Beer is the Reason: BLUE MOUNTAIN 5X7!! WooT!

Blue Mountain.
5 day weekday lift pass, 7 day night lift pass.

Helmet: check
Goggles: check
Gloves: check
Jacket: check
Snowboard boots: check
Snowboard: check
Snow pants: ??? not check.

I've been emphatically been told that I MUST buy windproof, waterproof snowboard pants. I suggested jeans with nylon cover, like I normally wear when skiing, but was shot down. MUST. BUY. SNOWBOARD. PANTS.

Beer is the Reason: Frankenstein ain't far behind

Adult stem cell research looks to be giving a new lease on life for cancer patients. Using the techniques as described in the linked article, the procedure makes sense. Instead of having major invasive surgery to remove a lung, doctors prepped a bronchile tube seeded with stem cells from the patient and replaced that small offending part instead. Now she has both working lungs and is on her way to full recovery.

Next on the agenda is the realization of the three breasted(or was it six breasted) woman from that Arnold movie about mutants on Mars.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081119/health/health_disease_stemcells_lungs_transplant_4

Beer is the Reason: SNOWBOARD!!! IT'S IN THE GAME.

For many years winters have come and gone and I didn't really pick up on any of the sports....until this year. I watch ice hockey, I enjoy analyzing ice hockey but I don't play ice hockey. Maybe because of the fact I don't go ice skating often, averaging about once a year, but I signed up for ice hockey school in the summer and I now play in an adult(beer) league. I may be the crappiest skater out there since I can skate forward, turn and somewhat stop....which is limiting for someone playing D. The other teams probably hate it when I'm on the ice since I also play dirty (hooks, stick lifting) push them around under the pretense of going for the puck and I will level an opposing player if they're skating towards me with their heads down. Averaging about 2 hits a game and the refs can't call me since they're "clean" accidental hits. Suffice it to say I really like playing hockey and I should have started earlier.


The second winter sport actually I can't blame on anyone but myself. I did go snowboarding a few years back and I liked it. I even bought the helmet then because I was intending to take it up. Well I procrastinated and filled that void in by playing SSX, SSX Tricky, SSX3, snowboarding video games. A few years later and you know what I said to hell with it and bought a board and boots. After that I joined the group Torontosnow.com, a dedicated group of people who ski and snowboard and are looking to just have fun. No more excuses, time to hit the slopes and carve it up. I'm hyped and excited.


And I might meet some sno bunnies. :p

Beer is Inglewood Jack!

Beer is the Reason: Quebec has some good Youtubers

Surfing around for some decent stop motion animated transformers movies and came across this director on Youtube.
Patrick Boivin
http://www.youtube.com/user/PatrickBoivin

Evolution of Dance:


Bumblebee whoops Primes ass


Yay, feels like work!


My favourite commentary: Happy Meal!


Jazz has a General problem:


Finally remember this old gem? Interactive too!


This blog has been brought to you by some frenchie Quebec beer that I can't remember the name of right now.

Beer is the Reason: LittleBigPlanet does your math for you

Wow. Just wow. This is so cool it's amazing. Check it out.



A user created a real-time working calculator that accurately adds and subtracts numbers. The level is said to use 610 magnetic swtiches, 500 wires, and 430 pistons. I didn't see what the big deal was until the camera panned up. That's when my mouth hit the floor.

This blog is brought to you by whatever the hell that user was drinking. We could all use some of that.

Beer is the Reason: Hehehe Heroes Episode 4 was goooooood

So.....spoilers I guess. Don't read if you don't want to know what happens this episode. Instead look at this pretty picture instead! Palin called Obama a terrorist! All american presidency candidates are insane! Vote for the ONLY sane choice! Vote Cookie Monster!!






















Okay onto Heroes. Peter if a mutherfucking Villain! Yes!! Maybe this'll make him interesting. Worlds stupidest smart guy proves he's the stupidest smart guy! Exploding Man happens! Claire is a bitch in the future(and a Brunette)! Sylar has a son.....and his name is biblical! Hehehe. A fun episode all around. Y'know, if the writers/staff of Heroes do read 9thWonders I wonder just how much (ego talking now) my posts influenced them eh? Season 1. I was the first to call HRG morally gray on 9th Wonders....and lo and behold he was! I suggested that he was talking orders from above and was just possibly middle management ....and he was! And thus Season 1 was good. Then all the stupid fanboys/fangirls herd came onto 9thwonders and turned it into, oh my god he's so sexy/she's so dreamy! Ship! Ship! Ship! (Relation"ship" stories). The writers decided that they shouldn't listen to me but to bring Sylar back too early(cause he's popular) and it sucked. They listened to the shippers and Season 2 sucked even more. And thankfully the writers strike killed off that season early. Now Season 3 is here and it started off slow, since they had to somehow tie that crappy Season 2 into Season 3. Peter is dead! Claire did the deed! Matt is now becoming less boring and more interesting with his spiritual guide(a turtle! hahaha! Mohinder is Darth Vader! Gabriel takes up residence in the old Bennett household. Maya is hot but still can't act so her 5mins in the episode is welcome. Peter kills Nathan again! Hiro/Ando are finally developing characters! Wooo! Angela Petrelli is still a manipulative bitch. No HRG but Noah makes an appearance. Adam Munro utter, "Hiro, you son of a !!!!"

Pant. Pant. Pant. :D

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Beer is the Reason: TF2 Movie: DEVASTATE!

G1 Transformers nerds unite!! There is a combiner in the second Transformers live action movie and he will Devastate! Obvious enough hint who it is? If not check out this link...

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-movie-9/movie-devastator-constructicon-vehicle-modes-revealed-165952/

Beer is the Reason: You don't shoot homemade iron targets

Guys lucky he's alive.

Beer is the Reason: Donkey Kong is gay

Donkey Kong is gay in Donkey Kong Country. Really. Bet you didn't know that.

