Before I start posting pictures of Pride in Toronto coupled with the usual bitter, snarky comments, I want to share with you a new meme:
Romach, my new found Irish sexpot blogger has introduced me to the world of Men That Suck:
Romach’s picture here. (not entirely safe for work)
Mine (note the new Wall•E shirt, Thank you SharkBoy!):
Freddie Mercury:
Unlimited data? On Rogers? Not a chance. A cool $40/mo on top of your existing plan as previously leaked? Nope.
Try topping off at $115/mo. for rates that equates to downloading whole movies onto your phone, which we’ll probably have to do if you that troublesome law goes through. But no mention of having to have a previous account, just a loooong three year contract. Really I’m not surprised they’re charging this. Pissed, yes, but not surprised.
Oh and for $15/mo extra, you get the crap you got nearly for free with a regular plan.
(via Engadgetmobile)
A year ago:
I wondered why my brother was drawing the ire of Ouzounian.
Two years ago:
Some pictureless Pride impressions. Pretty standard stuff, really
Three years ago:
I thank my brother for all his hard work in the 70s-80s. Note my interesting take on marriages and revel in my swiftness of changing my opinion.
Four years ago (my whole month of June 2004 is trapped somewhere in my database, waiting to be mined, reorderd and republished):
So we’ll have to cruise in the dark.
T-minus 69 hours to Pride. The street is becoming nearly impassible to walk down. I break a personal rule and have “just drinks” at O’Greedys (15% tip).
Some pics to amuse:
Lex, over on Unsweetened.ca has fired up her magical blog MiniBook Expo! Go claim your absolutely free books. The catch? You gotta blog about the book you choose. Choose wisely!
Claim It.
* watch for a book you want
* click through to claim it
* make sure it’s not already claimed by someone else
* leave a comment to claim it (max 2)
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Get it.
* we’ll confirm you claimed it in the comments.
* then email you for your address
* send me your address
* Canada Post will bring you your book.
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Read it.
* can you really say anything if you haven’t read it?
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Blog it.
* Post something about the book within a month of getting it
* include a link to the publisher and the author if possible
* if you don’t have a blog, send me your review & I’ll post it here for you
My past books were:
The Grays – Whitley Strieber:
…there are moments of incoherence where you shake the book to see if pages have fallen out from it.
And
Relentless – Robin Parrish:
Relentless is written in a more looser, somewhat melodramatic style, all the while watching it’s language: the strongest curse word in all of it’s pages is “damn”
Went for ice cream last night and stood in awe as the crowds started their swell into the village like blood into a sex organ. (eh. best metaphor I could muster after dinner and an ice cream)
Here’s Joe! He use to have the best blog on the internet. Sadly he got bored and left. The brightest stars burn …um… bright and fast… quick. ly.
A big row of Dyke’s Bykes.
Bless her large heart…
We’ll be at O’Greedy’s tomorrow night at 730pm for “It’s Thursday, Damn it!!” Drinks. All welcome! (No. No food.)
I know that stat reporting to your readership is as exciting as an Annual General Meeting for Canadian Chartered Accountants. But the plugin WordPress.com Stats is like those new President Choice Blue Cheese and Hot Wings chips: So addictive, I will probably keel over from it.
Domain owners with WordPress and WP.com bloggers can install it as a Plugin (you’ll need your API Key). Best of all, it’s free! Instantly you can watch your incoming/outgoing stats bloom like a tense parent watching their sexually budding child go out on Prom Night.
It also does a great job logging Google searches that brought people to your site. For fun, here’s the last few searches:
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Thirteen people came here from Sharkboy.ca alone yesterday. 5 from clicking on their Google Reader feeds. I average 188 unique page views per day. Since installing it 5 days ago, my Pride Tips For Out of Towners is my top post! I’m so helpful!
1998, GlaxoSmithKline introduces a breakthrough HIV drug, Abacavir, that greatly reduces the number of pills an HIV person needs to take a day and adds yet another option for treatment. Hooray!
2008, like most HIV drugs, it turns on it’s users and starts to kill them. GSK justifies the hefty cost of these drugs ($10-$21 retail per tablet) as going into a rainy day fund for the lawsuits that might come their way. Of course they downplay the study and assuredly inform Health Canada that there might be a problem (while fidgeting with their tie and doing their best Oliver Hardy face).
Congratulations GSK, you’ve made me add a category on my blog called “You Stupid Dick”
Speaking of Disney, just over a year ago, SharkBoy and I were enjoying DisneyWorld. It was my first visit there, with the heart-stopping surprise of coincidentally booking on Star Wars Weekend.
I’ve said it before and will continually say it: After seeing a Jawa roaming the crowd, SharkBoy surprised me with the best moment a non-geek could bestow upon a sci-fi geek: SharkBoy yelled “Chibookii!” instead of “Uchini!” to get that Jawa’s attention and I couldn’t possibly love him more.
I, of course, correctly called out and got no response.
I’m reminded of it by this video that came through my WordPress feed. Half-heartedly watch up until 3.10 when the real fun starts. Yes, I died a bit inside when I saw it. But lets face it, nothing will erase the damage the Xmas special did to this franchise.
Cheap tickets and all you can eat buffet to our nation’s Disneyland? Canada’s Wonderland? I am so there!
Going from Canada’s Wonderland to Paramount/Canada’s Wonderland back to Canada’s Wonderland (with 99% of the Paramount references scrubbed out) must have seen some copyright/licensing headaches for the poor marketing/sales folks behind the scenes.
The park has become… themeless. The different areas (World’s Expo, Medevial Knights, that bit by the water park just outside the baby rides…) no longer have a cohesive element throughout their areas, past 100 yards from each area gate. Sort of like putting Pirates of the Caribbean within Tomorrowland. Pressed for land, I guess the park designers (if there are any) are forced to slap the newest rides where they can. However, Scooby and Spongebob and other characters still wander the park, but not so visibly, except within Kidsville, where copyright protected characters run free to sell sugary crap to the little ones.
I started to wonder how much paperwork the park generated to drop Paramount and their movie-themed rides and thought maybe they could have just reduced the popularity of the ride’s movie theme to save some licensing cash. Like making Top Gun (Canada’s first overhead-suspended coaster) into oh… say… Sophie’s Choice THE RIDE!Choose your seat mate! Choose your path! Choose!
Or Kramer Vs Kramer – The 3D Ride! Watch Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep (see a pattern here?) toss their child back and forth! Woah! It’s like you’re in the room!
Anyway, the day was fun! I got to ride Behemoth and promptly discovered I may be becoming “allergic” to rollercoasters. I got extremely ill after the second ride – not “protein spill” kind of sick (which the staff at CW so charmingly call ‘Puking”), but dizzy/fainty kind of ill. Which would make going back to Disney problematic. I popped two Gravol and was right as rain an hour later. When the rain started.
Some images for you:
Just after buying these lovely balls of sugar, a child of no more than 14 got into our faces and yelled: Enjoy your Jizz Cookies!! Enjoy Your Jizz Cookies!!! Thank you, I did.
Yeeearrrgh! I’m all about taking pictures of rides in apex.
Stop the show! Please STOP THE SHOW!
And for those of you phobic about leaving my site, here’s a slide show!