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Sunday Wine Dinner with Michael Gaspard & Julio Hernandez

Welcome back everyone to Sunday Dinner at Paulie’s.  This time we are inviting Michael Gaspard into the house to do his thing, along side his old buddy and our new Wine Director, Julio Hernandez.

The theme will be Italian, as expected.  Italian flavors with Italian wines.

I am excited to have Gaspard back in the house.  Last time we worked together was for Linda’s Block Party several months ago, where he stole the show of course.

This time around we are just having fun!

Hope to see as many of you as possible!

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Paulie’s Restaurant – 1834 Westheimer Rd.

Cost will be $100, this INCLUDES Julio’s brilliant wine pairings.  You may BYOB if you wish, but everyone will be receiving a pairing regardless.

We would like to limit seating to 25.

Proposed menu:

 fennel sformato, fall tomato, parmigiano

onion, crispy tripe, soft herbs

 raviolo, veal cheek, mushrooms, rapini agro-dolce

 slow braised pork, local polenta, caramelized whey

 Urban Harvest Market Fruit, Texas Madeira Zabaglione

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I’m a Sprint Ambassador

Some unexpected and interesting things have been happening to me lately, and I’m happy to report that today was no different. The exciting trend continued this afternoon when I received a short, sweet email that contained promises of free gadgetry and services – something that would even make engadget editors raise an eyebrow or two.

After someone from Sprint visited this humble website, they sent me an email with the following attention-getter:

The Sprint Ambassador Team recently visited and wants to invite you to participate in our Ambassador Program.

As far as I can tell, the purpose of the program is to create a feedback forum where people field test the latest and greatest products and services and then provide their two cents on their experience. In my case, I’ll be testing out the very cool-sounding Sprint Power Vision Network, which is summarized on the Sprint website as follows:

The Sprint Power Vision Network provides rich, clear visuals, high–quality sound and broadband–like speed on your wireless phone. Watch, listen, play and do at the speed of life.

“Broadband-like speed on [my] wireless phone,” huh? Well I’m definitely going to be scrutinizing that aspect of the service, as I’ve been looking for some sort of mobile internet access solution. Before I get too deep into editorializing, though, let me give you the rest of the scoop, which comes from the invitation email:

So what’s the deal? As a qualified participant, we will send you one Sprint Power Vision phone and provide you with six months of all-access service (at no charge). You’ll have access to the Sprint Music Store (SM) live TV broadcasts, gaming and more. Yes, you will also have unlimited free calling and data service. It’s a pretty good deal and all we ask for in return is your candid feedback (you decide how much and how often).

Yes, my friends, those are sweet words to be reading in your inbox. Oh, and I already got “qualified,” so I’m good to go. In fact, the response email indicated that I’d be receiving my brand new Sprint Power Vision phone, the Samsung MM-A920 (pictured), in 2-4 weeks. In a previous life, I was heavily involved in the cellular/mobile industry, and one of the things that I took away from that experience was a distinct distaste for Samsung phones. It will be interesting to see if this phone will change that perception. Honestly, I hope it does, because that will make my experience as an ambassador that much more enjoyable. Oh, and I just checked out the specs on the MM-A920 – this puppy retails for $299.99! Hell, it seems like it will rock…here’s hoping it does!

Okay, I tried to hold off on the editorializing, but that’s simply not possible. I’m stoked about this experience because

  • it’s completely atypical for me to be involved in something like this
  • I get to try out a service that I was really curious about but probably never would have tried without a friend’s insistent recommendation (probably 2 years down the road, argh)
  • most important, I’ll have something to freakin blog about

Obviously, wireless broadband is going to open up virtually unlimited possibilities for mobile-philes everywhere, but I still remain skeptical as to how well TV and especially the internet translate to the mobile medium. Fortunately, I’m going to have the chance to find out very soon, so whatever I learn, I’ll be sure to pass along.

Ah, and I just checked out the Sprint web site once more…get a load of some of the channels that will be available to me on Sprint TV:

  • ABC News Now
  • NFL Network
  • Fox Sports
  • ESPN
  • Fox News
  • NBC
  • The Weather Channel
  • Discovery Channel
  • …and lots more that probably aren’t worth a damn

Damn blogosphere! You can’t be unique for two seconds up in this mutha ****er. We interrupt this mundane, boring post to bring you another blogger who was invited to be a part of the Sprint Ambassador Program. Somehow this guy’s thoughts go from cell phones to his penis, but then again, I guess it’s this kind of stream-of-consciousness rambling that has made him a really popular blogger. See, I don’t read that email from Sprint and make a vague association with my pieces parts, but I guess that’s an area where I’ll need to improve :-P

Note to self: running monologues with your penis are great for comments.

Update: I decided to do a Technorati search on the Sprint Ambassador Program this morning, and the blogosphere is abuzz with info on the topic. A fellow blogger, Vinny Carpenter, offers up a few more details about the program on his site:

At current, it’s an invite only program that is targeting bloggers…This program is a clever attempt to get a Sprint phone plus free service to people that blog about technology.

Over at Micro Persuasion, Steve Rubel mentioned that Sprint has also launched a P2P campaign to generate interest in their products and services. Personally, I am a big fan of the way Sprint is attempting to exploit the blogosphere in order to gain publicity and exposure. To me, it represents a very keen marketing savvy, and I’m sure this is something we’re going to see a lot more of in the future.

What’s next, Apple giving out 12″ Intel Power Books? We can only hope!

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Neil February 2, 2006

So far, the phone’s been pretty enjoyable, although the watching TV technology still has some way to go. I felt like I was back on dial-up. But it certainly shows me the direction we’re heading — soon everyone is going to be walking around with one phone/ipod/mini-tv/day-planner rolled into one.

David Harrison August 8, 2011

This is so spooky! Neil predicted the future. The future is the iPhone haha

Chris P. February 2, 2006

Something tells me the accident rate is bound to rise, especially due to the tiny TV screens…

“Is that a nipple?”

TAD February 7, 2006

Woo! I just got my invite too. I think they’re getting bloggers in all of the major markets. Pretty darned cool idea.

Marine March 6, 2006

Hi, I would like to know what’s happenned, did you receive the mobile phone from Sprint? What do you think about it? And what do you think about this marketing strategy?

Chris P. March 6, 2006

I received my phone like 5 days (including the weekend) after I was first notified, which I thought was exceptionally fast. The service works well, and as far as Samsung phones go, this is certainly the best one I’ve ever used. I’ve had the phone for a little over a month now, and the most impressive aspect has been the live TV, which I spoke about here.

As far as the marketing strategy goes, I think it’s pure genius. I could be wrong, but I think they’re the first major corporation to specifically target bloggers to generate word-of-mouth interest (the strongest kind) in a new product. Realizing the power of the written word is something that any good marketer is familiar with, but utilizing it in this way is definitely a novel thing – a guerrilla tactic, if you will.

