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December, 2008

Aaron Scott hates the coalition

November, 2008

Monopoly or, Evan, I'm looking at you

A rant on semantic web development or, You can ignore this if you don't know what HTML stands for

Important internet theories

October, 2008

Johnny Awesome is Awesome: Introduction or, The world might not be ready

Murakami, on intentional dreaming

Why I still like Vista more or, Two evils

Inner clockwork

And the winner is… or, Nobody!

The And Curiouser guide to the 2008 Canadian Federal Election or, We get all political

I personally believe that US Americans

September, 2008

Awesome things I did this weekend that you did not or, Caitlin is always an exception

The brilliance of necessity or, Izzy out of a job

In which Aaron begs for money

Status report or, An overdue thought dump

A list of things that were a part of my dream last night or, Everything but sleep

August, 2008

The hunt is over or, Bullet points on an apartment

Either way you look at it, we’re all going to hell

Nine Inch Nails

July, 2008

Dreams, storytelling, and general absurdity

A man’s gotta do or, What a man's got to do

Further down the spiral (updated, again) or, Aaron reveals his rampant paranoia

Metal Gear Solid 4: The Review or, A long, long, long review

June, 2008

A long-winded rant on economics or, Deep in debt

Out of touch or, Jim Prentice makes an idiot out of himself

Becoming Ira Glass

Copyright and a couple new shorts

Clean or, The First Good News

Video Games Live or, I simultaneously use the word "awesome" too much and don't use the word "awesome" entirely enough

Ladytron and Manlab or, Hey, that's a great name for a B-movie

May, 2008

Missing my flight

Who writes short shorts or, Edmonton and back again

Taking the lead

Violet Hill or, On music and Writing

April, 2008

Opposite directions or, Synchronised feet

Things about which I have been wrong or, Failed predictions

Parables and You or, Dave Rae finally buys a video camera, hilarity ensues

Booting or, I try to stick my morning routine into high memory if I can

Moby: Last Night

There will be blood

Randoms for the end of your week

Google Talk skins

Still sick, but here are some fonts

March, 2008

This post brought to you by chicken noodle soup and Advil Cold & Sinus

Modernista finds the internet, the internet finds Modernista or, The internet comes of age

RIP, Arthur C. Clarke

Mix 1 or, Candy for your ears

Bootlegs, Sigur Ros, Sad Children, and Friday afternoons or, Nonylphenol, DVNO, cyborgs and Heima

February, 2008

Netscape Now! or, Saying goodbye

Oscars and Jesse James or, Pomp and Cowards

The Edge and my psychic powers

My dislike of Manitoba is growing

Video Games Live

Randoms for a mildish February First

January, 2008

A story of no consequence or, Don't trust anyone who speaks in subtitles

Fifty years of Lego or, My childhood, abridged

Methods of transportation

Databases make for bad jokes

Juno or, We sure are cute for two ugly people

The best news of the day or, I can see clearly now (and by "now" I mean "soon")

Glasses and clients or, Why I hope to make a dent in that stack of books on my shelf sometime soon

Small glitches or, The shameful reason the site was down for a couple minutes

Apple and the north pole

A hypothetical interview with Alex Berenson or, Oxygen is nice

And now, randoms for January tenth or, Books are frustrating

Randoms for a cold January Ninth or, It's cold outside, so you might as well waste time online

The best inanimate object of 2007 or, The best animate objects caught on an inanimate medium

The best of 2007 or, A very bare-bones list

First post of 2008 or, The legality of paper cups

December, 2007

Woooooooooo or, Stretching my Visa thin

Christmas prep or, Getting ready to take over the internet

The best exhange with Amazon.com customer service, ever or, Getting a free laptop is hard work

The worst Christmas songs ever written

Everything wrong with The Golden Compass or, Why adapting your favourite book will always end in tears

My brain is 8-bit or, The mess at Wal-Mart

We’re back, baby! or, Still alive

November, 2007

Amazonia or, Summer's officially gone

Academia or, My, that was a lot of money

Breaking the silence or, Why Zork is the height of modern storytelling

In the can or, I really wish the lectures would have taken place in the pool

Think of the producers or, Non-endangered birthday tigers are NO substitute (thanks, Jamie)

