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…they will sometimes resort to Photoshop, and usually with hilarious results:

Thanks for the laugh, Mike!

It’s supposed to be a high of 25C here in Toronto today… and I’ll be stuck inside.

Ah well. This evening is looking good with a high of 22C, and the weekend is supposed to be pretty nice too.

Already it is 13C and sunny, which makes for some excellent biking-to-work weather. I’d better hop to it! I need to pick me up a Caesar salad!

Activity

• Rode the bike to work (6.1km)

Breakfast

• Three hard boiled eggs

Snacks

• One light Babybel

Lunch

• Small chicken Caesar salad with real bacon bits - (Dominion - 250g)
• Light Caesar dressing

Activity

• Rode the bike home (6.1km)

Snacks

• Molly tricked me into licking the cake batter off the beaters (EVIL!)

Dinner

• Half a flank steak with Garlic salt

Living life

• Two bottles of red wine (shared)
• Five DELICIOUS chocolate cupcakes with icing

Seagulls. I fucking hate them.

What a completely useless species. What purpose in the universe could they possibly serve? What is the point of their existence? They are loud, they shit everywhere, and are a general nuisance. The bullies of the bird world, they will eat every scrap of food that they can find, and they usually do so in flocks. They’re not pretty to look at either.

Molly and I were heading to Loblaws to pick up dinner tonight, and while we were walking across the parking lot, the shithawks were out in full force. I’m always wary of them when they’re flying by, as they for some reason prefer to fly over peoples’ heads rather than on some random trajectory. Seriously, if you’ve never noticed before, if they are flying by, they will make a course correction to try and fly right over your head. I think they do it as we all look like targets to them.

Anyway, we were walking across the parking lot, and I noticed a few as they flew over head. I started to say to Molly, “I hate these birds as you never know when they’re gonna–” *SPLAT*. I was hit. Man down.

I wouldn’t have been as angry if it had hit my shirt, or my hat, or any article of clothing that I could simply throw into the laundry and clean, but NO, this precision bomb had to hit my backpack’s shoulder strap. Some of it got onto my shirt, and some of it hit Molly too. Splash damage, in the most foulest of terms. At that moment, if I had the ability to do so with a single thought, every shithawk on the planet would have dropped dead.

I seriously think that they do it on purpose. Something within their genetic code drives them to take a crap on those below, like some sort of sick “fly-by dumping”. How could something like this exist in Nature? Disgusting creatures.

Breakfast

• Two light Babybels

Lunch

• Small chicken Caesar salad with real bacon bits - (Dominion - 250g)
• Light Caesar dressing

Dinner

• Strip loin with garlic salt
• Veggies (red pepper, red onion, zucchini, mushrooms, olive oil, Cajun spice)

Breakfast

• Two light Babybels

Activity

• Rode the bike to work (6.1km)

Snacks

• Two light Babybels

Dinner

• Nine chicken wings
• Fries with celery and carrots, along with blue cheese
• Two pitchers of Creemore (shared)
• One shot of Tequila

If there is one thing I have to laugh at when it comes to home theatre systems, it’s the amount of money some people will part with to try and get the best picture and sound. If there was one other thing I have to laugh at when it comes to home theatre systems, it’s the fact that Monster expects such a large price for it’s cables… and people actually pay it.

Sure, with analog systems, you need all the shielding you can get to ensure that you get the best possible picture and sound between the system and the display or speakers. All sorts of electromagnetic interference could distort or diminish the quality of the signal, so that’s why you’d want to pay for the good cables. Gas-infused, gold-plated, silver-coated cables from Monster will apparently ensure the everything looks and sounds perfect… for $100 plus. Considering that we’re talking about analog signal here, if you’re that hardcore, and you have the cash to burn, I say go for it.

But, when it comes to digital systems, paying for Monster cables is about the dumbest thing someone can do, in my opinion. This is a digital signal, no different than packets over Ethernet when you get down to it, and yet people will spend at least $100 or so to get a one metre HDMI cable from Monster. The fact that Monster makes great analog cables is one thing, but they’ve somehow sold some people to the ridiculous idea that a gas-infused HDMI cable is better than one you can get for $20. Picture clarity and sound quality doesn’t suffer with a cheaper HDMI cable; this is a digital signal we’re talking about. It’s like saying that if I was to use a “cheaper” Ethernet cable to connect my Mac to the network to stream some music from Bassdrive, that the sound would be of lower quality than if I used a more expensive gas-infused, gold-plated, silver-coated Ethernet cable. The entire notion makes me laugh, and reminds me of the age old saying:

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Still, you have to hand it to Monster. They’re raking in the dough through this misconception, and you’d be hard pressed to convince a die-hard home theatre systems “guru” of anything else. I fully believe that you get what you pay for, but in some cases, shelling out more cash for something is not necessary in obtaining a quality product.

And before anyone else fires back a smart-ass comment about Apple with regards to this post, don’t bother. Apple has some pretty expensive hardware but for the most part has fewer headaches. To me, that is worth the cost.

Breakfast

• Three hard boiled eggs

Lunch

• Small chicken Caesar salad with real bacon bits - (Dominion - 250g)
• Light Caesar dressing

Dinner

• Strip loin with Montreal Steak spice
• Small Caesar salad
• Light Caesar dressing

It’s about bloody time, but Spring seems to be finally around the corner.

This has been six months of cold, and while I like the cold, this winter has been a little much. I’m looking forward to riding my bike again (once I get it all fixed up, that is), playing Ultimate Frisbee, and also walking around without a jacket on… perhaps a few more weeks before that last one is constant.

Still… throughout all the cold, San Francisco has been looking pretty sweet. 

Breakfast

• Two light Babybels

Lunch

• Small chicken Caesar salad with real bacon bits - (Dominion - 250g)
• Light Caesar dressing

Snacks

• One light Babybel

Dinner

• Two hand-made burgers, one Cajun (Mmmm) and one garlic salted, both with Black Diamond Sargento Tacos and Nachos six cheese blend on top
• Small Caesar salad
• Light Caesar dressing