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Ives Prepares For Life With a Mother-in-Law
Originally uploaded by iChris.
Fun weekend. We're exhausted but it's a very good kind of exhaustion that comes from spending lots of quality time with friends and family. Thanks to everyone who helped out and was a part of Ives and Jamie's wedding celebration.
More pictures here.
My sister Jamie is getting married to Ives today (tonight actually). It's hard to believe that the day is actually here. It's a smaller wedding and so there isn't _as_ much to worry about - but there's still lots of little details to iron out (including my shirt). It's an interesting run up to the day of the wedding to see how well the family copes with all the stress and when the wedding finally happens and goes fine, how relaxed and calm everyone is after.
Enough contemplation. More work to do. Watch for pictures as they get added here. I changed the picture set to a group that anyone can join. Leave me a comment if you'd like to be included and can't get in right now.
... and still no iTunes Music store available to Canada.
Very nice promo for Apple on Survivor tonight. They used a Powerbook with an iSight to connect the 'survivor's to their loved ones back home. The video quality looked a little too good to be true since they were connecting via satellite - and it turned out to be so as they had their loved ones hidden on the island. So maybe it was just a good advertisement for Airport wireless and the iSight. Either way, it looked cool for Apple. I've tried the iSight and it works as good as advertised.
Tomorrow's D day for the new U2 album. As U2 drive around Gotham playing from the back of a flatbed truck, you can get the album in whatever format you desire.
Continue reading for lyrics from my current favorite off the new album: Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own.
Tough, you think you've got the stuff
You're telling me and anyone
You're hard enough
You don't have to put up a fight
You don't have to always be right
Let me take some of the punches
For you tonight
Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don't have to go it alone
And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
Sometimes you can't make it on your own
We fight all the time
You and I...that's alright
We're the same soul
I don't need...I don't need to hear you say
That if we weren't so alike
You'd like me a whole lot more
Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don't have to go it alone
And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
Sometimes you can't make it on your own
I know that we don't talk
I'm sick of it all
Can - you - hear - me - when - I -
Sing, you're the reason I sing
You're the reason why the opera is in me...
Where are we now?
I've got to let you know
A house still doesn't make a home
Don't leave me here alone...
And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you that makes it hard to let go
Sometimes you can't make it on your own
Sometimes you can't make it
The best you can do is to fake it
Sometimes you can't make it on your own
Kelly loaned me his copy of Season 1 of The Office a few weeks ago. I hadn't actually had a chance to sit down and watch it until this weekend. Hilarious. It's a bit crude a times, but then it's much like life... full of man-whores and drunken debauchery.
Choice clips:
Here's an interesting read from a freelance cameraman in Iraq. He's someone who actually sees what the soldiers are dealing with up close and personal. In this entry he describes a recent battle at a mosque where what seems to be already wounded people are shot and killed to make sure they're dead.
It's something I disagree with sitting in my chair at home, but I can't even begin to imagine being a 19 yr old in a country where a lot of people are wanting your death. I'd be pretty trigger happy as well.
Disgusting. There is quite literally no excuse for a professional sports player leaving the playing field and going into the stands and punching fans. No matter what they're saying about your mama, no matter what they throw at you.
I hope they ban the players involved from the game. Realistically they may get a season suspension, but who knows. As they say, no press is bad press these days.
Joel Would (And Did) Give His Right Eye For Pilate
Originally uploaded by iChris.
Joel gave his right eye to see Pilate last night. I gave up 2 hours of my life listening to 2 other crappy bands (Boy and Memory Bank) before finally getting to the good stuff.
It was akin to having to wade through mushroom-capped something appetizers to get to your steak. But man was it a good steak.
Mmmm.... steak.
Gmail finally adds POP support. Woo hoo.
Anyone out there still need a gmail address? I've got invitations to hand out. Leave a comment if you want one.
More switch ads than you can throw a stick at. (Will Ferrell, Perry Farrell, De La Soul)
Terry And His iPod Harem
Originally uploaded by iChris.
Need an iPod?
Americans at War - an online exhibit at the National Museum of American History.
Lyrics from one of my current favs on the new U2 album:
I want to trip inside your head
Spend the day there...
To hear the things you haven't said
And see what you might see
I want to hear you when you call
Do you feel anything at all?
I want to see your thoughts take shape
And walk right out
Freedom has a scent
Like the top of a new born baby's head
The songs are in your eyes
I see them when you smile
I've seen enough I'm not giving up
On a miracle drug
Of science and the human heart
There is no limit
There is no failure here sweetheart
Just when you quit...
I am you and you are mine
Love makes nonsense of space
And time...will disappear
Love and logic keep us clear
Reason is on our side, love...
The songs are in your eyes
I see them when you smile
I've had enough of romantic love
I'd give it up, yeah, I'd give it up
For a miracle, a miracle drug, a miracle drug
God I need your help tonight
Beneath the noise
Below the din
I hear your voice
It's whispering
In science and in medicine
"I was a stranger
You took me in"
The songs are in your eyes
I see them when you smile
I've had enough of romantic love
I'd give it up, yeah, I'd give it up
For a miracle, miracle drug
Miracle, miracle drug
They just don't make them rap burgers like they used to.
For the love of everything on the internet - I DON'T WANT A FREEKIN ROLEX WATCH!@!@
We came, we saw.. I forgot the camera to capture the evidence but it's pretty fair to say Toronto won't be the same after this weekend.
We had the best and worst presentations ever made to people sitting in chairs in the history of mankind. I cannot believe in this day and age that companies that make real money pay real dollars to people who cannot even present their product without just reading off the powerpoint slides.
'Oh boy, was this ever a disaster. Complete nightmare. But it's a great product.'
I have no idea what that means - I think it means I'm really tired and wiped from a weekend of planes, sitting in conferences and not having a day off. At least this week is a short week. I won $15,000 at blackjack** on Saturday night.
I've got my ears on a copy of U2's new album that's making the day go a little smoother. It's going ot be a great album and tour.
**It should read 'I won $15,000 at blackjack on Saturday night playing with fake money' but that doesn't sound nearly as good.
Originally uploaded by iChris.
It's funny what you find on a memory card that nobody has used for awhile in a computer store.
For gaming nerds:
World of Warcraft trailer.
Movie Nerds:
Cars: Pixar's next movie after they finish counting the cash from The Incredibles.
Scott, Phil and I get to join up with our boss in Toronto this weekend for a conference with all the other campus retailers across Canada. We get into the T at midnight tonight and then get blasted by all the vendors trying to pitch us their wares in the form of pens, t-shirts and hats. Sunday we get more of the same and fly out, arriving back home around midnight.
If I have internet access, I'll be dumping pics up on flickr.
My Tim Horton's rep (aka the lady who remembers what I always get every morning) gave me a free lg english toffee today. That made my day after a crappy night of helping a guy figure out how to get pictures off his digital camera that just doesn't really want to function properly with WinME.
I think I'm going to switch to being strictly a Mac support. Stupid Windows.
As you can see, we're updating the look of our main page to better assist you in finding suitable reading to your tastes. As with most web pages, it's a work in progress but I avoided putting up the under construction animated GIF.
mennogirl.ca is coming. But it's taking dotster.com forever and a day to figure out how to actually let me register it. Dotser is dotstupid.