Beer is the Reason: for evil telemarketer calls during dinner

...because it's so much fun to stop having dinner conversation to pick up the annoying phone and tell them no I don't want to buy into your stupid life insurance/switch phone plans/goto to the latest rave party scene in the middle of nowhere.  Geez!!

So I've registered my home phone number on the Do Not Call plan.  

I urge all of you that have the same problems to register.   

https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/insnum-regnum-eng

This blog is brought to you by the Anti-telemarketer blog of Canada beer.

Beer is the Reason: Heroes sets up for Villains and Macross Frontier ending = Mecha Porn!

Beers to the fandom in September!!

Heroes Season 3 eps 1 and 2.    Great fun and has more oomph then the entire Season 2 put together.  For a show that was much maligned in Season 2(which I did not like either) it still pulled in a respectable number as compiled by Neilsen ratings, down slightly from Season 2's premier but that's to be expected since Season 2 was suffering the sophomore blues.  Not surprisingly all the casual fans/band wagon jumpers didn't tune in to Season 3.   Still it hit a million downloads via bittorrent hours after airing.  Hmmmm....they must be doing SOMETHING right but let's wait and see what the momentum is come the next episode eh? Episode 3 is focusing on the Villains.  I get this from a GOOD source(Jack Coleman).   Psycho Fire power guy, Psycho Magnetism Guy, Psycho Mailman(Echo) sound guy, and Psycho Earthquake guy.  All escapees from the Company's Level 5 holding cells.   Things are going to go BOOM! 

http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/blogs/guest/the-hrg-files/

Quick synopsis of the cast for S3:

Peter's still a moron but at least Future Peter is willing to do stuff instead of being whiny Peter.

Sucks to be Parkman....but at least he gets to go to Africa.

Claire gets another powerup (no pain) and potentially learns to go on the offensive instead of always being the victim.  At least that's what the hints for this season are.  

Mohinder is still the worlds stupidest smart guy.  I say he's turning into a Butterfly(eps. 2 The Butterfly Effect)

Maya is useless.  Get her off the show!  But Pat wouldn't have anyone to drool over.  zing!

HRG.  Yeah he still rocks.

Elle goes Pi-ka-chu!!!!

Nathan.  God man, stay down!  (snicker)

Hiro.  You got pwned by your dad dude!

Ando goes Hadouken!!!

Sylar.  Hmm...they trying to turn you into a Hero?   Strange bedfellows....

Couple more characters but for me to reveal them would spoiler the show so.....onto Macross!!

Yehehehehehehe.  Transforming Plane Mecha Porn.   That's the only way to describe the final episode of Macross Frontier.  See the crappy resolution Youtube videos below.

And if that wasn't enough they announced the Macross Frontier Movie at the end! Woot! Woot!

Beer is the Reason: Your hippocampus is 10% smaller then wine drinkers! And Vegans have smaller brains.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/Eating_veggies_shrinks_the_brain/articleshow/3480629.cms

Research shows that if you go Vegan your brain gets smaller!  Oh noes!  Going veggie means you turn into a Vegetable!   Oh and Beer does less damage to you brain.   This is why I'm a meat-a-tarian!  

On the other hand if Zombies ever attacked they'd be less likely to go after you.....

Eating veggies shrinks the brain 14 Sep 2008, 0103 hrs IST,AGENCIES

MELBOURNE: Scientists have discovered that going veggie could be bad for your brain-with those on a meat-free diet six times more likely to suffer brain shrinkage. 

Vegans and vegetarians are the most likely to be deficient because the best sources of the vitamin are meat, particularly liver, milk and fish. Vitamin B12 deficiency can also cause anaemia and inflammation of the nervous system. Yeast extracts are one of the few vegetarian foods which provide good levels of the vitamin. 

The link was discovered by Oxford University scientists who used memory tests, physical checks and brain scans to examine 107 people between the ages of 61 and 87. 

When the volunteers were retested five years later the medics found those with the lowest levels of vitamin B12 were also the most likely to have brain shrinkage. It confirms earlier research showing a link between brain atrophy and low levels of B12. 

Brain scans of more than 1,800 people found that people who downed 14 drinks or more a week had 1.6% more brain shrinkage than teetotallers. Women in their seventies were the most at risk. 

Beer does less damage than wine according to a study in Alcohol and Alcoholism. 

Researchers found that the hippocampus-the part of the brain that stores memories - was 10% smaller in beer drinkers than those who stuck to wine. 

And being overweight or obese is linked to brain loss, Swedish researchers discovered. Scans of around 300 women found that those with brain shrink had an average body mass index of 27 And for every one point increase in their BMI the loss rose by 13 to 16%. 

Beer is the Reason: September is going to be a kick ass ride!

Kids are back in school.  Oil prices seem to have dropped slightly.  I've got the final main parts for my home theatre set up.  My birthday apparently is coming up.  Oh and the crown jewel of what was once HD DVD's catalogue is now on BLURAY! 

Yay that's right Transformers Directed by Michael Bay is NOW on Bluray.   The video quality is light years beyond what DVD was able to store, and during a frame by frame analysis by xylon from AVS forums it seems that still picture quality is better then HD DVD.   Watched quality you can't really tell the difference. 

Now for the audio....the BASS is back!  For the brief time I owned an HD DVD player I watched their version of this movie on my THX certified Logitech Z5450's (soon to be replaced by Polk Audio speakers).  It was a showcase movie for the format back then but the audio sound was missing alot of the bass that was present in the movie.   Where was the bassy boom during the EMP attack?  The Autobot's coming to earth?  The city fight?  Well they're back baby!  Feel that floor shake and glass vibrate!  Mmm mmm goodness.  

