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for those of you who have seen Office Space and like Star Wars:
for those of you who haven't...get on it
[via Abstruse Goose]
Friday, November 27, 2009
5.79 - The One with PC Load Letter
for those of you who have seen Office Space and like Star Wars:
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Labels: Office Space, Star Wars
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
5.78 - The One with the new stuff
crazy weekend...moved out of the apartment and into our new condo...
...oh and to top it off I got this:
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
5.77 - The One with Bumblebee
Picked up Forza 3 last night...pretty sweet game and it'll give the Gran Turismo series a run for it's money. The customization in this game is fun too...I didn't have much time but this is what I've done so far:
Posted by T at 9:23 a.m. 0 comments
Labels: Forza 3, Transformers, XBox 360
Monday, October 26, 2009
5.76 - The One with "Yes We Can!"
This is no April Fools joke...this product is REAL...
Introducing...the Obama Chia Pet...
[via YouTube]
Posted by T at 9:55 a.m. 0 comments
Labels: funny
Friday, October 16, 2009
5.75 - The One with the "Advice for Art Majors"
[via College Humor via Loldwell.com]
Posted by T at 3:39 p.m. 0 comments
Labels: art, funny, graphic design
Thursday, October 15, 2009
5.74 - The One with Office shenanigans
This is for all my fellow designers out there:
A lady came into the office today, said that she was a web programmer and asked if we had any work that we could pass onto her. That kinda thing happens every so often. I like when people are assertive and go out to seek work. I was in the same situation not too long ago. But then she kept on talking...
"I also do web design...but I hate Photoshop. I love Paint Shop Pro...mastered that...but I can't stand using Photoshop."
hmmm...can't say that we'll ever hire her to do any work for us...
...and now for some more office shenanigans...
[via YouTube]
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Friday, September 04, 2009
5.73 - The One with Windcharger
I found this picture of my very first Transformer I ever got. I was about 5, in Sears at the Midtown Plaza in Saskatoon. Pretty sure my parents bought it for me...little did they know it would make me a lifetime fan of Transformers.
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Labels: Transformers
Monday, August 10, 2009
5.72 - The One with the great Summer '09 Movie Review
Here are my reviews of the summer movie blockbuster season. It was quite an eventful season starting with the leaked work-print of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which I think boosted ticket sales...to a remake of Star Trek, a sequel to Transformers and ending off with another 80's cartoon/toy movie: GI Joe. Now since I have a deal with my wife that I pick a movie, and she picks a movie...we've seen quite a number of movies. I'll try not spoil any movies...
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
The origin story of one of the most popular X-Men was much much better that the 3rd installment of the X-Men trilogy. By bringing back Hugh Jackman to play Wolverine made this movie. To think that they had cast Dougray Scott (the baddie from MI:II) originally for the X-Men movies as Wolvie, but had to drop out due to scheduling was a blessing in disguise. Jackman was born to play Wolverine. The story was loosely based on the comic origin, but they brought in elements that really had nothing to do with Wolverine. What they did to Ryan Reynolds Deadpool was ridiculous. Reynolds did well for what it was. He's the perfect guy to play the "Merc with the mouth", but what they did to the character was stupid. This movie was a good way to start the summer.
3 1/2 stars out of 5
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
The first chick flick of the summer. Another Matthew McConaughey chick flick, and I believe Jennifer Garner's first film in a long long time. Story is based on "A Christmas Carol" with McConaughey playing the "Scrooge" type character. The twist is that he is a womanizer who gets "haunted" by his girlfriends past during the weekend of his brother's wedding. Pretty typical chick flick with some funny parts.
2 stars out of 5
Star Trek
Probably one of the most anticipated movie of the year. JJ Abram's knocks this one out of the park. A re-imagining of the original Star Trek, it tells story of the USS Enterprise's first mission. The casting of the original characters was very well done. It's hard to imagine anyone other that William Shatner playing Kirk, but Chris Pine does a pretty good job. "Hero's" Zachary Quinto does an amazing job as the new Spock. The lens-flare effect was a little over done...but this was THE best Star Trek movie yet.
4 1/2 stars out of 5
Terminator Salvation
Terminator #4...better than #3. They cast another John Connor in Christian Bale. This movie happens after Judgment Day with John Connor leading the Resistance against Skynet and all the Terminators. It was a good popcorn flick, but nothing that memorable. They did have a "cameo" of Arnold as the newest model of Terminator. I guess they had scans of his face when he was younger and they put that over the body double that was actually on screen. I heard that they are planning on doing a 5th Terminator...
2 1/2 stars out of 5
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Ben Stiller and his gang from the NYC Museum of Natural History return, but this time they are wrecking havoc at Washington D.C.'s Smithsonian Institute. Hank Azaria is added to the cast an evil Pharaoh with a lisp, and Amy Adams as Amelia Earhart. This movie actually makes me want to take a trip down to DC to check out the Smithsonian. This movie is not as good as the first...but still fun at times.
1 1/2 stars out of 5
Wow...Pixar has done it again. Every movie they put out is simply amazing, and they get better and better. Although this one dealt with a lot more human emotion than the others. They story has 78-year old Carl, a retired balloon salesman taking his house to South America...by air. Joining him is 8-year old Russell, making for some great comedy. I think this movie by far has to be one of my favourites this year. The short film attached to the beginning was very good as well.
4 1/2 stars out of 5
The Hangover
By far, the best comedy of the year. 4 friends take Vegas by storm during a bachelor party, but can't remember anything in the morning. To make things worse, they lose the groom in the process. The on-screen chemistry of Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis was great, and a cameo from Mike Tyson was just simply hilarious. It reminded me a lot of Dude, Where's My Car?
4 stars out of 5
Year One
Jack Black and Michael Cera are a couple of hunter/gathers at the beginnings of human civilization and through stupid events, they make it out of their village into a bustling metropolis. It's a pretty stupid movie and at times sacrilegious. Cera's mellow approach to everything compliments Black's way over the top humour. There are some funny parts, but not enough to want to watch a second time. If you've seen the trailer...you've seen the movie.
2 starts out of 5
The Proposal
What happens when you don't pay attention to your work visa? You get deported. Oh wait...I have an assistant that will do anything I want...so I'm going to marry him to stay in the country. Then we'll divorce after a couple years. To sell this we need to go to his family's estate in...Alaska. Uh oh...his family is so great...I can't do this to them. I'll face the music and be deported. Oh ya...I've fallen in love with my assistant too...opps.
3 stars out of 5...only cuz Ryan Reynolds is hilarious. He gets 2 stars.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
I was pretty hyped for this movie. That being said, I'm a huge Transformers fan so I'm a little biased. This is a typical Michael Bay movie. Awesome action, explosions, and camera angles. Bay may never win an Oscar, but his style is fast and fun. But as a movie...its not so great. I think it ran about 40 minutes too long. 90% action, 10% story, 100% Michael Bay.
3 stars out of 5
Funny People
By having Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen in a movie, you'd think that it would be a hilarious comedy. Also having the title of the movie as "Funny People", you'd think it would be an amazing comedy. Not so much. This movie was more a drama with some funny moments. I'm not saying its a bad movie, I really enjoyed it. It was pretty heavy at times...and a little long too. If you see it, go in thinking drama.
3 1/2 stars out of 5
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Yo Joe! If you were going to make a movie based on a toy line and an 80's cartoon...this is how you do it. Complete with the cheesey plot, lines, and special effects. The casting in this movie was very very good. Paramount didn't allow any press to screen the movie because they didn't want negative reviews. I went into with zero expectations and I was pleasantly surprised at it. It really brought me back to my childhood. The couple catch phrases like "Yo Joe!" and "Knowing is half the battle" were stuck in for good measure.
3 stars out of 5
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Thursday, August 06, 2009
5.71 - The One with Batman fighting geeks
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
5.70 - The One with 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Audio-Visual Entertainment
- Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
- Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds.
- Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. See what happens when you give a Walkman to todays teenager.
- The number of TV channels being a single digit. I remember it being a massive event when Britain got its fourth channel.
