Self interest

In response to the last few paragraphs of this post by Rich, all I have to say is "word." Well, that and I only had to travel 3,500 miles.

News of the day

Because I'm feeling rather lazy, I'm just going to post some news stories that I found interesting:

• IRA says armed campaign is over - If anything good could come out of the recent London bombings, surely this must be it. Granted Ireland still has a long way to go, but I welcome with open arms any group who admits that they were once violent and are now renouncing their ways.
• Illegal downloaders are also biggest spenders: research - I could rant about this one for a while, but I'll try and keep it short. I'd like to take a shot at the final quote however:
  
  "Our concern is that file sharers' expenditure on music overall is down," said Phillips, who says that two-thirds of file-sharers buy less music than they used to.
  
  You mean people have finally realized that spending £15 on a commodified pop CD containing 2 good tracks and 13 filler tracks is a waste of money and only serves to further line the pockets of the fat cats at the distribution company? Good.
  
  
• Japanese develop 'female' android - This is cool, but incredibly freaky. Check out the pictures....that woman IS the robot!

That's all from me....I'm headed to hOME tonight and then going to see a staff screening of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Phoenix tonight. :D

Just a quick post cuz i'm using a touch screen keyboard at work;

I just want to reiterate my love for the phoenix picturehouse and what a great job it is! I booked my flights to Stockholm and Toronto this week, and while I am excited to go, I will miss this place...

Tonight

4 British blokes, 2 british lasses, a couple polish girls, a spanish girl, one Canadian and a nightclub in Oxford, England.

No really, this is my life.

How lovely...

What a wonderful evening! Rich called me around 6:30pm and asked me if I wanted to go for a swim. I didn't realize it until that very moment, but yes, I really did want to go for a swim! So I met Rich at his place then we walked all of 2 minutes to get to Hinksey pool. We stayed for an hour or so and then Rich offered me some dinner. After a quick trip to the corner store (ostensibly for lettuce and tomatoes, but mostly for beer) we went back to his place and cooked some burgers and sausage. We watched an extremely funny Eddie Izzard DVD and then I biked home. When I got home, Martin and Jules were watching Garden State and I snuck in for the last half.

Between ultimate frisbee in the park yesterday, swimming outdoors today and a possible canoe paddle with Matt tomorrow, that's gonna 3 of my favourite activies in 3 days. Not a bad score, if I do say so myself! Ahhh, how I love summer...

A quick note

Just a quick note to say that I'm ok and everyone I know is ok. Rather than writing anything else, I think it's worth reading this.

If anyone wants to contact me, my temporary e-mail address is christopherjameslangston >at< yahoo.co.uk but hopefully I'll have a new one soon...

God bless,
Chris

Happy Birthday Canada!

Canada, you are 138 today! Congratulations on making it this far.

To celebrate, I downloaded and listened to the CBC Radio 3 podcast -- and I gotta say, the Canadian indie music scene is second to none...the rest of the world has no idea what they're missing! Do yourself a favour and listen to the latest show....so, SO much good stuff (I was going to explain what a 'podcast' is, but rather than repeat the info, just check out the link posted above).

I also went to get a couple bottles of Moosehead, but sadly my supplier was sold out :( I think there may be a pub downtown with Labatt on tap, so maybe I'll try that later.

In other news, Queen's finally realized I'm not actually a student any more and will be removing my current e-mail address and this website in 4 days (July 4th). If I was smart I would already have a backup plan and site up and running, but seeing as planning isn't really one of my stronger points, there is nothing as such yet. Mattyboy and I were talking about getting our own domain name but that's still all up in the air. I'll figure out something, don't worry.
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UPDATE: I have temporarily moved my blog to http://cjlangston.blogspot.com - I realize that this is only 4 days notice, but that's better than nothin. More info will be found here in the future...
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Sorry I haven't posted a lot lately, I will try and be a better blogger in the future.