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Monday, July 21st, 2008
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7:35 pm - The Dark Knight
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Saw it.
Three things:
1) James Bond Trailer = OMG
2) Jack Nicolson just got showed up. Big Time. Ledger was great in Brokeback, but I gotta say, he is just flawless as Joker.
3) If you're going to go out and spend $50 to see a movie in the theatres just once this year (complete with the barrel of popcorn and keg of cola)... this movie is definitely, definitely worth it.
current mood: Awed
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| Saturday, July 12th, 2008
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1:40 pm - Bleh...
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Well, I was hoping to be in waterloo today for Xmas in July, but I've been up half the night with some kind of stomach flu or something, and am not feeling any better today.
Sorry I missed the festivities =(
current mood: Sickley
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| Monday, June 23rd, 2008
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6:04 pm - This is why you hire professionsal translators...
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What do you get when you take StarWars episode 3, and subtitle it with the english translation of the chinese translation of the original movie?
Stuff like this:
...or this:
...or this:
There's more - a LOT more - here.
Go look. Seriously. I have tears streaming down my cheeks I'm laughing so hard, and I"m about halfway through.
current mood:  silly
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7:55 am - George Carlin
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Probably having a beer with the Buddy Christ right about now...
current mood: /sad
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| Monday, June 16th, 2008
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5:42 pm - Daily dose of snark.
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| Sunday, June 15th, 2008
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7:59 pm
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Now THIS is a rain storm!
Update: Which then turns into a very pretty sunset. Heh.... gotta love Gaia
current mood: [matrix]woah[/matrix]
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| Friday, June 6th, 2008
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6:00 pm - A plant that tells you when it needs watering = Great!
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A plant that looks like it's going to kill you while you sleep = PURE WIN.
(from here)
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| Monday, May 26th, 2008
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8:16 am - Someone in Toyko is VERY happy right now...
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| Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
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4:40 pm - DT TO INFO
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Anyone able to reccommend a good (aka <$30) haircutting place in the downtown area of Toronto? I'm looking for something along the lines of a First Choice or Mastercuts.
Paying $40 for something that's done largely with a buzz razor and attachment is bull.
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| Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
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7:11 pm - Get out yer tinfoil hats...
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HAVE THE BRAIN SLUGS LANDED ON EARTH?!?!
IS SARAH JESSICA PARKER THEIR QUEEN??!
YOU DECIDE!
current mood: Amused to no end
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| Friday, May 9th, 2008
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11:11 pm - Food for Thought.
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So, before I could move into my new place, one of the Condo building's requirements that I have tenant's insurance - in case, you know, I have one of my wild sex parties and someone accidentally falls through my floor-ceiling window. Or something.
In any case, this spurred an accounting of every single item of consumer whorism to be tallied up. When you make a list of everything you own - from your bed to your boxers - it's amazing the amount of cruft you can accumulate in a short period of time. Especially on a student buget.
That accounting spawned a further accounting... as I was unpacking all of my books, I began to notice that some of them had fairly significant personal value: the collectors edition of the Hobbit, which my father read to me when I was young; my collection of David Eddings novels which I have read more times then his editors probably did; the copy of Redwall book my mother gave me when I got my appendix out; a book of poetry given to me by my grandmother before she died.
These trips down memory lane prompted the following: a complete database of every book I currently own, and have read at least once - mostly. Some still have bookmarks in them, others are old uni textbooks I'll never pick up again (Anyone like Jane Austin?).
They say you are what you eat. To hell with that. In this, the era of instant information and knowledge at your finger tips, what makes "you" you is far more the sum of what you've read.
And so, I give you the recipie for me.
( Because your Friends Page would hate me if I didn't... )
If your scandolized because I've clearly missed out on the best book ever written, let me know. Sci-fi and fantasy always captures my interest. My mother always asks for xmas ideas, and I never know what to suggest. =P
I'm also quite certain this isn't a complete omnibus... I can vageuly recall having to empty a bookshelf of mine in the distant past. I think there's a good couple boxes down in my parent's basement waiting to be unearthed.
current mood:  full
current music: 222, just to save you from counting =P
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| Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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6:36 pm - Of merit.
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Well, long time no update. I am still alive, I promise. It’s just been a long while since I’ve had anything of merit of actually writing here… and then, once I did, I didn’t have the time or energy to actually get around to writing about it.
The short of it is that I have moved out of Waterloo, and have stopped working for Starbucks. In an amazingly short period of time, I blasted through an application/phone interview/on-site interview process and was awarded a new full-time position with CIBC in Toronto - which resulted in a whirlwind week of apartment hunting, mover hunting, painter hunting, and furniture browsing, and ultimately resulted in my current situation: I’m a 9to5 cube-dwelling zombie slave employee living in a bachelor pad.