- Standard-definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room.
- Rotary dial televisions with no remote control. You know, the ones where the kids were the remote control.
- High-speed dubbing.
- 8-track cartridges.
- Vinyl records. Even today's DJs are going laptop or CD.
- Betamax tapes.
- MiniDisc.
- Laserdisc: the LP of DVD.
- Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations. (Digital tuners + HD radio bork this concept.)
- Shortwave radio.
- 3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses.
- Watching TV when the networks say you should. Tivo and Sky+ are slowing killing this one.
- That there was a time before 'reality TV.'
- Wires. OK, so they're not gone yet, but it won't be long
- The scream of a modem connecting.
- The buzz of a dot-matrix printer
- 5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage.
- Using jumpers to set IRQs.
- Terminals accessing the mainframe.
- Screens being just green (or orange) on black.
- Tweaking the volume setting on your tape deck to get a computer game to load, and waiting ages for it to actually do it.
- Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure they've all got a different ID.
- Counting in kilobytes.
- Wondering if you can afford to buy a RAM upgrade.
- Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it'll load this time.
- Turning a PlayStation on its end to try and get a game to load.
- Joysticks.
- Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive.
- Booting your computer off of a floppy disk.
- Recording a song in a studio.
- NCSA Mosaic.
- Finding out information from an encyclopedia.
- Using a road atlas to get from A to B.
- Doing bank business only when the bank is open.
- Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday.
- Phone books and Yellow Pages.
- Newspapers and magazines made from dead trees.
- Actually being able to get a domain name consisting of real words.
- Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it.
- Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment.
- Carrying on a correspondence with real letters, especially the handwritten kind.
- Archie searches.
- Gopher searches.
- Concatenating and UUDecoding binaries from Usenet.
- Privacy.
- The fact that words generally don't have num8er5 in them.
- Correct spelling of phrases, rather than TLAs.
- Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something.
- The time before botnets/security vulnerabilities due to always-on and always-connected PCs
- The time before PC networks.
- When Spam was just a meat product — or even a Monty Python sketch.
- Typewriters.
- Putting film in your camera: 35mm may have some life still, but what about APS or disk?
- Sending that film away to be processed.
- Having physical prints of photographs come back to you.
- CB radios.
- Getting lost. With GPS coming to more and more phones, your location is only a click away.
- Rotary-dial telephones.
- Answering machines.
- Using a stick to point at information on a wallchart
- Pay phones.
- Phones with actual bells in them.
- Fax machines.
- Vacuum cleaners with bags in them.
- Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for everyone to listen to during a long drive.
- Remembering someone's phone number.
- Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.
- Actually going down to a Blockbuster store to rent a movie.
- Toys actually being suitable for the under-3s.
- LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the odd wheel, window or door.
- Waiting for the television-network premiere to watch a movie after its run at the theater.
- Relying on the 5-minute sport segment on the nightly news for baseball highlights.
- Neat handwriting.
- The days before the nanny state.
- Starbuck being a man.
- Han shoots first.
- "Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father." But they've already seen episode III, so it's no big surprise.
- Kentucky Fried Chicken, as opposed to KFC.
- Trig tables and log tables.
- "Don't know what a slide rule is for …"
- Finding books in a card catalog at the library.
- Swimming pools with diving boards.
- Hershey bars in silver wrappers.
- Sliding the paper outer wrapper off a Kit-Kat, placing it on the palm of your hand and clapping to make it bang loudly. Then sliding your finger down the silver foil of break off the first finger
- A Marathon bar (what a Snickers used to be called in Britain).
- Having to manually unlock a car door.
- Writing a check.
- Looking out the window during a long drive.
- Roller skates, as opposed to blades.
- Cash.
- Libraries as a place to get books rather than a place to use the internet.
- Spending your entire allowance at the arcade in the mall.
- Omni Magazine
- A physical dictionary — either for spelling or definitions.
- When a 'geek' and a 'nerd' were one and the same.
Computers and Videogaming
The Internet
Everything Else
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Labels: getting old
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
5.69 - The One with the nuts
The Hole In His Logic
Customer: "I'm looking for your nuts."
Me: "Those are on aisle four sir."
Customer: "I've already looked and I can't find them. I'm looking for my favorites."
Me: "All the types of nut we have in stock are in aisle four, if you can't find them then we don't stock them. Do you want me to have a look for you?"
Customer: "No no, I'll go look again."
(Five minutes later, he returns.)
Customer: "I still can't find my favorite nuts!"
Me: "Then I am afraid we must not stock them."
Customer: "But my wife gets them for me from here every week!"
Me: "What type of nuts does she buy you?"
Customer: "Donuts…"
[via Not Always Right]
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Labels: funny
Monday, July 13, 2009
5.68 - The One with the copy cat ad
I was watching TV over the weekend and I saw a new ad with U2 in it. I immediately thought that they were promoting iPod...but then as the commercial started to wrap up...the caption read "Blackberry loves U2". Wait...what? It sure looked like the Coldplay one that Apple put out months ago...
watch Blackberry:
[via YouTube]
watch Coldplay:
[via YouTube]
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Labels: Apple, BlackBerry, Coldplay, iPod, U2
Friday, June 26, 2009
5.67 - The One with the King of Pop
In memory of the King of Pop...this is a video I shot when we were in Cuba last year.
I always loved the "Thriller" dance...
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Labels: Michael Jackson
Friday, June 19, 2009
5.66 - The One with the Rude Designer
What a web designer really thinks [from the mind of Max Guedy]:
I'm max guedy, I'm a rude web designer
I'm overpriced
But at least you are warned in advance, since i will quote astronomically for the entire project. If you have no budget, then apply for a loan before contacting me.
Don't call me on the phone, I won't answer
All communication must be done by email, that way i can call you out when you forget what you've instructed me to do.
I won't listen to your design suggestions
You've hired me to do a design job, so don't try to tell me how things should look - i already know that you'll be wrong.
Take a chill pill before contacting me
It's not my fault if you're so disorganized, you now need the job done for tomorrow. So take a chill pill and don't expect me to barf a website out in my sleep.
You need me more than i need you
I have dozens of projects going on, so by all means please find a designer somewhere else if you have a stinky attitude. I don't care that much about your money.
[via Max Guedy]
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Labels: funny
Thursday, June 11, 2009
5.65 - The One that will make you regular
(My dad was standing in an express line at the grocery store. In front of him was a well-to-do-looking woman, who clearly had several more items than the limit.)[via Not Always Right]
Dad: "You know, it's amazing that someone who is apparently so successful can't read."
Woman: *in a huff* "That sign's for regular people, not for me!"
(An old man behind my dad taps him on the shoulder.)
Old man: "Here, give her this."
(My dad hands it to the woman.)
Woman: "What's this?"
Old man: "Metamucil. It'll make you regular."
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Labels: funny
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
5.64 - The One with Project Natal
At this year's E3, Microsoft brought out the big guns and previewed their motion controller. Taking a page from Nintendo's Wii, MS took it a step further. No Controller Required! Check out the video:
[via YouTube]
Sony threw their hat into the motion control arena as well, but since it's basically the same as the Wii, but a little better. I'm looking forward to Natal...hopefully it's not $200+
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Monday, May 25, 2009
5.63 - The One at the zoo
Last week Naomi turned to me and said..."Let's go to the zoo..." So we went on Saturday. I haven't been to the zoo since I was a kid, and all I can remember is that there was a LOT of walking. But I was pretty excited. The weather was great, not too hot, and when the sun was beaming down, there was a nice breeze that came through. The highlight of the visit was the sting ray exhibit. An extra $3...but so worth it. We were able to pet and feed them. Not sure when I'll go back to the zoo again, but I'm sure that I won't wait as long as I did.
And for all you hockey fans...check out the BEST hit of the year. Too bad the refs blew the call and gave Kronwall a 5 minute major and a game misconduct for a clean hit.
