Death Cab/ Metric show

Went to see Death Cab for Cutie and Metric this week. The bands were great, although Death Cab didn't play my favourite song of theirs - "District Sleeps Alone Tonight." And we had to leave before Metric played either "The Shade" or "Breathing Underwater."

Show just went on too long and the venue sucked. The BMO centre with it's concrete floors and general admission and terrible acoustics made it really hard to get into the show and stay. Why not play the Jube?

Anyway, it was mostly fun.

Chillin' with a xenomorph

How Apple is beating the FBI

One word: openness. 

http://www.wired.com/2016/03/fight-fbi-apple-ditched-secrecy-openness/

Trump the unifier?

"Donald Trump is not a leader or a presidential candidate. He is an outcome, a viral manifestation of a serious malignant illness. He is the mirror of our emptiness, the emptying out that has been happening to our country for a very long time."

True that. 

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/23/donald-trump-campaign-america-unifier-eve-ensler

Year-Old Mystery of Flannan Lighthouse's Missing Keepers

A cool mystery. 

"In December 1900, a boat called Hesperus set sail for the island of Eilean Mor, one of the seven islets (also known as the “Seven Hunters”) of the Flannan Isles off the coast of northwestern Scotland. Captain James Harvey was tasked with delivering a relief lighthouse keeper as part of a regular rotation. The journey was delayed a few days by bad weather, and when Harvey and his crew finally arrived, it was clear that something was awry. None of the normal preparations at the landing dock had been made, the flagstaff was bare, and none of the keepers came to greet the Hesperus. The keepers, as it turned out, weren’t on the island at all. All three of them had vanished."

http://m.mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=70180

Millenials Conundrum

I totally agree with this article.

Millennials aren't playing by the boomer's rules that we gen X'rs just kind of grudgingly accepted. They're not buying houses, cars, or even getting married the way that generations before them have.

And why?

Because it can seem pointless, that's why. School costs are insane to account for overruns and a shitty outdated education system. Housing costs are insane so that the boomers can retire. Cars are a burden, not a freedom - when you can live downtown and bike or walk or take transit everywhere.

And why get married when you were likely raised in a broken home, that not only upset and hurt everyone, but financially devastated them too?

It's a no-win raw deal. And the only way to play those kinds of games is not to play at all.

We need to change the rules so these kids can win.

http://www.lifehack.org/304505/recent-research-finds-millennials-are-the-best-educated-yet-worst-paid-generation

Ready Player One

A fun book... after the fall of easy energy, what's left to have life worth living?

Virtual reality gaming, that's what.