Honestly, I think this is probably the first in a long and glorious reign of blogs as a high-powered advertising medium.

michelle July 13, 2008

HOLY CRAP DOES THE INSTINCT SUCKS!!!!! A SIDEKICK IS BETTER THAN THIS! and on top of that sprint costumer service sucks i never had that problem with at&t. at first i had the sidekick lx and the phone was pretty cool you could have multiple e-mail accounts and it had messenger and internet and if you were on the internet and saw a pic you like you can copy it to your phone and it had flash for the camera and took nice picks the only thing it didn’t have was video you couldn’t see video’s so i decided to hand it down and switch to sprint I ordered the blackberry pearl online at first i kinda liked the blackberry it had the same features as a sidekick but better with t.v. and everything but something was wrong with the dam phone i actually spent 3months going back and fourth with sprint costumer service keeping me on the phone for hours!!! till i got desperate yesterday and said hhhmmmm let me buy the instinct and see what the buzz is about! Ok so i bought it… it doesn’t have messengers like you have to go to the website itself on the phone to use it! doesn’t have flash for the camera and come on I’ve seen better tv and video quality on my blackberry tv and video and on the instinct it’s too blurry and as for fastest internet conection… DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH! It take long to load a page, and i cant even click on a picture and save it to my phone like i did with a sidekick and a blackberry yea the gps is cool but you got the same shit on the blackberry the only thing thats OOOOOOOOOHHHHH… AAAAAAHHHHH on this instinct is that it has touch screen THATS IT! And i just got off the phone with a costumer service rep for sprint and he even said it himself your better off with the blackberry. like does it even give you that option to click and save a pic?? because if it does then some1 please help me figure this crap out! but so far I’m convinced this phone sucks for the things I’m looking for… blackberry’s are better. Sprint was making a HUGE deal about the new instinct and I’m over here thinking its better than the blackberry as if it had more features and cooler stuff… NOT EVEN CLOSE! like i said the only thing cool or different about this phone is that it’s touch screen. o now i’m going back and returning the phone i want my $465.00 back

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History Through the Ages: Creation to Christ

Being able to see historical events in relation to other historical events gives valuable perspective. History Through the Ages from Homeschool in the Woods takes this one step further with a well-done black-and-white line illustration to go with each timeline entry.

Each timeline pack contains wall-sized figures (2-3.5 inches) printed on good-quality cardstock, a colored timeline, and permission to reproduce for homeschool use. We use them both on the wall, and in student created lapbooks, folders and other projects. The line drawings can be colored with colored pencils for added interest.

History is a fascinating topic that rarely gets the emphasis or attention it deserves. It’s so much more than names, dates and places. It tells the story of why we are who, what and where we are. It’s a story of relationships, discoveries, wars, travels — of life itself. Giving a picture to all those names dates and places helps to tell the fascinating story of history.

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The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has established a joint venture with refiner Shandong Dongming Petrochemical Group to construct and operate a new crude oil pipeline.

The 287-mile pipeline will connect the port city of Rizhao to the Dongming refinery, both located in the Shandong province. CNPC said the pipeline will have a capacity of 10 MMt/a in the first phase of construction, increasing to 20 MMt/a in the second phase. Commissioning of Phase I of the $US293 million pipeline is scheduled for June 2011.

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The Save Your Home Philly Hotline serves as a central point of contact for Philadelphia homeowners at risk of foreclosure.  The Hotline provides advice, brief service, and referrals to thousands of Philadelphia homeowners each year.

Homeowners at any stage of the foreclosure process may call the Hotline for help with saving their homes.  Hotline operators ask a number questions (contact information, income, assets, facts about the mortgage), provide legal advice, and make appointments with OHCD-funded housing counseling agencies.

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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Through the Congo (still working on the title)

Heart of Darkness anyone?
In this piece Marlowe (our narrator) encounters Sir Henry Morton Stanley's last expedition through Africa. The fiction written below - including cannibalism - is based on what actually occurred during Sir Stanley's last expedition.

Rivets, rivets, anything for some bloody rivets! But once again, it seemed the universe was against me, and every foolish gorilla in the Congo knew nothing and had nothing. By then, of course, Kurtz was no more and we had no urgency to progress downstream, but we were madly exhausted and even the shabby outer station seemed like Buckingham Palace. A bed, a bed, oh anything for a bed! Alas, our steamer had not taken well to my previous repairs – as I had been forced to use parts that did not quite fit – and we were stranded in the banks of that blasted river. We waited for weeks, depending on wild animals to eat, which thankfully pacified the cannibals and their desire for fresh meat.

Finally a passing expedition stopped nearby, providing us with all the materials necessary for the repairs. I shall admit it was one of my oddest encounters in the heart of darkness. Their captain was the renowned Sir Henry Morton Stanley, whose fame, especially in those parts of the world, I need not recount. The man lived up to my very last expectations; he had a hard black gaze, stood proud, and knew exactly what he was doing and how he would go about it.

“Sir Stanley, I presume!” He answered with a hearty laugh.
“Indeed sir! I see you lads are in a bit of rut here, no? We can help with your repairs; you need not worry, my boy.”
“Thank you, sir! I must say this is quite a surprise. Are you exploring past Stanley Falls?”
“We will be passing through those lands. You see, I’ve been hired to rescue a man by the name of Emin Pasha, and my regular contractor, King Leopold of Belgium, has ordered me to pass through these lands. My true concern is over my European companions. I doubt very many will endure the journey.”

Only madmen would travel the Congo, but there is a certain kind of madness that few possess that allows you to survive - the release of your inner savage.

“You should be careful, sir. We’ve just come back from the innermost station along the river, and the head there, Mr. Kurtz, who kept the natives sedated has just died.”
“I’ve fared worse, my boy. I’m just glad finally to meet another Englishman out here. Seems as though the Queen has you lot tied up in India, eh? … Never mind, not to worry, not to worry, I’ve had a fair share of experience here if I may say so myself. Now, would you care for some fine Irish whisky? One of my companions, an Irishman, owns the brand and he’s been quite generous.”

That night we gathered on their ship’s deck enjoying a few rounds of whisky. The Irishman, James Jameson, seemed like a neat sort of fellow, quite self-satisfied, polite, and very jovial – something I suspect had more to do with his flask and less with his personality. I was surprised to hear that such a rich man had never traveled beyond the British Isles, which explained his curiosity about that place. Jameson was fascinated with the savages; in fact, he spent the next couple of days chatting up the cannibals on board our steamer. Had we known his real intentions, I would not have permitted this. Naturally, he was quite interested in Kurtz and his relationship with the tribes, hoping I could tell him more about their behavior and how Kurtz had achieved his status. How had I come to recruit cannibals on our expedition? Why hadn’t they eaten us yet? Despite my hesitance to answer, every word I spoke was registered in his little white journal – strange how he could keep it so clean – where he would record our conversations.

Our fourth day into repairs, he returned with a small native girl, perhaps ten years old, whom he had purchased. Even at her young age she stood proud and unafraid, surrounded by strange looking people she couldn’t understand, but she held her head high. We believed Jameson had depraved intentions with the poor child, which Sir Stanley would not allow on his ship.

“Whatever your intentions might be with an eleven-year old slave-child, I will not allow it on my ship. This is a rescue expedition and there is no room for children!”
“But Sir! I think she would make an excellent house-maid for my wife, and she could surely help with chores on the ship.”
“Codswallop! She’s a savage, man! Do you think I’ll believe that ridiculous excuse? You’ve bought her for something else and I shall have nothing to do with it. Have her gone by tomorrow, and that’s the end of it.”

