Pre-Binged TV

Sure you could try these yourself at nominal cost via services like Netflix or iTunes. But why trust your own judgement when you can trust mine? To be fair, I think I only binged House of Cards and Breaking Bad. And 1 binge per season at that.

The shows with a line over them I never gave a chance. The ones with a squiggly line next to them means I watched religiously until I lost interest (presumably because I got older).

Happy rainy days. :-)

Hat tip uproxx.com

Veep is Fracking Good

Season 3, Episode 4 of HBO's Veep tackles the issue of fracking, features a blogger, a smartwatch and a really complicated toilet. Very good, and very funny.

Disclaimer: people here in New Brunswick are going nuts about fracking, I obviously blog, I own a smart watch and I struggled with my hotel room's toilet while visiting Tokyo. 

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Le Québec devrait etre un pays

Je suis vraiment déçu de la défaite du PQ. Il y a 3 partis
souverainiste avec des députés à l'Assemblée nationale. Un de gauche,
Québec Solidaire, un de droite, Coalition Avenir Québec et le Parti
Québécois. Pourtant, avec les Libéraux majoritaires, le projet de
faire Québec in pays est sur la sellette.

On ne peut pas faire confiance aux anglophones du Canada. C'est
certain qu'ils sont moins Protestants et les Québécois sont moins
Catholiques qu'avant, donc un clivage de moins. Mais des différences
culturels importantes persistes. Mais surtout, les anglais veulent
nous assimiler!

En plus de 15 ans en milieu de travail anglophone, je suis plus
convaincu que jamais, le Québec doit être un pays. Pour la langue,
pour la culture, pour l'économie.

I Love These Songs

I'm not sure what it is about these songs, but I've played them over and over again. Some of the videos are OK as well. But really, it's the music.

Passenger: Let Her Go.

 

Lorde: Royals

 



Avicii: Wake Me Up

Ylvis: What Does the Fox Say?

If you are keeping track, that's British, New Zealand, Swedish and Norwegian music. Here is some Korean music to round it off. Giant hat tip to California's Google.

 

Others I like:

-The ultimate ringtone: LMFAO Party Rock Anthem.

 

Not safe for work because of the boobies (OK, these ones I like mostly for the visuals, but the music is OK to):

-Robin Thincke: Blurred Lines

-Miley Cyrus: Wrecking Ball.

 



A Taste of America

You should be cynical when it comes to a company peddling sugar water, but I haven't felt such an emotional connection to a commercial in a long time. As a non-American living in non-America, I find this commercial humanizes the USA. Maybe they aren't an Anglo gun crazy war mongering nation. Maybe. By the way, my favourite cola is Diet Big 8.

 

 

 

 

Last century I spent a month touring the USA by bus. I highly recommend it. It really is a geographically diverse country. Some of the people are OK to.  ;-)

 

 

If you don't have the time to visit all of America just yet, start with New York City, my favourite American city.