I’m making vegan Halloween cupcakes for a potluck tonight. I was just going to bring normal ones, but my vegetarian friend got all excited about vegan cupcakes so I’m using one of the recipes from this book. They may not end up entirely vegan as I’ll probably use regular cream cheese and regular yoghurt, but it still strikes me as odd. You should be sacrificing animals for Halloween, not saving them by avoiding their products.
This has been in my head so in honour of Halloween, it’s now on the blog.
My favourite video when I was a kid was a collection of NFB shorts from 1979. (That and the Nutcracker ballet tape I wore out.) I love the NFB.
Getting Started (part 1). This short inspired me to learn the piece he was desperately trying to practise. I had quite a few of the same experiences, mostly the parts involving smashing keys and biting the piano.
I officially love picnicface. This sketch is full of comedy. Who is Andy Bush? I know he hosted Street Cents and he was on Made In Canada, but I remember him from something else, too. Was he on TVO kids or something? I guess it must have been Made In Canada that I remember him from. Either way, hilarious. Time for Heroes! Eve Out.
I want to see this movie/concert! And not just because of Zach Galifiiansiasinsnaskis. Anyone know who the folks are with the guitar and fiddle combo? They’re awesome.
A similar part-based approach is followed in [24] to detect naked people. First, large skin-colored components are found in an image by applying a skin filter that combines color and texture. Based on geometrical constraints between detected components an image is labeled as containing naked people or not. Obviously this method is suited for specific genres only.
– Snoek, C., & Worring, M. (2001). Multimodal video indexing: A review of the state-of-the-art. Technical Report 2001-20, Intelligent Sensory Information Systems Group, University of Amsterdam.
I saw “The Marriage of Figaro” at the COC (lol) two nights ago. It was really entertaining. The music was beautiful and the comic acting was surprisingly good. The woman who played Susanna was incredible. Anyhoo, I haven’t updated this blog too often on what’s going on with regards to moi, so I thought I’d mention that. I’m thinking of getting $20 tickets to Eugene Onegin on top of the possible tickets that I have to Tosca, Barber of Seville and Pelléas et Mélisande, but the internet website these people have is the worst I’ve ever seen.
“What, you mean every night is all sold out or possibly not yet on sale? We could have told you that. What, you expect us to tell you that? But it’s so much more fun to send you on a wild goose chase that requires you to type in captchas every other fucking page.”