The next day, the little girl had vanished. The scandal had been prevented and the pilgrims onboard my ship resumed conversing with Jameson; we gathered on the deck of Stanley’s ship that very night. Something was different that night, James Jameson was solemn, and he drank more than I thought possible for a man, even an Irishman. Soon enough he began to drivel about savages and England and other drunken poppycock; the man began to cry. I looked away, for his sake rather than mine. I couldn’t imagine the shame he’d feel after this display. Sir Stanley, a no-nonsense man, took the liberty of reading the little white journal to discover what was wrong with the bloke.

“Good God, man! What has this brute done?”
Reading over his shoulder we learned of Jameson’s true intentions with the girl.

Cannibals ate her.

My cannibals.

The last ten pages of his journal were filled with notes and sketches of the process, of how the cannibals cooked and ate her. Jameson killed her and then offered her body to them ‘in the name of science,’ after the first two pages I had to look away.

“What a repulsive man!”
“How could anyone? … So cold-bloodedly …”
“What am I to do with the cannibals? They didn’t kill her, and I had known they defiled human bodies before I hired them. Should we continue on? Should our crews hear of this?”
“This expedition has been a bloody disaster since we left England! Sometimes I feel these Englishmen are greater brutes than the savages themselves. I can’t continue my journey with that man on board.”
“The men at the Outer Station will simply let him go. Their only interest is ivory, not justice.”
“You are two days’ journey from the Outer Station. Do you think you can manage without the cannibals?”
“I believe so. What is your plan, Sir?”
“I say we leave Jameson stranded out here with the cannibals, and let them do each other justice.”

When the repairs to our steamer were completed a day later, the Irishman and my cannibals were left behind; in effect, we left Jameson to experience cannibalism first-hand. Regardless of the incident with the child, I still felt sympathy for the cannibals, perhaps was because they refrained from eating us during the journey; perhaps they were simply efficient workers I appreciated, but having the pilgrims shoot at them filled me with rage.
Sir Henry Morton Stanley continued in his journey, but the atrocities that occurred during that expedition, even beyond the incident with the Irishman, tarnished the man’s reputation.
That was to be his last, and most grievous, expedition.

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Metro Diner review

This has nothing to do with the food at Metro Diner; it is an analysis for my Greek class about the presence (or lack thereof) of Greek culture in New York diners nowadays.

Metro Diner, located on 100th St. and Broadway, is a Greek-owned establishment, like most diners in New York City. However, the rambunctious atmosphere typical of Greek-owned diners is missing; it lacks the homey feeling of diners such as Tom’s Restaurant (112th St. and Broadway), which is owned and managed by an immigrant from Greece. The fact that the manager of Metro Diner is an “American with Greek ancestry” rather than a “Greek” and that the feel of this establishment is much different from that of places like Tom’s Restaurant is hardly a coincidence.

Metro Diner’s appearance attempts to reproduce the iconic “all-American” diners from the 1950s. Flashy neon lights, typical American food fare on a bubbly-font menu (with Greek food selections like Chicken souvlaki conveniently camouflaged between cheeseburgers and tuna salads), and a reserved atmosphere complete the picture of Metro Diner. Unlike some Greek peers, Metro Diner is much too businesslike – it is a no-nonsense, eat and leave, place – it does not stand out from other places in New York, where anonymous customers come and go. The famed Greek hospitality appears to be thrown to the wayside, a cultural tradition lost after generations in America.

Metro Diner also represents the cultural Diaspora of New York City. Here Greek-American owners work with a mostly Latin workforce, and have thus learned to speak Spanish. The Latin American waiters themselves not limited to speaking English, but Greek as well. One such person was an Argentinean waiter, Mario, who speaks English, Spanish, and has been learning Greek for two years. Commenting – as Mr. Nikos would during our interview – that learning either Spanish or Greek is relatively easy if the person speaks one of the two languages already. Sadly, the opportunity to interview this fascinating man was lost. In essence, this diner is in many ways a microcosm of New York, it has been evolving like the city and its inhabitants have evolved; Greeks are now Americanized and a new wave of immigrants has arrived to replace them.

The manager at this location, Mr. Nikos, was very helpful, but nonetheless serious. He explained the dwindling presence of Greek-owned and operated diners – the difficulties of the job, which he does not wish on his children if they can avoid it. Mr. Nikos was very proud of his Greek heritage, speaking fluent Greek and having his children learn the language themselves, but he identified as American. It seem as if he was most proud of his immigrant family, who fought for a better life for their children by undertaking the hard working life of running diners, a legacy he has undertaken as well. His American identity overshadowing his Greek identity could be a result of him viewing his family’s struggles and successes as more of an American trait (chasing the American dream) than a Greek one. Despite this, Mr. Nikos is proud of his Greek heritage and actively fights to preserve its presence in America, either through his children or through anyone willing to learn the language and culture of Greeks. During the interview, Mr. Nikos did not hesitate to correct his interviewer (me) when she continually made grammar mistakes or confused tenses when asking a question. This is indicative of the Greek culture as well – a warm, intimating culture where it is normal to address strangers with the same confidence as old friends – despite their approach to business, the owners and managers of Metro Diner still retain the Greek spirit, which they choose to keep from customers in an attempt to appeal to a more widely American consumer base (used to being treated in a sterile manner). When it comes down to it, it is all business, and Metro Diner cannot fall back on a large student consumer base (one distanced from home and that would be more likely to appreciate friendliness) like Tom’s Restaurant can; Metro Diner targets a different audience.

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Honey Have You Seen My Polaroid Camera?

“Honey, Have you seen my old Polaroid camera?”

“Yeah, I gave it to Goodwill along with your vinyl records because I heard they stopped making the film.”

“You did what????”

If you don’t own a Polaroid camera, you probably know someone who does.  Most likely a parent, or grandparent, or cousin. Where are these cameras now?  Probably in a closet, or trunk, or buried in a heap up in the attic. Or, you might find one for $4.00 at a flea market.   No respect, considering what Popular Photography Magazine said many years ago, ” Like television, Polaroid photography is one of those processes that permits technically unsophisticated mortals to perform technological miracles.”  And so this is how these instant cameras were marketed, sold at Kmart and at the drugstore as an easy way around complicated photography.  They were sold door to door, and on TV, and everyone had at least one.  When my Father passed away, I found a Land Camera and two pristine SX 70’s up on a shelf next to a shoe box containing a Colt 45 pistol…

Then we had the era of Warhol and Mapplethorpe, and suddenly things changed as the artists discovered the inherent beauty of this once thought of utilitarian device.  Fast forward to the digital era and all those “unsophisticated mortals” now have a new way to capture an image instantly, and so Polaroid dies an ugly death, leaving the old school artist’s in the dust.  ( sorry for the drama)

Enter the Impossible Project, a group of visionaries on a quest to resurrect Polaroid film.  Well, they have done it, but apparently not to perfection.  You see there are a few secrets of science that lay buried in the ruble, thus we have to wrestle a bit it with these new films.  Which brings me to the point of this post. PHOTOWORKS IS HAVING A CLASS ON HOW TO USE THE NEW IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT FILMS!  Here are a few photos that show why a class and some simple tutoring will make using the new films more enjoyable.

oops, I didn’t know that you had to shield this from light, looks cool, but I might try again.

okay, that’s getting the hang of it.

by James de Leon ( what you will learn how to do in this class)

