Monthly Archive for September, 2008
Hello friends,
I’ll be participating in a 2-day major cycling event called The Ride to Conquer Cancer benefiting The Princess Margaret, one of the top 5 cancer research hospitals in the world.
I’ll be cycling over 200 kilometres that weekend, from Toronto to Niagara Falls, with thousands of other Riders. All the proceeds will go to The Princess Margaret to support cancer research, treatment, and services. The Princess Margaret is Canada’s leading comprehensive institution devoted to cancer research and care, and the work they’re doing is leading-edge.
I’ve agreed to raise at least $2,500, but I’ve set my personal goal to $5,000. So here’s where you come in, because I need your help to do that. Could you please consider making a donation? Use the link at the bottom of this post to go visit my webpage, and please take the time to support me. Please keep in mind the commitment I’m making to end this heartbreaking disease and the personal efforts I’ll have to make to accomplish this.
When I say “heartbreaking,” here’s what I mean: In 1987, when I was 10, my father was diagnosed with Cancer. He died three months later. Earlier this year my father-in-law lost his battle with Cancer. That’s why I’m riding. To do something BIG about cancer. I hope that you’ll share this incredible adventure with me by supporting me in my fundraising efforts.
Thank you in advance for your generosity!
My page: http://www.conquercancer.ca/goto/chrisandleah
Sincerely,
Chris
With Apple’s newest release of iTunes they included a feature called “Genius” that creates playlists based on a single song. In my limited experiences with it I am really impressed. Naming something “Genius” (yes that’s with a capital G) is usually a recipe for disappointment, even from Apple. Their Geniuses in the Apple Store at Sherway Gardens often are without the answers to my questions…
But I digress, the software Genius is awesome. Choose a song from your library and click the button. A 25 song playlist is automagically generated consisting of songs that go well together. And if you click on any song in the playlist the Genius sidebar displays related songs with a button to Buy the song immediately from the iTunes store.
So is the genius feature that the software works so well and creates great playlists, or is it that Apple have made it so incredibly easy for you to spend money on new music?
Uggh…. there were a few funny spots but the even the “league of morons” featured was not enough to make this a worthwhile trip to the theatre.
Kudos to the trailer/commercial editors as they really sucked me in on this one… and it’s rare that I get this hosed on a movie not living up to its advertising. But that’s what happened here. Professional critics seem to generally love this film stating that it is another masterpiece from the Coen Brothers; and I suppose had I been more clued in to their oeuvre – specifically O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, and The Hudsucker Proxy – I probably would have skipped it completely.
Oh well.
What the heck does this prove other than the fact that Microsoft is totally lost – or as one of the commenters on the Youtube page for this video said, “having anything Microsoft in your home isn’t good and messes everything up.”
So last night marked the premiere of the much hyped new 90210 and I was shocked and disappointed. I’m sure that the opening scene of a guy receiving head in the front seat of his Escalade had many parents reaching for the remotes to quickly change the channel… and I’m not sure if they’d bother to come back. The show was far too predictable, and seems to have lost the key draw from the original version – that the kids were real people. (Despite being twenty and thirtysomethings… which leads me to the highlight of last nights episode for me: Hannah Zuckerman, presumably Andrea’s daughter from the original, is delivering the news when the teacher cracks, “What is she, 30?”)
If a family has a private jet and the kid drives a Bentley Continental ($200,000 +) car I really doubt that he attends the local public high school. And the collection of Aston Martins and Ferrari’s in the school parking lot was too much.
Another bothersome point for me is that they seem to have not only stolen Shenae Grimes from Degrassi, but also many of their ideas – the media class, the newscast, and some of their editing style.
At the end of the day this show will probably succeed because it has a lot of money behind it – not because it is a good show.