Marc Patenaude

caernarvon @ 2007-04-04T21:30:00

2007-04-05T02:31:14Z

So...a coyote walks into a fast food joint and says...

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2007/04/03/3914295-ap.html

"You look like a protestant!!!"

2007-01-19T19:06:57Z

Howdy guys...Just doing a quick plug for a funny show.

If you're living South of the US-Canadian Border, go to youtube.com and search "Little Mosque on the Prairie"...If you live north of the border, keep watching...

Really funny stuff :)

Damn TV!!!!

2006-10-05T02:21:54Z

First of all, I would just like to thank ABC for taking hours from my life with a KICK ASS premiere of Lost (DO NOT MISS THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES...It blew me away!!!!) and for The Nine (which is pretty damn addictive already :)

Also, I would like to thank Aaron Sorkin for "Studio 60"...a little uneven (at least last episode), but still GOOD TV :)

stolen...

2006-08-19T05:55:37Z

the following is stolen from Siobhan63 who "borrowed" it from www.oddthoughts.ca :)

I found this on Odd Thoughts' blog:

The British are really feeling the pinch in relation to recent bombings, and have again raised their security level, this time from “Miffed” to “Somewhat Annoyed.” Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Little Bit Cross.” Londoners have not been “A Little Bit Cross” since the Blitz in 1940, when tea supplies very nearly ran out. Also, terrorists have been re-categorized from “Tiresome” to “Bloody Nuisance.” The last time the Brits issued a “Bloody Nuisance” warning level was when someone started the Great Fire of London in 1666.

Elsewhere in Europe, threats have not yet been so serious. Nevertheless the French Government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from “Hide” to “Run” (the only two higher levels in France are “Surrender” and “Collaborate.”). This rise was precipitated by a recent small fire that destroyed France’s white flag factory, effectively paralyzing the country’s military capability.

Italy is also on a heightened level of alert, and has increased its security level from “Shout Excitedly and Gesticulate” to “Start Elaborate Military Posturing.” Two more levels remain: “Ineffective Combat Operations” and “Change Sides Immediately.”

Meanwhile the Germans decided to increase their alert state straight from “Disdainful Arrogance” to “Dress in Uniform and Sing Marching Songs” (thus missing out the intermediate level of “Shouting Rudely at Foreigners”), a security status they seem to use whenever they can get an excuse. However they still have two higher levels: “Invade Poland”, and “Lose.”

Belgians, on the other hand, are all on vacation as usual, and the only threat they are worried about is NATO pulling out of Brussels.

oh yeah....

2006-08-11T22:01:53Z

here is a link with a picture if you're interested :)

http://love4ever4all.tripod.com/

just a quick update

2006-08-11T21:13:14Z

got back from Vancouver (B.C Canada for you non-canucks on my list) where I've been for the past week for my sister's wedding (really great ceremony!!!!!)

well, only *I* would ho on vacation and break myself...small fracture on my right elbow

The cover story is that I challenged my new Bro-in-law to an armwrestling match in order to determine whether or not his genetics were good enogh to enter the family...The REAL story is that a soccer game broke out at the new in-laws grill (can't call it a barbeque because it wasn't really :) and I took a bit of a spill (a rather spectacular one according to sis) snd broke my elbow :)

will update more about my trip and new family when I have two hands :)

caernarvon @ 2006-06-06T23:19:00

2006-06-07T04:22:10Z

Ugh...I hurt! Spent all afternoon and night helping a friend move and my body is trying to tell me "you fool, you should have worked out more so I wouldn't be hurting you!" Still on AOL, so Im trying to keep up to date with LJ as much as I can (sigh, I miss Cable internet :) School starts back up on Monday so things are going to get busier again....WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE :)

Internet access

2006-05-03T15:18:25Z

Just wanted to let you guys know (particularly Jorrah because she worries from time to time :) that I won't be able to check the internet and livejournal as much as I used to (although some might not notice :)

Lost my monitor this past weekend after seven years of faithful service, so while I have a computer, I have no monitor with no funds to get one in the immediate future, so I turned off my home net access and now have unlimited long distance (in the U.S. I think, not international)

Brilliant!!!!

2006-04-25T15:12:32Z

http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/2006/04/25/1549078.html

One show I will definitely be watching and/or taping if it makes it as a series :)

caernarvon @ 2006-03-22T13:58:00

2006-03-22T19:51:40Z

I drink from the Keg of victory! :)

caernarvon @ 2006-03-20T21:46:00

2006-03-21T03:45:43Z

Start my defence in about 36 hours or so...