So all of you Polaroid shooters dig out that old camera, and come on down to photoworks on April 22nd to see first hand what all the fuss is about surrounding the new era of Polaroid. http://www.facebook.com/events/320455021347683/

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Like A Kid In A Camera Store

I grew up in the sixties and seventies in Southern California and my father, an avid photographer used to take me to many camera stores.  He bought me my first Kodak Instamatic when I was nine, and though it is long gone, it has been replaced by an exact replica, as  I now collect cameras.  These old camera stores were cool with all the iconography and signage of the era, the  Kodak displays, and the faint smell of stop bath from the back room.  My dad could spend an hour chatting f-stops and fixer dilution with the guy behind the counter.  Maybe he’d pickup a new wide angle lens, or a yellow filter, or maybe just some lens cleaning tissue.  There are few such places left, but most have gone from darkrooms to self serve kiosks, and from negatives to pixels. The only cameras marketed to kids today are based on lame cartoon characters, though back in the day there were of plenty Barbie cameras too. ( we can argue Barbie v Dora The Explorer later)

Along with the recent resurgence of film has come a new generation of analog camera lovers.  When you combine that with return of “Polaroid” style instant films and Polaroid camera users you get kind of a Father and Son meeting all over again.  At Photoworks, I thought it would be fun to sell a few used cameras.  I started out with some Polaroids, and now have all sorts of used film cameras.  I can’t keep the stuff on the shelves, and the whole vibe of the shop has picked up with the new camera offerings.

Now I’m searching eBay for SX-70 cameras, and old signs to decorate the shop.  Everyday some new camera comes in the mail.  I clean them up, put them on display, and then they are gone.  For the first time in 23 years, I have people asking me for a ” 28mm nikkor” as if I’m an actual camera store.  I say, “let me check in the back for you,” even though there is no “back.”  So, I am clearly enjoying all of this camera business, and something about it has rekindled some nostalgia in me.   Maybe we’ll have to bring back the old darkroom, now that would make my Dad proud.

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The Impossible Photo Lab

By now all of you photographers and most of you non photographers are aware of the demise of Polaroid.  It’s over but like all great things analog, you cannot kill the spirit.  Enter The Impossible Project, a small group of people who claimed the remains of the Polaroid factory in The Netherlands, and without much of a recipe have invented a new line of instant films.  The word “impossible” is no understatement, as the technical hurdles rival sending people into space.  By some miracle we now have a full line of new instant films to play with, but they are tricky to work with, kind of like a soup that must be cooked in exactly the right way.  The folks at IP have come up with a few accessories and tricks of the trade that must be applied in order to make the new films work.  So it’s  like a science project of sorts but the results are gratifying and I am willing to work to make some instant film magic.  Photoworks has been offered the new line of films to sell in our store and we are thrilled to be a part of the instant film resurrection.

I feel some kinship with the Impossible folks because for years I struggled to maintain old film printing equipment.  Our lab used to be all Agfa analog printing machines, the look of the prints from those machines helped put our shop on the map.  One day without warning, Agfa went under, and we were stuck with a bunch of old printers and no support.  I hired technicians to keep the machines going, but over the years parts vanished and eventually I gave up. Like every other photo lab, we bought new equipment.  We still print from negatives but not before they are scanned first.  You still see film grain, but it’s just not quite the same thing.  Over the years we have struggled to maintain our analog identity, but it is not easy, and on some days it feels “impossible.”

It’s amazing that something so commonplace as Polaroid would be such advanced science, and that once extinct would be so hard to replicate.  The Impossible Project has not only brought instant films back, they have expanded the line into all kinds of fun directions.  This week Photoworks will be receiving our first shipment of Impossible Project instant films.  We’ll be the only place in town to carry PX 600 Silver Shade with the Black Frame.  Very cool, very analog, suddenly everything seems possible again.

In stock and ready to rock

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Polaroid: I Finally Get It

Even before Polaroid decided to stop making film, there were legions of photographers addicted to this uniquely classic art form. I say art, but we all know Polaroid was not born with art in mind, or was it? I believe these cameras go back to the late 1940’s. They blossomed in the fifties and sixties becoming the camera of choice for many families. You can tell I’m no expert on this subject, and until recently I had never even owned a Polaroid camera. I bought an SX 70 because it looked so cool. Been doing snap shots with it because as of yet, I can’t figure out how to make decent art with the thing. I’m going to keep at though, because I want to get involved before it’s too late.

We sell the film in our store. It’s expensive now, but people buy it up like it’s going out of style. Oh yeah, it’s going out of style. When we decided to do a Polaroid show at Photoworks, the response was amazing. And these are just the more conventional style which does not include transfers, and all the other manipulations, etc.. I’ve never really understood the whole, big deal deal with Polaroid, but now I’m comin’ around. I don”t have to tell you that the combination of instant and analogue is a beautiful thing indeed.

It looks like Polaroid is being saved by cool companies like Polapremium, and even Fuji is making instant film now. Come by Photoworks tomorrow night (Friday May 8th) and see the show, be a supporter of a treasured art form, and maybe show me a thing or two about using my camera.Untitled-7

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STAKE LAND has got some teeth! Sharp, pointy ones!

April 23, 2011

There are two kinds of vampire movies made today. There’s the kind where the vamps want to kill you (VAMPIRES, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT) and there’s the kind where they want to kiss you (INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE, TWILIGHT). Let’s face it folks, vampires are just a lot more interesting when they’re trying to suck the blood out of your neck, not when they’re getting all weepy and sparkly and sexy on your ass. I like my vamps cold-blooded and looking for a fresh kill, not a life partner. That’s why I thoroughly enjoyed the new independent horror flick, STAKE LAND so darn much. The vampires in this very entertaining little post-apocalyptic horror flick are more like the zombies in a Romero movie. They’d much rather suck an infant child dry for a snack than try to hold your hand and ask you to prom.

STAKE LAND takes place in a hellish vision of America where almost every living soul has either been eaten by or turned into a blood-sucking vampire from a mysterious, unexplained plague. Here we meet the veteran vamp slayer, Mister (played with bad assed charm by co-writer Nick Damici) and his teenage apprentice, Martin (Connor Paolo), who was rescued by the elder when he lost his entire family in a vamp attack shortly after the epidemic first began. Together they roam the barren, desolate country side in a beat up old Ford muscle car, looking for survivors to take with them to the rumored “New Eden”, that’s located somewhere across the Canadian border. Along the way they put together a surrogate “family” of survivors that include: a nun aptly named Sister (Kelly McGillis) and a young pregnant mother named Belle (played by modern day scream Queen and total cutie pie, Danielle Harris).

But the road to Eden is paved with many dangers, sometimes the least of which being the undead. There are clans of human cannibals who’ve run out of food and don’t mind feasting on fellow survivors. Then there’s this gosh darned cult of homicidal Christians that suck almost as bad as the vamps do. They get their fundamental kicks by dropping captured blood-suckers out of their helicopters and into the campgrounds of those whom they’ve determined to be sinners. Christ on a cracker! You’ve got to love a vampire movie where the biggest threat is a bunch of crazed tea baggers on a religious crusade!

