Randy Charles Morin blogs for the sake of blogging.
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Q: Why did the banana cross the road?
A: Cause the monkey eating it was stapled to the chicken.
credit to Celeste, my 8 yr old daughter
You know those calls you get and nobody answers from the calling end. I got one today, called *69 and found out it was the Canadian Diabetes Clothesline. Don't donate to this charitee, they are annoying their customers.
Try this in your spare bowling time.
This is a great romantic comedy about a guy who has lost his way. Frustrated with his romantic life, going to AA, crappy job, but he has some great friends holding him in Los Angeles. He decides to start anew on the East Coast. He pisses off all his friends to remove all reason to stay. But he meets a girl at the airport and decides to stay and try it. He presents this girl with every opportunity dislike him and she still falls for him. I very relate to the main character and his plight. I bought the entire story. It was stupid funny watching him fall apart. Don't worry, he gets the girl.
The original Dragonheart movie was always one of my favs. I never knew there was a part two and it was made 11 years ago. I was quite happy to endulge myself in this movie. I didn't expect much, which was good, because it's not the greatest and no way compares to the original. But going in with little expectation, I liked it.
The story starts that Drago, from the 1st movie, is not the last dragon. He has a son, an egg. Then it turns out there's yet another dragon trapped in a human body. So, dragons are back. I hate it when they destroy the originally story line.
Graphics were ok. Story was good. Ending was fun. If ya bored and looking for a fantasy story to kill 90 minutes of your life, then this is a recommend. Good, not great.
Yesterday, I tried the house Bavarian Inn Dark draft beer at the Bavarian Inn restaurant. I got in the souvenir mug, which was on $3 and totally worth it, since I'm a major Bavarian Inn fan.
The beer itself was quite tasteless. Tasted like a regular lager. I like my dark beers with some extra flavor. This one had nothing extra.
They didn't have any other darks on tap. Kinda disappointed. They use to have the Hofbrau Dunkel, which was a dark and quite tasty. Still the meal at Bavarian Inn was amazing, as usual.
And then...
He made the earth round.
This was a great movie and story about an american comic book legend. Red Skull, the villain, looked awesome. The story was complete with a romantic tragedy moment approaching Romeo and Juliet.
But the best part of the movie was after the trailing credits. The Avengers preview. Iron Man, Thor and Captain America coming together to a screen near you next summer.
Laura's law is...
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Osama bin Laden approaches 1
This law is an replacement for Godwin's law.
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1
The law was named after the 1st person who made me realize the eventuality of bin Laden replacing Hitler in the minds of people that can't formulate proper arguments and have to resorts to exaggerated attacks.
I called Play Station support and the automated menu was a circle of fun. Kept asking the same questions and insisting it was the wireless router.
I decided to connect to the wireless router with my Blackberry. The SSID wasn't being advertised and I couldn't connect to it manually. Eventually, I figured out that the SSID was wrong and picked the strongest signal. Success, but now it wanted a password. I typed in the password in the manual and just like the SSID, it was wrong too! Eventually, I tried 1234567890 and it worked. Why even bother having a password? I scratched out the chicken scratches in the manual and entered all the real values. Awesome Bell technician set this up.
And... I was able to connect. In other words, there was nothing wrong with the wireless connection. Back to square 1.
I called back Play Station support and finally found the correct options to get a person online. They asked question after question and I was only able to answer about half of them, cause I didn't know WTF was up.
Eventually, the technician told me she couldn't help. I replied, "This is too hard. You should make it easier." She replied, "It is easy." "Huh! I'm an uber-geek with a degree Bachelor of Computer Science and you can't help me, but somehow this is easy?"
She realizes her stubbornness and tells me all I have to do is create a new Play Station profile. I confirm my reservations about this, exchange pleasantries and bye.
I create a new Play Station network profile. It works. I'm connected to Lay Station network. Load netflix. Cannot connect. WTF!?
I tried Netflix on his PC and it worked. I called Netflix support. They had a prompt saying Netflix wasn't working, except on the PCs. ***** fk!
I went home. It was late. My kids had school in the morn and homework needed to be done. If it didn't work in the morning, then I'd come back.
I got home... My Netflix was down too! On the XBOX and not the PC. ***** fk!
How the fk do non uber-geeks like me use computers?
