Remixing MJ is a big thing in the future...

So, MJ has died.
Honestly, I'm sad. This is how I feel. I like his music to the extent someone born in 1988 can enjoy pop from that era and earlier.

His personal life became such a destructive force in the time that I was paying attention.

This stigmatized all of what I listened to, usually because of the current mantra "all great artists in popular culture must reinvent their ideas to remain known"

Or something like that.

Because of this I had always anticipated a profound comeback in his career.
The growth of electronic music in his lifetime really made me think he was aware of the tools and would learn to make new sounds and express new meanings through his music. It always seemed likely to happen.

Now that he's gone, I think we will all learn to respect his work from the eyes of a young, hard-working man.

This brings me to my major point. MJ will be remixed. All artists will take from his work in some capacity or another.
The studio's understand the value of this kind of collaboration.

So, hold on, because MJ's musical talent has just become the new big thing.

The Second iPhone 3Gs in Canada

Ok. So. Friday June 19th the new iPhone went on sale here in Canada.
The Rogers location that was selling the unit was in the RBC tower, on Bay Street, in the Downtown Toronto financial district.

The Rogers location had a promotional opening time at 7:00 AM.
Here is a run through the events between last night and this morning.

6:00PM June 18th: Rogers flagship location at Yonge and Dundas Square informs me there is not yet a lineup, however several customer inquiries are flooding the lines.

6:01PM: Call the Bay Street location. They 'will be opening at 7:00 AM June 19th'. This makes them the earliest location open in Canada.

5:50AM June 19th: Make my way to the Subway Station.
5:55AM: Waiting on Subway Platform.

6:00AM: Subway trains start running east into the city.
6:20AM: Off Subway, making way through the underground Concourse that runs between King Station and Union Station and all the Bank towers.

6:30AM: Arrive on the scene. Indoors location makes the lineup kind of tricky. I am the third customer. We argue with the security guard about lining up infront of the store location.

6:31-6:59AM: Six more people line up, and wait for the doors to open. As civilized Canadians, we arrange ourselves by the order of arrival.

7:01AM: Doors open, there are 3 Rogers reps staffed today. I am immediately setting up my contract. 25.99 for the cheapest voice, 30.00 for the 6gb data plan.
$62.95 a month including access fee and 911.

7:19AM: Signing on the dotted line.
7:20AM: Paying the bill, walking out the door.

7:25AM: Walking above-ground, in the business part of the city with the fancy new iPhone. The Second 3rd Gen iPhone sold in Canada.

OK, so I just found out the tagline on IMDB for Kill Bill is "In the year 2003, Uma Thurman will kill Bill".

It's an interesting tag not only because of what recently happened in the news with the very talented David Carradine taking his life in Thailand, 6 years later.
But also because it goes between an actors name and a characters name.
Quentin associated Uma with the revenge motive, while Bill... Well Bill had to justify his actions or try to.
But it wasn't David doing the justifying. It was Bill. Uma was Beatrix, but David wasn't Bill?

This makes sense because of how Quentin consistently views Evil Forces in his work. As necessity, but still dehumanizing.

Oh, and I guess because they had to keep Uma's characters name secret until the last scene.

Facebookers has done it again.
I am now, forever locked into the URL: facebook.com/jdmorgan.
I can live with this, but some guy from Nashville got www.facebook.com/johnmorgan.
I'm not bitter, I technically had it first, but then freaked out and tested if an intermittent period in the name changed anything - it doesnt.
john.morgan and johnmorgan are directed to the same profile.
Which is helpful.
I remember the same was true for Gmail for a time - not sure if it still applies.

So, I'm JDMorgan, jdmorgan, J.DMorgan and j.d.morgan all at the same time.

It is concise and it will work. It also seems that it's more restrained than johnmorgan.

I'm currently having an identity crisis.

just a minor piss-off

Firefox is good but...
When the memory capacity is exceeded and I don't get a warning, I miss alot of the bookmarks I'm saving.
I know what you're thinking: modern architecture doesn't really require bookmarks, you can always just recall your input values and searches will populate the same results.
It does if you're apartment hunting.

Theatre Stunt en Francis

Ok, so the field of theatre these days means more and more: telling a story through technology.

Or amplifying a story using technology.
This considerably lowtech puppet was built and moved through this French town.
The movement revolved around telling a story, and it looks to have been effective.
There is a link here. Thanks Divine Caroline!



Like ringing a giant bell, this team of two jumps from a platform to put weight on the mechanism that makes the beast walk.

Everywhere I look the future is happening

Ok, so it is the current top slot on Digg.com: Futurama has officially been renewed for another season. Humans are excited for the future.

Since the beginning of this sport of TV, the networks never renew series.
Ideas come and go, and when they're gone.
The truth: things like the stories of Serenity from people like Wheadon and Futurama are ahead of their time.

But they follow the pattern because they came back.
Sure, that only happened because of the internet, but still.
The Lone Gunman was never renewed, and sort of fits the category here.


The other piece of news comes from a new favorite blog to supplement the readers of Doktor Sleepless. The article originates from New Scientist. A rather dense blog to supplement the magazine of the same name (to which I'd like to subscribe).

Apparently the kids in the science faculty I used to belong to at York have proposed a supertall structure design.
It uses hollow, flexible tubes and lightweight gas to create a pneumatically grown tower.
This is really got me excited.
If we can start working the kinks out with this project than we'll be really prepared with some new ways of thinking when carbon nanotube technology becauses viable.

These new ways of thinking are critical.
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