Next up and also on BLURAY is the legendary first fight between Jackie Chan and Jet Li.  That's right, your chance to enter the Forbidden Kingdom is on September 9th.  Yada yada yada.  All you armchair directors that bitch and whine that they should've done this movie earlier in their careers. That the main story was bad (which it was).  That they were selling out.  You know what?  Who the hell cares?  It's Jet vs Jackie and they're still both freaking amazing.  This was a visual feast for HK Kung Fu fans.  Lots of humor, lots of references to famous old chinese movies, gorgeous scenery and a magical tale of boy meets Monkey King.  

You can somewhat gloss out the obligatory white boy for Hollywood main character since he gets the shit beaten out of him by practically everyone.  Gotta appeal to the lowest common denominator, the North American teen y'know, but the real meat, the main draw is still the fight in the temple between Jackie and Jet.  Yay, when you're that old and the director is still telling you to slow down because your action sequence is still too fast to catch on camera you can criticize.  

September 17 is awesome simply because it's September 17.  'Nuff said.

The hits just don't stop coming.  On September 22, the three hour premier of Heroes Season 3 begins.   The Villains are here!  (and Peter may not be whiny....)  I've seen the first hour and it is good.  I'll blog about it on the 22nd.

And to end off the month comes one of my favorite comic book heros come to life.  Iron Man on Bluray September 30th!   Robert Downey Jr IS Iron Man.

Ah it's a good month to be a Bluray supporter.   As for you HD DVD supporters I'm sure those tears go well with that beer.  Tony Stark says so and he would know.

Beer is the Reason: Adult Musicals are Awesome!

People say that musicals are old fashioned.  That it doesn't get with the times.   I disagree.  Some musicals are awesome.  Loved the production values and music of Sound of Music.  Mary Poppins was fun.  Moulin Rouge was great.  Rocky Horror...eh, doesn't appeal to me.

And then there's these two shows. I'll let them speak for themselves.

(Avenue Q.  Love this show.   Take one Muppets, add a side of sex, and dirty humor.)

Intro:

Internet is for Porn:

Evil Dead: The Musical.  WTFWT???

Houseware Employees:

Beer is the Reason: Why I caved and bought Heroes Season 2 on Bluray

Celebratory beer drinking has to be the reason why the writing for Heroes Season 2 took such a huge dive into the deep end.   

I'm a Heroes fan.  Been one since San Diego Comic Con 2006 when I went to the panel to originally oogle Ali Larter(Varsity Blues) and Hayden Panettiere(Malcolm in the Middle).   Came out as a fan of Greg Grunberg for his funny personality and respected Milo Ventimiglia for giving his "Grunberg is My Hero" shirt to a fan right off his back.

For those who haven't seen Heroes yet....what is wrong with you?  Season One was one of the best shows ever!  First ever obviously multi-racial cast since the original Star Trek,  good acting, nice over arcing main theme and a nasty ass Villain named Sylar all culminating in an explosive finally in New York city.  "Save the Cheerleader, Save the World".  Huge following, huge hit, grass roots movement.  Talk about Heroes, talk about Heroes talk about Heroes.   Obviously I bought Heroes Season One on Bluray(thanks for making me wait Universal/Kenny G.).

Well all this success went to the writers heads and they obviously started imbibing the celebratory beer prior, during, and post writing the episodes because most of it did not have the cohesiveness or the charm of season one.  In fact season two stories remind me of this commerical:

Now imagine the road means "awesome" and replace driving with writing and you have season two.  Didn't go to SDCC 2007 so didn't attend the Heroes panel then but the buzz phrase for that one was "Don't talk about it".  Gee prophetic anyone?  Stories weren't terribly engaging, pacing is off, no over arcing plot, "SuperMan Whiny" is back.  Tim Kring apologized for the season and HRG is still awesome HRG.  At least they got that right.   Despite all my complaints I still bought Heroes Season two on Bluray as well.  Jack Coleman(HRG) ruled Season One in "Company Man" and they really developed his character in Season two when he went to visit his mentor in Europe.  I'll raise a glass to the writers for that one.

Which brings us to Heroes Season three.

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TALK ABOUT IT.

Yup went to the SDCC 2008 panel, ever hopeful for something good and boy did I feel rewarded.  The magic I felt when watching the original SDCC 2006 pilot, which was never to be aired again but because of popular demand is now included in the DVD and Bluray S1 boxsets,  is back.  The shortened writers strike gave the producers the time they needed to get the writers into Alcoholics Anonymous long enough that they stopped drinking and started writing again.   Pilot for S3 showed their results.

Prepare to get your socks rocked on September 22 for the 3hr premier of Heroes Season 3.   Just be prepared for Season 4 to suck since the writers are obviously going to relapse into drinking after this season is over.

This blog has been brought to you by the writers drink of choice Slusho.  

Beer is the Reason: Olympic Boxing Judging is the way it is

There is no way that in almost all the Gold medal fights that the Chinese fighters all won or were kicking their opponents ass.  Watching the replay on NBC.

Case in point first match.  

China vs. Mongolia.   

round 1:  Barely any fighting maybe one or two exchanges.  Mongolia fighter doesn't even really throw a punch.  

round 2: Mongolia fighter coach throws in the towel.

You can see the disgust in the Mongolian fighters body english.  Official statement says he had an "injured shoulder", BS, was ordered by ring doctors to go to the local hospital but refused.  Not suspicious at all.

Match 2:  China vs Ireland

How in the hell did the Chinese fighter win?  Bribery or something close to it.  None of the clear blows that the Irish fighter was landing were being credited while obvious misses were being credited to the Chinese fighter.

Match 3:  China vs Italy

Well....I guess the only way to win is to clearly and decisively dominate the opponent so that the judges can't cheat.

I can't watch anymore of this.  I would have loved it if China won fair and square, and some of their boxers did come out to fight but to be determined by politics is bs.  If this keeps out I would agree that Amateur boxing should be ejected from the games.  This is disgraceful.  Those judges must be bribed or so intoxicated with beer that they can't score right.  That's it, it must be the beer.