Blenders and alliteration or, Why I would very much like to yell at my blender

Pencil and paper or, It's time to get away from the desk

Why I blog or, Failure to launch

Rogered or, They have to keep the billing department busy somehow

My fries are cold or, Costco tries to kill me

Love Will Tear Us Apart or, Susanna & The Magic Orchestra is pretty obscure

October, 2007

LeFarge’s dark contract or, A short history of rap music

Cellular or, Life as an organism

Subjective 12 or, Why numbering systems are useless

I Am Legend: Awakening

Screensavers, Sigur Ros and Rama

Izzy’s explanation

September, 2007

Doctor Who: Season 3 in review

Random thoughts on assorted topics

Places to go, things to do

August, 2007

Burqa and the Buddha

A test of faith

Up on the block

July, 2007

I got the power

Missions and projects

Our new celebrity

New phone number

Complex processes

June, 2007

Return of the Monday randoms

AFI Top 100 Films

Path to 9/11: A review retrospective

Moving and shaking

Yes, it’s definitely Friday

May, 2007

Pirates of the Carribean: At World’s End

Transitions and anticipations

Random thoughts of the day

Some unexpected upcomings

April, 2007

Hot Fuzz, Blades of Glory

Meanwhile, back in real life

So, Nine Inch Nails has a new album out

Festival updates

Don’t Mess with Texas

School shooting

Polar bears and Wednesday randoms

Post-Easter ramblings

The end is nigh

Like a phoenix from the flames

March, 2007

The night before the lab

Movies to watch for in 2007

This is the end

A Friday in the life

Metaphysical roots

All in the name of progress

February, 2007

Mondays happen, again

January, 2007

It’s Monday and I’m tired

The best movies of 2006

Children of Men, Pan’s Labyrinth

Where ist thou global warming?

The story of Aaron’s new computer

Here we go again

The story of Aaron’s new car

December, 2006

So this is Christmas

Looking for food in all the wrong places

Done, done, done

Friday’s Robot (part 1)

November, 2006

The cold, it burns

How to make my life a better place

Tideland, Stranger Than Fiction

Auction Against Arthritis

Dino’s gone down

Seymore (My Evil Cat)

James Blunt in concert

October, 2006

Little Miss Sunshine

In praise of student loans

Torture and corpus

Tips for Modern Living

Jumping off cliffs

Another test, but…

Delerium - Nuages Du Monde

Attack of Thursday, and progressive design

From the Canadian Press

Of renders and Neverwinter

September, 2006

August, 2006

Stapling things

Toronto and back

A Scanner Darkly

Demotorize launched

July, 2006

Attack of the Mondays

Little known facts

Create something

Lady in the Water

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Excitement abating

Semester 2 post-mortem

Ask a Theologian, round two

Devil Wears Prada, Nacho Libre, Tristan and Isolde

Memories of games past

geezmagazine.org

Ask a Theologian

June, 2006

A sneaking mission

Who Canada is paying off

I’m feeling something

Bookworm emergence

Discounts, baseball and laserdiscs

May, 2006

Airports, spirituality and Y2K

Messing with a good thing

A fish in the ear

We’re really back this time

April, 2006

Mission: Impossible III, Thank You For Smoking

My very own hype machine

Everything is Illuminated, Elizabethtown

Canada.com(pletely ruined)

Chinese personal e-mail servers banned

A dull Tuesday and Wednesday in pictures

My weekend in pictures

March, 2006

Art student grandeur

V for Vendetta, Pride & Prejudice, Donnie Darko - Director’s Cut

Sentences, visions and vendettas

Free as in music

February, 2006

Fable: The Lost Chapters

The best spam in a long time

Beating back UPS with a stick

Gallery updates

Learning the hard way: UPS

Ever-changing future plans

Fast times at Red River College

Good news for galleries

January, 2006

Conservative minority attack

The ways of the DMT

It’s official

*** You have died ***

Syriana, Munich, Les Choristes

Music Room dedication

Conservative Cabinet Revealed

Movies to be eaten no more

Purging and inventing

December, 2005

The waiting game

Intelligent Design loses

Semester 1 in retrospect

How not to make a movie

And now I sleep

The fall of the secret joy of Christmas chaos

A sickening crunch

November, 2005

Minority falling

Lagoona complete

How to make someone an idiot

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

It’s about that bid on hell

The Vanishing Penguins (4/4)

Happy November 11

The Vanishing Penguins (3/4)

The Vanishing Penguins (2/4)

Every opinion held by Aaron Scott Hildebrandt (abridged)

I must love you

Resident Sequel

The Vanishing Penguins (1/4)

Textpattern 4.0.2… go!

The Art of Disappearing Completely (intro)

Another shot in the foot

Time, forensics, and the Gomery Report

October, 2005

Lost in translation?