[via YouTube]
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Labels: FUN FUN FUN, hockey, Red Wings, zoo
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
5.62 - The One with the pier
Here's a pic from this past long weekend. A couple of girls drove down to the pier and got out. Problem was...the driver didn't put the car into park.
"I didn't even feel the bump." Uh huh...EPIC FAIL
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Labels: fail
5.61 - The One with the golf ball
Best quote from this weekend came from my round of golf with Chris and Rick. Picture 18th hole, slight dogleg to the right. Elevated green, 50 yard wide fairway...with a large tree, about 210 yards away, just off the right tree line. Chris tees up and nails the tree. We get up to it and try to find the ball. Some his ball ends up a few yards in front of the tree. I find it and place a pine cone on it to mark his ball. Chris grabs an appropriate wedge from his bag and Rick drives off in the cart to find his ball. I come up behind in my cart and drive over Chris' ball as he is looking out into space.
As I'm waiting for Chris to hit his ball I hear him yell, "HEY! Did you step on my ball?"
"No man..."
"WHAT?!?! That's not possible...it's like sunken into the ground!"
"Nope...didn't step on it..."
"I drove over it! HAHAHA!!!"
"HAHAHA! Jerk!"
...ahh gotta love golfing with friends...
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Thursday, May 07, 2009
5.60 - The One with the Job Applicant
I have respect for those who go out and try to find jobs. Especially the ones that go into a business cold and ask if they are hiring. BUT they say first impressions are everything...
A guy came in yesterday to the office dressed in shorts, a t-shirt and a cap on sideways. Asked if we were hiring. Now I try to keep an open mind about people when they come in...but this guy was asking for a job. I hesitated to say no, so I asked if had a resume. He gave me this shocked look, like it was something that shouldn't be necessary. Unfortunately for him, he didn't have one. FAIL.
Word of advice for job seekers...dress for the job that you want when you visit a business. AND bring a resume!
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Friday, May 01, 2009
5.59 - The One with the 80's movies
2 of the movie that I am most excited for this summer are Transformers 2 & GI Joe. The first Transformers movie was pretty good...so I have high expectations for the sequel. GI Joe on the other hand...I really have no expectations for. It has the potential to be really bad movie. But I'm excited because its a throwback to my childhood, where Transformers, GI Joe and Lego reigned.
Check out the new trailers for them:
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra
[via Trailer Addict]
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Labels: 80's, GI Joe, movies, Transformers
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
5.58 - The One with the Song around the World
One of my favourite songs is "Stand by Me" by Ben E. King. Such soothing sounds and amazing lyrics. I've heard a bunch of covers over the years. I think this is the best one yet. It all started out with It all started with a base track—vocals and guitar—recorded on the streets of Santa Monica, California. Then is was taken around the world and produced this master mix.
[via Playing for Change | Peace Through Music]
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
5.57 - The One with the elevator ride
I'm a fan of elevators. Especially the glass ones. The one at the CN Tower is pretty sweet too. One time we had a bunch of people and a couch stuffed in one at the mall. The security guard wasn't too impressed, but what was he going to do? Confiscate the couch? He was old and a mall cop...we all know what they can do. Yes I'm talking to your Paul Blart...
So what happens when Porsche says that they want to have a press conference on the 94th floor of your building with one of their cars? How are you supposed to get it up there? Well...use the elevator!
[via jalopnik]
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
5.56 - The One with the Carbon Fiber Legs
Here's a feel good story:
In 2005, Ellie May Challis lost all of her limbs to meningitis. In 2009, she's become the youngest person ever fitted with carbon fiber legs.I think this is pretty awesome. Look how happy she is...
Her original prostheses never fit perfectly, causing her pain and great difficulty when walking. So, with the financial help of their community, Ellie May's parents took her to Dorset Orthopaedic where doctors designed an extra small pair of carbon fiber legs—the same type of prostheses used by Olympic sprinters—costing about $15,000.
She'll need a new pair of legs every two years as she grows up.
But while doctors were originally worried that she'd have a tough time balancing on her new limbs, Ellie May is moving twice as fast as she did before. And as one specialist put it, "Within seconds of having them on, she was off. It will change her life."
[Echo via Neatorama]
[via Gizmodo]
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Labels: awesome, happy, technology
Monday, April 13, 2009
5.55 - The One with the Vaporized car
Ever watch Mythbusters? It's pretty much the best show on the Discovery Channel. Recently Jamie & Adam (our Mythbuster guru's) decided that it wasn't good enough to pancake a car with two semi trucks. They had to smash a car with a rocket traveling 650mph. Watch what happens:
...gone in a blink of an eye...
[via YouTube]
Posted by T at 10:38 a.m. 0 comments
Labels: awesome, Mythbusters
Thursday, April 09, 2009
5.54 - The One with Photoshop
I love Photoshop. Such a powerful program...but there are some that abuse it too much. yes I'm talking to you Tabloid papers. I must admit though...you do have some talented artists creating your headlines. This however...is clearly "Photoshopped".
[via Flickr]
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Labels: Photoshop
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
5.53 - The One with the Squeezable awesomeness
Face it...bacon is awesome. In fact, it's the first element on the Periodic Table of Awesoments. I present to you, bacon in a bottle: Squeez Bacon®
The World's Most Perfect Food
A few years after WWII ended, a young man working in a small restaurant in Sweden developed a new way to process bacon. By precooking it and blending it in a special way, he was able to make a fully cooked 100% bacon paste that could be squeezed from a tube. Knowing he had discovered something paradigm-shifting, young Vilhelm Lillefläsk quickly went into business. That, dear friends, is when Squeez Bacon® was born. And this delicious delectable from Sweden has finally been brought over to the USA - now with American Flavor!
We've been working for months now with Vilhelm Lillefläsk (yes, he still runs the company!) to bring Squeez Bacon® here, and boy are we proud. Why? Because Squeez Bacon® is simply the tastiest bacon food product ever made. Did you know that it's rumored ABBA met while eating Squeez Bacon® sandwiches? And even IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad (we've heard) never travels without a case! He loves it on his American style meatballs. Ojojoj!
Vilhelm Lillefläsk's Squeez Bacon® is fully cooked 100% bacon. Due to the patented electro-mechanical process by which Squeez Bacon® is rendered, it requires no preservatives or other additives. Each serving is as healthy as real bacon, and equivalent to 4 premium slices of bacon! You can put it on sandwiches, pizza, pastas, bacon, soups, pies, eat it hot or cold (warm Squeez Bacon® on toasted rye is to die for), substitute it for bacon in your recipes, or even eat it right out of the tube like we do! If it's edible, it's better with Squeez Bacon®. In the immortal words of Vilhelm Lillefläsk, "Aldrig kommer att ge dig upp!" Once you get a taste of Squeez Bacon®, you'll know exactly what he meant.
watch the video!
[via ThinkGeek]
...ok...bacon is awesome...but this is a little overboard. Happy April Fools Day!
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Labels: April Fools, awesome, bacon
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
5.52 - The One with Jed...I
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Labels: WIN
Monday, March 16, 2009
5.51 - The One with the Killer Bunnies
I've been getting a little flack from one of my tweets this weekend:
I wasn't really killing bunnies...at least not the furry, fuzzy, alive kind...so Lesley...you can breathe a little easier. We were playing one of the most bizarre, funny, random, and fun game ever. The game is called: Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot. Now you're intrigued...aren't you?
Killer Bunnies & the Quest for the Magic Carrot is a fast paced, action filled card game, in which you must try to keep as many Bunnies alive as possible, while eliminating your opponents' Bunnies. The problem: Your opponents are armed with weapons and will stop at nothing to keep you from winning the game, which can get dreadfully vengeful, horribly nasty, hilariously messy, and just plain fun![via Killer Bunnies]
So who wants to kill some bunnies?
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Labels: Killer Bunnies, twitter
Friday, March 13, 2009
5.50 - The One with the sign to customers
[via Ctrl+Alt+del]
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Monday, March 09, 2009
5.49 - The One with the Watchmen
Who watches the Watchmen?