It's 2am and this is hilarious

Canada Olympic Medal Haul: to-date 17

I love this little frenchie....and yes she could so kick my ass with both arms and one leg tied behind her back.   Look at her comment it's none of this "I'm happy to be here" crap it's "I'm going to come back and kick all your asses."  She's just awesome.

Sergerie fought her way to Canada's best-ever finish in taekwondo, winning her silver medal in the 67-kilogram event.

The 23-year-old from Ste-Cathérine, Que., lost a close gold-medal bout to the defending and reigning world champion, South Korea's Kyungseon Hwang.

"The gold medal was the dream for me. I'm happy that I have the silver and I hope my country is proud of me, but this silver just pushes me even harder to come back and win that gold medal," Sergerie told CBC.

Finally the medal drought end!

Now this is what I'm talking about!  Finally Team Canada medals and not with 2nd or 3rd but with Gold!   Now look at that smile, look at that pride.  Celebrate that medal because you just became the darling of Canada's Summer Olympic dreams of 2008.

And it didn't end there.  After 1 week of medal drought, Canada, who sent 300+ athletes to Beijing, in two days of competition is bringing back at least 7 medals.  Wrestling, a swimming pool medal(finally), and  rowing.  Lots of rowers.  8 men. 4 men. 2 women. 2 men.

Why are our rowers/paddlers so strong?  One of the commentaries on CBC's website made by Kelsey sums it up nicely.  

It can be argued that our National Team (men & women) have the WORST facilities of any national rowing program in the world - yet we still post these results. Why? Is it because the athletes currently in Beijing watched Derek, Darren, and Terry win Gold in '92 and thought "I can do that." Or maybe it was the story of Silken, or the raw desire-to-win of Marnie and Kathleen that gave them hope. 

Perhaps it is because the these particular athletes do NOT believe that just making the Olympics is a goal in itself... they believe that if you're going to go, you might as well aim for the highest and rarest prize in sport.

Go here for the complete comment.

http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/story/2008/08/17/olympics-yourview-rowing.html#socialcomments

Finally these are soundbytes I wish I heard from all our athletes.  From the 8 men crew:

"We never stopped, we just kept on pushing, every stroke," said coxswain Brian Price.

The reigning world champions were seeking redemption for their crushing defeat in Athens in 2004, when they entered as medal favourites and finished fifth.

"In Athens, it was a very hard fought race. It was one where we were behind, and we had to fight back. Here we dominated, and that is such a testament to what a great crew this was," said Jake Wetzel.

I bet you each and every one of them are married to the prom king/queen.

Big Boom in the TDot.

Forget SF for the next blog. This footage is amazing....and so close to home. Well around 13km/8miles away. I slept through it all. Really. Work is near storage tanks too. Time to transfer.

Back from SDCC 2008 and San Francisco

So what can I say? Merchandise heavy, poorer, and fighting through panels. Exactly what I was expecting Comicon to be.

To start: Exhibition hall. BUSY.

Pros: Lots and lots of booths to go through. Distributors and sellers were out enforce to display their wares. It was great. Free swag everywhere!

Hot cosplay girls. :p

Cons:
This year they added a gaming section to the exhibit hall. As if it wasn't already crowded already with toy booths, comic booths, tv/movie promo booths the left side of the hall was dominated by the Street Fighter IV setup. I love SF and am looking forward to it but come on! Stupid booth took up a big chunk of the aisle.

Add in the fact Hasbro was doing a ticket lineup to get in the buy lineup was annoying as hell.

Stupid fat fans. Don't just stop and stare at something like a dumb deer. If you see something interesting move over to the side! Place is crowded enough as it is without your 300lb fat ass blocking the aisle.

Panels:

Pros: Pleasant surprise were the 24, BSG, Doll House and Avatar panel. Season 4 preview of 24 was so good I now want to watch the previous seasons to catch up. Damn you Comicon! BSG was funny with a large bunch of the cast there. Joss Whedon's Dollhouse was interesting. Avatar was nuts. Soooooo many Avatards. Chibi Momo was awesome. V should have been there. Also had a few panels I really wanted to go to such as the Venture Bros and Heroes.

Cons: Con organisers dropped the ball big time here. In 2006 there were so many interesting and varied panels that the problem people had were which panel to go to and which they would have to miss. This year the good panels were surrounded by SUCK panels so the lineup for the good panels were insane. Didn't get into the Venture Brothers panel since the lineup was huge. Heroes panel lineup started the PREVIOUS day at around 6pm for a 10:45am panel. So being a sucker I lined up at 4am the next morning to get in. As far as I'm concerned Season 3 Eps.1 is awesome. It's like the magic from the 2006 Heroes panel was back. Season 2 obviously sucked ass.

Swag:

Pros: Lots of swag to get. I got some. Royal and Ray got alot.
Super Pros: FREE SWAG. Lots and lots of free swag. Plus I got to see Tropic Thunder early! Awesome Awesome movie! Stiller is great, Black is great, Downey Jr is hilarious. Look for cameos. Alot of cameos. I didn't think that guy was Tom Cruise until he did that Tom Cruise-y type move at the end.

Talk about SF next post. Need food.

SDCC 2008 is almost here!

Quick update since I'll be busy packing and cleaning house before going to .....COMIC CON 2008!!

This time we will NOT be going to Tijuana....but some place that I have to drive.  You'll have to ask Xiao Pang Xi which adventurous spot we're visiting this time.

Oh and we're bringing two other comic con attendees.  Raymond and Royal P.   One of us!  One of us!  One of us!  

Oh and V.  we're going to go find and take many photos with Josh Whedon holding some Avatar merch.  :p

This is Journalism?

KTLA reporter "Not going to give name him so he gets more publicity" made fun of people in line for the iPhone but comes off looking like a jackass.

Am I outraged?  Nah.  He sounds just like the unenlightened librarians that work at TPL.

Beer Day 30: I HAVE THE JESUS PHONE!

