It makes a lot of sense with all the high tech travelers going through San Jose airport that they make it electronics friendly. I love the AC and USB power in almost every chair in the aiport – no hunting for power and huddling yourself on the ground by an inconveniently placed power outlet (Seatte airport, I’m looking at you). Oh, and the Free WiFi too – that’s just awesome. Kudos SJC!
Documentary about the rise of Air Guitar in the States and it's popularity worldwide. The first few minutes it seems to be really bizarre to be taken so seriously but by the end it begins to seem much more normal.
0.3
Far too slow with little plot at all. I understand that it was going for character development more so than plot but it seemed to just drop every character that it started a story with, the insomniac at the beginning, Ken, the drunkard and ultimately Mary who seemed to become the lead character by the end. No closure and way too little happening.
0.3
On Kevin's recommendation, Heidi and I watched this movie and we were glued to the screen throughout. It's the story of a woman's acceptance and struggle with her faith. I have no idea who I could recommend this to as it can be a bit crude for a Christian movie and a bit boring for those who like more' entertaining' movies. Nevertheless, her openness is powerful, "I gave my heart outright. I'm telling you today, I'm still waiting for Him to make Himself at home. I feel like I live in an empty place."
0.3
YVR > SJC - kind of a zany concept but it works relatively well, not a great boxing movie but not too bad.
0.3
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.
0.3Thanks to the child-minding of both our parents, Heidi and I got to spend a child-less week together in Hawai’i last week which was wonderful and refreshing.
There were lots of highlights but I thought I’d mention the food ones while they’re still somewhat fresh in my mind. In decending order of their awesomeness:
Leonard’s Bakery had my absolute favorite delicacy called a Malasadas, a deep fried ball of yeast which got itself coated in a variety of flavored sugars. My sugar preference landed up being Li Hing Sugar (a plum based flavor) which was delicious. Out of the 6 days we were in Hawaii, I ended up going here 6 days; at a 45 minute walk each way that should speak to their excellence.
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Heidi made me a delicious, homemade, heart-shaped ham & pineapple pizza and for dessert, an apple and cheese pizza, my favorites!!
I flew with Delta last month and my flight was delayed for about an hour or so but I didn’t have any connection to make so I wasn’t really too concerned. A few weeks later in the mail, I received this letter from Delta explaining that they were sorry for the delay and have given me 1000 points for my trouble.
I’ve flown a lot of places on a lot of airlines and have had a lot of delays but I’ve never got a note from an airline apologizing for a delay and have never gotten free points for my “inconvenience”. Good on you Delta, I’m impressed!
With the permission of the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission), the major ISP’s (Internet Service Providers; Bell, Shaw, Rogers) have received permission to do something called Usage Based Billing (UBB).
That’s a lot of abbreviations, what does it mean?
On your cellphone, you have a data limit that when you exceed, you start to pay extra fees per MB (outrageous!). They’re bringing that model to the land of home internet (more outrageous!). You’ll now have some limit of how much internet you can use in a given month and then you’ll be charged a certain amount per GB, possibly $2/GB for overuse.
In an internet age where high bandwidth media is used so frequently (Netflix, Youtube, online tv, etc) this is going to cost Canadians a lot more money and essentially downgrade the whole experience.
You can view a message from Strombo on what this means:
Feel free to sign the petition at Stop The Meter to repeal the laws that were put in place allowing ISP’s to gouge you!
As I’m writing this, I saw on PM Harper’s twitter account that they’re looking into this:
We’re very concerned about CRTC’s decision on usage-based billing and its impact on consumers. I’ve asked for a review of the decision.
If they win this one, their next target will be my worst fear.
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