Day: September 25, 2006

Hey hey, we all know Jen is anxiously awaiting a review of her shindig on this blog so without further adieu…

Saturday night brought us to a little Carling Hi-rise apartment action. At first I was thinking this was a place where I will come out and my car would be jacked, but it turned out to be a decent spot (at least once we got inside and not in the dark, dark parking lot in the back!). Jen’s new apartment is pretty wild. I enjoy the window connecting the kitchen and living room – always a must.

THE VIEW! The view is pretty cool. She is right next to the Queensway and on the 21st floor so you get to stare at the traffic. But the city is a cornucopia of bright lights, haze from the outlying suburbs (hello Orleans!) and just an amazement to marvel at. I heard it’s even better during the daytime where you can see the entire city with the Gatineau hills running along the edge. Beauty! Who says the world isn’t better from the top?

Lot of treats to fill up on so this guy was feeling pretty bloated after a few hours of gorging. I chatted tech talk with Duncan and Matt for a bit and then I was introduced to one of the finer game shows in this world – Deal or No Deal. AWESOME! So simple, yet so beautiful. The makes of a great show, and Howie Mandel can do no wrong. We all love Howie. “Oh, this is a really good first deal if I must say so.” Do say so and let everyone laugh at the lowest possible deal there ever was!

I also stumbled upon Episode II on a French channel which still didn’t earn the appreciation of Vero. So I switched it over to Terminator 2 which I haven’t seen in years but could quote every line from. After 30 minutes, we decided to call it night.

Pros: Awesome food, great company, excellent hostess (with the mostess!)
Cons: Matt having to leave because he is lame and had to go to bed around 9.

Thanks to Jen for the wicked cool door prize gifts on our way out! They will make a great addition to the house! To those who couldn’t make it to the party – suckas. We got the goods…what do you get? Nothing.

Update from my previous post here.

I haven’t heard anything from Black’s Photography yet, but I wanted to share you an important article that my friend Maren sent me.

Click here to read it.

Essentially, the provincial government of Ontario is looking to ban expiry dates on gift cards/pre-paid cards from stores as they screwing the customer. Alright, I’m paraphrasing here.

I find it surprising that something that affected little-ole-me is actually a giant issue within our provincial government. I can only say that I support them in their venture to abolish this practice.

This weekend I had an impromptu splurge moment and decided that I was sick of downloading a new TV show only to have the error “ERROR: YOUR HARD DRIVE CAN’T FIT THIS SWEET, SWEET EPISODE OF ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. YOU SHOULD LEARN HOW BURN STUFF ONTO DVD, BLANCO NINO.”

Burning stuff onto DVD is fine and all, but hey, why bother when you can pick up a snazzy external 320GB hard drive?

I was doing some research here and there on my trusty price checking websites -> pricenetwork.ca and redflagdeals.com
and at first was thinking of buying a SATA2 hard drive for $108 and an external hard drive case for $60 which basically comes out to $200 and I just realized I’m starting to talk techtalk so I’ll tone it down a little.

Then to compare I thought I would see if there are any external drives out there for cheaper and lo and behold, Best Buy had this sweet deal on for $119.99 with a $50 mail-in rebate. You gotta hate those rebates, but whatever. It’s still money in your pocket.

Pros: Well hey, it’s portable! It looks nice also. It’s also cheap.
Cons: Well, it isn’t SATA (Serial ATA) which cuts down on the speed it will transfer data at. But as I was saying to Duncan and Matt, I’m not too concerned with the milliseconds piling up over time (whereas Duncan was totally against this train of thought and wanted the fastest within a reasonable price range. Two different ways of thought, who knows who is right?!). Who cares if it’s going to take me ten more minutes to transfer an entire season of Star Trek onto the hard drive?

Also, I was a little concerned at first as to the name brand – Digital Research Technologies? Who the heck are they? Turns out they are an affiliate of I/O Magic and just slap random hard drives inside. Turns out it’s a Seagate inside which I have no qualms about.

So it’s my first external drive so I’ll let you know if I run into any problems with it. I bought it because I figured in the future, I will be buying a laptop and the hard drives on the laptop are very small in size for what I like to be able to do with them.

“One young woman admitted she and her friends went so far as to bury several bottles of liquor near the fountain more than a week before the concert and planned to dig them up once they got inside.”

Awesome. Why have I never thought about doing something like that for an outdoor show? In fact, next time Lumberjack Fest rolls into town, I’m planting a keg behind the glass.

Taken from this article.