I just played a hockey game and didn’t realize it was a playoff game ’til after it was over! Not only does half the team not show up … but here we are with the lead taking it easy and then all of a sudden we’re down a goal and I’m still taking it easy.
I will forever wonder if knowing would have actually made a difference.
Between reading Moneyball (it’s been a while since I’ve read something that I find this difficult to put down), playing Resident Evil FIVE!, watching amateurs play guitar on youtube, hockey three times a week, and a couple of big projects I’m working on at work and home, I was still able to fit in some Hotdoc films with Miranda.
Let’s Make Money – Austrian documentary about the ravenous pursuit of wealth by Eastern countries and the World Bank with absolute disregard for anything else, leaving Third World states in a constant downward eddy of their own unrepayable debt.
Quite long-winded and slightly boring, with the only really interesting tidbit being a review of the Spanish housing bubble. Other interesting tidbits included why the US dollar is so important – because it serves as an oil standard, and how the offshore accounts of Jersey damage Third World profit.
2 stars out of 5.
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When I first read about the constantly growing microbloggin’ phenomenon of Twitter, not unlike when I first explored the “friend” phenomenon of Facebook, I could only roll my eyes in the disbelief that people could be so narcissistic, self-consumed, and have really nothing better to do than write banal commentary on their lives 24/7.
I was having dinner one day with some family and Brian brought up Twitter. Well, before I could get in a word about how dumb I thought it was, he pretty much explained why it wasn’t.
“It’s not supposed to be used like a facebook status!”
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I’m not really a fan of country music but after Miranda let me borrow her Taylor Swift CD, since I have pretty much overplayed all the CDs currently in my car, I embarrassingly admit that I’ve become a fan. Even though all her songs are about very teenage things, there’s a certain honesty and maturity in her lyrics and her voice ain’t bad.
So after 40 plus hours of GTA IV in-game play, plus countless more hours playing on-line, I finally noticed this shop beside the comedy club in Algonquin:
I didn’t think too much of it until I saw this. More: Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve posted my Paris pics in the gallery, but if you feel going through vacation pics boring, at least check out the Segway shots. Most awesome.
Also, check out the France stitches. I put together over 60 of them but only those you see in the gallery made the cut. Here are my favorites:
6. Notre Dame. 
Standing further back is one of the few ways to get something picturesque without throngs of tourists in your way. The two-pic stitch also produces less distortion. More: Read the rest of this entry…