Being a comic book fan, I've heard of Watchmen, but I never actually read it until I started seeing trailers for the movie. So I picked up my brothers copy and read through it pretty quickly. It's not your typical comic and it really did read more like a paperback novel rather than a comic book. Having seen my share of comic book movies, I wasn't sure how they could pull this one off. You've got your good (The Dark Knight, Spider-Man 2, 300, Sin City), the bad (Fantastic Four, Daredevil) and the ugly (Batman & Robin). I heard Zach Snyder (who did 300) was the director...so I knew that if anyone could pull this movie off...it would be him.
So I went to go see Watchmen this past weekend and was no disappointed. The movie was long, and did drag at parts, but it was one of the closest comic book adaptations I have ever seen. Although some parts were left out (probably due to time restrictions), some parts were different than the book, it still held the same backbone of the graphic novel. Jackie Earle Haley is Rorschach...he does an amazing job of bringing that character to life. The rest of the actors were good...but Haley's Rorschach is something else.
I can't recommend this movie to everyone...it's not your typical comic book movie. There's a deep story and at times is very violent. It's definitely not for kids. If you thought The Dark Knight pushed it...Watchmen pushes it even further. If you've read the graphic novel...this is a must see.
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Labels: Watchmen. movies
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
5.48 - The One with the half million dollar shot
Watch this video...it's a pretty elaborate prank...I love it!
[via College Humor]
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
5.47 - The One with the random band
Look, it's another Facebook chain thing...but this one is pretty fun...taken from lil buddy...
1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit "random"
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to flickr and click on "explore the last seven days"
or click http://www.flickr.com/expl
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together. (if you don't have it, here's an online photo editor: pixlr.com/) or i just used good old fashioned "paint".
5 - Post it to FB with this text in the "caption" and TAG the friends you want to join in.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
5.46 - The One with Big Brother
We received a note from our landlord last night regarding new security measures that will be installed in our building today. They are installing a "state of the art" closed circuit camera in the lobby and give everyone in the building access to see on their own TV who is buzzing in. Keep in mind, most of the people in our building are older and don't have much to do during the day. They already stand at the window to see what's going on in the parking lot. I can see some of these people sitting in front of their TV watching the feed all day. The question is...will it be in High Def?
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Labels: big brother
Friday, February 20, 2009
5.45 - The One with the Myths about Canadians
- We live in igloos
- Contrary to popular belief, our homes are not made out of hand-cut ice blocks and decorated with rough-hewn seal skins. The fact of the matter is that Canada is home to some of the world's most beloved architectural marvels, including Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal, Notre-Dame Basilica, Château Frontenac, and the fabulously phallic CN Tower, none of which are made out of oversize ice cubes. Over the past century, Canada has also produced some of the most accomplished architects in the world, including Frank Gehry, whose Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Experience Music Project and Walt Disney Concert Hall are considered to be among the most innovative buildings on the planet.
- Over the years, Canada has produced a staggering number of quality musicians, and yet one of the acts we're best known for is Nickelback, the world's most maddeningly generic rock band. Although these self-important Hanna natives have sold millions of albums, most Canucks consider it a point of pride that the vast majority of their sales have occurred south of the border in the land of the free and home of the tone deaf. Every nation gets the artists they deserve and America is more than welcome to keep Chad Kroeger and his tragically bland bandmates for as long as they like.
- Canadian cuisine isn't vastly different from American cuisine, although in our defence, there is a lot less of it. Many Canadian chain restaurants actually offer smaller portions than their American partners, hence ensuring their clientele can leave on their own power rather than needing the Jaws of Life and three pounds of butter just to get through the front entrance.
- Americans can be forgiven for thinking that Toronto is our capital city given the fact that it's also our most populous urban center and the self-proclaimed "center of the universe." However, the fact remains that our national capital is in Ottawa, a quiet little town that's every bit as respectable and law-abiding as the country it so proudly represents.
- Canada's two official languages are English and French, although they're hardly the only dialects you'll hear within our borders. According to Statistics Canada, one out of every six Canucks has a mother tongue other than English or French. That's why the CBC now offers Hockey Night in Canada in Punjabi and why many of our street signs appear in as many as three languages.
- From Renfrew of the Royal Mounted to Due South, Hollywood has churned out dozens of productions over the years depicting our police officers as smiling balladeers dressed in spotless scarlet tunics and ridiculously large wide-brimmed hats. Although our RCMP constables do indeed possess these decorative uniforms, they tend to save them for special occasions -- like Canada Day, Victoria Day and Dudley Do-Right movie premieres. Today's RCMP is a thoroughly modern police force with approximately 28,000 employees, including police officers, civilian members and public service workers.
- There's a big difference between being polite and being a pacifist, and it's a distinction that has confused many Americans over the years. It's about time that our neighbours to the south learned that Canada has one of the world's most respected and well-trained militaries, comprised of 62,000 Regular Force members and 25,000 Reserve Force members. Nearly one-third of our deployable forces are currently engaged in overseas missions in locations such as Afghanistan, Cyprus, Darfur, Jerusalem, Haiti, and Sudan, and if it weren't for Canada's critical role in both World Wars, folks in Philadelphia and Detroit might now be speaking German.
- Although Canadians pride themselves on their ability to slip the puck through the five-hole, we also participate in a wide variety of other sports as well. According to a new report funded by Sport Canada, the most popular participatory sport in Canada is now golf, with hockey coming in a distant second. Don't tell Don Cherry, but hockey registration could continue to slide in the years ahead as more and more of Canada's youth gravitate toward soccer and baseball.
- Although annexation may have been a viable option back in the 18th century, most Canadians are now pleased to live in a country where health care is free, social welfare is provided to all citizens and gun shops don't offer "Back to School" specials. Besides, given its exorbitant debt, who would want to be part of the United States of Foreclosure these days? Although we may look, dress and even occasionally sound like Americans, Canada has a distinct culture all its own. We have our own parliamentary system of government, our own national symbols and, perhaps most importantly, you can order poutine at all of our McDonald's. Take that, North Dakota!
- Once and for all, we do not know your cousin Gord in Muskoka, your uncle Bob in Moose Jaw or your sister's ex-boyfriend Pete in Thunder Bay. Canada is a country of 33,551,000 citizens, so you'll have to excuse us if we have difficultly keeping tabs on everyone. Although, in all fairness, we do know your old roommate Ken and the guy is a serious tool.
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Labels: Canadian
Thursday, February 19, 2009
5.44 - The one after dentist
This video has been floating around the interwebs for a month or so now...but I just had to post it. I laugh every time I see it..."Is this real life?"
[via YouTube]
...and here's a video response...from Chad Vader...
[via YouTube]
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
5.43 - The One with the last minute gift
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Labels: gift, Valentines
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
5.42 - The One with the Snuggie
Have you seen that infomercial for the Sunggie? The wearable blanket? not exactly the best fashion statement. Here's the "real" commercial:
(Warning: NSFW - language)
[via College Humor]
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Labels: funny
Friday, February 06, 2009
5.41 - The One with the mistake
I can't stress enough to my clients that they need to proof read what they send me. We recently finished this 110 page report and as it was out to get bound...I get an email from the client in a panic saying that the phone number on the inside cover was wrong. Her boss was saying that it was our fault and blah blah blah. I had to explain to her that we don't proof read the copy that they provide us. It's not our job to do that. We just make it look good. Plus when you have signed approval to go ahead and print the project...you really can't blame us. I worked on this report for 2 months and I can't tell you what it's all about. But being the nice guys that we are...we called the bindery and halted the job, reprinted the covers and it'll be done early next week.
here's another example of someone who dropped the ball:
an HDMI cable for $600? I think not. Someone added an extra 9...oops...
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Labels: fail
Friday, January 30, 2009
5.40 - The One with the 25 Random things about me
BLARG...so I've seen this floating around Facebook and I was wondering when was the day I'd be tagged. That fateful day has come thanks to Little Buddy...here we go...
Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged.
(To do this, go to "notes" under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)
- I own 4 pairs of Oakleys and the ones I wear the most often cost half the price of my other pairs
- Naomi and I have matching wristwatches that are made by the company "Titus"
- I claim to be a Mac fanboy...but I don't currently own a Mac...
