Wayne D's Blog

Tuesday night is again blog night. I arose at 5 a.m. Sunday morning to attend the CBC's Easter Sunrise Pascha Celebration. It's amazing how fast you can get downtown at 5:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning. The concert was great, the demographic skewed a little older than last year when the concert was Gospel focused. I sat between two older couples who were CBC Radio 2 listeners and expressed their displeasure with the changes that radio 2 has undergone recently. In an attempt to attract more younger listeners CBC the amount of classical music has been reduced, only time will tell if they are successful. the CBC blog has some comments about the evening changes. My question would be, why try to attract a demographics that is courted by most of the commercial stations in town? More concert pictures are available on my Flickr photostream

Enough CBC bashing for now, time for some audience bashing. Bash #1: If you don't know how to shoot with available light, leave your camera at home. There was one old guy who stood in the centre aisle with an SLR with a monster flash for 5 minutes or so blasting away. The people who couldn't see the concert because your were standing in their way were annoyed. The mirror clunk is annoying enough but there was enough natural light in the CBC atrium to shoot. Turn off you flash and see how much better your pictures look. Bash #2: If your digital camera makes a fake SLR noise when you take a picture figure out how to turn it off or leave it at home, I'm trying to listen to a concert and your camera noises take me out of the moment. I have a question for you brass players out there. One of the trumpet players looks like she split her lip at the concert, she was trying to stem the bleeding with a tissue but was ultimately unsuccessful. In my years with the Argonotes I've never seen this happen but I don't pay much attention to the brass.

What the heck is going on at IMDB? They reworked things and completely screwed it up. For example the entry for Trading Places the 1983 movie with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd doesn't mention either Eddie Murphy or Jamie Lee Curtis on the cast list shown on the movie's page. I don't know how they ordered the cast list, there seems to be no apparent order. Maybe it's time for someone to launch a new IMDB like IMDB used to be, sane and helpful.

I'm so excited, I've got my first non-work related Facebook friend. Granted she is my niece but she added me first so I don't feel like a pity friend. I'm not going to post my Facebook id here because I only want people on my Facebook who actually know me, I'm not a friend whore. If you are on Facebook and want me to be your friend look me up. I'm not going to grovel and beg you to add me, I don't want pity friends.

Google is so cool sometimes. I managed to rank 23rd for the phrase "up skirting pictures", it came from the phrase ... He ends up skirting the edges of legality and he lives in the U.S. where you ... and my references to the word pictures in my posts. Now I think I understand where my hits are coming from, annoyed webizens looking for naughty snaps.