Director Jim Mickle does a nice job of channeling the sensibilities of old school horror filmmakers like John Carpenter and George Romero, and much like a Romero zombie film, STAKE LAND’s strength comes from its strong social commentary. It points a wooden stake at religious fundamentalism almost as often as it does at the killer vamps and THIS is what elevates it into something much more original and interesting than other films of this type. Even in a world overrun with vampires, mankind is still the most frightening thing to deal with.

STAKE LAND is an original horror movie that is being released by IFC Films and it is NOT a remake or a sequel. It mixes a little of THE ROAD with I AM LEGEND and ZOMBIELAND and creates something new, interesting and frightening that should be seen and supported by fans of the genre everywhere. There are a lot of great action sequences, some terrific scares, tons of great gore, solid acting performances, a very smart script and some beautiful cinematography that sets a perfectly bleak tone with images of grim looking landscapes that are filled with overcast skies, dead forests and murky blue hues. The film was made with a lot of love and hard work that shows from beginning to end. Go see it, suckers!


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Cheerio Bird Feeders

Sophie loves to look in the garden for birds so I thought we could make some bird feeders to encourage more birds to visit our garden.

Last year, we read this a book called ‘Rupert and the Runaway Robin’ which came with a packet of bird seed. We followed the instructions at the back of the book and made hanging bird food balls using the seeds and some lard. However, I found that they melted because it wasn’t cold enough outside.

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This year we read the book again, but made bird feeders using cheerios, pipe cleaners and ribbon.

I looped the end of the pipe cleaner to stop the Cheerios from falling off.

Then I showed Sophie how to thread them onto the pipe cleaner.

She did really well and got the hang of sliding them along to the end so that she could fit some more on.

Although, I think Sophie ate more Cheerios than she threaded!

When the pipe cleaner was full, I twisted the two ends together and bent the wire into a heart shape.

I tied some ribbon through the loop so that we could hang the bird feeder up.

We took the bird feeders outside and Sophie chose where to hang them.

Unfortunately, it started to get dark so we couldn’t watch to see whether any birds came to eat the Cheerios but when we checked the bird feeders the following morning all of the Cheerios had gone! Although, I suspect that a squirrel might have eaten them. So we are going to make some more and hang them outside in the morning rather than the evening.

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Hot Air Balloon Cot Mobile Tutorial

I have been making a list of things I would like to make for baby number 2, although I am not sure I will ever find the time to make anything with a toddler in tow! I made this cot mobile for Sophie before she was born and it is still hanging in her room now.  Continue reading “Hot Air Balloon Cot Mobile Tutorial”

Cooking a Feast for a Gruffalo

Sophie is really into Julia Donaldson books at the moment and we have done lots of Halloween activities after reading Room on the Broom.

A couple of weeks ago I set up an activity linked to the Gruffalo story. I decided to place the Gruffalo in Sophie’s mud kitchen for her to discover when we went out to play. As soon as she saw it, she went running over. Continue reading “Cooking a Feast for a Gruffalo”

Chocolate Breadstick Sparklers

I can’t believe that it was Sophie’s third bonfire night this year! Now that she understands what is going on and talks about her experiences, I wanted to do some activities linked to bonfire night after the event rather than before. I decided to make some pretend sparklers with her.

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Bonfire Night Small World

When I tidied away the fireworks sensory box, I had left the foil blanket, a black scarf and some sparkly pom poms out as an invitation to play but Sophie completely ignored them! She loves making small worlds  so I decided to add some figures and create a bonfire night small world.

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The Natural Governing, Triangulation and Safety Party

October 14, 2009

Just like the majority of Canadians, I consider my political views to be centre to centre-left on the ‘political spectrum’.  That’s why I was excited that the Liberals decisively picked a decisive leader after Stephane Dion imploded last fall. That’s why I was glad a few weeks ago when that same leader finally stood up and started acting like an opposition party, opposing a government that a majority of Canadians did not vote for.  That is why this week I am slightly depressed that the promise the Liberals had over the last, has be squandered again and again. There’s a good article up on rabble about the Liberal and their current slide to catch you up to speed on this week’s disappointments if you’ve missed it.

They are saying just what I and others have been saying for a while, that Mr. Ignatieff and his Natural Governing Party(TM) needs to grow a spine and stand for something.  They need to stand for the 60% of Canadians who opposed the Conservative party in the last election.  This is the job of all opposition parties but the leader of the opposition should well, you know, lead that opposition. Flowery words and fancy speeches are nice but frankly Mr. Ignatief’s speeches aren’t even all that flowerly and inspiring, just long winded.  People criticized President Barack Obama this week for accepting the Nobel Peace prize even though he’s provided more inspiring speeches about peace than actual peace itself.  But  if Mr. Ignatieff were that inspiring he might be forgiven.  He’s not.  So he needs to reach an even higher standard of action than Mr. Obama.

The Liberal party seems to have convinced itself in the past decade or two that it does not stand for any particular causes per se but rather for a state of mind.  To be Liberal is to eternally sit on a fence talking about balance and holding Canada together and bla bla “>bla bla.  What do you stand for Mr. Ignatieff?  Do you want to militarize the North?   Are you angry we don’t have national childcare yet? Are you disgusted by our lack of progress on global warming? Do you dream of a future Canada with high speed rails linking our major metropolises, of being a voice for peace, of leading green technology or bioscience or robotics or nanotechnology?  Do you want Canadians to believe in their democracy again, to make sure every vote cast in Canada counts the same whether its in Nunavut or Charlottetown or Toronto or Prince Rupert?

Do you believe in anything? We know you do, you’d been a writer and academic for three decades.  You must have an opinion on everything?

So tell us.  And stand for it.  Or die trying.  That’s the only message people will respect at this point.

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Positive Attitudes With A Baking Twist

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Today’s Positive Thought

Open Hands   Today’s positive Thought is by Dr. R.C. Barker.

“When your word takes form…When your desire is given a subconscious mold and becomes objectified in your life, it is a demonstration.”  “A demonstration is a manifestation, a prayer answered.”

“Your experience is determined by your consciousness.  God is not waiting, life is already in action.  The thing you want, you already have, but you do not know it.  God believes you have it.”  (So should we.  Jay)

Today’s Positive Thought

Gold Star   Today’s Positive Thought is by Jay.

Today is your day!!  The new beginning of a new and powerful week.  This day and week are filled with success after success, from the smallest to the greatest.

Claim your day and week of successes.  See it, Believe it and Achieve it.

Let your life experiences reflect back to you these great successes you have accepted as in your life now.

Life is what we make it, so, let us all make it wonderfully successful.

Today’s Positive Thought

Circles   Today’s Positive Thought is by William Shakespeare.

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds…books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

Just For You

 Just For You

By Jay

Batter   …next we crack an egg, have the milk and butter at room temp, flour and other ingredients sifted in a large bowl.

Mixing batter   Mix the wet and dry ingredients until well blended, pour into the mold(s) of your choice.  Bake until done. Do not keep looking at it,  just let it be and viola at the right time it is magically done.

Dessert Tier   Enjoy your creation(s).  Jay

Today’s Positive Thought

Rose Petal Heart  Today’s Positive Thought is by Oscar Wilde.

“Keep love in your heart.”

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Dove   Today’s Positive Thought is by Unknown.

“Life is way too short to spend another day at war with yourself.”

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Heart   Today’s Positive Thought is by Maya Angelou.

“Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.”

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“But then voting season comes and reminds you that all those Americans that are individually sane and normal tend to be collectively crazy.”

