The "People's Professor": Archive

Oct 20th

Draaaama

There are a few words that Canadians pronounce incorrectly and it drives me crazy. 1) The top of the house is a roof (rooooof) not a “ruff” 2) Spaghetti is a kind of pasta (paw-stuh) not “paaa-stuh” 3) The Japanese automaker is Mazda (Maws-duh) not “maaaz-duh” 4) Kurt Cobain was the singer from Nirvana (Nerve-aw-na) not “Nerve-anna” 5) The bird...

Sep 20th

I love infographics... →

vigeant: and according to this one I am part of the 4% of the population who are still working in the United States. I was also part of the 29% working in the morning when I started… Here is to hoping that I fall asleep with 95% of the population, but feel as though I might not make it there until 97%. Did I take statistics? of course I did. Look at me, I am brilliant. I also received a 79%...

Aug 18th

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Jul 27th

vigeant: I wrote the first 40 seconds of a pop...

Jul 8th

It Pays to Have Friends who are University...

vigeant: proflyons.tumblr.com correctly identified my problem with Daffy Duck being called Pato Lucas in Latin America from my post here proflyons stated: Luke, it seems that Spanish speaking people are as perplexed as you about this issue. My favourite explanation - Lucas is a spoof on ‘loco’, which means, roughly translated Daffy. Thanks Pato Prof Lyons! My kids, who were recently...

Jul 2nd

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Jun 28th

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Watch

I have had the Flaming Lips playing in my head for 3 days. They are either brilliant or really really bad. I can’t decide, but that’s cool all on its own.

Jun 19th

Facebook is down!

this has been a social experiment that revealed to me my insane dependence on Facebook. What if the Facebook guys just decided to close shop? What the hell would I do? I would no longer be capable of connecting with other human beings who do not live in my house. What the hell did I do in 2005? There needs to be an international Facebook emergency preparedness plan in place!

Jun 19th

I am in Halifax.

pbrown: …and it has been SWEET so far. I have a very good feeling about how this is going to pan out. I am also officially living with macintyre.dudevice.com. Our address: (map posted above) is 1079 Queen Street, Halifax, NS. Our house: is bro-fest. My job: starts monday The weekend: is going to be legendary. Stay tuned folks, as brown.dudevice.com makes the switch to being a barnicle...

Jun 13th

vigeant: brown.dudevice.com came over last night...

Jun 12th

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Business Plan: Foiled.

Brilliant! The only thing that would make this vignette (or should I say Vigean-ette) better is if you were wearing a demin jacket, cowboy boots and had a mushroom haircut! vigeant: pbrown: Arrrgh!!!! For the last several years it has been the back up plan of myself and vigeant.dudevice.com to start a restaurant. The basic idea was a combination of two of our favourite things at the time...

May 30th

vigeant: While volunteering at the Rio Muchacho...

May 12th

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vigeant: This is for all my readers that aren’t down with viral videos. This is not for all my readers who dislike foul language. This is for all my readers who work in offices. This is not for any reader to look at while in an office.

Apr 8th

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Mar 24th

vigeant: MY COMPUTER IS FINALLY HOME! It is...

Mar 24th

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Feb 16th

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vigeant: The most recent edition of the podcast TWIT reminded me that the program ‘Songsmith’ was created. Songsmith is a piece of software that allows you to sing a vocal melody into a microphone hooked up to the computer, a piece of software then analyzes your key and time signature and generates a musical accompaniment. Songsmith was created by Microsoft and is widely accepted as a waste of...

Feb 1st

Jan 30th

Matt Milne vs. Luke Vigeant and then Paul Brown

Ok…with respect to this ongoing debate… pbrown: Please refer to THIS POST before reading any further… and possibly THIS POST. Excellent, now that you have read the required content I will state my claim. Matt Milne made a valiant effort to disprove Vigeant’s claim that reclining your seat is a fundamental right a passenger has while on an airplane. Quote. “Being able to recline...

Jan 30th

Jan 27th

Things I heard today on the way to class...

Random girl: It’s like a chicken farm…when one gets sick you have to kill em all (inspired uproarious and prolonged laughter from the girl beside her) is this an Aggie joke? Another, louder random girl, to a girl beside her: You didn’t sleep last night? Was I loud? (“Hmmm” I think…”this sounds interesting”)

Jan 27th

Mr. Vigeant, you have the chops, but you need a...