Beer Day 30:  The thirty day beer blog has come to an end!

Woo!  To celebrate this momentous occasion I went and got myself the iPhone 3G.  

Yes I bitch, yes I bitched, and yes Rogers still sucks but the concessions they finally gave during the last few days met my maximum $$ criteria so I got it.

Very small lineup when I got to Corporate Head Office store.

I walked out of there with an iPhone later.

Busy playing with it now.   Will decide what to do with this blog later.

This beer has been unofficially brought to you by Corona.

Beer Day 29: CBC Kids Doodlebops

Beer is the reason I got roped into seeing the Doodlebops and CBC today.

Nephews and nieces liked seeing the Doodlebops.  Gotta say they've got alot of energy jumping around on stage like that for that long.

Ya.....that's it.  I should have done this post yesterday but ....ya......

At least it wasn't TreeHouse.

The blog has been unofficially brought to you by Red.

Beer Day 28: Paint an "L" on my forehead.

Beer is the reason:  I showed up for work on my day off....the first day of my five day long weekend.  D'oh!

So a bunch of things happened today.  

1) I go to work as normal.  Wake up at some ungodly hour in the morning(6ish) because of the heat.  Call and wake up co-worker about 7:20ish.  Drag ass out of bed by 7:30am.  Shower and pick up her by 8am-ish.  Drive up for work at 8:30am.   Get to work and look at schedule....er....I'm off for five days??  D'oh!!!  Get commended by managers(joking) for work ethic for coming in on my day off(grrrr....).  Headed home around 9:30.  At least I avoided rush hour traffic.

2) Go to doctors....and find out I popped one of my ribs on Monday.  So THAT'S why there's intermittent pain.   Prescription for anti-inflammatory and have to see him Sat. morning.  Whatever.  Also supposed to rest and not do sports.  Yeah.  That's not happening.  I've got a hockey game tonight.  I'll rest afterwards.  :p

3) Rogers kiosk at Dufferin Mall are idiots.  Helpful idiots but still idiots.   They aren't up to date with iPhone plan info from Rogers on website.   Rogers store at Bloor and Jarvis is much better.  Confirmed that I need a $30 voice plane to buy the iPhone.  Corp plan 1175 covers that if I add in a few extras.   I want data too so I'll pick up the $30/300Mb.   Will line up friday.

4) Rogers news update: Awesome!  Rogers has a limited promo of $30/6Gb until Aug.  Definitely getting the iPhone now.  Obviously with this plan instead of the 300Mb plan.

5) Played hockey.  :p   Lost the 2nd and 3rd period but we for the first period we played them well.  It's only one game.  We'll pick up the next one.   I'm also playing Centre next.  We're definitely going to win.  (Think positive).  :D

6) Bought alot of cold treats tonight.  Nephews and niece are coming tomorrow.

7) and that's it!  Busy day.  Started off with a big forehead "L" and I'm ending it off with some Jessica Alba goodness.  Mmmm mmm.  Into the Blue.  Probably a shitty movie but hey, she's running around in a bikini.  :p  oink oink!

The blog has been unofficially been brought to you by Coors.

Beer Day 27: Random thoughts: Tweaked my back

Beer is the reason:  I tweaked my back...or was it my shoulder muscle?

Sorta painful, more annoying.  Think it's the way I slept last night.  Should be better by tonight in which case I get to mess it up again!  Whee!!  Naw should sleep better tonight.

Rogers iPhone plans still suck.  Rogers CSR says that Corporate Plan 1175 is iPhone eligible with Data.   Hmmm.....tempting.     Rogers still sucks.

Had an ice cream twist with dip for break.  Yum.

Rogers iPhone plans still suck.

This blog has been unofficially been brought to you by Blue.

Beer Day 26: OVER 9000!!!

Beer is the reason:  I got all 5 digitally remastered Dragonball Z boxsets.

Ah Dragonball Z.  Watched it from video rentals in Chinatown.   Awesome show.   A new take on the Chinese Monkey King story except mixed with Superman.  I was years ahead of the anime boom curve and years before DBZ became mainstream because of FUNimation or YTV.

It wasn't the best show, but it was a fun show.

This blog has been brought to you by Kirin.

Beer Day 25: Soldier gets attacked while training

Beer is the reason: this soldier was violated so thoroughly by this German Sheppard.  

I think you may need a myspace account to view but eh what are you going to do?

Soldier Attacked While Training

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=36259022

This blog has been unofficially brought to you by Harp.

Beer Day 24: I do nothing today

Beer is the reason:  I do nothing today.

No checking news sites.  No running around reading up on hobbies.  No looking for anything to bitch at or complain about.  Just sitting back and relaxing and enjoying the weather, ice cream and movies.  

Rogers sucks.

This blog has been unofficially been brought to you by ...not beer today.  Just Breyers Double Churn Mint Chocolatey Chip Ice Cream.

Beer Day 23: iPhone getting hammered in the media

Beer is the reason:  Rogers is so stupid as to not come out with new iPhone plans sooner.  

It's not just the Canadian media bashing Rogers iPhone plans now.   We started with ruinediphone.com and it just escalated.  In Canada radio stations are constantly talking about it, news tv are devoting their tech segment to analysis of why Canadians are hate it(the iPhone plans.  We love the iPhone though), Canadian based internet news sites are trying to be object but failing miserable.   Then comes the INTERNATIONAL bashing.  A Washington newspaper derided Rogers plans.  An Australian newspaper mocked Rogers plans.  The UK are making fun of how THEY aren't screwing their customer base unlike their Canadian GSM counterparts.

Wake UP Rogers.   Like Twisted Sister said, "we're not going to take it!"

We'll go to Telus for the Samsung Instinct or the HTC Touch Diamond or Touch Pro for their SUPERIOR and CHEAPER data/voice plans or we'll go to Bell for the Samsung Instinct(launches slightly earlier then Telus) for their amazingly $15 Unlimited Data plan.

