Winning Powerball ticket suit filed.

Reading through this, one thought came to mind: can you say petty?

TV contraception could counter baby boom. I needed to lighten the mood up a bit...

TV as a form of birth control? Riiiight.

Aaliyahs family devastated. This is a pretty dumb statement. Would a family be happy to lose a loved one?

R&B star crash inquiry. 22. Way too young to end her life.

This tribute came to me in the This is True newsletter:

"Fred Hoyle. An astrophysicist, Hoyle didn't really believe that the "Big Bang" was the start of the universe, but he was the one who coined the term, using it with derision in a lecture. "Every cluster of galaxies, every star, every atom had a beginning, but the universe itself did not," he once said. It was also Hoyle (working with William Fowler, Geoffrey Burbidge and Margaret Burbidge) who realized that all chemical elements heavier than helium were produced by nucleosynthesis (nuclear reactions inside stars). He also led the group that developed radar in World War II. Sir Fred Hoyle died August 20 in Bournemouth, England. He was 86."

Although he didn't believe his own theory, he'll still be remembered as the father of our beliefs of the Universe' origins.

An historical landmark in Montreal is now gone: the York Theatre building was torn down.

I saw films at this theatre about 11-12 years ago. It's hard to put in words how beautiful the art-deco architexture was, the statues and sculptures that made it something unseen anywhere else in the city.

Sadly, a fire shortly after I saw my last film there gutted the building. It remained as a pile of rubble on St-Catherine (the main street of the downtown core) for a decade since. It was never repaired, and just added to the urban blight of that part of the city.

Now, it was torn down for Concordia University (ironically, my alma mater), which bought the land to build new buildings for the university itself. These new facilities are planned to launch in 2004.

It's a matter of putting some use to territory lain wasted for so long... but still, another part of my cultural memories is now gone.

WPIX aired the original Dirty Harry movie yesterday.

A younger Clint Eastwood was a startling sight to see. =) The story and look of the film is very dated today, especially considering how the story logic seems nonsensical... but I was also surprised when I recognized the actor who played the antagonist:

I don't remember his name, but he played Garok on Deep Space 9.

I saw a re-run of The Rosie O'Donnel show today, with the Bee Gees as musical guests...

Forget the 5 disco songs they performed for Saturday Night Fever - they have a tremendous body of work, with classic songs like It's only words, San Francisco, and Nights on Broadway (that last one has stalker-like lyrics these days, but it's still an incredible song).

Anyway, when this show first aired they were celebrating over 40 years as performers. That's a tremendous record any way you slice it!

The heat in Montreal is bouncing around the scale right now... I had an interview in the early morning, when the air was at least comfortable. The past evening was too... the first time I've even used my comforter in weeks.

Once I got home though... the heat is barely tolerable. This as I have to go out for another meeting too...

The heat today isn't too oppressive, In fact, it's actually more tolerable today.

I told a friend down in Austin about the heat of the past 9 days... he said it was as if Montreal had become Texas. =)

The fact that the heat is lower finally gave me the drive to update my company site, Thothwares Web Design. I now have branded e-mail, and a lot of information cleared up.

You can visit it at: Thothwares.com

The heat today isn't too oppressive, In fact, it's actually more tolerable today.

I told a friend down in Austin about the heat of the past 9 days... he said it was as if Montreal had become Texas. =)

The fact that the heat is lower finally gave me the drive to update my company site, Thothwares Web Design. I now have branded e-mail, and a lot of information cleared up.

You can visit it at: Thothwares.com

I'm amazed: president Bush actually approved stem cell research for funding.

With the staunch conservative/anti-abortionist interests leaning on him, with the Pope against it (in a move I don't agree with), G.W. actually showed spine by approving something that could help thousands.

Scumbag!

Remember a few weeks ago when the public was led to believe that George Harrison was dying of cancer? A story denied by George, and former manager George Martin, whom the story was attributed to?

Well, here's an update on it from Salon:

"Anyway, now we hear (via www.salon.com) that one James Desborough has been fired by something called the World Entertainment News Network (WENN) after admitting that he took a reporter's mundane interview with Martin, jazzed it up with invented quotes about Harrison's health, and sold it to a London paper, The Mail on Sunday.

Then, Salon says, the Mail further enhanced (my emphasis) the quotes. "

Anyone who perpetuated such cruelty deserves far worse than just firing, in my opinion.

Right now I'm at my aunt's home in Vermont.

The heat isn't much less than in Montreal, but a few degrees seems to make a difference.

Plus, my aunt has a DSL Internet connection. Playing with the high speed is very addictive... if I hadn't hoped to get a high speed connection after my move, I would indeed now!

Well, the deadline for the much-covered "Code Red" virus has come and gone - and pretty much nothing happened.

I'm not surprised. I wish the media would learn: if a virus is mentioned everywhere as supposed to strike on a specific date and time, it's already been thwarted, assuming it was anything more than a hoax story to begin with. A real epidemic would strike with no warning.