Line Rider

This game is incredible. I can't wait for the DS version. Play it here.

more proof that I'm a man child

My new flying toy:

Mii in the cold.

Last month, there was a freak snow storm and I got a Wii.

Movies seen at the VIFF (by personal ranking)

1. Little Children
2. The Host
3. Paris, Je t'aime
4. The King and the Clown
5. The Fountain
6. Day Night Day Night
7. Slumming
8. The Queen
9. Beauty in Trouble
10. Jindabyne
11. Colour Me Kubirck
12. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
13. Everything's Gone Green
14. Wide Awake
15. The Post-Modern Life of My Aunt
16. Milarepa
    
17. Expiration Date
    

In related news.....

Today, I spotted a person drinking Coke Blak which hasn't been available in Vancouver . It felt as if I had stumbled upon some sort of mythical creature.

Of Montreal sells out and does an Outback Steakouse commercial for a lifetime of free steaks and bloomin onions. So would I.

I just saw an Outback Steakhouse commercial featuring a rework of Of Montreal's "Wraith Pinned to the Mist (And Other Games)". "Let's pretend we don't exist. Lets pretend we're in Antarctica" is ever so subtly replaced by "Lets go to Outback tonight. Life will still be there tomorrow." It was one of most the most awkward moments in advertising ever. Whether or not being on an Outback Steakhouse spot boosts an artist's cool factor like being on The OC does remains to be seen.

Currently Listening
Woke Up New
Get Lonely
The Mountain Goats

Japanese Waffle Ice Cream Bar

This is wonderful. How I didn't discover it until now is beyond me.

My spoon is too big. I am a banana.

I'm sorry but we're out of the beef.

Airlinemeals.net is a really great site.

Antec P180

This is the literally the coolest case ever.

13 Tzameti

13 Tzameti is one great snooty, pretentious, award winning, noir, black/white, French film about Russian roulette.

Who do I think I am? Andy Rooney at the end of 60 Minutes?... well maybe.

Ever notice that customer reviews at online retail stores are almost always favorable to the item in question? A few weeks ago, I bought two spindles of 15 Fujifilm dual layer dvds on sale for 60% of the regular price. When I went about trying to burn them, my DVD drive spat the disks out saying that they were incompatible. I did a little Googling on the DVD-Rs in question and saw that multiple forums had noted that the discs were highly incompatible with the majority of dual layer dvd-/+r drives out there. As I am in Canada (where stores seem to have a bigger fetish with returns than sales), I had no trouble returning the discs so that's not where I'm going with this. Being the good Samaritan that I am, when I returned home from returning the said items I submit user comments for the product on Futureshop's site warning people of the media's low compatibility. It's been a month and my comments are still not posted.

I just did Futureshop customers another favor by submitting comments on an external hard drive that has been known to fail after several months of use. Whether my comment is added to Futureshop's collection of glowing reviews remains to be seen.

There's a pattern emerging here. Sales are often a way to get rid of bad products just like the daily special at your favorite restaurant is just a ploy to use ingredients that will soon expire. This is no brilliantly original epiphany on my part. It's just something we often overlook in our quest to find a good deal.

[sigh]

OMFG it's a pickle!

It's sad that I've been taking content off of boingboing so often, but this is good. As a child, I recall having a fear of plants (botanophobia). I was also terrified of Big Bird (of Sesame Street fame not large birds), but there's no word for that.

Best aerobics/kareoke/english lesson video ever!

..and you thought video games were expensive.

As much as I appreciate a finely crafted toy, the price tag on this is as astonishing as it is ridiculous. If this were on The Price is Right, I would be wrong.

I got a treadmill.

An unfinished painting.

I did this six years ago in high school. I graduated before I could finish it. When I get my own apartment again, I'll finish it and hang it up in the bathroom. If only I could find that tiny source photo that I cut out of an old National Geographic.

Geez. Good job ruining a good game hacker guy. With that attitude, you'll never have skills like this guy.

Cab driver mistaken for online paper news editor.

So that's what they mean by shared bathrooms.