On the drunk and play

The Virgin Suicides

Music, movies, physics, and databases

Random notes attack

Rage, Jack, rage

Jack strikes back

Doctor Who spinoff? Sweet.

Sarah Ann Derksen

Advent Children

The iPod good and bad

Mac frustrations

Summer come back

Constant Gardener, Serenity, History of Violence, Sin City

September, 2005

Cyan gets its colour back

The truth about gas

Would you believe?

We’re all going to die

Tideland comes a little closer

Breaking a new path

The revolution hits

Tycho is a tease

And then it happened

One sentence debate

Thanks, goodnight!

August, 2005

The move to Mac

Course list (updated)

Look, ma, I’m at school

Course thoughts

And about time, too

The Machinist, March of the Penguins

Following, Delicate Art of Parking, Empire Records

Random thoughts for August 8

Empty like your soul

My lips are sealed

July, 2005

GTA and touchdowns

Navbar, attack!

Webcomic marriage

Advent Children cometh

A cup of hot coffee

God Among the Crap

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, In Good Company

Batman, Princess and the Warrior

Every Day is Exactly the Same

Terrorist attacks in London

Broken Wings (Knafayim Shvurot)

Because the others were so great

War of the Worlds

So, apparently MD still exists

June, 2005

… and most curious news

Updates, attack!

Tragedy strikes

Shadowrun returns?

Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Brothers Grimm trailer

Visitors and hospitals and grads

Dreamfall trailer

May, 2005

Revenge of the Sith, Madagascar

Lost season finale impressions

A ripping good time [continued]

Ripping a new one [continued]

The doctor what?

Ripping a new one

A little BS post

Job hunt, Millennium Actress

Viva la Revolution

L’Auberge Espagnol, Life Aquatic

XBox 360 Revealed

beautiful.broken—first (not) screenshot!

Art shows and tracing

Philosophy and rabbits

XBox 360 revealed

Speed demos attack!

Upgrade complete

April, 2005

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Making a point?

“The Scream”… lost forever?

Out of This World returns

Book eating, Malkovich, Incredibles

The Photoshop 90/10

Canadian ISP names music swappers

Gmail keeps growing, and images suck

World Music Group concert tonight

Failure becomes me

Adobe takes over

Saturday morning Urban Arcana

Psychonauts demo impressions

Double Fine jobs

A retrospective

eBay strangeness

A take on the Blogger outages

Staking out… the wrong theatre

Media question of the day

Portfolio completed

Gmail gets a little bigger

March, 2005

Unreal Tournament 2006

Feeding tubes and other things.

!$&*#$ Internet Explorer

CBC’s best kept secret

iTunes hacked… again

Animated murder

Just a reminder…

A Wild Sheep Chase

Movies to look for in 2005

Sad conventions

Media classes continue

Tour: Completed

Papers, tours, funerals

Wasteland and penguins

February, 2005

Spyware protecting your privacy

Testing the limits of USPS

My life in bold

Hunter S. Thompson

AVP, Constantine, Ghost in the Shell 2

H2G2—Official trailer

Stark raving mad

House of Flying Daggers

Look at the daisies

SciFi bites back

Think before you bake

Boredom becomes me

An all-star cast

New Moby single

The man comes around

January, 2005

Freedom of what?

LucasArts, I hate you

An offer you can’t refuse

IE-specific CSS

A little deeper

TXP trick: conditional body/excerpt

TXP trick: form category links

Shokki (continued, kind of)

Searching for money

An interview with Amanda Falk

It pays to read

Wherefore art thou

The funniest picture you’ll see today

Power cord ethic

“Angel Light”… hoax or not?

God bless Amendment XXII

US right attacks SpongeBob video

Warcraft sales halted

Death and taxes

A question of pyro

A Christian internet

Home again, home again, jiggity jig

Strippers and pizza

“World of Warcraft” pulled from shelves

Evolution strikes again

Research is torture

Natural Selection news

Now with a fresh pine scent

The great migration

Pointless wastes of time

America (The Ban)

Orson Scott Card on homosexuality

The Year in Words

New years, birthday

December, 2004

RRC requirements

Misplaced posts

Wal-Mart, shotguns, and nudity

The early days of Apple

Saved, I Robot, Napoleon, Texhnolyze

Gmail brings on the POP3

The Butterfly Effect, K-PAX

Random quotes of the day

The lighter side of spam

Anarchy Online goes free

When good kites go bad

Thyroid pills and homosexuality