- but I have an iMac at work and have gone though 2 iPods...currently on my 3rd
- I think Microsoft products are horrible...but I love my XBox 360
- I enjoy watching movie trailers
- I'll take candy over chocolate
- Shaq almost crushed me...I was sitting on the sidelines and he came barrelling through
- I'm a sci-fan...but I've never seen Stargate or Battlestar Galactica
- Although I love NYC...I can't stand any of their sports franchises
- I have a substantial hat collection
- I enjoy "suiting" up...but not for church
- I used to carry a sketchbook with me all the time and draw...not sure what happened
- I try to watch the Oscar nominated/winner for best picture every year
- I still maintain that Die Hard 1&2 are the best Christmas movies
- I just bought 2 nerf guns and removed the air restrictors...
- I just recently started to order burgers from sit down restaurants
- I love to golf...and wish I could golf everyday
- Rebecca, Naomi's sister and matron of honour forgot my wedding ring in the car during the wedding ceremony
- I only know how to chord when playing guitar, I don't know what notes are what on the fretboard
- I have my grade 8 in piano
- I used to walk uphill both ways to school
- I've been across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans
- I'm pretty sure I've made this kind of list before and used some of the same facts
- I like Twitter more than Facebook...but none of my friends around here understand Twitter
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
5.39 - The One with the u-Haul chase
I got my car stuck in the parking lot of my apartment last night. Not so fun. It took Naomi, myself and our neighbour to get my car in a parking spot. It would have been nice if they plowed even a little bit of our lot during the day. Anyways, once all that was done, I went on my computer and checked out what was happening in the world...and I see this on Twitter:
No way! A live police chase...but with a u-Haul truck? Intrigued, I follow the link to CNN.com Live and watch this woman leading the cops through LA weaving in and out of traffic in a stolen u-Haul van. I caught the tail end of the 2 hour pursuit, ending with a short foot chase. It's pretty remarkable that someone would still think that they could get away in a car chase these days.
here's a video:
[via YouTube]
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
5.38 - The One with the Nerf
I had a leftover Wal Mart gift card lying around and decided to buy something fun...
...yep picked up two Nerf guns. Now to take out the air restricters and if I feel ambitious enough...I might paint them.
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Labels: FUN FUN FUN, Nerf
Monday, January 26, 2009
5.37 - The One with the Year of the Ox
Now that I'm married...we have to give out Lai See this year. Raw deal...but hopefully we get some in return. Happy New Year Oxen!
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Friday, January 23, 2009
5.36 - The One with the Cell Phone options
So I went to my cell phone service provider after work yesterday and I switched my value pack option to a more expensive pack and canceled all the other options I had on my phone. (limited Mobile internet, limited text messaging, call display, answering machine, etc.) After all of that, my new value pack gives me everything I had before plus unlimited mobile internet, unlimited texting, unlimited picture/video messaging, AND I save $1 on my cellphone bill! FTW!
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Labels: cell phone, FTW
Monday, January 19, 2009
5.35 - The One with the Chocolate Fountain
We had a Quelf night on Saturday (if you've never played Quelf...you need to play) complete with a Chocolate Fountain. It was pretty cool to have, but so messy and it makes a loud weird whirring noise. We got chocolate everywhere. On the table, on clothes, even on the wall.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
5.34 - The One with the doorbell
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Labels: fail
Monday, January 12, 2009
5.33 - The One with all the awards
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Amid the glitz and glamour of the Academy Awards on February 28, one deadly serious documentary was busy changing the world. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy took home the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject with her film, A Girl in the River, which took a hard look at so-called Honor Killings in Muslim countries.
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"Honour killings, the theme of the film, afflict several segments of Pakistani society," it quoted Sharif as saying.
According to the Tribune, he "expressed the government's commitment to rid Pakistan of this evil by bringing in appropriate legislation", the statement continued, adding that Chinoy's "insights" could prove helpful.
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What happened to the "lazy days of summer"? Just curious because I haven't seen hide nor hare of them since 1992! Does anyone else feel like they are in hyperdrive?
We have kicked off summer with swim team practice 3 mornings a week, which we have been late twice out the three practices already, and on the opposite 2 days we are supposed to show up for meets at 8 o'clock….AM. Someone forgot to tell those swim coaches that it is summer. You know, the days without schedules. You must remember days at the beach until sunset, right?? Also, did I mention the drill sergeants of gymnastics who insist that the kids go all summer for fear they may forget how to do a cartwheel! We must show up there 2 nights a week. Further, my little guy has the gall to think he actually wants to get in the summer mix of craziness so we will be at tennis lessons every Thursday at 9:30 while at the same time I am supposed to be at the swim meet. I guess I will be cloning myself by next week.
So basically if I want to enjoy the "lazy days of summer" I can do it between the hours of 11-3. That is not even enough time to drive to a beach and back, let alone sit down and read a book or talk to a friend for a while, or maybe catch a wave or two. No, this is madness I tell you! MADNESS!
What if I just said NO! We are doing none of it! What would happen? Would the kids be sitting around playing Wii or their DS games? Would they become hermits and never see the light of day because they are addicted to technology? OR….
Would we just swim as we liked, play tennis when we want to, go to the beach and come home late at night sunkissed and tired, read books outside, stay in our pj's until noon, play outside, ride bikes, go for hikes, see friends at our leisure, go to museums………and whatever else we decided we wanted to do?
Sounds kind of great doesn't it? What am I afraid of? Am I a bad parent if I don't have my kids in every activity under the sun or am I a bad parent if I do?
Father's Day has got to be one of the best holidays, don't you think? My husband golfs 18 holes with his dad and brothers, while I have my dad here for breakfast. When my husband gets home, we've got all his favorite snacks ready for a little sports on tv and a snooze on the couch. I hire a neighborhood kid to cut the grass that day so my husband doesn't have to lift a finger. The evening ends with his favorite meal, grilled outside and eaten on the deck with a nice cold beer. Great, right? Now let's talk about Mother's Day.
Mother's Day starts at the ass crack of dawn with the kids (oh so excited!) waking me up. My husband shushes them and hurries them downstairs where they make the usual ruckus, then serve me breakfast in bed. My "breakfast" usually consists of coffee and a baked goods from Dunkin Donuts that the little guy tries to eat with me. In my bed. They're all in my bed at this point. Breakfast is followed by gifts of flowers and things made at school. Last year my husband went a little above and beyond. He gave me a memo board, a clipboard and a coupon organizer. The memo board and the clipboard were bad enough, but a freakin' coupon organizer?! I'm sure at some point that day we also visited my mother, and his. What a fun and relaxing day!
This year's going to be a little different. I've decided that since Mother's Day is my one and only true day off , I'm going to treat it as such. Plus I learned my lesson. If you want something done right, just do it yourself. That's why Father's Day is so great, after all. And, since the coupon organizer debacle of last year, my husband is all for me planning Mother's Day.
The festivities are scheduled to begin on Friday morning, around 7:30 – bagels and coffee with girlfriends. Then we'll all pile into a caravan of minivans and head up north for the weekend. You read it right. We're going away. For. The. Whole. Weekend. Just us Moms. We'll spend the weekend ziplining and hiking, shopping and dining. We'll be home in time for dinner on Sunday night.
No Dunkin Donuts in my bed with the whole family, no visit with my mother-in-law, no coupon organizer. Just a nice relaxing weekend. Everything Mother's Day should be. And I'm sure that after 3 days away from the kids, I'll happily share my dinner with them, even in my bed if they want.
When I told a friend that the lady from the packy said hi to me at the Homegoods, she said that was a red flag. Two red flags, actually. One just for calling it the packy. Then she said drinking wine at the laundromat by myself with my People magazines when the dryer was broken was another red flag. Now I'm up to 3. So, it's either time for an intervention, or a cocktail…
With that in mind, I'd like to share with you an idea the other Minivan Mom had after February school vacation – Mimosa Monday. I've included a copy of her super-cute email invite below so you can all have a Mimosa Monday as well.
