Stay away from Eclipso

So, it turns out that Marble Mountain is like, a 10 minute drive away. Me and Danielle went skiing today. It was so pretty out! For one thing, it didn't snow at all, and it was only -3 and super sunny out. The ski hill is insanely huge! It's got all these crazy runs and jumps and stuff that we didn't go near, but we could see from the comfort of the lodge. The lifts seemed to go forever, and the runs just kept going too. The first two runs we did the bunny hill cause it was a while since either of us skied, but the first real run we did I trying to pick out easy or medium hills. Then Danielle went by me and it turns out that she doesn't read. So she went down a black diamond hill and it was rough going. I was okay for about half of it, then I missed an edge and ended up heading straight down the hill with no chance of stopping and once it flattened out I wiped out really good. I even dropped the camera, but found it cause it was next to my hat. But after that we kept to easier hills and had a grand time.

Pictures!







Then there's us tuckered and eating poutine

R.I.P. Steve Rogers

Captain America 1941 - 2007

Warning!! Warning!!

Hey, anyone remember a few years ago when I got hooked on a free computer game called Warning Forever? Well I remember it now and I'm hooked all over again!



That giant thing in the center is Tetra Force Striker Hell, and that little thing over on the right side getting shot at with lazers is me. Awesome

Oh YES!!!!

Damn, why wasn't I in Taipei to see this?


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It's tricky

So, it's still snowing here. I don't know how it keeps it up, it must get tired eventually. But if I get out of th car and enter a building for any length of time (like returning movies) I have to clean it off when I get back to it. My car brush is getting more use since I've been here then it got the whole rest of the winter in Freddy. It's a little insane. I'm starting to learn the main roads here, but there are no lane markers here (I guess they get scraped off by the plows) and they haven't figured out that they could put up signs over head showing which lane is for turning, or if there even are two lanes at any given time.
I bought the new SSX game for the Wii with a christmas gift card from Liz. It's quite difficult but also quite awesome. tipping the nunchuck to carve and grab, flicking the remote to do backflips and draw ubertricks... I'm gonna end up putting a lot of time into that game. I wish the gameplay wasn't as open. You have to snowboard down to the start of the races and stuff and search the mountain for new ubertricks, but it's fairly fun, and will probably get better the more I play

Who Watches The Movies?

So, everybody should go and see 300. On the one hand, it just looks like it's gonna be all over the top and flashy battles and all that Frank Miller stuff you saw in Sin City. BUT the real reason to go see 300 is that the same director is making WATCHMEN!!! So if 300 does well, that gives Watchmen a bigger budget. And really who doesn't want to see how they pull off Dr Manhattan or Rorschach?

Urge Splurge

Hey kids.
I finally got Danielle's wireless up and running today which frees up a lot of room, since her compy can go back into the second room. Also, I bought a tv, cause I'm just like that.



It's an LCD so it can handle a bunch of different resolutions and whatnot. Dan's DVD player only outputs 480i like normal tv :( but the tv can handle 720p or 1080i for high stuff, and 480p for the Wii

My God, It's full of stars mountains

So, I'm in Newfoundland now. The place is nothing but hills. And then once you get through the hills, it's mountains. So, it also turns out that I am fricken super stud when it comes to winter driving. Mountains covered in snow can't stop me. Then just make me clean 6 inches of snow off the car every day

Then there's the house today which is sunny, wicked!

Then me trying to show off the mountains all around us. It doesn't really come off that well, but it ain't bad

They did that on the Simpsons

So, since it's 6:30 am I'm awake as usual, this time watching south park episodes. I felt like gathering up the last of my garbage and taking it outside. Then I noticed what the plow did.
They plowed the entirety of George st into a big long pile that completely blocks in my driveway, and every driveway on my side of the road as far as the eye can see. Now sure, I'm a lazy bum who doesn't work or need to drive anywhere, but come on, somebody must be inconvenienced by that!!!

Toast of the future!!!!

That just looks pretty snazzy eh? This website shows how it works and such. It makes me want it, mostly cause it looks quicker than normal toasting

Should I eat this?

