March 2005

2005-03-31T18:27   You can find the above picture here.

2005-03-30T17:57  Good news for post secondary students in China!  You no longer need to gain the approval of the government if you want to get married.  At this rate, China should reach the 1600s by 2010.

2005-03-28T18:54  Hokey Smokes!  Sis, Stars, and I bought tickets for a Yankees game.  AT YANKEE STADIUM!  Out in left field so I can be near my favorite Yank:  Matsui!  Guess I'll book tix for the Kramer Reality Tour too.  Lessee, I guess it'll be my fourth time on the tour.  I've been going to NYC once a year for the last 5 or 6 years.

2005-03-28T18:53  Snagged a copy of Bleed Like Me.  It rules.  Run Baby Run is especially good.  Metal Heart is great too.

2005-03-27T08:57  Mario DDR for the Gamecube!

2005-03-27T08:34  Easter Sunday

2005-03-26T19:00  The PSP launch:  A failure?

2005-03-25T12:13  Check this out:  Death Row signs Dr. Dre.  Dre then starts up Aftermath which signs Eminem.  Marshal Mathers comes up with Shady Records and signs 50 Cent who promptly fills out the papers for G-Unit Records.  G-Unit is the new home of The Game.  I'll give it 2 weeks before The Game announces the creation of his new label. 

2005-03-25T08:00  Good Friday

2005-03-22T17:29  How'd you like to get your pizza pie 15 minutes after you've called?  Here's a guy who stuck a pizzeria in a van.  When you call for your pizza they start driving to your house making the pie as they go!  lol.  Genius.

2005-03-21T18:29  So who ended up making a spot on my Shuffle?  The Chosen:   Be Good Tanyas, Beth Orton, Cat Power, Coldplay, Coyote Shivers, Cyndi Lauper, Dandy Warhols, Echobelly, Elastica, Frente!, GI Joe Killaz, Garbage, George Formby, The Go-Gos, Green Day, Jay-Z, Jet, Johnny Cash, Metric, Nina Gordon, Outkast, Phantom Planet, The Pixies, The Queers, Raveonettes, The Romantics, Sammy Davis Jr., Sewing With Nancie, Sleeper, NERD, Spike Jones, Steriogram, The Used, Von Bondies, Weezer, White Stripes.  Plus a few others I can't mention for fear of playlistism.  You can check out my CD collection here. (PDF)

2005-03-21T18:23   The iPod Shuffle is so light and small it's the closest thing to a cochlear implant available today.  You can wear it around the house and listen to music and not even know it's there.

2005-03-21T17:32  Happy birthday Father Burns!

2005-03-20T13:00  Canadian healthcare at its best:  "If the person named on this computer-generated letter is deceased, please accept our sincere apologies." 

2005-03-19T15:20  I'm in the White Earbud Club: I bought an iPod Shuffle.  It rules.  But I was surprised when it took 6 software reinstalls and over 2 hours to finally get it to work.  You know it's all Windows' fault.  Had to buy a USB 2.0 PCI card too.  Sadly, it's the first Apple hardware I've ever had the pleasure to buy.  The coolest part is they threw in two Apple stickers!  RULE!

2005-03-19T10:13  Ruby has got a new Pup Pal on Dogster whose bio is absolutely hilarious.  Read  The Story of Pork.

2005-03-19T09:59  I guess I better say a few words about steroids in baseball.  I think it's a bloody disgrace and I'm happy that finally something is going to be done about it.  Then again, it wasn't illegal--a major oversight--and baseball has survived bigger scandals.

2005-03-19T08:33  Bobby Fischer that much closer to being granted Icelandic citizenship.

2005-03-18T18:03  That stupid goat Castro is all up in arms because Forbes took it upon themselves to reveal that he's worth a cool half billion.  What a loser.  He's smoking cigars and eating roast pork in his palace while his people are hopping into inner tubes trying to get off that damn island and make it to the USA.  For the record, he denies he's got that much money.  As Homer said "I think you can trust the President of Cuba!"

2005-03-18T18:00  The fall of the Roman Empire and Pax Romana--brought upon by the Barbarian hordes--ushered in the Dark Ages:  a 900 year period of European decline.

2005-03-17T06:37  What public drunkenness has to do with the Feast Day of St. Maewyn Succat I'll never know.  Check out The Lorica.

2005-03-12T23:37   I am not Bill Haverchuck.

2005-03-12T09:00  Oh snap!  The Legend of Zelda trailer is now online!  A must see. 

2005-03-11T06:43  Kasparov calling it quits.  Never one of my favorite players anyway. 

2005-03-10T19:11  Just started playing MVP Baseball 2005.  Love the new "Manager Argues Call" feature.  lol.  I loved MVP Baseball 2004 and this game is even more polished, more detailed, and more fun!  Ain't baseball great?  The only downside to this game is the new intro cut to highlight Boston's World Series win.

2005-03-10T19:10  Stars just hooked me up with 2 tix to see Garbage next month in Toronto.  Rock on!

2005-03-10T19:09  30.  What?  No Pussycat Dolls?  Wadda rip.

2005-03-10T17:37  Tag-board is down again.  Crikey.

2005-03-09T17:17  What is the reality of the current US deficit?  I think the best way to describe it would be "a drop in the bucket."  Anyone who thinks the deficit is significant probably doesn't comprehend the size of the US economy.  Take a look for yourself if you don't believe me.  The crazy thing is that the US deficit pretty much equals the Canadian budget.  Don't hate on the States.  You can't beat 'em anyway.  MWHUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  They own you.

2005-03-09T07:20  Too busy to blog.  I've got hours of taped reality TV to catch up on, 'bots to build, new video games to play, Fantasy Baseball to strategize about, books to read, 12 hours of Baseball documentary left to view, Ruby to pat, housework, and then there's going to the office every day for 8 and a half hours.  The 'net is low priority when real life comes a-knocking.

2005-03-05T09:11  Pirates-Yanks:  2-2 in the Yanks season opener.  Matsui doubled, batted in a run, and had 5 Japanese media outlets covering him.

2005-03-05T06:49  Four Mounties killed in Alberta.  Thank goodness that the Feds set up the $2 billion gun registry to keep guns out of the hands of violent people.  Especially really dangerous guns like body-armor-piercing high-powered rifles.   Worked like a charm.

2005-03-05T06:47  I have a cold.

2005-03-02T06:39  Is the Star for real?