Talked to Dr. Culbert and gave me a quick sense of what to expect, but I tend to be a bit on the paranoid side anyway, so we'll see how it goes...

On a somewhat unrelated note, good luck on your exams tomorrow and wednesday Jackie...know you're going to do fine (heck, if you're organized enough to do outlines and that, you'll do more than fine :)

caernarvon @ 2006-03-19T23:27:00

2006-03-20T05:51:38Z

Defending in 2 days...In lieu of anything intellecual, allow me to present you this:

ganked from here - http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/2006/03/19/1494848.html

But in the name of the common good, we arrived at this Sun-certified ranking of the 25 finest shows ever to be cancelled too quickly, cut short too soon.

1: TWIN PEAKS: Like many series consigned to an early grave, the influence of this David Lynch-crafted melodrama about murder in a small Pacific Northwest town was felt for years after its end. Would we have met Mulder and Scully or opened their X-Files had there not first been Peaks and Kyle MacLachlan's FBI agent Dale Cooper, with his deadpan demeanor and obsession with the occult? Peaks -- with its Lynchian atmosphere -- cobbled together painterly images with swelling melodies and abstract, disquieting non sequiturs. Never again would I look at cherry stems or apple pies the same way. Lynch wouldn't return to television until nearly a decade later when he produced a pilot entitled Mulholland Falls. ABC ended up scrapping the project, which led Lynch to retool it as a film.

Didn't see it, missed out on the Twin Peaks phenomena

2: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT: A recent wound inflicted upon the collective unconscious was the criminally-inane nixing of this Emmy-winning family comedy. Starring Jason Bateman and filmed in a quasi-documentary style with a narrator and no insipid laugh track, Development never resorted to easy gags, deriving its laughs, ever so archly, from its characters, while refusing to underestimate the intelligence of its viewers. Both of them.

Saw it, loved it, hard to keep track of it with it always moving around

3: FIREFLY: This series from Joss Whedon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) billed itself as the anti-Star Trek, a futuristic western about outlaws living on the fringe of a galactic empire. The show, fronted by Edmonton-born Nathan Fillion, wasn't remarkable for special effects or mind-bending 2001 concepts, but for its sharp performances and whip-fast wit. Firefly got the short shrift from Fox, which aired episodes out of order and pulled the plug before all its instalments had aired. Whedon exacted a revenge, of sorts, when he wrote and directed last year's feature film Serenity, based on the series.

Saw it, loved it, still pissed at Fox for cancelling it...that and "Space: Above and Beyond"

4: EZ STREETS: Before he enraged gay cowboys everywhere by winning an Oscar for Crash, Canadian writer/director Paul Haggis created and produced this introspective crime epic about three violent men -- a cop, a criminal, a convict -- and the uneasy world they inhabit. With Streets, Haggis, who at the time was coming off the success of the lightweight Due South, demonstrated his skill at interweaving challenging narratives with intricately-shaded characterizations.

Saw a couple of episodes of it, thought of it as another cop show

5: FREAKS AND GEEKS/UNDECLARED: These two short-lived comedies -- about the travails of the young and alienated -- were created by Judd Apatow, an Emmy winner whose credits include The Larry Sanders Show and last summer's The 40-Year-Old Virgin. In both, Apatow juggled laughter and pathos without sacrificing reality or low-balling viewers -- in other words, no pies, flutes or Krazy-glued body parts. Just nerds and their friends, confronting freedom, responsibility, the opposite sex and more than a few hapless parents.

liked the former, not so much the latter...part of the problem was actually finding the show on TV

6: ACTION!: These days, Jay Mohr is best known for doing a wicked Christopher Walken impersonation -- oh, and there was that stint hosting the reality-TV contest Last Comic Standing, how could we forget? -- but if Hollywood were a fairer place, he'd be remembered for starring in this Tinseltown satire as a Hollywood player who's every bit the velociraptor Jeremy Piven's agent in HBO's Entourage is. Speaking of Entourage, should Piven ever bolt, we could think of no more fitting a replacement than the ever-employable Mohr.

completely missed this one

7: ANDY RICHTER CONTROLS THE UNIVERSE: Sidekicks are historically an underrated lot. Robin The Boy Wonder in the green short-shorts, Ed McMahon degenerating into a home-lotto pitchman. So perhaps Andy Richter, who rose to stardom as Conan O'Brien's right-hand man and staring-contest sparring partner, should have been braced for the lukewarm reception his ingenious, whimsical comedy Andy Richter Controls The Universe was greeted with. The gimmick of the show, co-produced by Richter, was letting viewers be privy to his inner-most fantasies (don't worry, it was all PG-rated), allowing Controls The Universe to offset its Dilbert-esque office setting with flights of imagination -- all to sublime comic effect.

