Space Cadet

They played Analyse on the CBC the other day. I was stuck in a car without CDs and didn't want to listen to hiphop, so I was flipping through stations. The host gave a big speil about how he was such a massive Radiohead fan and was so excited that Thom had a solo album- talked about Radiohead for awhile. I'd forgotten that they can have some pretty cool people on during the day before the older snobby sorts take over in the evenings.

It's basically flawed logic- in a just world the attacks would never have happened. :P

Thanks for the scan! Cute story...I had afew moments like that as a kid too. And thanks for the pics... that place does look scary... that sort of style is basically the reason I didn't go any further in architecture! :thinking:

Found a great (though slightly innacurate in places) review of the Toronto concert here: http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2006/08/0112.cfm Sounds like it was crazy. Still wish I could see them live. *sigh*

Don't watch the show- haven't seen a performance that hasn't made me cringe yet, but I did find a link for the clocks one- http://www.supernovafans.com/modules.php?name=Video_Stream&page=watch&id=103 I dunno... I still cringed, but not as much as the tiny handful of other performances I've seen. The guy may not have the falsetto, but he seems to have the energy. meh. Kinda liked it.

:wideeyed: Wurz is racing again! :thumbsup::nice: I've missed him. Too bad for Webber, though. I wonder where he's going to end up- hope somewhere good.

A History of Violence 6/10 Well done, arty, and of course quite gory :\ . Viggo is absolutly brilliant as usual. My problem is that the movie ends at the very moment that the story becomes interesting.

Now if you really want a heart attack in a bucket...

Big Brother was cool once? Could have fooled me. Well, it has always seemed like the UK version was more popular, but I thought the main reason the US version hung around was because it was so cheap to make. *shrug*

I have a knack for picking up codes and alphabets, but languages give me trouble. I'm really good at understanding grammar, but to actually learn words is torture- they just don't stick. Which is a bit odd, because I've been told I have an unnaturally large english vocabulary and a knack for picking up dialects. For instance, I drive certain other english students crazy because I can read and understand Shakespeare without having to think about it. The language just sounds normal to me.

^Thanks for the heads up. Doesn't look good. Here's the original article they're quoting, though I think you need to register- http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/sports/othersports/01landis.html?hp&ex=1154404800&en=17bc932fe506615c&ei=5094&partner=homepage Looks like the conspiracy theories are still alive and kicking... there are those who think that it's a plot to keep another American from winning... paranoid, but possible I suppose

Fighting for being the number one... that's the other thing I'm afraid of. Senna and Prost part 2. For anyone who doesn't remember what that looked like, I found some pictures- let's just say we did see them together... a little too together... http://www.atlasf1.com/98/jpn/preview/schot.html On second thought, it might be really entertaining. No one's really seen action like that in over a decade.

We have a big busker festival here every summer. Not so many street musicians as magicians and contortionists and stuff, but it's fun. They take over the whole waterfront. Of course everyone usually just wants to see the ones who juggle fire.

^ :dozey: I noticed. :P

I got my ears pierced when I was 18 and staying in Ireland at the time so my parents couldn't stop me anymore. If anyone had told me how much it was going to hurt, I wouldn't have.

Summer. Winter is cold and dark. And I can't ride my bike.

Been there, seen that... so weird when you're suddenly not a girl or something just because you find that stuff so dull... But I'd have to go with golf too. The very idea puts me to sleep.

No, I don't think they broke Barrichello's car on purpose... I think that they convieniently allowed things to happen. Unlucky problematic pit stops at key moments so that Michael got past even though team orders were outlawed, little things at bad times... all out failures when Rubens was getting a bit upset about it all. Of course they didn't do anything on purpose. But don't you think it was strange that Michael was setting records for reliability and Rubens was having so much trouble, especially every time he was in the lead? And that it only started to happen after the FIA clamped down on team orders? I seem to remember one incident where Barrichello was actually crying on the podium after things got messed up. I knew it was going to be bad when he joined Ferrari, that they were going to expect him to act like a lapdog the same way as they did Irvine. Everyone was saying, no, it's going to be different this time but it wasn't. They actually write it into their contracts. Irvine had the brash attitude that could handle that sort of stuff. Kimi, I'm not so sure. It's in Schumacher's nature to win- I don't think he can deny that whatever he thinks, even for an up and comer. The great teammate rivalrys like Prost and Senna always happen between two drivers who are both used to being number one.

So do the points count toward qualifying then? Like a video needs more than one person speaking for it to get through? What about cool ones that most people wouldn't know about?

Bah Humbug. :( (Though good for Kimi) Thinking back to how many random mechanical (and not so mechanical) problems Barrichello had while at Ferrari while meanwhile Shumi had 100% reliability... I really don't want Kimi stuck as Shumacher's #2...

Hey Steph, have you seen this version yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIF5HR_wXHk

That was me about 4 or 5 months ago. I had listened to them before, but I just didn't get it. Thought it was weird and a bit boring, nice for other people, but not me. Then I was listening to a streaming radio station, and heard a live version of Street Spirit. About half-way through the song, it just popped. I couldn't believe it... It was so weird, like one of those magic eye puzzles... all of a sudden I was hearing something totally different than I had been. I decided to give some of their other stuff a second chance... found some concert recordings on here. Just couldn't get most of it. Then all of a sudden on a second or third listen, Lucky 'popped' even more dramatically. Other songs soon followed. Now I'm hooked. ;)

Dude. :angry: Did any of you actually watch the stage that he won? Did you see the interviews afterwards? Floyd Landis, the aw-shucks Mennonite farmboy- the last person anyone would expect to see angry, let alone cheat (if you can't trust a Mennonite I don't think you can trust anyone) was furious. He had been humiliated the day before, and now he was fuming. He was fighting back. For the first time he showed any real aggression in both how he rode (he hadn't wanted to show off before) and afterwards. Instead of shyly squeaking out the answers in the post race interviews like he had done before, he was interrupting people. He was glowering at the camera and saying this race isn't over I want to win. Now I'm not a scientist, but from what I understand extreme anger is linked to natural spikes in testosterone. Lo and behold the only test for the whole race that Landis failed was the one on the day that he was so angry that he wanted to ride like a real champion for once. Illegal drugs like synthetic testosterone take weeks to be effective. It wouldn't make sense for him to just top up on some drugs the night before and spring back to life. Of course he had an IV drip of fluids the night before if he was dehydrated, but that's both legal and common. Cycling has become so sensitive about doping that natural body functions can trip off tests. There were football players, soccer players, basketball players, you name it named in that doping scandal at the start of the race, but the only ones who were singled out were the cyclists. No one is going on about how corrupt soccer is with drugs and we shouldn't believe anything anyone does on the field anymore. Not to mention that due process has been completly ignored here. Normally, you test the first sample, then the second. If the second sample is clean, everything is forgotten an no one ever knows. If the second is positive, then they run a third test that shows if any of the testosterone is synthetic. If it isn't, it was a natural body function. Phonak blabbed about Landis' first failed test because Landis had to miss some one day races this week. Now everyone is assuming he's guilty before the tests are even finished. He still may have doped, but he could be telling the truth too. The tests are so sensitive that even a natural deficiancy in a second type of testosterone could have set them off. But usually we never hear about those false positives because THEY'RE GIVEN TIME TO FINISH THE TESTS.

:sick2: I've been saying this since the 7th grade when all the popular kids were doing the "sissy test" (scratch your arm till it bleeds to prove you're not a sissy) and I'll say it again. Kids are DUMB.