I’ve never done the “hey, welcome to my 638th post” sort of thing on this blog, but this marks our fourth summer in Montreal. With increasing frequency (probably because this was a big year for conferences in town) we get asked about places to go and things to do. So I’ve started a “Montréal List” …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Our Metro Stop
Midnight Poutine has been running a “metro roulette” series for some time where they review metro stations (they’re not the only ones, it turns out). I remember reading the <a href=”http://www.midnightpoutine.ca/city/2006/06/metro_roulette_jarry/” target=”_blank”>Jarry</a> entry some time ago and lsat night for some reason had occasion to point Carrie to it. The author does a quick walkabout …
“New look, huh? That’s nice.”
Nothing like a quote from a Prince song to brighten your day. I took advantage of the loss of my old formatting and picked up a new WordPress theme called “NeoClassical” and customized it to my liking. The coolest part is that the header image is selected randomly from a bank of images. I’ve only …
A Brief Digression on Vacation Weather
<b>4 May 2008</b>: sunny and warm. The first real day of summer for Carrie and I. We are in Washington DC, waiting for my parents to arrive in town. We see that there is a baseball game between our two old teams: The Washington Nationals (formerly the Montreal Expos) and the Pittsburgh Pirates. Accustomed to …
TA Strike — Finally Over
Wednesday afternoon the TA union officially called off their strike and authorized the bargaining committee to sign the contract. They did not accept the administration’s back to work protocol, but the protocol isn’t necessary for a return to work. <a href=”http://www.agsem-aeedem.ca/” target=”_blank”>Full details here.</a> Although I got a long letter from the provost last night, …
A Canadian DMCA
The Conservative government cleverly tabled Bill C-61 shortly after a massive and public apology to First Nations people over the horrific school system that attempted to forcibly assimilate generations of First Nations people. The press focused on the First Nations apology, as it should have. Canada’s history on matters of race is not pretty, and …
Analog vs. Digital (Part MCM)
The other night, <a href=”http://www.quadrantcrossing.org/blog/” target=”_blank”>Tobias</a> treated me to a demonstration of <a href=”http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=traktorscratch” target=”_blank”>Traktor Scratch</a>, a digital DJ setup. Basically, it involves the usual two turntables and a mixer, plus a digital interface and a laptop. The DJ uses special records striped with timecode, special needles and a digital interface reads the timecode off …