I really like chess.com on Facebook. I play almost daily now. But there's one big prob, which I can't figure out how they don't fix. When I try to start a regular game, the start page for regular games hangs and I'm eventually presented with a message to kill an unresponsive javascript. I try killing it. I try letting it run. Rarely am I able to click the Create new game button. If I try to join a game created by another user, then by the time the page loads, somebody else has already accepted the game and I'm outta luck. This happens on both of my primary computers. Both Windows. Both IE. One Vista. One older. If this is happening on two of my computers, then it's happening all over the world. How could they let such a bug persist? I get the same problem when I use Chrome, but it's not as bad and I can usually get a game going enventually using Chrome.
The printer had all the features you could want. Wireless. Copier. Scanner. Color. Black and white. And it was cheap. Oops, I guess that was a bad sign.
I took it home and found that I had to USB it to a computer to configure it. WTF!? Thought it was wireless? Not entirely.
Most of the time, the printer works. But... The black ink runs low monthly and then problems begin.
Turns out, the printer doesn't support half the devices in my house. Read the fine print and it works with Windows. WTF!? I have 20 devices in my house that can print, not all PCs.
Macs have a hard time with this printer. When the ink is anywhere near low, the Mac doesn't print at all. I assume its interpreting a low ink warning as an error. Because my wife and kids use Macs, I have to change the cartridge as soon as it is low, even though its still printer perfect from my PCs.
Further, on occasion, the printer simply stops working. I have to unplug the power to the printer, there's no off switch, to get it working again. Sometimes, I have to unplug it multiple times before it starts working again.
Now consider that I'm a computer genius. I wonder how much trouble the average Joe has with this printer?
Recommendation: Don't buy unless you enjoy the stress of computer hackery.
A few days later, their was already an update that stumped my son. I had to show him how to turn on the controller. What was M$FT thinking?
Must see video of NYC subway rat.
Awesome video of planned spontaneous chorus at a mall food court in Welland.
Video of my fam on Test Track at Epcot, DisneyWorld.
On a planet, ~Earth~, in the land of America there is a state that humans called Florida. In this state there are circular citrus fruits called oranges but that’s not important. What is important is that in this place called Florida there is Disney World. At this Disney World hundreds of humans stand near each other all facing the same way so they can talk to a person standing in a box. The person standing in the box will give a certain amount of small pieces of paper to the human outside the box. After the humans get their papers they get into groups and give their papers back to an old man standing next to a gate and he lets them walk through.
At Disney World, ~the area inside the gate~, humans ride on large machines which move around a lot. While on these machines humans waste oxygen by making loud obnoxious noises come out of their mouths but for some humans more than oxygen comes out. This happens when humans try to replenish their essential nutrients right before boarding the machines. Some humans, mostly the males seem to have problems with standing in lines for a long time. These humans, mostly male as I previously stated, purchase papers that give them the right to go on the ride before everyone else. If they didn't purchase these pieces of paper, they would be yelled at for what humans call "butting" or "cutting" in line. This is a very major offense and many people will yell at you if you accidentally do this.
Disney World also has humans who dress up as oversized talking creatures that wear colorful clothes. Some little humans love the creatures and stand next to them while bigger humans press buttons on small boxes. Other small humans are scared of the creatures and liquid squirts from their faces.
Marriage is like a deck of cards....................
In the beginning all you need is two hearts and a diamond.
By the end.............. you'll wish you had a fucking club and a spade.....
Last month we went to Cici's Pizza for the 1st time.
Cheap buffet pizza. Check out those prices.
We'll be back. Thanks to Mom for recommending.
It's simply amazing what people will believe. Today, I saw the following Facebook status.
There are many complaints that Facebook has become unacceptably slow. The report shows that Facebook has a number of nonactive members. They want us to re-post this message to see who are active and who are not. If you don't post this message within 2 weeks you will be removed in order to get more space. Post this on y...our wall to show that you are active in the facebook.
I immediate replied (the 1st) with "Fb wouldn't do that". They replied "I saw it as a status." This is paramount to "It's on FB. It must be true." All this person friends stuggled to post the blurb on their FB wall. One person on mobile, didn't know how to cut and paste. The solution? Write it down on paper and retype it on your wall.
I remember the 1st Internet HOAXes more than 20 years ago. We all fell for them. That's because they didn't exist prior and we didn't know what HOAXes were. On today's Internet HOAXes are common place. I get dozens via email, fb, IM, TXT daily. Yet some people are prone to continue to fall for them over and over and over. I have to wonder how much of their day is spent dealing with HOAXes. But then, maybe I'd be a happier person, if I believed a HOAX once in awhile.
The bridge in the next shot is Williams Parkway. If you were driving to my wife's place from Toronto (going North), then you'd turn off here. The camera is facing North-East.
