Pulp's “Different Class” album is a classic, topping many UK “Best of” polls for 1995 in a year when Oasis and Blur were stealing all the headlines. (Linked clip is in French but the description sums up that rivalry.)
“Common People” was the defining song on the album (and the Shatner cover is all kinds of awesomeness) but my own personal favourite from the album was this one:
I mentioned yesterday that after taking Pace to his first Pat's game,
it seemed like he may have gotten bitten by the hockey bug. Today has
already confirmed it. From demanding his “hockey shirt” (jersey) the
moment he woke up to playing ball hockey in the living room non-stop
throughout the day, I think we've got a fan/player in the making!
Some highlights:
– after he takes a shot, he thinks he needs to run and tackle me (maybe confusing hockey and football a bit?)
– he also likes to do a full 360 after shooting (maybe confusing hockey and figure skating a bit? 
)
– he says he
prefers to score goals to stopping them but it's still fun to get him
to try to fall down in front the nerf fall we're using (usually about
five seconds after the ball has slowly rolled past him)
– Shea was
playing net at one point and goes “Why do I feel like this is the first
of many, many times I'll be doing this.” (Because it is.)
– he's got a pretty good shot for a little guy. Lucky we're using a nerf ball as he even managed to raise it a couple times!
– when I try to
sneak onto the couch and get on the computer, he commands “On the ice,
daddy!” and points to the carpeted floor with his stick (maybe he'll be
a coach instead of a player?)
– Shea's not happy about this but somewhere in there, I also taught him how to throw a punch. 
I was offered tickets to tonight's Pats game so ended up taking Shea, Pace as well as my parents to what was Pace's first live hockey game. It was a pretty good one – early Pats lead with a couple goals by Jordan Eberle followed by a Broncos comeback then scoreless OT and a shootout loss.
I was explaining different things about the game to Pace, trying to use terminology and references he would understand. Bodychecks were “crashes”, the Broncos were “the bad guys” (although since their logo is a horse, Pace initially wanted to cheer for them!) and the penalty box was “time out”. (To use the same joke when I uploaded the following photo to Facebook from the game – “time out being a reference that I think Pace understood only too well!”)
Fun times – I think we may look back on this as the day that Pace officially got bitten by the hockey bug. When we got home, he grabbed a couple mini-sticks I had and ran around the living room swatting a ball and diving all over the place. Lord (Stanley) help us!
Very revealing conversation
with lots of info about the behind-the-scenes workings of Facebook as
well as the site's future plans. Obviously, it's important to keep in
mind this is an anonymous interview on the Internet. So who knows how
true it is?
AllofFacebook.com, a site dedicated to all things Facebook has an analysis
but won't side one way or the other, only stating that it rings for
them (as it did for me…but I freely admit how gullible I can be
sometimes.)
(via MetaFilter)
I really miss the used bookstore scene of London, ON. For all the abuse the city takes for its Ugg-centered social scene and lack of cultural amenities, I always thought Li'l London featured lots of great, quirky bookstores. Attic Books on Dundas was one of my faves…and though I didn't need it, here's another reason to like them.
I never got into role playing games like many of my friends from elementary school did. (In fact, the first time I was invited to play D&D at a friend's house in grade five or six, I got into a fistfight and bloodied another guy's nose! After that, rolling a D20 to determine if you hit someone is a bit of an anti-climax. 
)
One game that held my friends in particular thrall was called Shadowrun (which I think they still play to this day.) This game is set a few decades in the future and contains themes of cyber-warfare, techo-terrorism and corporate vs. government power.
This game is fictional. But recent news stories about the cyber-battles between the world's largest country and one of the world's largest corporations make you wonder how long until that's no longer the case?
I'm going to reposition this song as our official SILS training theme! 
“What Three Books Should You Read To Better Understand Humanity?” (via Reddit)
“What's the Most Eye-Opening Non-Fiction Book You've Ever Read?” (via Reddit)
And if fiction is more to your taste, why not check out this list of “Best Books of the Decade” by Corey Redekop, my library school colleague who's also a book reviewer and published author (ie. he knows his stuff!.)
Pretty funny to see this come around the corner. Even funnier to hear the explanation…
