Drawing With Strangers
Recently I've been a regular on
Groupboard - a Java applet based whiteboard and chat portal. It's neat seeing how creative people can get together and create some pretty cool stuff. Genre of content ranges from the
obscene (hint: another regular is called "WetFart", and he likes to do "self-portraits") to the
whimsically cute, to the
trendy-street-art of graffiti tags. Actually if you want to see some amazing Internet street artists, you can join in on the action
here, at Cybertagger.com.
Honestly, trying to create art in a vacuum sucks (ha I kill me) and I've drawn more in the last week than I have in the whole last year. It's much more stimulating to watch others draw, learn from their styles or
just have something cool happen (like the odd drawing above).
Yes people come and smash your virtual sand-castle from time to time, but that just forces you to draw quicker, and with wanton abandon. Go crazy! Create fast, don't think, just do!
Published at The Game Chair - Final Review
I successfully had
my third and final review for "Indigo Prophecy" published at
The Game Chair last week. Check it out for my thrilling conclusion.
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Watch Your Head
So I've been trying to post this for the last week, but unfortunately the feature to post original images seems to have been broken. So click on the link above for the non-jaggy version if you care. DNS changes may still be an issue so ... be patient; I just recently migrated to a new system with PwebTech (Pegasus Web Technologies).
Anyway, this is the story of how $1600 turned into $3400. I'm talking about how expensive it can get if you don't watch your head ... gasket. Not that watching it would have helped me, but in any case I'm talking about how I had to get my car repaired. See I've been taking the bus for the last 2 and a half months. Thank god, maybe that helped me save some gas money... because my repair bill sure opened a gaping sucking chest wound in my wallet.
This car place was recommended to me by two different unaffiliated people, so I take my car there. They say it will likely cost $1600, maybe as much as $1700. The owner stresses that he likes to estimate high so there are no surprises. Well the next week I call but their place is closed. So the week after that I call, and he says "Oh yes! Your car is ready!".
Boy was it.
So I drop by, he goes on to detail all the things they did to fix my car up - quite a list as they had opened it up (removing the head) and replaced most of the gaskets etc. He hastily covers the "total" portion of the list and tells me not to look yet.
Not a good sign.
The total reads $2800. I'm thinking, what the?~! But at least I already put down $600 so I should just have to pay $2200... right? Wrong. That's AFTER deducting my down payment on the repairs.
I can just think of all the used cars that I could have BOUGHT with that much money.
Aquafina: Taste the CFIA
14:00h, an agent from the CFIA descends to retrieve the evidence. Sample submission: one opened bottled water.
Aquafina "purity guaranteed" indeed! More like
710 mL of sloggy nastiness with a clump of something resembling a dandelion head floating in it.
"Has anyone else had a problem with their Aquafina water here?" he asked.
"Actually, I don't know."
"Did you ask the manager of the cafeteria where you bought the water?"
"No."
"Can I see the cafeteria?"
"Hm.. sure."
So we set off to cause some havoc in the cafeteria. You should have seen the look of fear on their faces when he announced himself as a CFIA inspector. The head chef was quite pissed off with me.
"Did you come talk to us first? Did you just go to the CFIA? Why didn't you come to us first!?"
Of course I didn't think that a cafeteria would be responsible for the contents of a bottle of water. I mean, that stuff doesn't even have to be refrigerated. Whatever, I think he was just in shock having an unannounced visit from the dreaded inspector.
I should receive the results of the tests from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency within a week or so.
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Published at The Game Chair - 2nd Review
I successfully had
my second review for "Indigo Prophecy" published at
The Game Chair this morning. Check it out and feel free to leave comments there so that they can tell that some people actually read my stuff. Make me feel good or something eh?
Update on Aquafina: I spoke with Health Canada and the CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency), they want to obtain my bottle (which I still have in my fridge) and examine it. I want to know what the heck I ingested that made me sick for 2 days, and hopefully it isn't anything too serious. Or at least anything that would have long lasting effects.
Meanwhile, I'm busy with several customer pre-sales engagements and so I must cut my post off right... here.
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Published at The Game Chair
I finally have
my first article publised at
The Game Chair website. I cover the game "Indigo Prophecy" in a progressive review where you read along as I play through my first 6 hour session.
I have two more coming as I make my way through to the end of the game, I'll make a link here as those are published as well.
Last night I saw "
Ultraviolet", and let me save you a lot of time and money by telling you how
craptacular it is. It's
very craptacular, don't watch it. There, my public service duties are fulfilled.
One of the most annoying features is that there was a permanent "blur" filter applied to her face, no matter what. You could barely see her nose, I felt like the projector wasn't in focus or something.
Just look at
Rotten Tomatoes... they give it a 4% score. Is there anything more rotten than that?
A choice quote (of many):
"The violence is presented in such a childish fashion, that it has all the impact of a Pokemon battle."Don't even watch it for the action. Check out my summary of a representative action scene in the movie: Milla is surrounded by 20 cyber-ninjas clad in black, she is obviously out-numbered, and they all have their guns pointed at her head. The camera zooms in on her ear, and we hear a loud "snikkkt" noise. The camera zooms out, and all 20 ninjas are lying on the ground with bloody wounds. /golf-clap
I think the best way to tell if a movie sucks or not is to wait outside the movie theatre doors of the respective movie you wish to check out. When people leave, try to listen whether or not people are saying things like "I'll never get those 2 hours of my life back", because that's something I heard when people were leaving the movie last night.
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Aquafina: The Taste of Purity?
Ah, to enjoy the purest of life's pleasures: a dreg of fresh, clean, cold water.
I was at work yesterday, grabbed a "healthy" meal from our cafeteria (which is actually very good), and to drink I figured that instead of a pop, I would choose the healthier choice: water.
Unfortunately my choice was not the best one. I felt ill last night but I thought it was because I was exercising right after eating. It wasn't until today that I realized why I felt sick.
Let's take a closer look at Aquafina's Purity:
Wait! I think I see something... let's turn on the light to look closer:
I think I've found a lifeform in my water. Yummy, protein?
I think the following sums up my current feelings on this:
Aquafina = Water + Alien Fungus?
I'm going to call their consumer relations number tomorrow to see what kind of health concerns I should have. My stomach still feels ill tonight, but thank goodness I didn't drink that last glob of stuff.
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Recently I've been a regular on Groupboard - a Java applet based whiteboard and chat portal. It's neat seeing how creative people can get together and create some pretty cool stuff. Genre of content ranges from the obscene (hint: another regular is called "WetFart", and he likes to do "self-portraits") to the whimsically cute, to the trendy-street-art of graffiti tags. Actually if you want to see some amazing Internet street artists, you can join in on the action here, at Cybertagger.com.