October is a special month for Americans. It’s that magical time when we put on a mask in order to take off the mask and embrace our dark side, letting our demons run free for one night of unrepentant intimidation and pillaging. At least that’s what it is to the kids on my block. To whoever edits the events calendar for this magazine, it’s the traditional time for the leaking of confidential internal Microsoft documents outlining strategies for undermining open source software. And that’s still special. To Linus Torvalds, it is

“[t]hat most holiest of holidays, when the whole country comes together, and without regards to race, religion or age, people join a common cause. Namely the gluttonous eating of candy.”

These days Linus is embracing Halloween as he is embracing all things American. You see, he recently became a U. S. citizen. But don’t hold that against him. It probably wasn’t something he wanted to do. I think he was just legitimizing his anchor babies. And being embraced by Linus Torvalds is a mixed blessing anyway. Halfway through his paean to Halloween he starts railing against the quality of American candy, and its “almost total lack of ammonium chloride.”

Where’s he from again?

Finland, right. He blogs about Finnish culture and the sauna championships on his family blog. Apparently the Finns are big on ammonium chloride in candy. And competitive saunaing.

Getting that Stabby Feeling

When I learned that Linus had become an American, I immediately got hold of his family blog and read, with some trepidation, every post, extending back several years. I was pleased to have all my prejudices confirmed. Linus is, as I suspected, a congenital curmudgeon. Which for me goes a long way toward offsetting the whole Benevolent Dictator of Linux thing. Both the dictator and the benevolent. I’m not crazy about dictators. Or benevolence. Some evidence of the Torvalds curmudgeonry:

“[E]very once in a while I get that ‘stabby feeling,’ and yesterday I realized why. It’s ‘Brandi (You’re a fine girl).’ I’m sure that song explains at least half the road-rage incidents out there. A less stable person would quite reasonably decide that rather than change the channel, they just need to stab somebody in the face.”

“I have never found a sport that I find in the least interesting.”

“Some people seem to think that C is a real programming language, but they are sadly mistaken.”

You’re not in Finland Any More

Right after Halloween we Americans go to the polls to perform political triage, deciding which office-seekers get anointed and which get smeared. This promises to be a particularly entertaining episode of our national hope opera, and Linus will be helping us sort the cheat from the whaff. He appears to have mixed feelings about the process:

“But then voting season comes and reminds you that all those Americans that are individually sane and normal tend to be collectively crazy and very odd. And that's when you really notice that you're not in Finland any more.”

Maybe it was the Americans dining in the food court at Costco whom he overheard discussing strategies for driving out demons. But I’m afraid he really does think our whole political system is screwy. Ah well, it’s only to be expected that he’d retain a little prejudice in favor of his native land. He also blogs that Finnish video is big among YouTubers. Sure. But hey, if it makes him happy to think so, where’s the harm?

A True Work of Genius

After a while I started getting a little creeped out reading his blog. I hate agreeing with people. It makes me feel redundant. And then he called a Microsoft product “a true work of genius.”

No, not Windows 7.

It turns out Linus is a big fan of Songsmith, the Microsoft Research project that generates musical accompaniment to match your voice. “The thing that convinced me,” he says, “was hearing Billy Idol’s ‘White Wedding’ as re-interpreted through Songsmith. Nobody will ever convince me that that isn’t just impossibly brilliant.”

First of all, I’ve heard my voice, and matching that is the last thing I want from musical accompaniment. Second, Linus admits that the commercials for Songsmith are painfully cheesy, but he thinks we should ignore that. I’m sorry, but Microsoft went to a lot of trouble creating those commercials and I consider it my responsibility to judge the product by the ad. You’re just wrong, Linus.

There, now I feel better.

John Shade was born in Montreux, Switzerland on a cloudy day in 1962. Subsequent internment in a series of obscure institutions of ostensibly higher learning did nothing to brighten his outlook. He hates long walks on the beach and his ambition is to become an acquired taste.

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Murderer Convicted of:
2 murders
Confessed to:
27 murders
Actual body count:
over 200 What happened to him? He was found after leaving Chicago and ratted out by a fellow inmate when he had been arrested for a scam.

He was hung on May 7th, 1896 A QUICK OVER VIEW H.H. Holmes Famous for? He was considered America's first serial killer...

He created a whole house dedicated to luring in and killing his victims...

He, so far, is the first man to kill that many people by himself in that short amount of time. Quotes? "I was born with the devil in me. I could not help that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing-- I was born with the Evil One standing as my sponsor beside the bed where I was ushered into the world, and he has been with me since..." What time period? Around 1887-1896 The "Murder Castle" Something amazing... H.H. Holmes was an extremely smart man. He graduated high school at only 16, and went straight to college to become a medical student. He could have lived a normal life, making a lot of money the right way. So what made him flip?
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When Bullying Goes Digital: What We Can Do about Cyber-Bullying

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Presented by Kevin Hodgson
When Bullying Goes Digital
Artists Against Bullying
True Colors
A Tragedy in Western Massachusetts That Resonated Around the World

“Cyberbullying is bullying through email, instant messaging (IM-ing), chat room exchanges, Web site posts, or digital messages or images send to a cellular phone or personal digital assistant (PDA) (Kowalski et al. 2008). Cyberbullying, like traditional bullying, involves an imbalance of power, aggression, and a negative action that is often repeated.” from Violence Prevention Works!
Characteristics of
Punitive Fears (of victims)
Potential of Public Embarrassment
Viral Aspect (digital media)
Common Forms
of Cyberbullying
Flame Wars
Impersonation/Identity Theft
Pew Internet Report:
Teens, Kindness and Cruelty on Social Networking Sites
* Majority of teens have positive online experiences
* Some get caught in an online feedback loop of meanness and negative experiences.
* Majority of social media-using teens say their experience is that their peers are mostly kind
* Less positive experiences when compared with similar assessments from online adults.
* Girls ages 12-13 have the most negative assessment of social network spaces.
* 88% of social media-using teens have seen someone be mean or cruel on a social network site.
* 15% of social media-using teens have experienced someone being mean or cruel to them personally on a social network site.
* Fewer than one in ten teens report being bullied by phone, text, or online.
Personal Classroom Stories
* Webcomic Site (the unexpected comment)
* Facebook (the bad and the good)
Teaching Strategies
* Survey your students to understand their experiences
* Explicit teaching of "netiquette" for online spaces
* Make cyberbulling part of a larger unit of learning around Digital Citizenship
* Engage parents and family members in discussions and activities
* Don't engage in scare tactics
Help Kids Find
A Way Out of
the Bullying Maze
Even home is no longer a safe zone!
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For the past few years Apple has seen an increase in its laptop business due majorly to the dismal failure of Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system. Umpteen number of reports have been published telling people why they should consider switching to the Mac OS now that Vista has failed, but not a single one has surfaced that spells out the merits of switching over to a variety of Linux.

Linux on the server side is pretty well established with Red Hat Enterprise Linux being the dominant flavour there. It is on the desktop that there is an ongoing war mainly between three parties – Microsoft, Apple and the host of Linux vendors. The availability of a large number of Linux distributions may initially confuse a user but a harder look quickly separates the wheat from the chaff and Ubuntu/Kubuntu emerges as the best.