Hi Ladies!
Mimosa Monday is in effect!
Come on over to re-connect.
One long school vacation,
Equals one tiny delicious libation!
Let's toast to a great week anew,
And this vacation in the rear view.
The joy begins at half past 9.
To see you all would be so fine!
Celebrate the end of this week with the kids and the start of school again! Invite your friends, sit back and enjoy the empty house once again!


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Just one more day till the release!!
I'm getting very excited, I hope you are too.
Today we are sneaking a peek at Mexican Food and Simple Sayings 2! These are both great sets
and there's so many different uses for all the stamps in them!
Mexican Food project
My card today uses the negative portion of the Fancy topper die from Tuesdays
project and of course the Mexican Food stamp set. The pepper images are cut out with my Silhouette and from the Silhouette online store.
My Simple Sayings 2 project
My Simple Sayings 2 project
The card base is made out of 2 clouds welded together from the Silhouette store
and the sunshine is also from the Silhouette store. I embossed the cloud in divine swirls to give it some texture and used a ice blue chalk ink to give definition to the swirls. I used the Flag Die and Flag Die 2 sets to stamp my sentiment on. And what is sunshine with out a cute Peachy Keen face.
Don't forget to come back tomorrow with 1 more sneak peek and the big release at 4pm PST.
It's gonna be an awesome release tomorrow!


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Yellow Green Beret
After growing up in Northern California, I attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, and served in the United States Army as an Armor and Special Forces officer while based in Korea and Japan, respectively. I served and deployed in four combat tours to Iraq and the Philippines, and received several medals for my accomplishments, including two Bronze Star Medals. I also worked extensively throughout Southeast Asia and the Middle East in special operations missions, and have lived in ten countries since leaving California. I was also selected for early promotion to major prior to a voluntary and honorable discharge from the U.S. Army. Yellow Green Beret is my first book.
or Special Forces officer-turned-writer Chester Wong, being a Green Beret was tough business. Okay, there were a few laughs—in fact, there were countless random acts of hilarity, but maybe it's how Wong looks at life that makes the difference. In Yellow Green Beret: Stories of an Asian-American Stumbling around U.S. Army Special Forces, one thing is certain: becoming an Asian American Green Beret is a calling only the wild should answer.
Whether or not you're in the Army, there's a whole lot of adventure and a whole lot of "who'd have thoughts" and "imagine thats" in this military memoir. With short stories like "Johnnie Walker Brown," "Wily Filipino Cell Phone Thieves," and "Sniper School: Extending the Range of Personality Lethality," Wong pokes fun at the ironies of special operations combat, the idiosyncrasies of military life, and the absurdities of life on the frontline; more often than not he heckles his own harebrained ways. Each vignette is a standalone anecdote; sometimes there's a lesson, sometimes it's just for a laugh. He reminisces his West Point and Special Forces training, working with various militaries in Southeast Asia, and serving in Iraq and the Philippines, as well as general tidbits of military life. With a self-deprecating humor style, he leaves readers rolling with laughter and reflection on his unique observations and lessons learned from a path not often taken, which is good since this memoir is the first in a three-part collection.
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I have been sleeping on this mattress, the firm model, for the past 45 days. It was shipped straight to my door in a box. This was very convenient. The last mattress I purchased, had to be loaded on my truck and I had to drive it to my house myself. With the mattress arriving in a box, it was easy to bring in the house and up the stairs. Even though I am a big guy and could have carried it by myself, I had some one help me and this made it very easy. I was surprised at how much the mattress was condensed and rolled up to fit in such a small box. Pulling the mattress out of the box and cutting away the plastic wrapping, it sprang to life and was full size almost instantly. It took very little effort to slide the new mattress on top of my bed frame and box spring. After getting the mattress in place, I carefully examined the mattress cover and seams. I first noticed the mattress cover to be very plush and soft. This is usually not the case with other mattresses. My first thought was that I could sleep on this mattress without sheets it felt so good. I then noticed the stitching and seam to have been expertly done. One could easily tell the high quality and care that went into the manufacturing process. When I first sat down, I felt the mattress to be soft and springy. This was not what I was expecting. Most memory foam type mattresses have a hard, brick like, feel when you first sit down. This was not the case with this mattress. I was pleasantly surprised. Now, for the final test, I put the sheets on and got it ready so I could sleep in it tonight. The convenience of purchasing, the look, the feel, and even the price is all good, but the most important aspect of a mattress to me is how it sleeps. Because I am a Chiropractic Physician and I believe one of the most important things to keeping a healthy spine is the mattress you sleep on. I feel a mattress should be first comfortable, but more importantly should be supportive. A proper mattress should support the spine, keeping the body and spine in a neutral position. Also the top layer should be gentle enough not to create "pressure points" that could hurt parts of the body most commonly in the hips or shoulders. The mattress should also keep you cool at night. If the body gets too hot at night, it won't be able to rest properly and your muscle will not be relaxed when you wake up. Body temperature decreases during the night-time sleep phase and rises during the wake phase. Sleep is most likely to occur when core temperature decreases, and much less likely to occur during the rises. I used to own the top of the line, high dollar name brand memory foam mattress. Even though it offered good spinal support, I was constantly waking up over heated or sweating. Zonkd had addressed all these issues in creating their mattress. I think Zonkd has hit a Home Run with the way they engineered and developed their mattress. It is my professional opinion that the new Zonkd mattress is the best mattress on the market today, for both spinal health and comfort. I now look forward to every night I go to bed and get to snooze.
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David Cameron has been to Iceland – I hope he stocked up on prawn rings and fish fingers – to spread the gospel according to St Jean. Jean-Claude Junckernaut has baptised and ordained Dish Face Dave and sent him forth as his emissary on Earth with a mission to bring good news to all mankind... but especially that happy breed of men, that band of brothers who inhabit this sceptred isle, this demi-paradise, this precious stone set in the silver sea, this blessed plot, this realm, this Europe.
Shakespeare, as is well known – check out your children's history books – was a good patriot of Brussels and spent his life writing love sonnets to the EU Institutions, to whom all of Europe owes its survival. Had we not closed up the wall with our European dead, Agincourt may have been lost to the barbarian English who later succumbed to reason and embraced our glorious culture. Elgar, Nelson, Wellington... Churchill; all of them were able to triumph only thanks to generous EU grants and access to our open borders, a thing of envy the world over.
Before the EU the land of the Angles was a blasted wasteland where millions starved, grubbing in the dirt for seeds and meagre vegetables. Now, cradled in the warm and gentle arms of Mother Europe, Albion is a land of milk and honey... but only so long as she remains firmly clamped onto the fat teat of plenty that is Ma Merkel's wondrous bounty. Outwith the union, the British Isles would once again become cold and bitter and envious lands. And we know because we have pamphlets which tell us so.
Yesterday at PMQs Cameron said, "If we don't get what we need in our negotiations I rule nothing out, but I do think it's important that as we have this debate as a nation that we are very clear about the facts and figures of the alternatives." And there, right there, is your problem. There are no undisputed facts and figures, only speculation about what lies ahead, economically, in or out. The prosperity argument is a sham; nobody knows. Nobody.
But it is a tack which suits the 'remain' camp because all they have to do is to repeatedly state that on the outside of the EU we face a stark future of uncertainty, with no promise of anything beyond bare survival. This is palpable bollocks, an unimaginative line to take but one which the 'leave' lobby will find hard to counter. The 'innies' don't even need to present a positive case for staying in, they just have to keep pushing the 'fear of the unknown' button.
Choose life...
But, forget all Cameron's rhetoric about his impossible EU reform and a renegotiated relationship; I don't want a relationship with the European Union – that's the whole point. I want a divorce from it. The choice is not between the long road ahead or a blind alley, it is much simpler. In or out, servile or independent, British or European. The question is not so much where we want to be, but how we want to get there. And I would rather be at the helm of the national yacht, free to explore, than chained below decks to the oars of the EU galley.


