2009 February | Flecks of... Gray?

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Pepsi bringing pure sugar cola

25 02 2009

Seems like my love for natural sweeteners is going to move to the mainstream, for a brief time at least. Pepsi is announcing that it’s going to put real sugar in its soda instead of the high fructose corn syrup. I wonder if that will make it taste as good as Jones Soda (Canadian – woo hoo!), which I love. I’ve been almost completely cutting pop out of my drinking schedule, not because I’m trying hard but because I’m craving it less and less; perhaps real sugar will bring me back in…

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Movies I've watched recently:

Real Steel (2011) 7/10
2012-01-30 22:13

YVR > SJC - kind of a zany concept but it works relatively well, not a great boxing movie but not too bad.
0.3
The Guard (2011) 8/10
2012-01-21 22:38

This movie came well recommended to me and it was a good, strange and profanity laced comedy. The main character was profound, confusing and yet remarkably consistent and believable. Some good lines in there and a nice change of pace from an action movie loaded with action to this one which seems to try to avoid it at every turn.
0.3
Moneyball (2011) 9/10
2012-01-14 23:44

When a movie with a plot as benign as MLB drafting and trading using statistics instead of scouting intuition is this entertaining, you know they did something right. Great story that had both Heidi and I riveted to a sport that we really know and care very little about.
0.3
Warrior (2011) 8/10
2012-01-14 14:01

MSP > YVR - Solid acting in this action-drama, decent story, pretty good fight scenes and sympathetic characters. All in all, nicely done.
0.3
Breaking the Press (2010) 4/10
2012-01-06 21:41

Ugh, this Christian movie was not worth watching. While it followed the plot of the Prodigal Son story closely, it seemed to lack all the great details that we had been learning about in the Prodigal God book study that we were going through. The acting was poor, most of the characters were poorly developed and the dialog was very local (to Texas) and didn't sound very natural to my Canadian ears.
0.3

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Denver Mustang!

24 02 2009

westword.com via digg

I was just in Denver last week and saw this huge sculpture while driving out and coming back to the airport. The thing I didn’t realize was that it actually killed its creator when it fell on him and severed an artery in his leg. Says one digger:

This mustang KILLED its own creator and managed to get away with it. How many cities can claim to have a murderous 32-foot-tall Mustang gracing the landscapes of their airports?

Funny. And much cooler than the George HW Bush statue in Houston.

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500th post!

23 02 2009

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I’ve been doing this blogging business for about 6 years now and just now crossed the 500 post mark. Here are my 11 favorite posts to commemorate the event:

All the movies I’ve watched and liked in the last 6 years
Sunrise/Sunset times
Desktop Tower Defense Complete Progress Guide
Goodbye Facebook
Calculating the odds for getting snake eyes
Interesting Geography Facts
Meeting Sarah Musgrave on a flight from San Francisco
Finishing the hard level of Jonah (ball bouncing game)
Star Phoenix’s front page memorial to my cousin, Dwayne.
My wedding ring tattoo
The foosball logo

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Classic Quiksilver logo

22 02 2009

Heidi was watching the movie Bustin Down the Door about the commercialization of surfing and how some of today’s power brands got started. One of those was Quiksilver and there was an picture of an advertisement with a copy of their old logo which Heidi would love to have on a shirt (she loves the 70′s feel of it).

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