Unless of course Rogers does the two days before launch, "oh those weren't set in stone plans.  Here are our new comparable to Bell or Telus plans" in which case the herd of Jesus Phone afficiondo's charge every Roger/Fido store and buy up the phones.   I admit I would be one too but for now a big "F" "U" to current Canadian GSM companies.

Can't wait for Telus to announce they've got GSM towers like it was speculated  they were building back in January.   Unlike AT&T I don't remember Rogers getting exclusive rights to the iPhone.  Come on Telus we're waiting for you!

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Beer Day 22: Cujo is back with the Leafs

Beer is the reason:  The Toronto Maple Leafs rehired Cujo as the back up goaltender.

I love Cujo when he played here, didn't like it when he jumped ship and am okay with him as backup as long as it doesn't interfere or create problems with the new no. 1 goalie Veska Toskala.  Let's wait and see how this rebuild goes.

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Beer Day 21: Flames versus Lizard Kings! Round one! Fight!

Beer is the reason:  this team pulled together at the end and won the game!  

Woot!  Flames 2.  Lizard Kings 1.   Hahaha!  Looks like I made the right choice when I jumped teams!  

So tired.  But it's a good tired since we won!  WOO!!

Now to watch Enchanted.   It's an interesting movie.  

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Beer Day 20: Yesterdays Blog

Beer is the reason: I went to watch Denise and Co. go running and drink beer at the same time!

Yes, it's the legendary Run for Liquer!   Many competitors enter!  Some will run!  Some will stumble!  Many will fall!  This is the run that will benefit liver research as we watch some destroy theirs for our benefit!   

I'm just disappointed not enough fell on their face.  Oh well.  There's always next year!  Ta!  

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Beer Day 19: Gotta love Telus's L&R

Beer is the reason why Telus rocks!

So here I was thinking of ditching Telus for Rogers shiny new Apple iPhone when Rogers decides to screw everyone over. Uh...yup I'm sticking with Telus see what they'll give me. So talked to J***** of L&R and find out he was part of Clearnet when Telus bought them out. Surprise, I was a paying Clearnet customer when Telus bought them out too. Nice friendly guy. Told him how much I use and what I don't use and that I surfed HowardForums and Redflagdeals. So we chatted and laughed some more (about Rogers insane iPhone plan). So we came out with this plan,

Month to month
Super Talk 10
Information Services Info, Caller ID Free, Outbound Call Dsp On, Basic Voice Mail Free

= $20 tax inclusive. Woot! I'm staying with Telus.

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Beer Day 18: HTC Touch?

Beer is the reason I am looking at maybe picking up the Telus HTC Touch

Since I think that the Rogers iPhone plan is completely unreasonably priced.   Only thing is I have no wish to go on another 3yr contract for a phone I'm not really wanting and I want my phone to go month to month billing instead.  Time to see what Telus L&R is willing to do for me.

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Beer Day 17: Deckard Cain

Beer is the reason:  "And unto the heavens a little hell must fall....or Diablo III!"

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/

Blizzards coming back with the two games that made me love them (and I hate WoW.  Refuse to pay a monthly fee to play software that I've bought.)   Starcraft II was one.  Now the announcement of the return of Diablo!!!   Many a nights were wasted dungeon crawling and clearing out towns with chain lightning spells or Barbarian War cries.   

I am so excited for this as I have already vowed to upgrade my computer for when Starcraft II is released, this is just icing on the cake.    

Would talk more about this but I'm bushed after a 12hr move day.  Might update this tomorrow.  maybe.

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Beer Day 16: Whatever dope Ted Rogers is on I want some

Beer is the reason: why Rogers iPhone plans suck so much ass!

So I'm all hyped.  The Jesus Phone is coming to Canada!  I want the Jesus Phone!  I'm willing to dump Telus, my long time provider to get the Jesus Phone!  Oh it's Rogers?  Well...okay if they can give me the Jesus Phone.  July 11th, Jesus Phone!  Yay!   Rogers:  iPhone plans TBA.

Fast forward to June 27th.  Rogers:  here's how we're going to anally rape you iPhone fanatics. Huh?  Huh?  You still want it?  Baby want some iPhone?  Awwww......you can't get it unless you bend over.   Happy Gay Pride weekend!

See link for iPhone rates.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080627/to363.html?.v=38

FUCKERS.    I was willing to buy it and pay the min. $60 a month for the Jesus Phone but $60 for the bare minimum and a Voice plan that does not include Caller ID or Voice Messaging....F YOU Rogers.  I'm going to see what my customer retention play at Telus will offer me now.

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Beer Day 15: Goooooooooaaaaaaaalllllll!!!!!

Beer is the reason:  for such a nice day.   

Ah sweet bliss.  Living in little Portugal/Little Italy is nice.  Plenty of bakeries, love the custard tarts, beautiful european women in hot clothes, and cafe's and patios all over the place.  

The bad?  EVERY FREAKING SOCCOR CUP YEAR!  Italy?  Go It-a-lia!  Portugese?  Go Portugal!  Portugal out?  Go Brazil!   Wankers, the lot of them. 

The worse?  They freaking drive up and down the street honking their gawdamn horns at 3am on a weekday!  Fuckers!  People work tomorrow!  Shut the fuck up!  AND it's not even the semi-finals or finals!

For so much negativity why is today such a nice day?  Well the first paragraph above is true.  Italy or Portugal making it to the semi finals?  Didn't happen this year!  Wooo!!!!  Peace and quiet at night!  Go Spain!  Go Germany!  Show us what happens when two teams that aren't injury depleted and are playing good soccor can do!!!

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Beer is the reason: that these guys have time to do what they do.

Cans

Coins


Pongs


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Beer Day 13: The TPL PayEquity group should be bent over and fucked up the ass repeatedly with a glowing hot metal rod

Beer is the ONLY reason:  why I ain't throwing rocks through the windows of CUPE local 416's windows for their BULLSHIT pay equity sign off.   

