I saw the song “Never Google Your Symptoms” show up on the Dr. Demento official Facebook page and thought “This is so totally a song for me!” Heck, I can even picture Steve singing it to me whenever I decided to hit the google if I had some new medical wrinkle. Sometimes, Google has been […]
Monthly Archives: August 2019
People Still Use An Iron Lung?
Of course this had to go up at the top, even though I’m being serious here. But come on! I read a fascinating article about iron lungs, and the few people left who still use them. I had heard a bit about them, but I had no idea about all these intricacies. First off, I […]
PSA: You Might Be Able To Buy Beer On Labour Day
This strikes me as a thing that some of you might want to know. For the first time ever, there will be beer stores open on Labour Day Monday in Ontario. 64 of them, it looks like. They’ll be open between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m on September 2nd. Here’s your complete list as of […]
Government For The People I Do Business With
Yes, this looks pretty fishy. But let’s be fair. Who among us hasn’t taken a meeting with the one member of a hospital board that just happens to have done millions of dollars worth of business with our family’s company without the knowledge of the hospital and then taken two tries for our spokespeople to […]
A Couple More Songs That AI Had A Hand In
Carin reminded me of this other AI created song from a few years ago. It’s no “You Can’t Take My Door”, but that’s a pretty high bar. The main difference between the two is that the AI didn’t write the lyrics in this case, but it did determine how the music should sound based on […]
I’m Glad Facial Recognition Is The Future Of Security, Because It Sure Doesn’t Look Like The Present
Boing Boing notes this tweet. So, I was wondering why the battery on my laptop was running down every time I left it at home.Turns out the kids have been using my election leaflets to get through the facial recognition lock…I’m not sure whether to be proud by the wit or concerned by the sneakiness? […]
Government For The Hide And Seek Loving People
Ford’s senior officials hoped to keep mandate letters away from public view ‘as long as possible’ CBC News plans to continue fight for marching orders to ministers as Ontario looks to keep them secret There aren’t many good reasons for fighting so hard to keep these out of everyone’s hands, but I’ve come up with […]
You Can’t Take My Door
Botnik Studios fed a neural network a whole bunch of country music and then asked it to write a song based on what it learned. The result is “You Can’t Take My Door”, a song better and more lyrically challenging than anything I’ve heard on country radio in years. This is part of a larger […]
Ladies And Gentlemen, Noted Man Of His Word, Doug Ford
Doug Ford, less than a week ago. Ontario’s court challenge of the federal carbon tax could be dropped if Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives lose the Oct. 21 federal election, says Premier Doug Ford. A Liberal victory by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or another party that supports the carbon tax would put Ontario’s case in a different […]
Humidex, You Say?
Dear CBC KW: Reporting a temperature of 22 and a humidex of 24 is just as silly as 680 news and their two degree windchill. You’ve been doing this all week. Please stop.