Really truly funny show that Fox, yet again, cancelled

8: THE TICK: The Seinfeld curse hasn't simply hexed the primary cast members -- at times it has also plagued supporting players such as Patrick Warburton, who portrayed Elaine's on-and-off boyfriend, Puddy. In 2001, Warburton landed the titular role in this live-action comic strip created by Ben Edlund and produced by Men in Black's Barry Sonnenfeld, only to find audiences indifferent to its wry and endearing tale of an endlessly cheerful, blue-suited crusader.

Guess which network cancelled this one? :) Pretty good show, just not for prime-time

9: CRIME STORY: In 1986, while the world was watching Miami Vice, its producer Michael Mann created this sprawling crime saga set in the 1960s and starring Dennis Farina as a dogged, flawed detective who wouldn't be caught dead in a pink T-shirt. While Crime Story didn't have the immediate impact on the culture Vice did, its season-long arcs, graphic violence and hard-boiled cops make Mann seem prescient 20 years later.

Completely missed this one...on after I went to bed :)

10: BOOMTOWN: This L.A.-based procedural was at times too slick, but with its Rashomon-style storytelling -- each episode being told from differing points of view -- and jigsaw structure, it was a propulsive piece of pop entertainment. Even with former New Kid on the Block Donnie Wahlberg in the cast.

One of the better cop shows when every new show was a cop show

11: FAMILY GUY: How does a show that's still on the air make it on this list? Because it WAS cancelled by Fox and resurrected only because DVD sales convinced executives there was still cash to be milked from Peter Griffith's udders.

I liked it then and I like it now, glad they brought it back

12: SPORTS NIGHT: Before he created The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin dazzled with this dramedy set at a sports cable network. The ensemble included Felicity Huffman, but the true star was Sorkin's mastery of the language.

One of the smartest, funniest, shows EVER

13: ANGEL: When this Buffy spinoff was slain, executive producer Joss Whedon ended things by sending his heroes to certain death because even though they'd lose, the fight itself was just. The same could be said for Angel.

Wasn't really into Buffy, so Angel was sort of "whatever" to me

14: ROBBERY HOMICIDE DIVISION: Michael Mann returned to the streets briefly with this CBS crime drama. The problem? It didn't look like every other CBS crime drama. Which is why, coincidentally, it's listed here.

Think I saw this show once or twice...not really into cop shows

15: GREG THE BUNNY: Seth Green peaked when he starred in this sitcom about a world in which muppets are real.

Chalk it up to my strange sense of humour, but I liked Greg the Bunny...interesting concept at the very least :)

16: THE JOB: Before Rescue Me, Denis Leary created and starred in this equally energetic and truthful dramedy.

If this was on a Cable network, it would still be going...as it was on CBS, it got cancelled

17: THE CRITIC: Jon Lovitz voiced the titular toon of this Simpsons spinoff.

bet you didn't know that the Simpsons had a spinoff eh? :) Pretty good show

18: CUPID: Jeremy Piven before he was relegated to playing only 1) a jerk or 2) the star's best friend.

Trying to remember this...think it was a CBS show that I saw once

19: REUNION: Memo to self: Before you start watching another serialized drama, make sure it has a full-season order so the writers can tie up all the loose ends.

Meant to watch it a couple of times, but bad programming by Fox prevented it

20: THE ADVENTURES OF BRISCO COUNTY JR.: Two universal truths about anything with Bruce Campbell: it will be cool and never find a large audience.

This, along with "Jack of All Trades" (which Fox cancelled as well), was a damn funny show...I LOVED LOVED LOVED Brisco County Jr.

21: HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET: This police drama lasted longer than most shows on this list, but like Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner, we still wanted more life.

Another cop show, so I missed most of it

22: ONCE AND AGAIN: A rare drama that dealt with divorce realistically.

