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Gen-X bears Toronto on So Gay TV.

Click on "Watch Video Now" then "So Gay TV". PJ and Micheal sorta seemed intimidated but of course Don came across with his incredible carisma. It's cool to see them getting coverage, the new Gen-X Bears TO seems to be shaping up to be a very diverse group.

I think it's also a good time in Canadian broadcasting that we have things like U8TV/So Gay TV, Pridevision etc. Hopefully it'll last.

Windows Media only it seems, sorry 'bout that.

NFOTXN™: Always fresh, always manic.

New user pic, in the words of Randy (lostncove) "There is no normal Brodie pose, is there?". To which I reply "No, no there isn't"

PS: You can see the supah-fab hat Paul (zer0ith) got me. It's got a tiger paw on it, but I like to pretend it's a bear paw.

Mmm flex fit.

Hat goes on.

Hat goes off.

Hat goes on.

Hat goes off.

Wheee!

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( Oh look, it's a colour. Neato. )

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Today is an "iron shirts and watch O" kinda day.

In other news, I have yet another cold. WTF?

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So, I've been meaning to ask about video cards for a while.

Now before all you gamer geeks start pre-cumming in your shorts I gotta tell you what I'm after. I don't want performance, I don't give a fly UFO fuck about how many FPS the GeForce 7 DDR Aluminium 500 pushes in Unreal or Quake 3. Infact, I'm not too concerned about D3D or GL performance at all, I have a playstation to play games.

What I am looking for is something with an exceptionally highspeed ramdac that supports refresh rates in excess of 100hz at high resolutions. Also, well written drivers. All too often I'd get artifacts with my TNT2's Detonator drivers. Features are nice too, twin display output would be nice as would accurate colour calibration.

Oh yeah, and I want it to be cheap! Ok, a tall order. I hope somebody has some insight.

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What's up with "All that you can't leave behind" by U2 sounding like a Lou Reed album? Seriously, listen to it. It's Bono as Lou. His pronunciatation, inflection and phrasing is totally Lou Reed. And the basslines are so very knocked right off Transformer. The only difference is some trendy and jerky Garage fills here and there.

While I'm on ths subject, what about Bif Naked and The Strokes knocking off The Pretenders? Bif's new single "I love myself today" is not influenced by "Brass in pocket". It's a punk cover of the song. As for the Strokes.. ? What can I say? With enough promo money it doesn't matter how original you actually are. Re-packaging something old as new without any innovation at all. At least Bif and Bono are using punk and garage respectively. The Strokes are just re-hashing. Although to be honest I've only heard the single "Last night", I should listen to the whole album.

It just cheeses me off that bands like Sloan, Thrush Hermit and The Flashing Lights have been doing the same thing with great success up here in the north for more than a decade. And they all play much better than the strokes, I've seen the strokes live. They stink, they're like Smeared era Sloan. Sloan tries to score contracts down south and are given little tiny nothings. But when The Strokes from NYC go searching.. well look out! Can we say ethnocentric discrimination? First class musicians, they're from New York. They're on Leno, plastered all over MSN's music portal and heralded as "the second coming of The Velvet Underground" in Rolling Stone. Yeah, too bad The Velvet Underground already happened.

Crank the hype machine to 11!

Why do I play attention to pop music? It's like politics, totally corrupt. Not worth the effort.

This session of negativity for pop music has been brought to you by the letter N and the number n^th.

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Hehe, Dad is taking me to Computer Fest and Mac Expo on Saturday. Can't wait to see the new iMac! I'll probably score a new video card cheap and lord knows what else there.

I come from a long lineage of geeks.