http://www.davidadaire.com Your official source for everything David Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:54:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well it's 9:30 on a Monday and the temperature here has gone down to zero. There are no degrees left in the air to warm me. Across the northern hemisphere, a cold snap has forced people to rug up and fire up the heating sooner than normal. ... http://www.davidadaire.com/2008/11/17/zero I just love browsing the FAIL photos at Failblog. I never get tired of seeing the dumb things that people do. But it seems as though it's not just us humans who are prone to failure. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZqAGJZEYe8[/youtube]     Update: After posting the above, I couldn't help myself and kept watching ... http://www.davidadaire.com/2008/11/17/fail-blog In a late political move, hoping to sway the voters who haven't yet made it to the polls, my class of middle school girls have resoundingly endorsed the Senator from Illinois. Upon entering the classroom, the girls exclaimed, "Teacher... U.S. president who? Obama?" I pulled up the real-time ... http://www.davidadaire.com/2008/11/05/breaking-south-korean-middle-school-students-endorse-obama Ah Alan Greenspan, your life reads like a tragedy. Bright young man, graduates summa cum laude from NYU, goes on to receive a Ph.D. Befriends a prominent philosopher and proponent of the free market ideology and writes articles in her books singing the praises of capitalism and the ... http://www.davidadaire.com/2008/10/24/while-the-free-market-gently-crashes I've always had a series of nagging questions lining up in my brain, such as "Why aren't you a good runner?" or "Why don't you have a regular job?". I've wanted to change in the past, but somehow never got around to it. Well, "Why don't you blog ... http://www.davidadaire.com/2008/10/14/changing-habits Last weekend, I made the most of my short vacation and headed down to Busan on the slow train. The ride took over 5 hours each way, but it was my hope that some nice beach time would make up for it. Little did I know, all of ... http://www.davidadaire.com/2008/08/06/a-trip-to-the-beach Prepare yourself for the end. This, the final episode of the internet's most invincible show that is not a show, Keith and David try to come to terms with the inevitable end of the Unshow. Naturally, we decide to clone each other and carry on the show. ... http://www.davidadaire.com/2008/08/04/the-invincible-unshow-episode-5 In this episode we contemplate whether the Unshow is racist, Keith makes a documentary about me and we visit the Korean DMZ. So much less than a show it's more. Incidentally, this 4th episode is the penultimate one for this season. Episode 5 is in the editing ... http://www.davidadaire.com/2008/07/02/the-invincible-unshow-episode-4 It's been a week since the last one and the long wait in between is over. Episode 3 is here, featuring Buttons, Bad Trailers, Korean CSI and BBQ. Oh and the return of Dr. Paul. Don't miss it. The Invincible Unshow, Episode 3 from David Toyne on Vimeo. http://www.davidadaire.com/2008/06/19/the-invincible-unshow-episode-3 When man began, it was a branch-out on evolution's part. It might have failed, like all those other attempts failed, but man did branch out and slowly developed and grew. There was something in his gait, primitive man, which set him apart from the monkeys and humanoids. ... http://www.davidadaire.com/2008/06/19/racism