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bonne fete mr. tonin!@

not fair. I'm in ottawa.

haha. I love the judging going on here.

tits

I can see me dropping it in some soup or a sauce while trying to take a picture. It's not great for photos, but it's great for quick little photos. I love the SLR and various lenses for proper food photos. The best photos I have managed to take were on our off-white plates. The food looks like it's in one of them white light boxes. But it's really just on a plate. example That could not be pulled off with any iPhone/cellphone camera. That was with a proper lens with as much natural lighting available. NO flash. ok...so I'm gay for food photos. so sue me.

flip makes the calls eh? hmmmm....

Guess I was off base. Now' date=' tell us about the latest video games you are spending all your time playing.[/quote'] Well, I'm taking over Liberty City and Nico (that's me) is kicking major ass all over town. I've got about 6 different apartments with about 8 sweet rides parked. I'm currently running through an assassin side mission. I've got about $450,000!

so far, I am really impressed. I'm loving the camera and my ability to take a photo of anything for any reason and either send it to facebook instantly (using the Facebook App) or to my MobileMe account (which is free for 60 days, but I think it might be worth getting a yearly). GPS is a nice feature. I tried it while I went out for groceries and it tracked my route in real time. BTW, every photo I take can be geotagged. I made one call to my sweet wife and that worked better than I expected as well. I have a hard time navigating and controlling her cell phone, and this thing is so easy to make a call, and handle other phone features like "hold" etc. I'm a retard with the standard cellphone interfaces. The Apps feature is going to be killer. It already is. I downloaded a free App called "Remote Control" which lets you remotely control iTunes. If you use your computer to play music over a sound system, that's pretty sweet. I don't do that yet, but I can see it being a very popular app. I'll make sure I'll take advantage of the features of the iPhone. I'll likely be doing alot with it concerning food.

should bring the band to ottawa.... with bnb.

Hess, if you have a google account, would you sign up for the blog and put that recipe and others up when you get a chance?

i hope you put some booze in it at least.

hey! That's invasion of innernet privacy. yeah, I got one. Sold my iPod Touch to a friend at work which covered the cost. I found room in my budget to cover the plan. I have an apple developer membership as I was learning how to do the cocoa thing. I'm interested in learning how to develop a simple app for the iPhone as well.

Ottawa Bluesfest Blueslog Stardate 071008 Live Music Review Review By: Velvet Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 photo by: Andre Bouchard Bluesfest has made a lot of improvements this year. The addition of an extra stage, the connecting of the staging areas so you can pass between them with beer and without getting rechecked for said beer, the staging positions, and hell, I’m even finding that the elimination of a full program doesn’t bother me that much. The lawn chair issue seems close to working itself out (in our favour, thankfully), and they even ditched the moronic text-messaging annoyance from the main stage screen after the first night. There is a sound bleed issue this year but I’m confident plans are already in the works to alleviate that problem as much as possible. It seems the only real complaint this year is conflicts. Steely Dan versus Zappa Plays Zappa, Taj Mahal versus The Tragically Hip, hell, Widespread Panic versus The Wailers versus Johnny Winter! The festival has posed some hard decisions because of their prime programming, and tonight was another toughie. When the lineup was first announced I pored over it with enthusiasm, roughly planning out what great bands I was gonna see. For this night I initially thought I’d check out the Plain White T’s until I got my Hey There Delilah (say what you will but I love that fuckin’ song), then split my time between The Black Crowes and Seun Kuti. Plans change. I was talking to Tony D the other day and he was saying how it was a great festival but there was so much going on that people only stick around for twenty minutes and then they go check something else out. I got to thinking how that wasn’t really fair to the artist; not so much on their behalf, but on mine. You can’t appreciate and album sort of album from just a few tracks, if you know what I mean, you gotta listen to the whole thing. Lots of shows are gonna have a lull but if you don’t stick around you’re not gonna get the whole show, in a manner of speaking. I had noticed that I had been spending more time at single shows as the fest progressed, but after talking to Tony I’ve been making a point of thrying to pick my show and stick to it. One success story from that strategy so far is last night’s Brian Wilson show. I sooooo almost left before it got great. Tonight’s show of choice was Seun Kuti. The son of famed Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti (and brother to Bluesfest alumni Femi Kuti) led his pappa’s band through a glorious dancing-not-optional set at the Blacksheep Stage and I was happy to be there. There was an uncountable amount of musicians on stage and while half of them churned out the hypnotic overlaying repeated figures indicative of North African music, the other half simultaneously blasted out the best Motown has to offer. Seun split his time between playing the alto sax and dancing in the style indigenous to his culture while dressed in a suit made for cheap dinner parties in 1979. The band delivered a relentless rhythm punctuated by horn shots that kept the crowd with them the whole set. I was actually surprised at how many people I know held out for the whole thing without venturing over for a peek at the Black Crowes. I popped over there mid-set to hit the ATM and it was crowded and sounthern rockin’, but not at all where my mind was at, being in the middle of a soul-African dance-athon back at the Blacksheep Stage. The band left the stage at precisely 11pm and as I sit here typing I bet the woodblock player still has titak titak titak going on in his head. Another great night at the Bluesfest. Bring on the weekend! Previous Logs: Blues Log 07032008 Blues Log 07042008 Blues Log 07052008 Blues Log 07062008 Blues Log 07072008 Blues Log 07092008

craigslist is blocked at work here. weird man!

that's rich!

who the fuck do you think we are? 9 year olds?

Ms.Hux will be putting on another urban outdoor movie night again sometime this month or next. It was pretty cool! I snuck in (out?) booze

you have a cool job.

Here is another article that explains the mathematics around music.

http://gizmodo.com/5024019/new-radiohead-video-is-shot-with-lasers-not-cameras COOL!

http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/007289snickerdoodles.php Ever since I have heard of these treats, I've wanted to make them. I saw Chef Michael Smith make them on his show.

Here's why it would be great if some of you would get using your digital cameras and put together some posts for Foodeeze.com http://www.foodeeze.com/2008/07/grilled-scallions-side-dish.html I had to take Jaybone's post and make it a reality for the blog. I would have loved to see him do it! You just need a google/blogger account and then let me know what it is and I can give you rights to post. It is as simple as that! We all need a community recipe book man. If you guys have cameras, just take that time between prep steps and take a photo. at the end of the evening, or later in the week, piece your meal or dish together for blogger using the interface. Post it and we'll all have an archive of our favourite recipes and techniques.

Late one evening, the day after he had lost his wife scuba diving, two grim-faced policemen paid Mr. Rhodes a visit. "We're sorry to disturb you at this hour, Mr Rhodes, but we have some information concerning your wife. Actually, we have some bad news, some pretty good news and some really great news. Which would you like to hear first?" Obviously fearing the worst, Mr Rhodes asked for the bad news first. "We're sorry to inform you, sir," the policeman said, "we found your wife's body in the San Francisco Bay this morning." Oh, my God!" said a distraught Mr. Rhodes. Remembering what the policeman had said, he asked, "What's the good news?" "When we pulled her up," said the policeman, "she had two five-pound lobsters and a dozen crabs on her." "What?" a confused Mr Rhodes exclaimed. "So, what's the great news?" As he smiled and smacked his lips, the officer replied, "We're going to pull her up again tomorrow."

I can't see how anyone can complain about this. I thought it was beautiful. I had chills throughout it. God Only Knows