June 2006 Entries
(photo courtesy Emily Wilson Photography)
Got to see Broken Social Scene play a private event out in Red Hook (Brooklyn) last night. The guy from American Analog Set played with them for one song, which if you were into either band seriously, would freak you out. Two members of fellow Canadian band Stars were on hand as well.
They are one of my top, top favorite bands of the moment, and I’m really glad I got to see them in such a great environment. In fact Google tells me that I’ve mentioned them twice before on CoreyH.com (once, twice).
I normally don’t go for large, big-sounding bands,...
This past weekend was my third annual trip to Montreal for the Grand Prix du Canada. 2004 2005 posts here.
I wasn’t able to borrow Emily’s hot new Canon 5D for this trip, so I didn’t take any interesting pictures, but hey, let’s pretend I took this one and it wasn’t some guy named TMWolf from Flickr.
Fans don’t seem to do it as much in F1 as they do in NASCAR, but you can listen to the teams talk back and forth to the drivers with a scanner. Most of the time they say stuff like “Fuel mixture 7 please Fernando” or...
I live within two Google satellite zoom-out clicks from the pictured above tennis courts in Central Park. Most indoor courts in Manhattan are in the $70 per hour range and up to $120 during peak times. I had simply written off tennis as a city activity. For some reason I had assumed that there were a host of reasons why playing in the park would not be possible, impractical or expensive.
Turns out it is none of those things. You can count them, there are 30 courts, 26 of them Har-Tru, my preferred playing surface. They are well maintained. There are two...
Straight Dope today: Does a refrigerator cool more efficiently when full?
Basically, the answer is yes. Appears the biggest factor is the amount of cold air that spills out when you open the door. So if you fill up the fridge with any kind mass, there’s less air to get replaced by warm room air.
My quest for more energy efficiency continues! I’m going to put some extra jugs of water in the back spaces of the fridge that even in the most food-flush of times don’t get filled. Actually, I’m running out of kitchen cabinet space, maybe I’ll keep my...
I mentioned in the last post about the trip to Toronto — it is pronounced without the second T btw. We stayed with my brother Kevin, his wife and munchkin. Emily was there to take pictures of Willy Mason who was opening for Radiohead, two nights at the Hummingbird Center. Fantastically wonderfully she was able to secure spots on the list for all of us for the second show, except for the ankle-biter of course.
The venue was swank and spacious, with ample bars and bathrooms. Seats were assigned, which considering what I read at BrooklynVegan’s coverage, was lucky for us —...
About 18 hours before I was set to leave on my trip to Toronto last week, I asked the telecom team at work if we had any loaner BlackBerries. They had offered before, but I wasn’t crazy about the product or the idea that I was so easy to reach off hours. But since these were mid-week days and two of them I was guaranteed to be in a car for 10+ hours, I went for it, and, they just gave it to me.
I got the 7290 model. I don't totally love it, I prefer the Windows Mobile 6700,...
I’ve been bit by the beta bug lately thanks to the simul-release of Office 2007 beta2 and Vista beta2. I don’t have spare hardware worthy of running Vista on silicon and virtual machine performance and tool support for it aren’t real good right now, so that’ll have to exist only in boot up, hey that’s neat land for the time being. But I did go ahead and install Office 2007. First in my VMs, then on the laptop and once I was reasonably comfortable things were copasetic and most of my add-ins were going to install, most recently on the...