Peter Cook (petercook)

Peter Cook

Express bus from Trudeau Airport to downtown Montreal has wi fi. Cool. Had to fly in tonight because VIARail has canceled 6:30 train. Uncool

Peter Cook

LOT on hold "music" is Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtmusik played on what sounds like an 8-bit tone generator. Would they do that to Chopin?

Peter Cook

Montreal to Toronto on @VIA_Rail. All 3 people beside me - each traveling separately - using iPads.

Peter Cook

Remembering my extraordinary brother-in-law Rupesh who died 1 year ago. No one lived a fuller life http://ur1.ca/7ye2j

Peter Cook

Jimmy Iovine:It's one thing for the industry to lose half its revenue to piracy, it's another to destroy it emotionally http://bit.ly/ws19uo

Peter Cook

Aha. Story on fire I can still see burning 17 hours later via @cbc-news -Blaze in storage facility destroys belongings http://ur1.ca/7dmnr

Peter Cook

Woke this am to see fire engines dousing nearby 4-story building. Home 14 hours later, fire engines (still?) dousing flames on same building

Peter Cook

Oh noooooo! @cbcr2tonic 's Katie Malloch is retiring. http://ur1.ca/7dko7 Happy for Katie. #Sad for me :-[ Oh dear oh dear.

Peter Cook

Great to see @seanolive 's research get mainstream attention: Kids Might Actually Care About Sound Quality http://shar.es/WeyHU

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One of better illustrations of this idea I've heard -> via @nprnews: Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool http://n.pr/uNdCTb

Peter Cook

Sad to hear of the passing of the music-loving Czech-Canadian writer and publisher http://ur1.ca/78fq5

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by noon today average top executive will have already made as much money as the average Canadian worker makes in a year http://ur1.ca/77iyi

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Thanks BBC via @jimnanderson Kate Bush, Nick Mason, Nile Rogers, Johnny Mathis + Brian Wilson on new life for old tapes http://t.co/VUrjSNhi

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Feliz compleaños angelita @XimenaAyala

Peter Cook

ok, yes. mind-blowingly cool. Randy Bachman deconstructs the first chord of "Hard Day's Night." http://ur1.ca/70fyc Jump to 30:23

Peter Cook

Handel's Messiah in HD. MSO/Nagano/Labelle/Taylor/Schade/Duncan. Midnight to 1am?! http://ur1.ca/6y5ou Ad interruptions pretty jarring

Peter Cook

First Christmas on 22nd floor perch surrounded by houses. Thinking I should have a pretty good view of #Santa on the rooftops.

Peter Cook

Canucks have 4 of top 5 Billboard albums: 2011 - The Year of Canadian Music from @joshuaostroff - ow.ly/89fyF (via @steveprattca)

Peter Cook

BBC R&D blog post on binaural + surround concerts. Fraunhofer, 6 sample binaural files, survey. Headphones on! http://bbc.in/v9LuOd #BBC9LC

Peter Cook

I remember very clearly the shock of the news that Apple had bought Next and not Be. 15 years ago today apparently http://ur1.ca/6vbja