Never heard of this one

23: WONDERFALLS: Joan of Arcadia with brains.

Watched an episode of it, liked it...it was cancelled the next week

24: STAR TREK: The question is, would Star Trek have lasted for 40 years if it hadn't been cancelled after three seasons, since its early death only served to nourish its cult following?

before my time (obviously), but I remember watching this, Battlestar Gallactica, and the Wild Wild West with my Dad in reruns

25: NOW AND AGAIN: Not to be confused with Once and Again. Like he does with his other projects, creator Glenn Gordon Caron (Medium) subverted genre cliches with this tale of a modern-day Six Million Dollar Man

vaguely familiar, but I can't remember :)

caernarvon @ 2006-03-13T21:07:00

2006-03-14T03:07:02Z

Most corrections made, defending in 10 (well, now 9) days...

The following is cut for Sonya because she's 2 hours behind me and hasn't watched the best show on Fox :)

ACK!!!!!!!!! I CAN"T FREAKING BELIEVE THAT THEY KILLED TONY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Argh!

2006-03-08T21:41:30Z

Two weeks today...working on finishing last chapter and corrections for other two...

and now, for something completely different:

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IMDB's Top 100 Best Movies of All Time
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Rank	Movie	Didn't See It/ Started It/ Finished It/ Hated It!
1	Godfather, The (1972)	Finished It
2	Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)	Finished It
3	Godfather: Part II, The (1974)	Finished It
4	Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)	Finished It
5	Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)	Finished It
6	Casablanca (1942)	Started It
7	Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)	Finished It
8	Schindler's List (1993)	Started It
9	Shichinin No Samurai [Seven Samurai] (1954)
10	Star Wars (1977)	Finished It
11	Citizen Kane (1941)	Finished It
12	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)	Finished It
13	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)	Finished It
14	Rear Window (1954)	Finished It
15	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)	Finished It
16	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)	Finished It
17	Memento (2000)	Finished It
18	Usual Suspects, The (1995)	Finished It
19	Pulp Fiction (1994)	Finished It
20	North by Northwest (1959)
21	12 Angry Men (1957)
22	Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le [Amelie] (2001)	Finished It
23	Psycho (1960)	Finished It
24	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)	Finished It
25	Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il [The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly] (1966)	Started It
26	Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)	Finished It
27	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)	Finished It
28	Goodfellas (1990)
29	American Beauty (1999)
30	Vertigo (1958)	Started It
31	Sunset Blvd. (1950)
32	Matrix, The (1999)	Finished It
33	Apocalypse Now (1979)	Finished It
34	Pianist, The (2002)
35	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)	Finished It
36	C'era una volta il West [Once Upon a Time in the West] (1968)
37	Some Like It Hot (1959)
38	Third Man, The (1949)
39	Taxi Driver (1976)	Started It
40	Paths of Glory (1957)
41	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi [Spirited Away] (2001)
42	Fight Club (1999)	Finished It
43	Boot, Das (1981)	Finished It
44	Double Indemnity (1944)
45	L.A. Confidential (1997)	Started It
46	Chinatown (1974)
47	Singin' in the Rain (1952)
48	Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
49	M (1931)
50	Requiem for a Dream (2000)
51	Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)	Finished It
52	All About Eve (1950)
53	Se7en (1995)	Finished It
54	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)	Finished It
55	Saving Private Ryan (1998)	Finished It
56	Cidade de Deus [City of God] (2002)
57	Raging Bull (1980)	Started It
58	Rashômon (1950)
59	Wizard of Oz, The (1939)	Finished It
60	Sting, The (1973)	Finished It
61	Alien (1979)	Finished It
62	American History X (1998)
63	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
64	Léon (1994)
65	Vita è bella, La [Life is Beautiful] (1997)
66	Touch of Evil (1958)
67	Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)	Started It
68	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)	Finished It
69	Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)	Finished It
70	Great Escape, The (1963)	Finished It
71	Wo hu cang long [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] (2000)	Finished It
72	Reservoir Dogs (1992)	Finished It
73	Clockwork Orange, A (1971)	Finished It
74	Amadeus (1984)
75	Modern Times (1936)	Started It
76	Ran (1985)
77	Annie Hall (1977)
78	Jaws (1975)	Finished It
79	On the Waterfront (1954)
80	Braveheart (1995)	Finished It
81	High Noon (1952)	Finished It
82	Apartment, The (1960)
83	Fargo (1996)	Started It
84	Sixth Sense, The (1999)	Finished It
85	Aliens (1986)	Finished It
86	Shining, The (1980)	Finished It
87	Strangers on a Train (1951)
88	Blade Runner (1982)	Finished It
89	Metropolis (1927)	Started It
90	Duck Soup (1933)	Started It
91	Finding Nemo (2003)	Finished It
92	Donnie Darko (2001)
93	General, The (1927)
94	City Lights (1931)
95	Princess Bride, The (1987)	Finished It
96	Toy Story 2 (1999)	Finished It
97	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)	Finished It
98	Great Dictator, The (1940)	Finished It
99	Sjunde inseglet, Det [The Seventh Seal] (1957)
100	Lola rennt [Run Lola Run] (1998)	Finished It

