I really don’t get that. See, I just speak Prairie Canadian English. Maybe my friends in [...]

VR Game Dream Career Storyline Ideas

It’s mine! It’s mine this week! And boy is it long-winded:
You’ve been approached by VR-Box, a new home entertainment system startup, for the creation of five new videogames for their home system. They’re reviewing submissions from several different people, and their offer is that, whoever submits the most 5 ideas deemed most interesting and most [...]

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