Not saying anymore.    Glad I had beach volleyball and drinks afterwards to get my mind off work.  That is all today.

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Beer Day 12: That the Legendary Baseball Manager is back!

Beer is the reason:  Cito Gaston is back!

This man brings back fond memories of childhood happiness. I was such a big Toronto Blue Jay.  Dave Stieb, Jimmy Key, Tom Henke,  Ernie Whitt, Buck Martinez, Damaso Garcia, Alfredo Griffin, Willie Upshaw, Jesse Barfield, George Bell, Rance Mullinik, Manny Lee, Kelly Gruber, Bobby Cox....etc etc etc.   Such good times....but it all culminated when Bobby Cox left and Cito Gaston became manager.

This is the man who brought us our two World Series wins in 92, 93.  This is the man who brought us WAMCO. White.  Alomar.  Molitor.  Carter.  Olerud.    The baseball strike in 1994 ruined what could have been an all Canadian World Series showdown with Toronto leading the AL and Montreal Expos leading the NL.   The team slowly fell apart after that with egos clashing,  players getting old, and money.  

And now that Toronto was supposed to have a great team again, they falter.    TBJ decide to reach into the past and bring back a legend.  Let's hope that Cito Gaston can bring some of his magic back and get this team back on the winning track.

Let's Go!  Blue Jays!  Let's!  Play!  Ball!

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Beer Day 11: McCain's way of wooing gamers!

Beer is definitely the reason for whoever thought that image to the left was a great way to woo gamer votes.

Wow.  Space Invaders....as porkers.   What the hell?  If you're going to go after the gamer vote you may want to try something a little more ... I don't know, contemporary?  Like...stealing votes ala GTA, or fighting off foreign invaders like Gears of War, or using sexy bouncy as in Dead or Alive: Beach volleyball.   Something within the last decade maybe?

I'm off to play some more Metal Gear Solid 4.   You know to save/stimulate the world war economy by sneaking, assassinating, or smoking my way into your lives.  You know, just like real politicians that game.

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Beer Day 9 and 10: It's the long weekend!

Beer Day 9: Beer is the Reason: that this year's Canada Day falls on a Tuesday.

Like WTF?  Weekend, work, day off.  Couldn't it be a three day weekend instead?  Nooooooo...had to throw in a work day in there somehow. I'll bet you that wherever you work 1/2 the work force is calling in sick.  

Plus I had to work 3 1/2 hrs more today.  Granted it was Overtime but still.   My weekend didn't start until 3 1/2 hrs later then everyone else's!  ...and I've got a shinny game at 11:15pm.  Yay late night games!

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Beer Day 10

Beer is the reason:  I turned into Wayne Gretzky last night.

So shinny hockey was fun last night.  But first I got sorta lost.  See I was looking for Etobicoke Ice Sports just north of Dixon on Martin Grove.  Well I found a CanLan Ice Sports just north of Dixon.  Parked.  Called my brother in law to check the websites for the address of the place.   My phone started running out of power, car battery ran down(good thing I've got that battery jumper in the trunk) and it's 10:30ish; still need time to suit up.  Turns out it's the right place just goes by TWO names.  

So I suit up, and suddenly I'm like Wayne and Lemieux and Crosby combined into one!  Out hustled everyone, out skated the best skater, and deked the G out of the goalie.  It was awesome!  

And a total lie.

I was okay but I did get some compliments from the experienced players.  I've only showed up for two shinny games so far, first one I was horrible, but this one,  I out hustled about 60% of the other team to loose pucks on the boards,  was positioned well defensively for a "forward", did manage to get 3 shots on net.  2 were admittedly weak but the third was okay.   I'm thinking maybe of playing Centre because I'm not that strong skating backwards but my natural position is defence in floor hockey so I know the style needed.  Except for the skating backwards part I think I could play that position well.  Slowly getting the tight turns/hockey stop too.   I need winter here so I can practice skating more then just during Hockey games.

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Beer Day 8: Peace and Quiet! Whooo!!!! Par-tay!!!

Beer is the reason: Germany won today!!!

From the land that brought us Steffi Graf, Bach, Beethovan, Porsche, Mercedes, and Oktoberfest they bring those of us who live near Little Portugal some peace and quiet at night.  Germany 3 Portugal 2!!!    Germany advances!    Whoooo!!!!!   

Tears in those beers boys, tears in those beers.   

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Beer Day 7: Unto a day a brick must fall

Beer is the reason: that can soothe most physical pains.   Okay that makes no sense.  I blame it on beer!

Onto the blog and don't ask how or why I was surfing the T.O. Police website.

Wow.  He must be the luckiest cop in T.O. today.   

http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3588&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Brick strikes officer from 16 storeys Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 03:01 PM  |

A rookie constable got a rude awakening, just before pulling over a car for making a prohibited turn. Const. David Byun was about to turn on his lights to pull over a vehicle at Dundas Square when a brick fell 16 storeys, shattering his windshield and striking him in the lower chest and stomach – under the protection of his Kevlar vest. “My front windshield just exploded,” said the 52 Division officer, out on routine patrol. “I then felt the thump in my chest.” Byun looked down in disbelief to find an intact brick laying in his lap.

I hope he had a beer later cause that's gonna leave a bruise.

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Beer Day 6: Dead Alex Day

Beer is the reason why I should be feeling great but don't right now.

Stealing a page from Megatokyo's Dead Piro Day except my deadness happened after I got home from work.   Got home felt queasy.  Had dinner still felt queasy.  Prepped for Beach Volleyball, felt really queasy.  Called it in.  Took a hot bath and am now hitting the sack.  I blame the finger foods I had for lunch today.   

Now if I had a beer with that finger foods it would've killed all that bad bacteria eh? eh?

