http://www.chumptastic.org Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:03:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en it's been a while, but this past winter in toronto wasn't the optimal time for capturing craziness. all of the crazies were too covered with snow. i might as well start off a new season of random photo posts with a bang - photos of a house on crawford just ... http://www.chumptastic.org/2008/03/30/finally-a-random-photo-post/ a few weeks ago, i helped a speech-language pathology grad student with an experiment, which, i discovered belatedly, resembled a clockwork orange a bit too closely for my liking. in summary, i had the pleasure of enduring an hour in an MEG (without moving or dozing off, and while ... http://www.chumptastic.org/2008/02/14/destroesque/ after 4 years of waiting, the salteens have finally released two new songs as part of their new two songs a month project. and they're good! http://www.chumptastic.org/2008/02/05/return-of-the-salteens/ as a music snob/elitist/addict, it's strange for me to be at a live show and not know the music as well as everyone around me. it's like the first time i saw cake live, back in 2001 at massey hall. i was familiar with their latest album, but ... http://www.chumptastic.org/2008/02/01/have-you-seen-the-ghost-of-wintersleep/ note to maie potts and the other woman hosting tonight's tokyo police club show at nathan phillips square: one moment you are upset about the lack of respect from the crowd, and the next you are talking about next week's concert featuring the weakertons. i can't imagine why you weren't ... http://www.chumptastic.org/2008/01/26/respect/ there was a great line in last sunday's toronto star article entitled "road testing the $100 laptop's 'appropriate technology'" by ryan bigge, discussing the TRS-80 model 100, a laptop from 1983: for any youngsters reading this, 300-baud is only slightly faster than watching jean-dominique bauby composing a sentence in the diving ... http://www.chumptastic.org/2008/01/25/i-still-have-a-working-2400-baud-external-modem-in-my-closet/ as you may (or quite possibly may not) have noticed, i've finally given chumptastic a long overdue makeover. in the process, i've moved chumptastic to a real host (rather than an ancient and slowly dying P2-800 PC that's been sitting on my floor for 4 or 5 years), and ... http://www.chumptastic.org/2008/01/14/a-long-overdue-facelift/ i know that chumptastic has pretty much lost whatever relevancy it once had, but since i'm the kind of person who enjoys making lists, i figured i would do so even if i'm the only one who ends up reading it. for the first time ever, i didn't attend ... http://www.chumptastic.org/2007/12/31/my-annual-favouritest-list-2007-edition/ you know, i can't help but wonder how a major intersection in toronto, such as queen and bathurst, could be closed for a week without much advance notice. specifically - how could said intersection be closed as of this morning for streetcar track repairs without someone who lives 2 ... http://www.chumptastic.org/2007/10/15/thank-you-ttc-for-getting-my-week-off-to-a-rousing-start/ this might be the best thing i've ever seen on queen street west... a croquet player: and his fancy bike chariot: what's especially funny is that he purchased parking tags for his bike...so i guess that makes it LEGAL. http://www.chumptastic.org/2007/09/17/croquet-anyone/