sound check

below is a piece of music that i found while running around the interweb, and thought that some of you might like to have a listen to it, so i posted it here. let me know what you think, so i may post more music here in the future. you will need flash installed on your system to hear it properly. Young Americans - "Turning Inside Out" .

verbs before nouns

so today while doing some reading, i came across the phrase "verbs before nouns", (it was actually the title of a song), and it got me to wondering why the word "noun" is actually a noun, but the word "verb" is not a verb, but is in fact also a noun. my mind then started to wander a bit more and i began pondering over the accuracy of the statement. if there was a verb in the sentence, and it followed the word verb, it would make the sentence factually incorrect, kind of like as if i was to say "i am a liar, and therefore i always lie". this is a classic philosophical paradox. if i am always a liar, then by TELLING you that i am always a liar, means that i am telling you the truth, and therefore i am not always a liar, making the accuracy of the statement come into question. but at the same time, i could also be lying by telling you that i always lie, when in fact i am telling you truth, which would mean i am NOT telling you the truth, which would make the statement a lie. kind of circular, no? does any of this make sense? i am starting to think that i may have just confused myself........... anyway, if you want to check out more philosophical paradoxes, you can find them here.

the white stuff

we had a green xmas this past year, and it was a bit of a disappointment, because it just doesn't seem like xmas without snow. and on new year's eve, we had terribly heavy rain, and for the first three weeks of the year, it appeared as though we weren't going to get much snow before spring arrived. in fact, it seemed as though we wouldn't get any snow at all. well, we got hit with a cold snap. and i mean REALLY cold. minus 25 celcius cold. and then came the snow this past weekend. and it seems as though it is not going to stop. from monday night to tuesday morning, we got pummelled by somewhere around 20 cm of snow. then tuesday gave us a nice gift of another 15 cm. yesterday, i think we got another 15 cm. (for those of you still reading, that's a total of 50 cm). yet we are supposed to get ANOTHER 15 cm today. how crazy is that? england apparently got hit with some snow, and although it's not much by canadian standards, it is wreaking havoc on all transportation in the country. anyone got a massive snowfall story they want to share? (out of the total of 2 readers of this blog). .