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Leo Laporte Yeah, well, you won’t make the mistake I made and I’ve never been invited back. I just picked up my laptop at the iPad announcement and pointed it at Steve.
Joshua Topolsky I heard about this.
Leo Laporte Yeah, he gave me the stink eye too I could tell he could see me.
Joshua Topolsky You knew? He probably [ph] has a button (4:44), right because it’s kind of a… Leo Laporte I was surprised that there wasn’t an injector seat actually, I was surprised I didn’t go flying through the ceiling but I do notice that I haven’t been invited to an Apple event since but of course it’s only been a few months.
When I look at the selection made on the home page for the new movie service, I ask myself who the exactly is this intended for? Jackie Chan imports, T&A B-movies, Bollywood stuff and Teen Slashers. Really? Who picked these? A bunch of Google Engineers high on Mountain Dew and Twinkies or creepy Eric Schmidt.
It’s not exactly the iTunes movie page or even the Netflicks page, but at least this should help instil some competition and hopefully drive movie rental prices down too.
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis was required viewing for my Communications class in University and while others slipped out the back I sat through it with a 16 OZ cup of something very dark from the Second Cup on St-Denis and was blown away this classic Sci-Fi masterpiece. Visually it is was so compelling to watch that you gladly sit through the lengthly silent film. And apparently they had even cut 25 minutes for the version we sat through in University.
Well it turns out some movie fanatics found those extra minutes in some vault in Argentina off all places a little while back and have been restoring it digitally and its set to premier in London.
This year Steph (@Mononque) and I decided to take our family vacations together and head down to the beach in America’s Vacation Land of Maine and like all good Quebecers we ended up very close to Old Orchard Beach on a very cool strip of sand called Kinney Shores. We had awesome weather and spent many days just sitting in the sand, “keeping hydrated” and playing in the waves with the kids. On this one particular Sunday afternoon the tide was coming in pretty high and pretty hard, breaking on the beach and making for some pretty exciting wave play. I thought I was doing well until I broke 2 [really cheap] boogie boards and started getting tossed around pretty wildly in the white stuff. That’s when these three guys decided to come out and play with their “made for low tide rides” Skim Boards. So here are some Skim Boarding pics taken by myself of Jake G. and a couple of his buddies down on Kinney Shores. They were awesome fun to watch and our kids thought they were the coolest guys on the beach that day.
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These waves got up to about 6 feet at their best and were totally breaking on the beach and this was at the peak of high tide too. What this means is that if you get thrown off of a beach breaking wave, you pretty much fall on hard sand, wrist, ankles and tailbones beware. And then of course that same wave crashes on top of your and tosses you around the ringer a few times. So after seeing both of their dads thrown around and given salt water enemas for an hour, you can imagine how come our kids were more impressed with Jake and his friends who just surfed straight into these waves time and time again, chasing down their boards, no leashes here, and most times getting up just in time to have their friends shout out: WAVE or BOARD as either one would come crashing on top of them.
Our thanks to Jake and the Guys for a really entertaining day.
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mtl_steve : @nantel has Montreal also discontinued use of buggy whips? Viva west island!
claurin : @JohnnyCanuck The Hymus will be added to the tour schedule.
JohnnyCanuck : @claurin lol Sure but we can't leave the Hymus off of the community centre tour. Maybe we can even get @scorbett22 to sit on a bouclier
schultzter : I just had to "break up a fight" between my daughter's two feet - she insists it was not her fault but they're keeping her awake!
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