Traditionally Linux adoption on the desktop has been plagued by the notion that it was difficult to handle. Its really a misconception. Ubuntu has changed the face of Linux ever since its launch. The current versions are sturdy, have very good UIs and are intuitive. Program management no longer needs knowledge of the various packaging systems but is driven by an elegant UI. Productivity applications on Linux have come a long way and the crown jewel in this category has got to be Open Office. Not only do you get a great word processor, a brilliant spreadsheet program, a fantastic presentation tool and a good desktop database but you also get compatibility for Microsoft Office documents. In the majority of cases, MS Office documents can be opened in Open Office without any changes. For e-mailing, there is Evolution that offers connectivity to Microsoft Exchange and also Mozilla Thunderbird. Calendar applications are galore. There are a host of commercial and open source tools for multimedia authoring,image manipulation and desktop publishing. Applications like Scribus, Blender 3D and GIMP are the best-of-breed and have the capacity to rival their commercial counterparts. For web browsing, Mozilla Firefox comes pre-installed.

If you are a developer programming in open technologies like Java/JEE or C/C++, adopting to Linux is really easy. All major JEE vendors support Linux as a platform for their offerings. Eclipse, NetBeans and IntelliJ are some of the best IDEs around that have Linux versions. For C/C++ there is KDevelop, Anjuta and many more IDEs offering best-of-breed features. Microsoft .net developers might have it a bit more difficult. Although Mono allows you to run .net applications on Linux, tooling support till now is not the greatest. In any case, if some one is going to use Microsoft technology for development, its much more likely that she/he would stick to Windows. So thats not really a great problem.

Ubuntu has a large number of hardware drivers in it making it very close to being the best distro for plug-n-play. In fact in a few areas it surpasses the great Apple Mac OS. Here’s an example. The Linksys WUSB54GC USB Wireless Adapter worked out of the box on Ubuntu 8.04 whereas in Mac OS it did not.

Security wise both Mac OS and Ubuntu are equally good though some would argue that Ubuntu is probably better. There are GUI tools available to tweak the security settings in a system.

In the look and feel department, Linux has improved in leaps and bounds. In Gnome and KDE you have two of the best windowing systems. With the KDE 4.1.1  environment, users get a light, responsive, and aesthetically appealing desktop that can rival even the Mac OS. Also with Compiz it is possible to extract effects from a Linux desktop that were hitherto unavailable on any other system. I doubt it exists in the Mac.

So why are people not going over to Ubuntu? Beats me. If you are looking for commercial technical support, Ubuntu does offer that. If you are looking at extreme personalization options Ubuntu offers that, probably even more than the Mac OS. If you are looking for easy upgrades to future versions, Ubuntu offers that. If you are looking for ease of use, Ubuntu offers that. If you are looking for robustness and security, Ubuntu is the best. Ubuntu can be installed on all types of hardware and even on older hardware. Mac OS does not offer this flexibility.

The more I use Ubuntu, the more I fail to understand the lure of the Mac OS. Is it the snob value or stupidity that make people consider a Mac over Windows and not Ubuntu?


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Guest Chair: 3D Needs Work, But Could Be The Next Part of NHL’s TV Evolution

Here’s a guesting opinion from Steve Chernoski – Director of “New Jersey: The Movie” on the 3D broadcast of Rangers-Islanders last night. Would you like to sit in the guest chair? E-mail Steve at

The NHL evolved on Wednesday. MSG Network’s 3D broadcast of the New York Islanders vs. New York Rangers last night could be perceived as a tacky gimmick to cash in on the latest 3D craze created by Avatar. Or it can be seen as another sea change in how sports are viewed in general. Whatever the consensus is, history was made last night. Cablevision offered the game in 3D to those who had HD capable TVs, making this game the first NHL contest broadcast in 3D to home viewers in history. For those wanting the fan atmosphere combined with the virtual experience, there was a broadcast of the game at the Theater at MSG, which adjoins Madison Square Garden Arena where the Rangers play.

For some in attendance, it was an experiment that was overly flawed. A couple people voiced their displeasure about the broadcast to me after the game. They commented that the screen wasn’t large enough and the Plexiglas dividers proved to be big visual obstacles. However, that was a small minority. A large majority of the people I interviewed, were very pleased with the product they witnessed last night. One person commented that when the camera was on a low angle shot, the hits along the boards gave you that necessary next step; the “being there” feel. I even saw one fan that mimicked banging on the boards after one of these hits.

At the theater, it was a packed house, but surprisingly sedate. The Ranger fans outnumbered and expectedly out cheered the Islander fans at times, but the mood was very movie theater-like most of the time. I wore my Devils’ jersey and didn’t even get booed or harassed! It was like we were already pre-programmed to automatically turn off our cell phones, eat popcorn and hush up during most of the action. This was greatly apparent when some former Rangers turned up in the Theater to be interviewed during the breaks in the game. Mike Richter and Ron Duguay spoke early on, and Mark Messier was given a hero’s welcome. But as time wore on, the interviews went past the breaks. Adam Graves, Ron Greschner, and Nick Fotiu were victims of bad hosting and were tuned out by the crowd, as if theatergoers were telling “that loud movie theater guy” to shut up and sit down.

For me, my expectations were very low going into the event. With images of the glowing puck in mind, I thought this try by the league would fail. The verdict? It was incredibly awesome. At some point, I even thought players might progress into some Matrix-style combat. It looked somewhere close to being at the game in real life and computer generated NHL players on Xbox and that wasn’t a bad thing.

During the 1st intermission, fans in attendance were even treated to highlights from the Winter Classic in Boston and during the 2nd, a short aerial movie shot over a Hawaiian island was shown. The 3D depth was apparent much of the time, but not all. The low cameras provided the best viewing experience. As mentioned before, the hitting against the glass truly benefitted most from the technology., but it would have been nice to see a goal scored from that low vantage point.

The producers do need to figure out how to get the camera higher and avoid the glass. But even with that drawback, it was somewhat interesting to see fans at the actual game, walking to their seats with cotton candy. They looked like they could have been in the theater itself.

I thought about the timing of this event. Was the NHL merely piggybacking on the new 3D pandemonium or was this the next logical step, especially considering the high ratings during the Winter Olympics and the continued success of the Winter Classic? Well, the NHL needed to be the first of the major professional sports to capitalize on this opportunity and they did so. Buzz has been created. Hockey has made national American news headlines for two straight months . . . and the playoffs haven’t even begun. If the costs of producing this can become cost effective, and the technology continues to develop, this has the potential to become mainstream. The way we watch hockey on TV is going to change drastically – all for the good.

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I’ve been making slow progress on some updates to the Picasa Album uploader.  After a fair amount of trial and error I’ve come to the conclusion that at least for right now the use of permalinks in the site configuration is required for the plugin to function with the Picasa Desktop.  The Picasa Desktop application […]

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seantis.kantonsrat 0.6

Specialized type and custom organisations for the Kantonsrat of Zug.

Latest Version: 1.0.5

If you have never heard of a Kantonsrat, this is in no way meant for you.