( The long of it is… )
I’ll look into hosting a house-warming at some point, as well as tossing up some pictures of the place – but I’m still getting things settled down on this end. I’ve got another IKEA delivery coming on Friday, thanks to their delivery company’s ineptness (basic delivery tip #1: never drop boxes in front of the customer. They will make you take it back. Duh.)
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| Saturday, March 29th, 2008
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9:31 pm - The Short Version...
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I has a job.
It is not at Starbucks.
It is in Toronto.
It starts very soon.
I has an apartment.
I also has a house.
The apartment is all kinds of awesome.
The house is sadmaking.
I am stressing out.
I has a job :)
current mood: Sleeps. I needs some.
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| Saturday, March 8th, 2008
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8:33 pm
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This is all kinds of awesome.
I love winter, really I do. I just shoveled away about a foot of snow, walked over to Starbucks for a hot chocolate (well deserved, I thought), came back, and we had another 4 inches of snow already! Stopped by at ValueMart with ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) northstar83. We bought Sparklers, and danced with them through the snow. We scared people into crossing onto the other side of the street. People in a pizza joint were pointing and laughing. Good times were had by all!
The snow is litterally up to my knees in places! This is SO very, very awesome!
Also: I made a snow angel. It was fabulous.
current mood:  *glee!*
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| Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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1:22 am - Juno
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Wins teh internets. All of them.
At once.
Delivered by a legion of lolcats.
In a bucket.
See it. Now.
Now.
current mood: NOW
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| Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
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11:13 am
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Ho-Ley fuck it's cold out there! The wind made walking to my 6 am shift all that more miserable.
On the upside, yay for quiet shifts!
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| Thursday, January 24th, 2008
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2:49 pm - Virtual Reality Via the Wii(mote)
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Probably not something that will interest anyone who isn't a massive geek, but frankly, this is one of the coolest things I've seen in a while when it comes to user-interactivity with tech devices.
found via Penny Arcade
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| Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
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12:58 pm - Gay =/= Organ Donor
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Gay men can't donate blood, which is a standard in Canada that's been around for a while.
Now - thanks to Health Canada's newest guidelines - we can't be organ donors either.
From: http://www.thestar.com/News/article/292289
A Health Canada regulation that bans most gay men from donating organs is scientifically unjustified, virtually unenforceable and could worsen critical transplant shortages, a prominent Toronto AIDS doctor says.
The regulation, which took effect in December and closely resembles blood-donor guidelines, prohibits organ donations from sexually active gay men, intravenous drug users and hepatitis victims. Feel unwanted yet?
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| Monday, January 7th, 2008
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2:27 am - I'm looking for some help from you K/Waterlooians with a culinary flair...
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I'm looking for a fairly decent cheese shop, for a couple of specific cheeses that I've had trouble locating in the Waterloo area:
- Ginger Stilton
and
- Kefalograviera or Kasseri cheese.
Anyone who leads me to the obtaining of either of said cheeses will be my hero =)
current mood: Cheesy
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| Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
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12:41 am
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Taken from many links... my reaction follows.
From: http://quakerclass.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-privilege-do-you-have.html
And based on an exercise developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you participate in this blog game, PLEASE acknowledge their copyright.
If you post this in your blog, please leave a comment on this post.
BOLD WHICH APPLY TO YOU:
( Cut for brevity )
Despite the fact that the vast majority of things there are bolded, I still hardly think of myself of privileged. Lucky, for damn sure I will fully admit to. I fully acknowledge the fact that without my parent's substantial help, I would never have made it as far as I have.
In part, I think my view of what is "privileged" is skewed due to the type of people I went to high school with. Privileged to me is wrecking three brand new BMWs in two years, and still having my parents buy me a Porshe at graduation. Privileged is having not only a mansion on a several-acre lot, but also a house in Florida and a cottage in the mountains. Privileged is knowing that I'd never really have to work a day in my life, and thus could instead concentrate on doing drugs between class. Privileged to me is actually owning not just a pony... but several, and a ranch on which to house them. Hell... I shared a classroom with Conrad Black's son - and very nearly with one of the Hanson brothers (if the rumors were true).
In the school culture in which I lived, I very much shared the same social class as the teachers... and was thus upon the lowest rung on the social scale in comparison to my classmates. I was the underdog in wealth and sports... so I put my effort into wiping the field with the lot of them in Academics - and did a fair job of it, which really didn't win me many friends. To this day, if you really want to kick me where it hurts, make me feel like an idiot in some way... most other things will wipe right off my back.
But, back in a roundabout way to the topic at hand... I suppose I am privileged by some standards, and I don't much want to be privileged by the standards I saw in high school. The best I can do is try not to waste it.
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