I simply know. I just don't ask. Questions are merely for verification. Sleep.

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Many friends have called me elitist and self-centered, recently.

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I discriminate people based on looks, style, intelligence and taste. But that's nothing new.

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Overtly emotional displays severely turn me off. I almost can't stand anything emotional anymore. This is relatively new.

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it's 3 AM, I just came home from a pic nic on the beach. We were eating Koobideh and Gheymeh, with Koloocheh for dessert.

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This, is a great article.

I don't really feel like bringing back the Musicbox (weekly music post), but here's something you might not have heard.

If you're a fan of Drum N' Bass, and you're looking for some hardcore dnb, look no further than Amon Tobin.

While Si Begg's music might be too hard to swallow for many, Amon Tobin offers some serious dnb with a touch of jazz, which goes down easy too. Next on the to-discover list: Funki Porcini (is that a great name or what?).

There's not much to blog, really. It's Sunday evening and I'm in the office. I've been trying to debug various codes and write new ones all day, but it just isn't going too well. There's a point where you're trying to use different methods to debug, verify your data, and you have so many different ways of doing it that, and try to do all of them simultaneously, that you simply overwhelm yourself.

I'm sure that made a lot of sense. Anyway, I saw two good movies recently, both of which I should have seen a long time ago. Elephant and Ghost World. Ghost World was a total bonus though, with both Buscemi AND Scarlett Johansson playing in it, how often does that happen?

Anyway, I think I better start another simulation and head home before I lose my mind.

Just came home from the Rex. It's usually the first place I take my friends to, when they come to Toronto to visit me or as in this case, to stay.

It was delightful as ever, the wonderful Brandi Disterheft quartet was the house band, and all sorts of other guys were there doing the classic Rex jam.

I'm rather surprised tho, you'd expect to see a lot of young hipsters at a Jazz bar, but it's almost never the case. Or maybe you wouldn't expect it, and it's only me. Sure there are some young folks but the majority is always middle aged and old people. It's also funny how the Sax players are usually a little nerdy.

Anyway, if I had my piano here I'd definitely start playing some Jazz ... but I still have to wait. Enough with this, gotta sleep.

Well, this is cool. My little collaboration with Webgard on the Green Scarf story made the cover of Iranian.com, rather unexpectedly - finally, the recognition it desereved ... teehee.

I had contacted Jahanshah Javid for an entirely different matter, and he came across this on my site and liked it and asked us if he could feature it.

So, thanks JJ.

He's barely even obscured by the box.

Another classic Strongbad.

haven't been feeling like blogging lately, but here's an attempt.
Went to the all-day concert at the Olympic Island on Sunday with Hoder and Marjan.

If you're a Vancouverite, think about a HUGE arts county fair. Or a tiny Woodstock, and you'll get the picture.

It was a showcase of the up and coming Canadian rock bands. The line-up included Sloan, Sam Roberts, The Stills, Pilate, Constantines, Broken Social Scene, Buck 65, The Arcade Fire, and Death From Above. If you're not in Canada, I don't think you'd know any of these bands.

To be honest, I only knew a few of them as well. The music itself wasn't bad, but still when you think about it, a similar event in England would probably feature incomparably better music. Nothing really stood out, except Sam Robert, who'se a solid performer, but even his music isn't highly innovative or ground-breaking or brilliant. It's categorically good, but that's about all you can say about it. His performance was really lively though.

Overall, a very nice day. My mom also left for Vancouver on the following day, so it's quiet now and I gotta start preparing to move to my new place in September. Although my mom has already boxed a lot of the stuff.

What else? I'm really busy with work these days, and I've reached an apparent deadlock in my simulations and I'm not getting the result I want to, which is frustrating, but hopefully I'll find out what the problem is.

Finally, Ehsan's blogging again, and checkout his photoblog for pictures from his trip to Iran. I've also added Marjan's blog (Persian) and A Box of Chocolate to my blogroll, both good blogs, too bad Marjan doesn't update more frequently.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

This is getting passed the point of absurdity. The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has banned our defender Taghipour for SIX months, just ahead of our third place match against Bahrain, because of an incident that happend in the Asian CLUB championships half a year ago.

Amazingly, they announce the ban NOW, 6 months after the incident. More amazingly, the head of AFC disciplinary commitee is also a Bahraini. This is while we have two other players also suspended because of two red cards received utterly unfailry in the semi final against China (one was shown to an already benched player!!!). Most amazingly, this is happening while all suspensions have been cleared for CHINA and Japan, ahead of their final. I seriously hope for Iran's sake that the Iranian Federation withdraws from this joke of a tournament immediately.

There are rumors Iran might pull out of the AFC, but with this federation I don't see that happening. In any case, it will be interesting to see what will happen in the next few days.

Looks like it's our destiny to lose in the semi-final. 8 years ago, in Emirates 96' we lost in the semis to the Saudis. I was in the stadium, and experienced the dejection first hand.

There too, an Arab referee whistled against us, called a legitimate goal offside, and did whatever he can to help the Saudis win. There too, the game was decided on penalty kicks. There too, the legendary keeper Abedzadeh stopped the first shot, sparking short lived jubilation before all was lost.

Now, in China, where the Chinese have been one of the worst hosts of this event to date, in an unorganized tournament marred with controversies, it was up to another Arab referee to dash our hopes. That questionable red card killed us. The dejection was no less this time around.

In any case, our players showed great spirit. For a team which has been hit by suspensions, injuries, controversies and every other possible thing that could go wrong, they showed great spirit to get here, and they fully deserved to be in the final. We have to wait 4 more years for the 28-year-old spell to be broken.

But before that, there's the World Cup to worry about.