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Beer Day 5: Another Wii Fit Youtube review

Beer is the Reason: Nintendo Wii Fit is selling like hotcakes

In my search of more motivation Youtube Wii Fit videos I stumbled across this

gem.

Attractive, athletic, professionally done videos series, AND brutally honest on

how hard the Wii Fit does to replace traditional activities. Like running?
Go outside and run! Like Hula Hoop? Buy a $1 store one and go do it. Fun for
a rainy day game but go outside and enjoy some sunshine you fatty!

Moving right along Diet.com also gives a quick look at how
Photoshop enhances the Hollywood image. Yay Photoshop! Increasing our
expectations for the impossible!

Last Youtube video I like is for ALL us fatties. Incorporate this quick 4min

workout into your daily routine and you'll be shedding pounds in no time.

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Beer Day 4: On the Sunday he played movies and video games

Beer is the reason that Solid Snake is still running around.

Metal Gear Solid 4.   Great game.  You find out Snake is a machine that runs on smokes, octopi and alcohol.   Okay I've no idea.  I'm still messing around in Act 1 while half the worlds already finished this game that came out last THURSDAY.  God sakes people it's only been out four days and you've finished the game?!?   Get YO ASS OFF THE COUCH AND GO OUTSIDE AND DO SOMETHING!  

Or at least do the Wii Fit Girl thing.  Oh wait that requires a girl.

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Beer Day 3: An Act to Amend the Copyright Act

Beer is the Reason:  I'm happy to get a response from a government official, even if I don't agree with the Bill that's being pushed.

Well I recently sent a letter to the Honourable Josee Verner, P.C, M.P. about my concerns about the new Bill -61 that was introduced to the Commons on June 12, 2008.   Here is his reply to it:

The Government of Canada has introduced Bill C-61, An Act to Amend the Copyright Act. The proposed legislation is a made-in-Canada approach that balances the needs of Canadian consumers and copyright owners, promoting culture, innovation and competition in the digital age.

What does Bill C-61 mean to Canadians?

Specifically, it includes measures that would:

• expressly allow you to record TV shows for later viewing; copy legally purchased music onto other devices, such as MP3 players or cell phones; make back-up copies of legally purchased books, newspapers, videocassettes and photographs onto devices you own; and limit the "statutory damages" a court could award for all private use copyright infringements;
  

• implement new rights and protections for copyright holders, tailored to the Internet, to encourage participation in the online economy, as well as stronger legal remedies to address Internet piracy;
  

• clarify the roles and responsibilities of Internet Service Providers related to the copyright content flowing over their network facilities; and
  

• provide photographers with the same rights as other creators.
  

What Bill C-61 does not do:

• it would not empower border agents to seize your iPod or laptop at border crossings, contrary to recent public speculation
  

What this Bill is not:

• it is not a mirror image of U.S. copyright laws. Our Bill is made-in-Canada with different exceptions for educators, consumers and others and brings us into line with more than 60 countries including Japan, France, Germany and Australia
  

Bill C-61 was introduced in the Commons on June 12, 2008 by Industry Minister Jim Prentice and Heritage Minister Josée Verner.

For more information, please visit the Copyright Reform Process website at www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/crp-prda.nsf/en/home

Thank you for sharing your views on this important matter.

The Honourable Jim Prentice, P.C., Q.C., M.P.

Minister of Industry

The Honourable Josée Verner, P.C., M.P.

Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women 

and Official Languages and Minister for 

La Francophonie

I thank him for actually responding to my SOME of my concerns.   Other questions don't fly though.  

Regarding the above letter it says we're able to shift media we bought legally onto our other devices to watch at our leisure, for example DVD movies, but we're not allowed to crack the digital encryption that protect said media thereby resulting in fines.  How does that work if there's no protection against "breaking" that security.  No studios are going to give us the keys to the security software to disable it legally.

Why were we only hearing about the bill days, at most a few weeks, before it was brought before the Commons?  Why the secrecy and no public consultation if it was indeed an in-Canada act.  No pressure from the RIAA or others because they don't like the current digital atmosphere in Canada?   Things that make you go hmmmmmmm.....and if you believe that I've got a bridge that I'd like to sell you.

This post is unofficially brought to you by R.I.D.E.  If I had been drinking last night I would have been in shit.  Thank you Steamwhistle for tasting the way you do.

Beer Diary Day 2: Beach Beer Day

Beer is the Reason: for Beer Opening Sandals.

Now that summer is right around the corner we all have to prepare to go to the beach! It's time to showcase those nice flat abs, skimpy almost indecent outer wear, and cool rock star shades. Now what goes good with pretending to be a rock star is drugs and alcohol. Drugs I'll leave you to get from your local night club. I'll bet that most of the stuff you think you're getting there is actually ASA anyways. Alcohol can be easily obtained at your local LCBO, Beer Store or homeless Wino. How you get it is up to you.

Now that you got your recreational beauty blurring drink of choice what can you do to open those pesky non-twist top bottles while wearing just a skimpy thong and flippers? Reef comes to the rescue with their innovative foot odor enhanced Beer Bottle Opening Sandals. Made using full grain leather uppers that are lined with soft glove leather for comfort with a beer opener built into the bottom it's the perfect gift for the beach bum in your life.

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Beer Diary Day 1: The start of a new era

Hey there true believers this is the first day of the Beer Diary.  Every day for the next 30 days I will put up a completely true or farcial reason why Beer is the Reason something happened that day.

So a little background on this work in progress.  

A group of us met up in a park.   Some of us were sweaty from Tennis.  Some of us were crazy runners.  The following is a true story(somewhat)....

R: Let's go for a beer next week.

Me: what's the reason?  

R: You need a reason for beer?

D: He needs it to put it in his diary....his Beer Diary!  haha

Me:  Yeah I should start up a blog called "Beer is the Reason..." haha

J: That's a totally cool name!

N:  haha!  NERDS!!!!

So Beer is the Reason .... that there's this Blog!

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