Which movies have you seen?

T-Minus 40 days...

2006-02-09T23:41:12Z

until I defend this damn thesis...if you see me posting and commenting when I should be working (after today), I hereby give you permission to kick my ass! :)

Found this from Jorrah...

2006-01-29T09:41:49Z

You Are a Peacemaker Soul

You strive to please others and compromise anyway you can.
War or conflict bothers you, and you would do anything to keep the peace.
You are a good mediator and a true negotiator.
Sometimes you do too much, trying so hard to make people happy.

While you keep the peace, you tend to be secretly judgmental.
You lose respect for people who don't like to both give and take.
On the flip side, you've got a graet sense of humor and wit.
You're always dimplomatic and able to give good advice.

Souls you are most compatible with: Warrior Soul, Hunter Soul and Visionary Soul

What Kind of Soul Are You?

Something interesting I found....

2006-01-26T04:54:39Z

Courtesy of my sister Jorrah...

Get your own spectral analysis from Area 23^®

caernarvon @ 2006-01-18T14:21:00

2006-01-18T20:16:30Z

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Marc!

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching Marc!
Devoid of his cells and proteins, Marc has the same chemical makeup as sea water!
You can tell if Marc has been hard-boiled by spinning him. If he stands up, he is hard-boiled!
There are six towns named Marc in the United States.
It's bad luck for a flag to touch Marc.
In the 1600s, tobacco was frequently prescribed to treat headaches, bad breath and Marc.
If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn into Marc!
Fish travel in schools, but whales travel in Marc.
Every day in the UK, four people die putting Marc on!
Long ago, the people of Nicaragua believed that if they threw Marc into a volcano it would stop erupting.

I have to find another job I guess :)

2006-01-02T22:11:53Z

In the year 2006 I resolve to:

Stop working my street corner.

Get your resolution here

I'm getting too old for this....

2005-11-22T13:31:21Z

stuff :)

pulled my first all-nighter in a long long time...had plenty of sweet tea to get me through the night though :)

Chapter II is going to be handed in in approximately five or six hours or so, then I'll get a little bit of sleep and start work on Chapter III

Judging by a quick read-through though, I have a feeling Im going to have to edit large parts of the beginning section...

Note to self: don't forget to add section on Fuchs and atomic espionage and expand on Korea and edit the Hiss-Chambers stuff (that's the stuff I glossed over more than I may have needed too)

Anyways...night all :)

A Pittance of Time

2005-11-11T06:43:28Z

Very moving music video...go here:

http://www.terry-kelly.com/introduction.htm

And click on the video for "A Pittance of Time"

Je me Souviens

Im not as smart as you think I am :)

2005-11-10T04:19:34Z

All-Around Smart

You are all-around smart. Essentially, that means that you are a good combination of your own knowledge and experience, along with having learned through instruction - and you are equally as good with theoretical things as you are with real-world, applied things. You have a well-rounded brain.

20% theoretical intelligence
0% learned intelligence

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

To Michelle, Annie, and other Canadians on my list...

2005-10-09T17:59:04Z

Have a happy Thanksgiving eh? :)

Have some turkey and stuffing for me :)

caernarvon @ 2005-06-04T17:30:00

2005-06-04T22:30:21Z

How the hell does one motivate oneself to write while staring at a blank page...I know I have to do this damn thing, but I just don't want to....I know exactly what Im going to be putting in rewriting this first chapter, but I'd rather be banging my head against the brick wall of my bedroom...

ehhhhhhhhhhh mmmmmmmmmmm uhhhhhhhhhhhh

2005-06-04T00:14:09Z