mattm

The eruption occurred in the constellation Aries.

Alright Aries.

Maybe some aliens had themselves a little nuclear war and blew up their star

are the jammys broadcast anywhere for our viewing pleasure?

How much space do you get? I just checked and they aren't accepting new people at the moment due to high demand.

sometimes it's really slow for me and sometimes it's nice and fast. I have a feeling it's because the server it's on has another site that gets really busy once in a while which can steal bandwidth from this site. I'm not sure though, you'd have to ask bouche I think.

I only say this because my connection to other sites is fine while this is slow.

That's pretty regular for a site though. It costs two and a half fortunes for a dedicated server which would mean things like paying to register and way more jambands.ca fundraisers (although those should just happen 'cause it involves great tunes, good folks and lots 'o fun).

Where does everyone find the funny pictures?

Cool, I'll send you an email when I get home.

Yup, harsh as hell. The only thing I managed to do was smoke lots of greens and drive around an island and to the top of its mountain (motorbike) on a shroom shake I bought at a bar. On a side note, this is something I highly recommend if you ever get the chance. Driving a motorbike on shrooms is crazy, crazy, crazy fun. Try not to do it where you might kill others.

That's the only real problem with the place. If, say, you're driving home and there's too much traffic but your corner is just a block away, what do you do? Hit the sidewalk baby.

Sick of paying tonnes for drinks at the bars? No problem, just get your bottle of poison and bring it in with you. You then pay only for the mix (some places charge a bottle opening fee but only the really big ones and tourist traps).

Sick of bars closing at 2am? No problem, they just can't sell bottled alcohol past 2, in glasses it's just fine.

Want to just disapear? To not have a SIN number, or have companies able to track you because your name and other info is in tonnes of databases (perhaps even RCMP)? No problem, you can live your whole life on tourist visas and you can get other people to get them for you for virtually nothing (or just visit the neighboring country and bribe the border official, bam, more time and it's kinda neat bribing someone).

There are lots of examples but I can't think of too much at the moment. You have to try it for yourself to really understand.

It isn't just what I mentioned about being free that I like, though. It's the people and their take on life. Nobody really steals because they actually have to work for what they have so if you steal you're scum of the earth and not worth associating with. This may not apply to the tourist trap areas as there are more poor folk there as well as tourists who are fully willing to take things.

Need to go somewhere? Cool, just wait on the side of the highway for a greyhound type bus and flag it down if it's the right one. You pay the driver very little and take a seat. Hell, some guy with a pickup we randomly talked to drove us all the way back to where we were staying (about an hours drive at insane highway speeds) because we offered him beer and a night of guitar. Granted that could also happen here though.

Don't like to cook? That's cool, it's almost cheaper to eat at food markets than it is to make your own food and all the ingredients are fresh from that day unlike the preservative filled sh!t we often get here.

I don't know, you have to try it to really understand. I've toured lots of the world and so far that's the best place I've been. This is all just my opinion though.

Also, jail for drugs costs roughly $1000 to get out of on the spot which isn't all that much, just make sure you have some money in reserve. The easiest thing is to just bribe the cops near you not to notice anything.

If it makes you feel any better...

While waiting for the interview to the job I have now two people came into the sitting room. They happened to be the HR folks doing the interview but the interviewee hadn't shown up (it was me but they had their schedule wrong so they didn't know). I listened to them talk and the thing that struck me the most was that they were actually more nervous than I was. That made me relax like mad.

If no one can help you I'll download it when I get home and make the cd for you. I'm in Ottawa so it's no problem. I just tried the first song and it decodes just fine for me.

Actually, I'm going to download it anyway, can't hurt to add another moe. show to the list.

I've been thinking about this a lot in the past couple years. I wouldn't hit the streets and eat out of a dumpster but I hate that no matter what I do I'm governed by some law or rule.

