Weblog and Playground of Gord Fynes

THE FLU IS BACK YET AGAIN for me this weekend. If it weren’t for hot tea, Neo Citran, Contact-C, plenty o’ fluids and the wife’s chicken soup I wouldn’t be upright long enough to type this. I could have resorted to using NyQuil but frankly the warning label frightens me. Nothing says loving more than homemade chicken soup, or Jewish penicillin as the wife refers to it.

Forget the presidential debates of the past few weeks – Jon Stewart taking on the dicks at Crossfire is far more entertaining, especially since what he said had to be said. Right on Mr. Stewart!

(Thanks to fellow Brainer Gary Suarez for the link on this one.)

IT WOULD APPEAR THAT AFTER a gap of over two months, the way-too-clever Dean Allen has resumed updating his personal website, Textism.

For some quick background, Mr. Allen is the dude that developed the CMS which runs this site as well as countless others. Noel Jackson‘s PhotoStack, a brilliant piece of photo organizing scripting, is based on Allen’s own photo section. Again, PhotoStack is used to organize the photo section on this very site.

Speaking of photo sections, I’ve recently added some new slides taken over the past week or so for your own private viewing. I may be having my first public viewing/show ever hopefully in January here in the GTA. If you’re interested in the show, send an email and I’ll keep ya updated.

I know I’m way late to the game on this one: the hilarious program Strangers With Candy has become favoured viewing around the house. Okay, for me – Laurel can’t stand it. I’ll now be waiting patiently for Season Three to turn up at my bricks and mortar video store of choice. In the meantime, we’ve got Spider-Man: The ’67 Collection to keep up the blue glow.

Happy Birthday, Miss B.

A’ight. It’s off to start reading The Great Gatsby for school.

IT’S BEEN KINDA TIGHT IN THE CASH DEPARTMENT when it comes to buying CDs as of late. As a result, I’ve had a couple of discs for review in heavy rotation for the past few weeks that I’ve really been digging. Stop by this week’s edition of The Brain to hear some snippets, read about them and much, much more.

Congrats to Clive Thompson and his Collision Detection for the deserved recognition from The Village Voice. Well done, sir.

Happy Thanksgiving/Columbus Day, depending on where in North America you may be. For the rest of the world, only four more days ’til the weekend.

…and thank you.

IF EVER THERE WAS A REASON to quit smoking, besides reducing the risk of cancer to yourself and those around you, improving your health and your appetite and giving a big “fuck you” to big tobacco, it would be this.

Congrats Steve! Excellent work John!

If anyone has a suggestion for a Spare-Tire-Removulator, by all means get in touch with me. I’ve even started drinking grapefruit juice daily, ‘fer gawdsakes!