I've got water and I've got holes

So, I'm sitting here listening to Wolfparade and watching Zeta Gundam (subtitled so it's easier than it sounds) and it is pretty good times let me tell you! The worst part about living here in the future is that we don't have Mechs or space colonies yet. You're trying to tell me that I can wireless internet but not a flying car? This isn't the future I signed up for...

The apt is getting pretty barren, even if it's still dirty. Depending on just how lazy I am, I'll be out of here before the week is done, and then visits to everybody, then off to the rock.


The worst part of packing up all my stuff to move, is that I'm sitting here with no book to read. It was an amateur mistake, but I made it anyway

Music you might like

Hey kids. So I've been listening to the Radio 3 podcast, and if you haven't been for whatever lazy excuse you've come up for yourself, well shame shame double shame. Anyways, since I figure most of you don't, you should check out The Violent Archers. You can download "First the wheel" there, even though "Co-ordinates" is the song I first feel in love with from them. Possibly cause Great Aunt Ida (who sings pretty enough for a little crush) does backing vocals on it. It's certainly worth stealing off the internet, or even buying it if you're among the moral elite

So full

Oh Em Gee. I am so full of tacos
I made myself tacos, but not just regular tacos, those foldy ones you see on tacobell commercials.
So good!

Richard Dawkins

I just bought this book

The Dark Knight

HOLY FUCK

The iPhone. Wow, just wow. This thing does everything and it does it better than any other phone, mp3 player, or PDS. Hell it's probably a better computer than the laptop I'm typing this on. Apple stocks went up $2.50 just during the announcment of the thing!

Let's go to China

Cause they have things like this

Bone

So, comic books. When it comes to comics for kids, there's not really all that much on the go from the big publishers: Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, or Image... You get all the good stuff from your little indy companies. Like the word free Owly from Oni Press or Mouse Guard from whoever publishes mouse guard (If you care enough you can google it quit being lazy) or the epitome of children's comic books, Bone. Bone has won 11 Harvey Awards and 10 Eisner Awards. This is like a movie getting 11 golden globes and 10 oscars; you know it's gonna be worth checking out.

Now I've had plenty of opportunity to buy and read Bone before but for some reason I just never did. For starters, Fone Bone (and the other two Bones) just look goofy making it seem more childish then the story really is. But looking at the cover, I had no idea and passed it by. This was stupid of me. The characters run the gamut here from the goofy Bone or Red Dragon look, to the realistic Thorn and Barrelhaven residents, to the older caricature-like Grandma Rose and Briar to the just creepy, surely nightmare inducing rat creatures, the book changes style all over the place but somehow they all feel right together. For the large part, this is probably due to it being black and white.

But, if Black and White isn't your cup of tea, Jeff Smith has been going through his series and colouring it for it's release in trade paperbacks. I don't have these, i have the "one volume edition" which is what I suggest you all go out and buy right now, but if you have kids to buy it for, you might go for the pricier coloured editions. I think they're put out through Scholastic, so you know, that's nifty.

Anyway, it's a comic, and I've talked about how it looks but I don't read comics for the art, I read the for the story. And Bone shines! This is a fantasy story and really feels to me like what you would get if Tolken sat down to write Lord of the Rings for children. The 3 Bones are our hobbits but we never see the Shire (Boneville) and they eventually get caught up in world ending battles against ancient evils, but not before some scheming from Phoney Bone and the Great Cow Race. Seriously. You know what? Scratch the LOTR reference. This is Teddy Ruxpin but without the singing. And with deadly serious bad guys. Tweeg wouldn't last long here.

So, anyone who I've ever conned into reading a comic book will probably like this. And you can buy the B&W one volume edition for under $50 which is a deal and half. It's over 1300 pages! So buy one for yourself and another copy for anybody you know who has kids

Holiday cheer

Yeah, so I guess I kinda forgot about this place. Christmas was snazzy. Went home and took the Wii with me. All the big get togethers in our family happen at my parent's place, cause they have a big house with the garage and all that stuff, and this time around, everyone was crowding in the living room to try out Wii sports. It was awesome! There's just something special about seeing little 7 year old Ali beat her 30 year old aunt Christel in tennis. And I showed my cousin Angela the Fitness test part of the game. It has 15 mini games and makes you do 3 of them and gives your age based on the results, where 20 is the best age. She got 78! And you can only take the test once a day so she was bound and determined to come up the next day and get a better score.