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Tokyo September 25, 2007: From October 28, 2007, JAL will introduce a 12-seat first class cabin on its daily service between Haneda Airport, Tokyo and Hongqiao International Airport.
JAL will inaugurate a daily service between Haneda Airport, Tokyo and Hongqiao International Airport, Shanghai from September 29, 2007. Initially, the airline will operate B767 on the new route with two classes: business and economy. From October 28, JAL will start operating 747-400 aircraft between the two airports, at which time it will also offer JAL First Class onboard.
Passengers traveling in JAL First Class will be able to relax in a JAL Skysleeper seat which reclines a full 180 degrees. Large partitions between each seat ensure passenger privacy. For a pleasant in-flight sleep, feather comforters and pillows are provided.
JAL will offer first class passengers on the route a combination of the very best Western and Asian gourmet food created using the finest ingredients and accompanied by award-winning wines and sake of the highest quality.
In JAL First Class, passengers can select from a choice of Western entrees, one of which is a JAL Healthy Menu Selection: a low calorie, nutritionally balanced option for the health-conscious. The Western menu is carefully prepared under the guidance of the Association des Disciples d'Auguste Escoffier du Japon, whose members are French cuisine chefs at some of Japan's finest hotels and restaurants.
Alternatively passengers can savor the seasonally changing flavors of the `haute cuisine of Japan': the traditional Kyoto-style menu known as kaiseki-ryori. The Japanese menu is created under the supervision of the Kyoto Cuisine "Mebaekai". Found throughout Japan, `Mebaekai' are special associations of long-established restaurants set up with the purpose of maintaining and promoting traditional Japanese cooking techniques and cuisine.
JAL will offer at Hongqiao and Haneda airports, check-in counters exclusively for the use of JAL First Class passengers.
Tickets for first class on the new route go on sale from September 26, 2007.
The new JAL route will provide customers traveling between the city centers of Tokyo and Shanghai with even greater convenience. Hongqiao International Airport (SHA) is located only 13 kilometers away from Shanghai's city center, and central Tokyo can be reached in just under 30 minutes from Haneda (HND).
JAL currently offers 5 flights a day between Narita International Airport, Tokyo (NRT) and Pudong International Airport, Shanghai (PVG). This includes a daily JAL code share flight operated by China Eastern Airlines. Flight frequency between the two cities will therefore increase to 6 flights per week once the new Haneda - Hongqiao service is inaugurated.
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Back in the 1960s you could count the number of trans people in public life on one, perfectly manicured hand – France had the beautiful performer Coccinelle and America had the celebrated memoirist Christine Jorgenson, but in the UK, for many years, for many people, April Ashley was the only trans person they'd ever heard of. She became one of the first Britons to undergo genital reconstruction surgery in the 1960s and, a few years later, was outed by the tabloids at the height of her modelling career. To say she's been around the block would be putting it lightly. "I had to go through six weeks of electric shock treatment as a teenager, which in those days was very primitive," she recalls today, in perfect BBC English. "Your eyeballs bled." Say hello to the grande dame of 20th Century transgenderism.


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Every week, we'll be sitting down with one of our gallery artists to discuss their work, process, inspiration, and stories. This week we're speaking with Suzanne Laura Kammin.
Suzanne Laura Kammin is inspired by a wide range of influences ranging from Eastern philosophy to 1970's design. The resulting works are intensely vivid studies of color, self, and space that navigate the dynamic between hard and soft edges pushing up against one another within the frame. The juxtaposition of pure color, any evidence of mark-making obscured, and visceral layers creates a visual give and take that nods to the concept of yin and yang, where opposite forces are interdependent. In anticipation of Kammin's upcoming solo show, "I Am That," she talked with us from her studio in Newark, NJ about the spirituality of her work, the evolution of her color sense, and unleashing the freedom in her paintings.
"Rubber Match"
What are your earliest memories relating to art?
I went to museums a lot with my parents when I was a child so I remember being introduced to art through those visits. In terms of making art, among my earliest memories would definitely be my early schooling at The Rudolph Steiner School in New York. Everything we did was somehow creative and most things had a visual component. I remember drawing with amazing, intensely colored, huge stick and block crayons, making figures with translucent strips of colored beeswax, and decorating the borders of the pages of everything we did. We knitted scarves, sewed, and carved things out of wood. I loved it. The expressive aspect of Waldorf education resonated with me. I assume that my time at The Steiner School played a big part in my becoming an artist.
You work to erase any traces of your mark making. Why is it important to you that your process isn't evident?
My approach to process partly comes from my spiritual concerns. I don't want my work to look like it's of the world that we experience as real; I don't want the hand of the artist to be evident. I want there to be a mystery to my work, something that feels magical. I also want vast areas of uninterrupted, pure color - no brush strokes, no texture that speaks of a physical substance. I want to be able to merge with the color. I want the work to feel expansive and enigmatic.
Photo courtesy of the artist
You reference elements of Eastern philosophy as an influence in your work, particularly the concept of yin and yang and the idea of the interconnectedness of everthing. How did you develop your interest in that philosophy?
When I was seven or eight, my parents started doing Transcendental Meditation. I don't know why, maybe it was just because my parents were doing it and I wanted to tag along, but I really wanted to go to meditation class with them. I wasn't able to join them but that memory stuck with me. Then, over twenty years ago, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. While it was among the hardest times in my life, it was also transformative. Yoga and meditation became a part of my life, and Western psychology and Buddhist philosophy were the lenses through which I came to understand myself and the world. Recently, I've become extremely involved in meditation; it's the most meaningful thing to me, more so than art really. I love creating but there's a lot of ego involved in exhibiting your work and doing what's necessary to have a career. It's something I struggle with a lot.
Another influence of yours is the aesthetic of the 1970's. What is it about the '70s that inspires you, and how does it reflect in your work?
There are aspects of the '70s aesthetic that creep me out. I found growing up during the sexual revolution to be oppressive and scary in ways, and there are still aspects to design and music from the '70s that leave me feeling queasy. There are other aspects of late 1960's and early '70s design, however, that I loved and that have stuck with me in a good way. I'm drawn to the warm, analogous colors like red, orange, brown, ochre and yellow, and the smooth rounded edges and shiny surfaces of the design. They're friendly. Without doing so overtly, I like to reference those things because they're comforting to me and it's an aesthetic that I think really helped to define my taste in design. One of my favorite colors is what I call "puke yellow", the sort of mustard color you might have expected to see in the upholstery of someone's wreck room furniture. It's a complex color.
"Cat's Cradle"
Your color sense is very bold and intense. Besides those elements of the '70s aesthetic, where else do you find inspiration for your colors?
The evolution of color in my work is interesting. The natural light that was a part of my still life paintings in college continues to affect my color sensibility. In graduate school, however, my paintings grew huge and thick, and the colors became really dark. I painted almost achromatically for years. The colors were nuanced but extremely limited. They were blacks made from umbers, ultramarine blue, and various shades of gray, ranging from warm to cool. The colors were reflective of where I was in my psychological development. The shift from blacks and whites to my current palette happened fairly organically. It was nothing too forced. There were a few years during which I didn't paint much but I was making major changes in my life and personal development. When I came to the studio, I wanted my palette to be joyful and expansive. I do think about colors and palettes from modern design, and I also look at the work of other artists for color ideas. I've expanded my palette a lot over the past few years and enjoy buying new colors to expand the range that's available to me.
Photo courtesy of the artist
You also founded the Left Bank Studio School, in Newark, which offers painting and drawing classes. Have you found that running the school has affected your work at all?
I wouldn't say that running my own art school per se has affected my work but teaching on the whole definitely has. Teaching forces me to keep looking and seeing and thinking about things that I wouldn't be considering in my own work. It broadens my outlook and keeps me sharp. I sometimes have to paint and draw things for students in introductory courses so I'm building on my observational skills by doing that. It was interesting to me that when I went back to painting after taking off some time, my work was actually better than it had been when I stopped. I didn't just pick up where I left off, my technical abilities had progressed. I credit this to teaching. I internalize and integrate the wide range of things that I address when I teach and end up being able to bring that to my own work.
