..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.