  • Python 2.7
  • Plone 4.3+
  • Linux / Posix ( Windows may or may not work )

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seantis.kantonsrat is released under GPL v2

  • Denis Krienbühl [href]

0.6 (2014-03-31)

  • Fixes critical error caused by a typo in the trigger-state view. [href]

0.5 (2014-03-31)

  • Adds start/end to Kantonsrat which hides them from the list of the people. [href]

  • Adds the ability to define past, present and future memberships in organizations. [href]

  • Adds the ability to show external motions defined in [href]

  • Adds the ability to select a replacement for existing memberships. [href]

  • Adds the ability to activate/deactivate organisations using a start/end date. Inactive organisations are not shown in the list and in the navigation. They are still available through the url.

    This needs a cronjob run every night calling as administrator. [href]

  • Adds the ability to directly edit the role and the note of a membership. Fixes #4. [href]

  • Adds notes display to organization memberships. [href]

  • Adds saner dateranges for birthday/entry date. [href]

  • Adds a number of private fields for members. [href]

0.4 (2013-12-31)

  • Fixes more spelling errors. I can haz spell check? [href]

0.3 (2013-12-31)

  • Fixes really wrong spelling in German. [href]

0.2 (2013-12-31)

  • Adds parties, committees and factions. Fixes #1. [href]

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Once upon a time there were two creatures who moved in to a three-unit burrow in North Oakland. Wiley was a smallish creature who liked to gobble spaghetti and sprint around the neighborhood. (What she was chasing after, we’re not sure. A runaway meatball perhaps?)

Ingo was an even smallerish creature who loved her pet praying mantis, finding small places to hide in her closet, and piloting vintage planes.

When they first moved in, the burrow smelled like an unused library. When it rained, the closet leaked and ants paraded in.

But Ingo and Wiley worked hard to make their new house a home. They mopped, scoured, and disinfected. They salvaged furniture from a nearby junkyard and gave old chairs and treasure chests lots of TLC. They worked on art projects and decorated the living room with things that inspired them. Their place was tiny but full of love and good cheer. Great things happened while the two shared their burrow. They got to know their neighbors. Friends came over for pizza parties and pinata powwows. Ingo got engaged to an Endearing Dino and Wiley met a Cosmic Creature who was out of this world. A lot of yummy snacks were had.

But to every thing there is a season, and eventually each of the creatures moved out of their burrow and into new habitats. Ingo and Wiley stayed close friends though and one day, while Wiley was helping Ingo with wedding crafts, Quizzical Creatures was born.

Quizzical Creatures is a celebration of two of life’s greatest blessings: friendship and treasured moments. We’re inspired by the natural world around us (e.g., insects, animals) and when we hear encouraging stories about our fellow human beings — the most quizzical creatures of all.


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A Holocaust ‘denier’ banned from Battlefield 4

E-mailed EA the following:

I have been requested (more or less forced) to change my username (AHolocaustDenier). I am wondering; is this official EA policy to interfere in players personal convictions?

There are swarms of Communist emblems and names to that effect all over Battlelog / BF4, but a benign name such as “AHolocaustDenier” is apparently against the policy. So as for these Communist emblems / names (and whatever else); should they be removed, as well, or do you only target some?

I’m just curious. And somewhat perplexed.


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They were proven a fake and not worth publishing, besides they were mostly plagiarized from already published works, particularly, I believe, the TABLE TALK. The handwriting was perfect but everything about them was a miserable, stupid botch. Kujau was such a good forger and had forged so many Hitler diaries that when the cops did a handwriting analysis they mistakenly used another Kujau forgery for purposes of comparison, so of course they pronounced the handwriting authentic.
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In our neck of the woods, especially when winter trout season begins in January, you’ll hear them on Tofte Lake next door to us.  It’s like an ice fishing panic as crazed trout fisherman from all over creation and the Iron Range run out on Tofte lake and drill and drill and drill in the ice to pull out those delectable test-tube trout.  I call them that because they were born in a bottle and don’t reproduce.  Technically, these are very confused stream trout because someone from the Minnesota DNR was out playing with Mother Nature.  Nonetheless, test-tube-trout look, fight, and taste like rainbows and splake which are yet another man-made creation of a brook trout crossed with a lake trout.  Apparently, to most of  the trout fishermen of Tofte Lake (of which I am one), there is no other fish worth fishing.  At least that is the feeling one gets on trout opener.

The other take-away from droves of crazed trout fishermen that weekend based on the sounds of  power ice auger is that they really could use some upgrading in ice augers.  From the “blapping” I hear from old Jiffy’s grindng away to the loud chainsaw-like sounds of junky, 20 year-old augers, it’s time they bought an upgrade.  At least that is my opinion.  From a half mile away those blapping motors with a little tiny hood that serves as the “muffler” irritate me.   You want those guys to drill their hole and shut it off quickly.  But those guys are the ones who feel compelled to drill 10″ diameter “mickey mouses”  It used to be 10 inch “figure 8’s” but now they gone all Disney on us.  Apparently, they are catching trout that are much larger than the trout I catch in my single 8″ hole.  It’s no longer a hole that you can stick your boot in and have serious problems – it’s now a hole that requires you to wear a life jacket  and rope it off for the safety of small children and women.

Then, while I watch them cutting mickeys, I can’t help but notice how many are using ancient, beat-up, rusty augers with blades that were last sharpened during the Nixon administration.   Grinding and grinding, blapping muffler, pushing, leaning and struggling they go.  Then, my personal favorite to watch is the universal technique called the “dull-blade-drop”.  They lift that piece of junk auger up and drop it forcefully in the hole to make the blade edges catch by changing their angle and flexing the old steel.  Yeah – that’s really gonna help big time.  Pick up the auger and pound it down to crack out the bottom of the ice in the hole.  Do it over and over and then wonder why when you put new blades on it,  that old auger won’t cut like it used to back in 1973.

It’s time you got a new auger, for Pete’s sake!  We sell tons of augers at Red Rock and NONE of them require kicking the crap out of the ice to make a hole.   Drill normally and back off right before break through (lift up a little).  We even have augers that don’t break the bank especially when you’ve been grinding away with that old rusty hulk for so many years.  That brings me to this particular power ice auger.  It’s a Polar Fire ice auger made by HT.  To be more accurate, it is commissioned by HT from a factory in China when they make tons of different motors including those for Eskimo.  This Polar Fire motor looks a lot like an Eskimo from the design to the transmission to the fact that it uses Eskimo blades with precision only possible from the same factory who makes Eskimo Ice Augers.   It is built solidly with steel handles.

The Polar Fire is cleanly designed, nice and neat, and they run beautifully.  Pretty quiet for a gas-two-stroke and plenty of power.  These particular augers are cheaper than dirt this year because they had a slight model change for the new season.  We’ve sold them for a few years now and they’ve done a nice job.  Many happy customers, who’ve saved all those marketing dollars that get charged for a name-brand model, have drilled many holes with the grey auger as opposed to using a more expensive red model.

Now, at 33cc’s it is not a race horse, and it may take you 5 seconds longer drilling in 2 feet of ice than a bigger engine.   But, given that there are so many junkers out there that struggle, spit, blapp, and grind, who cares!  A nice new power auger for under $300 is possible.  Well, we have a few and if you move quickly, you can get one for yourself.  If you miss out on this particular deal, we have Current Polar Fires (same look, function – but they’ve dropped some of their shaft / engine options – had too many) listed online.  You save some dough, and get a nice auger out of the deal.

Order Your Polar Fire 8″ Power Ice Auger Here – while supplies last!