Archive for March, 2008

Sebastien Tellier’s La Ritournelle

Monday, March 10th, 2008

This is such a beautiful song. I think La Ritournelle means either ‘the old story’ or ‘the only love story’. [update:] According to a Google definition of ‘Ritournelle’, it was used originally to describe a short instrumental which introduces ground or recalls a melody at the beginning, the end or between each verse…

“Oh nothing’s gonna change my love for you
I wanna spend my life with you
So we make love on the grass under the moon
No one can tell, damned if I do
Forever journeys on golden avenues
I drift in your eyes since I love you
I got that beat in my veins for only rule
Love is to share, mine is for you”

Doctor Campbell’s Science Demo – Regelation

Monday, March 10th, 2008

I am pretty sure that this was not supposed to come out this way but… Here is a science demo showing the process of regelation. Where ice melts under pressure and then re-freezes once the pressure is released.

Never interact with the media

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

in 1996, a friend of mine (Dan Clegg) and I somehow got caught up in the filming of a really terrible day-in-the-life documentary called Ferry Tales. The relevant section is pasted below. Somehow, we ended up looking like rowdy student’s. Dan and I were staying up because there was basically no where comfy to sleep. Meanwhile my sister (who was trying to sleep) reclined her chair and whacked a sleeping passenger on the floor. The sleeping passenger complained and my sister told him ‘well excuse me, some of us have paid for our seats’… So at 2min 40 sec, the camera cuts to Dan and me and the voice over guys says something like ‘there has been an incident, students intent in partying have disturbed some fellow passengers’… The lesson to me is to stay away from TV cameras and the media in general.