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So I don’t know if ’s the fact that I’m watching this in my quiet office at 1:30am, or that I’ve been privy to much of the emotion portrayed in the shots below, but I really thought this was an interesting project. The guys over at slate (via bb) setup a flickr pool and asked their readers to send in photos of the economic recession. There’s quite a few photos in the pool already and makes for an interesting visualization of what we’re going through.
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some pictures for you from the trip abroad over Christmas. I built a gallery tonight to host these on, give me some feedback if you please. The slideshow viewer is really pretty slick.
The pics from my camera are first in the galleries and then Mikale’s are in there as well, but will be at the end of the collections.
Enjoy!
Al
So I’ve had two great adventures this week. First, on Thursday my buddy Dan and his wife Lauren wanted to show us a place in Brantford called WingMaster, an establishment complete with a … wait for it … wingmaster. It was brilliant. This place has 300+ flavors of wings, everything from your classic honey mustard to pizza flavor to stuff so hot you have to sign a waiver. It’s crazy. So we order 10lbs of wings, and get the pizza flavor, the cherry coke flavor, sweet lava, etc. This place was seriously amazing. Then, after a healthy meal like that, we get our dessert of deep fried oreo’s. These things are amazing, sound disgusting, but amazing. My mouth was so happy. So we sit back and are feeling quite satisfied when Trey, this big black guy who runs the place comes out and starts chatting with us and we’re laughing and telling jokes, loving the whole ambiance of the place, and Trey goes in the back and says he’s got a surprise for us, and the dude whips out a cardboard box (like you’d get for a flat of soda, kind of shallow and such) and covers it in foil, then fills it with 10 lbs of poutine, which for those of you not in the know, is French fries covered in gravy and cheese curds. So seriously, enough to feed a small European nation, and he brings it to our table. As if we hadn’t already compromised the arteries, we opt not to offend the gift giver and start shoveling gravy and cheese covered French fries into our mouths. It was quite the night. And in other news, I felt heartburn for the first time in my entire life that night. Completely unrelated, but thought you’d like to know.
Second thing, I hit a Toronto Raptors NBA game in a corporate box seat. It was a fine moment for me, thank you Wayne, there’s just something wonderful about watching a game from a plush chair with snacks. Though it seems there’s expected etiquette for yelling from the box, I don’t think I’m invited back. We had a good run though. 
So just real quick, as I’ve been trolling through images doing some redesign stuff for businesses, I’ve been loving a cool new addon I found a week or two ago called Cool Iris. You can take any image you see while your surfing the web, hover over it, click in the bottom corner and it pulls it into a gallery view and then scrapes the links from the page and tries to load all the other images in the group. Great for google images or facebook albums. Love it.
Enjoy
So after an upgrade to 8.02, when I open itunes and tries to sync up the genius info, it errors out (gives me the generic windows error) If I cancel the transfer (little x on the right of the display bar) I can go in and work it fine. This is a bit of a frustration as genius was supposed to be better in this. Though I still enjoy my old winamp magic match feature that was around 5 years before ‘genius’ better, but what do you do?
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Update, I thought the upgrade was to 8.02, it was from 8.02, sorry Justin. I got it after the upgrade today. Just me moaning about how much garbage I have to put up with out of apple. I suppose if I was more of a fan boi it’d be different.
we watched this movie when we were little, it had but one funny part in it, but that part was very…. very… very funny.
For Jake and Josh -