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Braces Or Invisalign

Posted on February 8th, 2012 at 7:03 pm in Featured :: 5 Comments

A few people know already, but I’ve been considering getting a set of braces or possible Invisalign sometime in the near future. As a kid I had approximately two years of orthodontics between the ages of 14 and 16, but since then my teeth have slowly shifted. It’s at the point now where if I don’t do something soon they are probably going to revert to what they looked like as a kid (not good). » read more »

BC’s Archaic Liquor Laws Claim Another Casualty

Posted on January 21st, 2012 at 5:38 pm in Movies and Television, Vancouver :: No Comments
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I was reading about the Rio Theatre and their liquor license issues over at www.miss604.com. To summarize, the Rio theatre applied, and was granted, a liquor license for their movie theatre. Their intention was to have limited showings of movies where alcohol could be served to adults. The BC Liquor Control Board has now placed a restriction on the license which essentially means they can’t use it to that effect anymore (not without cancelling regular » read more »

Forced To Watch Trailers On New Movies

Posted on January 6th, 2012 at 12:09 pm in Movies and Television :: 3 Comments

Back in the summer Future Shop had a sale on the extended BlueRay versions of the Lord Of the Rings. Given that they were basically 50% off and that I know I eventually wanted to buy a BlueRay player, I decided to buy a set. Now that I’m back in Canada, I went out and finally bought a BlueRay player. I sat down over the Christmas break to watch a few of them, and I » read more »

My Genetic Profile

Posted on September 21st, 2011 at 12:22 am in Health :: 6 Comments

Last year my friend Dave got his genetic profile done up by 23andMe. Basically they can take a saliva sample, extract your DNA from it, and then compare it against all the current research in the field of genetics. When they originally launched they were asking over $400 for each profile. I’ve been patiently waiting for a sale to get mine done, and eventually managed to find a coupon to bring the cost down to » read more »

Migratory, Once Again

Posted on August 26th, 2011 at 9:06 am in Travel :: No Comments

I spent last night packing up everything I took out of storage at the end of April. In a few hours my brother-in-law will show up and help me load everything up into his truck, and we’ll head back to Chilliwack together. Once my items are in storage, probably around noon sometime, I’ll officially be homeless and in migratory mode again. And at that point, I’ll finally get a chance to relax a bit after » read more »

When You Gotta Go, You Gotta Go

Posted on August 17th, 2011 at 2:48 pm in News :: No Comments

If you want to see what’s wrong with the world of online journalism these days, simply read a few of the recent articles describing how Gerard Depardieu urinated on an CityJet flight to Dublin. Of course, most articles depict Depardieu getting up and purposefully pissing in the aisle of the plane, forcing it to go back to the gate. Passengers, especially men who urinate multiple times per day, were obviously traumatized having to watch such » read more »

How To Reprogram Keys And Fobs On A Mazda 3

Posted on August 7th, 2011 at 9:32 am in Tips :: No Comments

Not that long ago I lost my only accessible set of keys to my Mazda 3 Sport. I have a spare set somewhere, but thought at the time that they were probably buried in the back of my storage locker in Chilliwack. Going out to Chilliwack to get them may have been an option if, you know, the key to the storage locker wasn’t also on the same keychain that was lost. Ultimately I had » read more »

Historic Downgrade of US Debt

Posted on August 5th, 2011 at 10:07 pm in Finance :: 6 Comments

I gotta hand it to the S&P ratings agency – I didn’t think they had it in them. After the other two ratings agencies reaffirmed AAA rating a few days ago, I thought S&P would simply cave to political pressure and keep the rating in tact as well. In fact, I read a few news articles that basically seem to allude that the government was frantically trying to get S&P to keep the rating in » read more »

US Debt Crisis Just Beginning

Posted on August 2nd, 2011 at 10:15 pm in Finance :: 7 Comments

The senate passed the deal to raise the debt ceiling today, which means the United States can pay their bills and not default. But truthfully, that’s probably the worse thing that could have happened, since the US has delayed dealing with some very hard problems. First, let me comment on the ratings agencies. Right after a deal was announced, two of the three major rating agencies reaffirmed the United State’s AAA credit rating. These are » read more »

Two Days With The New Macbook Air

Posted on July 29th, 2011 at 9:30 am in Apple & All Things Mac, Featured :: 6 Comments
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I’ve been a pretty loyal user of Apple’s Macbook Pro line for the last few years. I purchased my first one after Northern Voice in 2007, mostly because the laptop that I recently had Vista installed on failed to work for me during a presentation. Since then I’ve probably been through three or four of them, often upgrading every year or so to keep up with technology. The first few were the 15″ model, and » read more »

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