"I Am That" exhibits some of your latest paintings. What do you think these paintings represent in the evolution of your work?
My work has evolved a great deal in the last year or so. I had worked with squares for many years and returning to rectangles really changed things. The work has moved from a more formal domain to something more figurative. My most recent large painting "Aftermath" is actually somewhat autobiographical. That kind of personal, narrative content is a real change.
Also, I am making efforts to incorporate a more obvious balance between the painterly and the hard-edged. I don't want my work to be seen as pure formal abstraction. While my work has a tight, hard-edge quality, I don't want to feel completely bound up by that kind of precision. I want there to be a quality to my work that is free. The large expanses of color allude to freedom in a way, but I also want to bring a gestural component to the work that expresses a painterly freedom. It's about balance. People are complex. I'm not one way. I want my work to reflect the complexity of who I am.
Explore more of Suzanne Laura Kammin's work here.
"I Am That" is on view from February 18th through March 26th.
Always interesting to hear what inspires an artist. Great interview with great paintings. Congratulations on the show!
Suzanne's work as an artist and teacher have truly inspired me. I expect her show to do the same.
I enjoyed this interview and a lot of Suzanne's comments resonated with me. Good luck - the work is great.
What a wonderful interview and some gorgeous paintings to boot! Thank you.


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Community Development
This briefing focused on rising suburban poverty and the phenomenon's implications for public policy and community development. The event highlighted the latest research on the topic and offered a chance to hear how local organizations are responding to suburban poverty here in the Bay Area.
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Almost everyone, city-dweller or rural resident or lifelong suburbanite, has met them, and has a name for them. Also known as the roly-poly, woodlouse, or doodle bug, the pillbug is perhaps the most innocuous non-mammal children encounter. Certainly it's safer than the family dog or cat. It doesn't bite or carry disease, and is left without any defense other than "conglobation" — doing that "armadillo thing" that gives it the first half of its scientific name.
So I'm still repeating "armadillidium vulgare" (ar-mah-dil-LID-ee-um vool-GAH-ray) to myself every hour or so, just for the pure fun of the name, since yesterday morning when I did some research to learn more about the little creatures. Why? That's less interesting to me right now than the pillbug itself, but I'll explain the reason in a bit. (If you're just skimming, in a hurry, and want to arrive at what you imagine is the "Druidic payoff" straightaway, go to the final section of this post.)
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A native European, the pillbug has spread to North America and the rest of the world, where it flourishes in damp and shady environments. If you've encountered them, you most likely did so when overturning a garden pot or stone or board in a woodpile. Pillbugs actually aren't insects, but crustaceans, most closely related to crabs and crayfish. They breathe through gills, and unlike the vast majority of species with iron-based blood, pillbugs use copper — hemocyanin rather than hemoglobin, for the nerds among us — an ancient alternative oxygen-bearing respiration system, making them literal "blue-bloods".
Pillbugs recycle body wastes, can absorb water at several locations along their body, and carry their young in a belly pouch called a marsupium — if that makes you think "marsupial", like a kangaroo or possum, you're not so far off track.
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Workshop 5 at the recent Gulf Coast Gathering in Mandeville, LA, focused on spirit and animal guides. Here's Lorraine leading the workshop, her own cat guide prominent on the t-shirt she's wearing:
As often happens during guided meditations and visualizations, I work on patience. Whether or not anything "comes through", the practice itself has value. It builds energy and receptivity to things outside the "enchantment of the apparent world" as OBOD rituals put it. Lorraine asked us to travel with our guide to a clearing where we could encounter a new helper.
Nothing … nothing … nothing. My boar guide, happy to explore the Louisiana woods, kept away. Or at least I experienced no trace of him. Instead, inner mist, overcast gray, drowsiness … Then, almost at the end of the visualization: pillbug! I swallowed my laughter. My amused surprise at the unexpectedness of this particular animal guide disturbed its inner form not at all. I'm small, but like all things I have my dignity, I seemed to hear. Pay attention.
As I wrote here a little over a year ago,
When something like this grabs me, I start trying it out, trying it on for size. What does my spiritual path do with it? Does it stir me, even — or especially — if I resist it? (I've found that's one good test for the value of my path, too.) Do I want its insight with me over the next meters and miles, minutes or months? Is there a place for it in my backpack or tool-kit? If so, what? If not, why not? … Why has it arrived on my doorstep at all? Has it come to me now, or in this particular form, because I've already rejected it at least once?! Will I at least remember to write it down in my journal, so when it knocks me upside the head again, sometime in the future, a review of what I write today will help the lesson sink deeper, enough that next time at least I'm able to act?
I'm a Druid so I also count the non-human world among my teachers. That doesn't mean I have to stay in class, or stick with the same teacher. It means, if I need to, that I can learn and move on. It means — thank the gods! — I have many teachers. It may well mean, if I really need to learn something, that the classwork I don't finish here may reappear somewhere else, in another class, on another arm of the spiral. But it also means I can call on teachers I adore and who support me to help me with teachers who challenge me, rub me the wrong way — teachers who don't make it easy …
So what do I take away from this encounter, this new guide? Stay small and inconspicuous? Keep to the undersides of things? Protect my belly and curl my back against trouble?
Or maybe pay attention to things that may seem too small to deserve your notice. Disdain nothing that can teach you. (And what can't teach me, after all? Only what I ignore …) Stay flexible enough to adapt, to bend. Keep in touch with the earth. Know that my dignity and worth don't depend on anyone else. My value in a supersize culture has nothing to do with quantity but with quality. And, always, listen.
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Spent my holiday with my sisters and went to Grand city to attended bazaars and also looking for beautiful things. In this bazaar was gotten by much entertainment and the clothes bazaar, jewellery, and food, Moreover had entertainment from Umay and Ussy S. But the weather was very hot. Because of that we only for a moment in there. And on the way to get back to home, we saw a beautiful sky. The sky was blue and beautiful. Many matters that were interesting in the holiday this time. Every day was the holiday together with family.


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If you're thinking unlucky sculptures, think The Thinker. Next to Michelangelo's David, Rodin's bronze must be one of the most recognised sculptural images in the world. It also immortalised the thoughtful pose that has launched a million back cover author photos over the years. Thanks for that Auguste.
But The Thinker is back in the wars, most particularly in Argentina. Here the only copy of the sculpture that is located outdoors (all the other 20 full-sized copies are in museums or private collections) has been sprayed pink. The Buenos Aires city council claims not to know why the sculpture has been defaced (although pink and the sexual symbol for female on its arm feels like a clue) but has decided to soldier on and water blast the paint off the statue. This has caused conservators the world over to pale at the thought of the potential damage to the work's patina.
This is not the first time one of The Thinker has been attacked. The most famous occasion was at the Cleveland Museum of Art back in 1970 when a pipe bomb was stuck between The Thinker's feet and blew them apart on detonation. Remarkably the Museum decided to leave the sculpture on display in its damaged state as a memory of the civil unrest that had swept America at that time. The damaged work is still on view and is cared for by the Museum like any other of their sculptural works with regular cleaning and rewaxing.
Another recent attack on The Thinker was more prosaic. Thieves attempted to cut up a smaller sized version of the work owned by the Singer Museum in Netherlands for the resale price of the bonze. Stupid really as the bronze at that time would have only fetched around $600 while there was a $1.66 million valuation on the sculpture itself. Panicking when they realised they had nicked a high profile artwork the thieves buried it in a garden. It was later recovered but unfortunately the other six sculptures stolen at the same time did not escape the melting pot.Images: The Thinker top to bottom, Argentina, Cleveland and The Netherlands


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Like the previous games, Pokémon Black & White have dozens of Technical Machines and Hidden Machines for you to use. However, unlike past games, the TMs of Unova do not disappear after use and can be used time and time again at no extra cost. This means that all of the TMs can only be found once within the game which can make some of them very hard to find..
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