I was at a birthday party in Thailand and one of the guys brought up a great point. He mentioned that he had visited Canada and the US several times and the thing he found that stuck out the most was that we call ourselves free. I agree with him. There's really nothing you can do here that isn't governed by some law or rule or red tape. Hell, if I cross a street where there's no traffic light, I'm breaking a law.

Now I look at the Canadian flag tatooed to my shoulder and wonder if I should give it up for another one. I REALLY want to go live in Thailand as it is much more free than here and the people are much nicer.

Reading that little essay brought it all back. Now I'm jonsin to hit the road again.

"You Don't Bring Me Flowers" by Barbra Streisand & Neil Diamond

...and Neil Diamond would continue to haunt me through the rest of my days

Why oh why did that have to be on here. My parents listened to that so much that I can sing both male and female parts in my head.

I was born march 26, 1978 (Easter Sunday) and there was no billboard that day but the closest (25th and pretty much the week before and after) was:

Night Fever, Bee Gees, from the movie... can anyone guess?... Saturday Night Fever. Same as livingstoned.

Funny thing is that this year I went as Disco Matt for halloween and used that movie as a basis for finding proper clothes.

If we're talking hostels then the Ottawa Jail Hostel is the best and I'm not just saying that because it was my first home in Ottawa. Right downtown, clean and super friendly with a working gallows taboot. Rooms are cheap, 4 to a cell or private rooms available.

check it out

http://www.hihostels.ca/hostels/Ontario/OntarioEast/OttawaInternationalHostel/Hostels/

From what I've heard there are ghosts there too. My friend is into wicca and went there on halloween. She was telling me something like the top floor was closed to the public because of the ghosts. Who knows but I've always wanted to chat it up with a ghost.

Great movie. Great acting, great singing, great tunes. They came up here to london and didn't depict it as snow covered pine trees as so many american films do. I lived in london for six years and had no idea johnny proposed to june at the gardens, neat.

Two thumbs up from me.

You know I'll be there. You guys staying up here the whole weekend? Mr Something Something is playing Saturday night in Hull, could be fun.

I'm already jonesing for the basement jam on saturday. It's a long trip from ottawa but well worth it. That house kicks ass.

At any rate, I'll still take a giant cat, please, and if he has to ride a scooter, so much the better!

I would pay A LOT of money for a giant cat that drove around on a scooter. Especially if it drank beer.

I think the top picture is real personally.

I had a cat back home I thought was pretty big but holy shit...

Anyone know what kind of cat these are? Are they of the photoshop family or the feline family? Who knows but I want one.

Anyway you can post a version of the song somewhere or a link where it can be downloaded for analysis?

Here's some info:

http://culturejamming.tribe.net/thread/c2065f50-c12a-460c-93da-4f10a3e0c128

but I can't find the videos themselves. Culture Jam it's called, I like that.

I can run around all day telling all the religions how I don't think it's right and I can make fun of anyone I want to.

I learned something while growing up, though, it's called: Respect.

Granted it's a lesson I've never had an easy time learning but I did. If my buddy is incredibly passionate about something I condsider stupid I'm not going to go insulting him/her about it. I'm going to respect them and keep my mouth shut.

I also learned that sticks and stones don't break my bones so names, comics, whatever don't hurt me. Then again, if I lived in a country kept third world by westerners so that they can keep all their cheap luxuries on my hard labour and all I had to feel good about myself was my religion and people kept bashing that too, I might get mad. I'm not sure 'cause I'm sitting here comfortable, knowing that I'm getting another meal and that I'll have clothes on my back.

Who knows. That's just my opinion. I know I can say whatever ther hell I want but I'm a good person so I'm not going to go around insulting folks just because I can (can we say bully here?) free speech or not.

PS: I have been to third world and developing countries. I've seen first hand the hundreds of children running around missing arms and legs, covered in sores 'cause they've most likely never seen a vitamin, etc. It's hard to be guilt free about our luxary here after that so things like this get to me.