Jan 16th

Click this. Do it. Now. please →

Jan 8th

I am not blogging anymore...

…really

Nov 26th

Credit crisis

I am currently doing my part. Buying a house is a MF

Nov 4th

My back is F*@$#d...

pbrown: I hurt my back several days ago. Needless to say, the life of an old man is not enjoyable.. Charish your strong backs younglings… enjoy it while it’s good. Enjoy all the things that invlove a strong back: tying your shoes, picking up a quarter from the sidewalk, getting out of bed, slouching in a chair. Paul…I hope that your hopscotch injury is not career ending. You...

Oct 23rd

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Oct 17th

Illness

I have been sick for 2 weeks. While I was looking at Google Finance, I noticed a direct and spooky correlation between my physical health and the health of my investment portfolio. I had a brief bounce-back last week, but I dropped 8% yesterday. God. Maybe if I get more sleep and take some Nyquil the economy will rebound!

Oct 17th

How did I do?

Party My Prediction* Results (as of 12:25am) Conservative 123 144 (uh oh) Liberal 93 76 (hee hee) Bloc Quebecois 43 48 (ooh la la) NDP 39 38 (whatever) Independent ...

Oct 15th

Oct 10th

My Early Canadian Election Predictions

There are 304 seats in the HoC. Party Current # Seats Prediction Conservative 127 123 (will lose seats in BC) Liberal 95 93 (will lose seats in QC) Bloc Quebecois 48 43...

Oct 9th

OJ Goes Down

Somewhat in relation to my last post…Oj Simpson was convicted on Friday of robbery of sports memorobilia (actually conspiracy, burglary, kidnapping, robbery and assault). OJ shoulda knowed better…In the US, brutally murdering your ex-wife and her boyfriend is one thing, but stealing people’s property…well that’s just not tolerated mister. He’s lucky we...

Oct 9th

Why did you do it Chantix? Why? →

Ok, this news story is over a year old, but I just caught wind of it. Apparently a guy had an adverse reaction to a stop-smoking drug called Chantix which, according to his girlfriend, resulted in his death. Here’s the kicker-he died of a gunshot wound inflicted by his neighbour. He was disoriented and agitated, knocked on his neighbour’s door, and got blown away for it. The thing...

Oct 9th

Oct 8th

Come on Obama...swing for the fences!

I’m getting tired of watching Obama getting pwned by McCain in this debate. Obama…for the last debate, feel free to use any and all of these cleverly crafted retorts: 1) Senator McCain..I think you need to turn up your hearing aid…that’s not what I said, 2) Senator McCain…I think you have confused the current Iraq war with the Boer war of 1899… 3)...

Oct 8th

Google Chrome

A little bit weird, but I believe in Google. Keep it coming Google. I want my G-phone.

Oct 7th

Canadian Leadership Debate

What they said: Stephen Harper: Stephan Dion…you change your economic plan ever hour. [that was about it…the rest of the time he kept his fists up to avoid blows to the face as the other 4 gang-pummeled him. He mostly stared at the person who was talking and smiled a really creepy serial killer type smile at the most inappropriate times] Stephan Dion: Dis ees not twoo monsieur...

Oct 3rd

Random university intellect

D1: [A scruffy looking dude sitting near the coffee fixins where I get my coffee, usually 1 minute after my class was supposed to start] Even die hard Republicans feel that John McCain has too much experience.  He's making that his predominant campaign message...that he's so experienced and Obama is young and inexperienced...but his experience just pins him to the Bush-era party.
D2: [another scruffy looking dude sitting with D1] inaudible mumble with an indignnt tone.
D1: Oh Snap!
Me: wince.
D1: And don't even get me started on Sarah Polley as a vice-presidential choice...
Me: [thinking] did I miss something?  when did that outspoken Canadian actress go from "The Road to Avonlea" to vice-presidential candidate?

Oct 3rd

Presidential Debate

How it went down: McCain: “Senator Obama doesn’t know this and he doesn’t know that and he’s naive and he can’t tell a strategy from a tactic and he’s practically an infant and he’s never been locked in a Vietnamese tiger cage and I am old and wise and have had lunch with a lot of important people and visited many unpronounceable places and some of them I...

Sep 30th