"The bathroom that we had in our room felt haunted. There were chills felt by a few people in our group with feelings that something was there. Perhaps it is the positioning of the mirrors in the bathroom. But the feeling is uneased. I have stayed at many hotels around the world and this is the first one that we have ran into like this. We will never stay at this place every again even if it is FREE." - AYahoo!User

Yikes! Tiny rooms, no AC, AND shared/haunted bathrooms! It's probably just that particular bathroom, but maybe I should cancel and book elsewhere.

I miss talking to Dr. Sbaitso. He came bundled with my Creative Labs Sound Blaster pc sound card in the early 90's. Shrinks do exactly the same thing for a lot more money.

Something to check out in SF

Who knew Steven Seagal had a band. If he's as good at singing as he is at being an action hero and designing knives, he is a truely talented man and this should be a good time. If this carrer path works out for him, it would give other fading stars like Chuck Norris, Jean Claude Van Damme, and Dolph Lundgren (He-Man The Movie) inspiration to do the same. Idealy, the end result would be them teaming up and releasing an album as a foursome with a hit single titled "We used be action stars" featuring rap interludes by DMX (who previously worked with Seagal on a hit movie). They wouldn't be able to call themselves "Seagal, Norris, Van Damme, and Lundgren" though since the name doesn't have a ring to it like "Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young".

This is a great little free countdown clock app.

These are some pretty amazing examples of the Rube Goldberg effect (each followed by a jingle of some sort that gets progressively more annoying after every listen).

In other news, Food Jammers has to be the best cooking show on Canadian TV.

One of my eyelids has been twitching constantly for the past two days.

Currently Listening
Return to the Sea
Islands

Currently Listening
Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Andrew Bird

How aboot that, eh?

I'm probably the only person that remembers it, but I miss the Arch Deluxe. It was a fantastic burger.

The guy wanted a camel. I gave him his camel.

I've done five versions of this travel collage for work. No approval on this one either, but I did get a few chuckles with having the beach directly in front of the Niagra Falls. Notice the one brave person making his way towards the fall. If it were up to me though, I would do away with the collage idea completely and opt for really nice panoramic shots of different destinations on each page. Simple design. Some people just don't understand the concept.

Speaking of furniture,

I bought BENNO media storage towers from IKEA this weekend.

This is like one of those get-the-same-look-for-less sections in lifestyle magazines (only that the two items shown are only mildly similar).

Forget robots. Soon monkeys will do the work of humans. Monkeys are awesome.

Belle & Sebastian at the Commodore Ballroom on March 24 sold out quickly. Crappy.

How to turn a coworker into a makeshift unicorn.

Mr.JPG: how's life in the new office
Jay: this is the most wonderful place in the world
Jay: the only thing its missing are unicorns
Mr.JPG: get an ice cream cone and place that in kelvin's head. then you should find one after
Jay: haha
Jay: it'd have to have ice cream too for it to work
Mr.JPG: sorry. then it will over budget.
Jay: I'll just use tape
Mr.JPG: what is unicorn doing now
Jay: drinking coffee
Jay: they can't go a day without coffee
Jay: even if it's only decaf
Jay: unicorns just like the taste

A new year, a new hobby.

I've decided to collect those plastic grass garnishes that you find in Japanese entrées. My goal is to line my cubicle with them to create the illusion that I'm in a field. I will most likely forget to take the garnishes while dining in Japanese restaurants and only do it when I get takeout to eat at my desk so it will be slow going.

Currently Listening
Apologies to Queen Mary
By Wolf Parade
I'll Believe In Anything

No comments for you!

I've removed all comments on this page because all I'm getting are ads and one person that can see right through me and offer deep, earth shattering observations like:

"Still looking for stupid quirky shit to make up for you being so uninteresting huh?
Good luck with that."

The sad part is, the dude is probably onto something worthy of a thesis or a television news magazine segment on the boring lives behind "quirky" blogs. However, even if I'm using this strictly as a means to compensate for something (much like a fancy car or huge biceps) so what? It's effing fun so thanks for the words of encouragement and lets leave it at that chief.

Materials used to craft the makeshift grappling hook below: model airplane, shoe string, tape

This is evidence that the person that used to dwell in my new cubicle had way too much fun at work.

Now I can roll up paper clips, whales, city blocks, etc. on the flight home.

I just picked up a copy of Katamari Damacy for the PSP in Hong Kong. It even has an english instruction pamphlet. Wooptydoo.