I'm also not very good with articulation of my thoughts so I don't doubt that there is tonnes here that can be critized, it's just my opinion.

I was in Italy in 1998 (exactly one week ago today) and watching tv when this came on the news. 250 cars piled into each other.

I only put it for xp because that's what I have. That setting is available in all versions of windows, you just have to find it. It will be in the same general area. If you really want to troubleshoot, put checks in the ones reffering to memory dumps. You can download the windows debugger free here and load the memory dump file into it to find out pretty much exactly what happened.

Safest thing:

When installing windows, always make a windows partition and a data partition (C and D for example) that way you can save everything to D and if something like this happens you can just wipe windows off C and reinstall it without loosing anything.

For XP:

Start->Settings->Control Panel->System

Advanced tab->Startup and Recovery settings button

Remove the check from automatically restart (under system failure).

If it's not xp, get a new computer. They're cheap now and it will save you tonnes of headache.

This will keep the blue screen up until you turn off the computer so that you can write the shit down.

Pay attention to what you do before it happens. Something's wrong with a piece of hardware (or its driver, something on those lines) and if it happens after, say, inserting a CD then it's probably the CD player. If it happens when you connect to the internet, it's something with the modem/ethernet card, etc.

If you have a camera it's much easier than writing down the info

I love those vox amps and my god could that chick shake it. I had to bail before it was over, just too cold for me.

One thing I thought was really neat was the video in the lights behind the band. It was the same as what was going on on the two screens but made with just those christmas lights. You could really tell when it was a closup of the drumsticks.

I've never seen one but something flew over my head one night. It had a humming kind of sound (like a flying saucer in a movie to tell the truth) and was about ten feet above my head. I heard it approach, fly over and then disapear in the distance. I thought I might have accidentaly smoked crack except that the dog growled at first then wimpered and hid behind my legs while it was overhead then he growled again. My dog's actions scared me more than the sound. This was out in the country back home and very dark (not city dark, real dark where you actually can't see anything).

When my dad was young and camping in roughly the same area him and his buddies saw something damn weird in the sky and about two years before I was born my mom saw a light in the sky that shouldn't have been there (so did a bunch of other people and it was in the local newspaper the next day).

This is neat:

1) The number of galaxies.

An estimated 50 billion galaxies are visible with modern telescopes and the total number in the universe must surely exceed this number by a huge factor, but we will be conservative and simply double it. That's 100,000,000,000 galaxies in the universe.

2) The number of stars in an average galaxy.

As many as hundreds of billions in each galaxy.

Lets call it just 100 billion.

That's 100,000,000,000 stars per galaxy.

3)The number of stars in the universe.

So the total number of stars in the universe is roughly 100 billion x 100 billion.

That's 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars, 10 thousand, billion, billion. Properly known as 10 sextillion. And that's a very conservative estimate.

4) The number of stars that have planetary systems.

The original extra-solar system planet hunting technology dictated that a star needed to be to close to us for a planet to be detected, usually by the stars 'wobble'. Better technology that allows us to measure the dimming of a stars brightness when a planet crosses its disk has now revolutionised planet hunting and new planets are being discovered at an ever increasing rate. So far (August 2003) around 100 have been discovered so we have very little data to work on for this estimate. Even so, most cosmologists believe that planetary formation around a star is quite common place. For the sake of argument let us say it's not and rate it at only one in a million and only one planet in each system, as we want a conservative estimate, not an exaggerated one. That calculation results in:

10,000,000,000,000,000 planets in the universe. Ten million, billion, as a conservative estimate.

5) The number planets capable of supporting life. Let's assume that this is very rare among planets and rate it at only one in a million. Simple division results in:

10,000,000,000 planets in the universe capable of producing life. Ten billion!

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That's almost word for word what my highschool physics teacher told us when we asked him about life other than ours.

hehehe, [color:red]sextillion. I'm 27 but for some reason I still had a little chuckle at the number.

nice, very very nice.