Serious drumming.

Posing for his birthday the liner notes of his next album.

Clearly Laura ran it, not me.

This was meant to be a picture of Laura’s gloves and iPod but oh well…

21.1 km – 2:22:36 finish time. I was impressed.

True Blood
Strange Love (Pilot)

I was excited for a new Alan Ball show, though it felt more like the first half of a pilot: They introduced the setting and characters, began to tell a story… and then it ended. Still, it’s a very interesting universe it takes place in.

The show hasn’t really grabbed Laura or I yet but it’s piqued our interest enough for us to continue watching episodes for now.

The Ex List
Pilot

A couple super funny moments but some parts seem… weird. They’re supposedly people in their early 30’s but they act and live like university students. Rather odd. It’s not a heavy show and the premise is kind of trashy but it’s nice to watch something light every once in a while.

Still, I expect this will be canceled before the end of the season.

Why am I not surprised to find JJ lurking behind the guests of honour?

Kate quietly drinks everyone under the table.

Presents!

I finally backed up and formatted myself from x86 to x64 Vista. With 4GB of RAM in this machine, it’s the smart thing to do. I was hesitant to when I first built this machine because I remembered hearing from the Maximum PC guys that x64 had driver, app and stability issues… or something. I think that was closer to the Vista release, though. Lately, they’ve been pretty positive about it so Ryan and I talked ourselves into formatting this week.

Turned out to be a quick, smooth format – which is always good. Something I hadn’t expected is that it has now created two Program Files dirs, one for x64 and one for x86 apps:

Cool.

It’s weird: I always like Rev for the first third of the bottle. Second third I’m losing interest, and the last third causes me to shiver in disgust with every swallow.

And yet I keep buying it…

TMNT
Xbox 360

Definitely an easy game with an easy 1000 Gamerscore. Still, it was kind of fun and a cool throwback to the old days of the TMNT arcade game =)

The turtles really control well and the game captures the feeling of quick, fast-paced ninja moves and running around rooftops, up buildings, over walls and fences etc.

Did I mention it’s super short? For a mediocre game, the shortness is excellent as it doesn’t outlast it’s welcome.

cowabunga! oh wait I’m not suppose to say that anymore

Blindness

Very cool movie but kind of depressing and one scene in particular was a bit brutal. Still, I really enjoyed the movie. It’s a really cool thought-experiment on how people would react that also happens to have really good writing and acting. The characters behave pretty realistically. Bottom line is that it is worth watching.

Also, apparently Laura and I are children.

Those who agreed, please raise your hand.

I didn’t watch the Canadian Leaders’ debate on Thursday but downloaded and watched it this morning. Interesting that the whole two hours seemed to be the party leaders all ganging up on Stephen Harper.

It really bugged me that Harper was such a calm robot through the whole debate. The other leaders were all worked up and into the discussion while Harper sat there like an arrogant, smug father telling them the way it is. He also must have said the phrase, “Let’s be clear” about 20-30 times.

I was pretty impressed with the Green party leader, Elizabeth May. Glad they let her in there. Very intelligent, very well researched. Not really a looker, but I don’t expect her to be leading my country and meeting dignitaries anyway.

It seemed like Elizabeth May would often start a good attack against Harper and then Jack Layton would back her up and dumb it down a little to make it more easily relevant and understandable.

Some of Gilles Duceppe’s word pronunciations were pretty entertaining. Also, whenever he talks he speaks of “Canada and Quebec” or “the provinces and Quebec.” For a separatist, you sure like to make sure we don’t forget about your home province, Mr. Duceppe.

About the only people that didn’t attack the Conservatives were attacking others for supporting the Conservatives.

Overall, I was pretty proud to have that be our leaders’ debate. Instead of people standing at podiums talking, it took place at a round-ish table and it really seemed more of a discussion. The moderator did a good job of keeping everyone on track but still letting them finish their thoughts (which I would think is important).

Today is Laura’s sister’s birthday.
To celebrate? A peek at the card Laura and I sent her.

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