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Best Customer Service Feature Ever?

Called Bell Mobility….automated messages scrolling by the soundscapes.

What’s this? All the operators are currently busy? Surprise, surprise.

What’s surprising is that I can opt to have THEM call me back when they are available. All it took was me to input my number, hit the pound key, speak my name and hang up.

Granted, this is one minute ago. Who knows if they will ever call back…

iplaying: (some song that I cannot really identify because Benoit did not label the song titles) by Keane. Keane is pretty good actually. I’m digging it.

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Nickelback are Back

You can’t beat Beer O’Clock.

February 18, 2006. I swear they came around this same date two years ago. Three years ago? I’ve lost track.

Excellent show. This is rock.

And their new album may be my fave of them.

MASSIVE UPDATE!!! LIVE IS TOURING WITH NICKELBACK! WHOA!

Whoever is interested in going, let me know. I’m ordering tix on Saturday.

iplaying: Radio Song by JET

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Review: Superman III

Worst.movie.ever.

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The Morning Show – Episode #3

Tada! Seeing that I would only be teasing you with the potentially non-working Episode #2, I thought I would be nice enough to post the next episode of the escapades of Bob and Jethro.

Download here.
Original Airdate: November 14, 2001
(13.9 MB AVI File)

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The Morning Show – Episode #2

A story about Episode #2 of the Morning Show.

Being new to the webcam technology, we decided to videotape Episode #2 into an executable file in case people didn’t have any .avi file playback software installed.

So…it worked. A little. Actually, it was pretty horrible. Really small. Remember that this was also filmed back in 2001. I believe it was on a WIN2000 machine. So along comes Windows XP and I’ve never been able play Episode #2 ever again.

I am posting Episode #2 here, but for the life of me, I cannot watch it anymore. If anyone out there can, let me know! Perhaps we can figure out a way to transfer it to a common video format.

A synopsis for the people who can’t see it: Bob and Jethro talk about milking a moose.

Download here.
Original Airdate: November 13, 2001
(2.72 MB, Logitech e-mail video player format – probably won’t work for you. Move onto Episode #3!)

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Review: Superman and Superman II

So…was over at Eric’s on Friday night (which was excellent…had some great dinner prepared by Annie, had a few beers, power went out, jammed in front of the fireplace for three hours…essentially, an excellent night) and he lent me the first season of Smallville and I mentioned that I had never seen the Superman movies.

Yes, yes – I have never seen the Superman movies. I don’t know why…I just haven’t.

Anyhow, other than hearing that they are very cheesy, I must admit that I enjoy the first two. Duncan was talking about how they are essentially one giant movie split into two parts. I liked how they show the wit of Lex Luthor (aka, having Superman save the day in two places at the same time…how can he do that?!) and having Supes kick some Kryptonian ass in the form of Zod and his cronies. Two thumbs up for the movies…I will check out Part 3 and 4 this week, however Eric really warns me that Part 3 is pretty lame.

Then I’ll check out Smallville which I’m pretty excited for. I remember watching Lois and Clark when I was younger and it was great. The chronology may be screwed up between all the TV series and the movies, but who cares? Heck, chronology is always messed up in the comics.

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Yay! Row 22 – Floor for the Coldplay concert on St. Patty’s Day. Can I be any more happy?!

I had a meeting this morning so couldn’t personally try and get tix, but when I got back to my office I discovered a string of emails stating that no one could get tix. NOOOO!

Turns out that they were playing a cruel joke on me and let me know the moment before I was going to order a single ticket in the 300 Level.

Excellent. Awesome. I’m stoked.

nowabouttobeplayingintheboxo’music: (insert any freakin’ song) by Coldplay

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Joelle and I @U2

Here’s a great pic taken by Benoit’s camera phone of Joelle and I at the U2 concert!

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Baker Palmer

Yesterday, I spent the entire day baking 60 loaves of bread for some fundraising activities at work.

Spencer and myself showed up at John’s place at 8:00 sharp to begin the day with no expectations other than John telling us we will work like dogs.

John used to own his bakery and now has his own stone stove in his backyard. We spent the morning learning how to mix the ingredients of bread, the science of it all…kneading the bread, letting it rise, cutting, weighing and then finally placing it into this giant brick oven (aka the haven of heat).

This was a great learning opportunity for me as I had no idea how much work was put into actually baking something. I am a simple man with simple needs. No way would I ever have to make 60 loaves of bread for myself.

We had a great day and even though my feet were sore after standing for 7 hours (felt like I was back at Wal-Mart!), I was impressed with our work accomplished and thought that this may be the greatest thing I’ve done all year.

I encourage everyone to take a workshop in baking bread. It’s interesting and you’ll never go buy another loaf of that sliced stuff in the stores. Bah!

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Review: Hurst and Theory of a Deadman at Capital Music Hall



I would like to point out how much of a difference a handlebar moustache makes to a man.

I thought Tyler Connolly was a freakin’ old man when they hit the scene years ago…now he looks like a kid without his el moustachio.

Night started with Mike over at Vero’s having a few beer while we debated what the heck my references are supposed to look like in my essay. Stupid references.

Went over to the Capital Music Hall where Hurst hasn’t started up yet. Too bad they were sold out of Theory autographed pics…I would have snatched that up quickly.

Had a few beer during Hurst’s set…Trevor Hurst is the frontman of this band and was the singer from Econoline Crush from years back. The set was intermixed with their own tunes as well as catering to the Crush fans. Excellent! Very impressed with them. Picked up their EP for $5 and got it autographed by the band at the end of the night.

After their set, I realized that the beer must be interacting with the Advil Cold & Sinus that I was taking since I felt like I was in some dream state while chatting with Mike.

Highlights of the night with Theory:

  • Only a billion picks were sacrificed at this concert
  • Excellent setlist
  • Band has come very far as a touring machine ever since we saw them at Barrymore’s awhile ago. It was a pre-Gasoline release so we got to catch the new rocking tunes the first time out. Here’s where I go on a rant about how the true fans show up at the beginnings of the band touring…but as soon as they release a few hit singles (read: Santa Monica), the crowd increases twofold with the fans of the radio singles. Is this a bad thing? Heck, the band has to get their fans from somewhere. But I find it awkward to see a band at this stage since the crowd doesn’t seem to know how to interact at a rock show. “Am I supposed to give the devil sign now? What about jumping up and down? Am I bothering the person next to me? Oh no…I look like a goof when I do that. I’ll just stand still.” Let me the bearer of good news…go nuts at a rock show if you feel like it. If you don’t, then don’t. There’s nothing wrong with that either. But don’t hold back. The band wants to see some spirit in you. They want to know their music as a whole makes you move and not just their one hit single.
  • Waiting near the stage at the end of the night and nabbing the setlist. Saweet!

All in all, I love this band, I think Gasoline is my favourite album of 2005. It may show up on my top 10 list this year at the top.