This entire short video was shot using the new iPhone4′s HD video recorder and then edited with software that comes with the phone.
“Apple of My Eye” – an iPhone 4 film – UPDATE: Behind the scenes footage included from Michael Koerbel on Vimeo.
On June 28th, 2008 a friend of mine passed away in a motorcycle accident while in British Columbia.
He was born November 16th, 1981. He was very young.
Joe Coady was notorious for being an all-around fun guy.
I remember one time we were celebrating at Sparling’s on a Sunday before a holiday and as the night grew short we got hungrier and hungrier. Joe and I decided we should order a pizza and literally called every single pizzeria in St. John’s and Mount Pearl but not one was open.
We were desparate and joked about calling a cab to pick us up and bring us to the McDonald’s just up the stret from his house.
Suddenly a cab pulled in. No one called it. We went out to investigate and asked if the McDonald’s nearby was a 24-hour drive through. Sadly it was not. But the Torbay Road McDonald’s was open.
To give you perspective, we were about as far west end as you could go without entering another city. Torbay Rd. was pretty far away.
We were desperate.
No matter the cost, Joe, Mike, Nora, and I needed greasy food.
We jumped in the cab and went. It was about $60 just to get there and order the food. This would be the most expensive hamburger I have ever eaten.
On our way back the cab driver was nervous about us holding full beverages with loose caps in his car. He warned us not to spill them.
“Okay,” we said. “No Problem.” Obviously we would comply.
But this guys was a douche.
On Waterford Bridge Road he began to intentionally swerve the car and ruse “Don’t spill your drinks! Don’t spill your drinks!”
Of course this led to one of our drinks spilling. A bright red Fruitopia all over the back seat.
We used every napkin and pieces of our McDonald’s bags to try to inconspicuously conceal the spillage. Unfortunately there was not much we could do.
When we got out he immediately turned to check the seat and started to yell at us. We tried not to argue that it was his fault but instead offered him a substantial tip and a towel to clean up the mess.
It didn’t matter.
“What if my next customer is coming from the airport wearing a white tuxedo?” he asked quite seriously.
Joe really stepped up and took care of the situation without forcing blame where Mike and I clearly would have. He handled the situation very much like a gentlemen.
He will continue to be missed.
The Twitter Fail Whale is the most endearing error page on the Internet.
This Twitter user turned the Fail Whale into a cake!
As Guy Kawasaki said, “Deliciously over capacity.”
I have a birthday coming up you guys 
From GadgetSin: Fail Whale Cake for Twitter Fans
Tonight on the NTV Evening News there was buzz about the latest lottery. I decided to get a ticket.
This is my first ever lottery ticket. Of course I come home to a vibrant rainbow landing on my house.
I wonder what’s inside.
Update: I did not win the $50 million 
With the advent of the iPhone4, iPhone advocates and anti-iPhone activists have been abuzz with arguments of the best mobile devices on the market.
What do you think?
Wild.
If I could use one word to describe Marble Zip Tours that would be it.
Their tours are wild, in ever sense of the word.
Riss and I booked a zip-lining tour while we were staying in Humber Valley. We came to Humber Valley mostly for the scenary, but decided to do something fun while in the area.
While doing a search online I came across Marble Zip Tours.
Boy was I glad I did.
We were both very excited about going, we really didn’t know what to expect. Personally I thought it was just going to be a straight zip line shooting down Marble Mountain next to the ski lifts.
We were pleasantly surprised to find that the zip lines actually shoot back and forth over Steady Brook Falls, a gorgeous waterway that falls many hundreds of feet down Marble Mountain. Gorgeous.
Hanging over the canyon is completely exhilarating. Not only are you zipping at speeds of 45 km/hr (up to 80km/hr according to their website) but you are suspended over one of the many splendors of Humber Valley. You have a view of so much.
It’s more than a ride.
One of the lines at Marble is the highest in Canada and two of them are the longest zip lines in Canada. To top it off they are adding two even longer zip lines in July.
If you were considering zip lining anywhere in Canada, book with Marble Zip Tours.
Our guides were Greg and Richard and not only did they make us feel safe but they were quite a fun duo with their routine. You can tell that these guys not only know their job but they love it and it really adds to the experience.
They were a blast.
Before we started zipping we asked about cool things to do in Humber Valley. They recommended caving, which they offer as a tour.
First thing we thought was we weren’t looking for a sales pitch. They were persistent that it was a tour well-suited to us.
We really didn’t want to spend any more money on tours, but we also didn’t want to pass up any unique opportunities while we were on the west coast.
We opted to go if Richard or Greg guided us (cause they were awesome), but were warned we could get wet and dirty and that there were associated risks with the tour.
Having no context for what caving is like, I assumed the adventure would be us walking through a giant cave with flashlights like they do in movies and walking back out.
That’s not the kind of cave experience they have in Humber Valley.
Well allow me to preface my caving adventure story by saying this tour was easily one of the most extreme and dangerous and exhilarating things I have ever done in my life.
The caves intersect in a number of different places forming a figure eight. There were a number of times when the tour guides, Richard and Yvan, would point to a small hole and say “That’s where we will come out.”
Each time the hole was smaller and more rugged and each time I said “You’re tripping.” The photo above is the exit to the caves where were first told we would come out. It’s hard to tell from the photo, but the hole is about thigh-height. This was one of the easiest of the exits.
I figured once we got to a spot like the cave exit in above photo we would just turn around and go back.
Remember, even up until this point I was expecting to walk through a giant cave.
Look at us with our clothes all clean and still in one piece. This was about as roomy as the cave got for the most part. This was the entrance. Still no idea what to expect.
There were some parts of the cave that were like venturing through snow tunnels you would dig in your yard as a kid. Here is an example. In this photo are our tour guides, Richards and Yvan.
The scenery in these caves was absolutely stunning. The rocks were beautiful and the top of the cave was covered in drops of dew that shimmered in our light.
We also experience “true darkness” once we got far enough in and switched off our lights.
Throughout the tour there was a lot of head-bumping on the stalactites above and crawling hands-and-knees along the jagged rocks below. At one point I said “I don’t know what I treasure more, my helmet or my kneepads.”
There were rivers running in a few of the tunnels. In some cases we had to tightly boulder along smooth walls like this to get through without walking through the water (which you can’t see well in this photo but is that blackness Riss and Richard are avoiding).
Other times we had to find innovative ways to cross without getting wet.
This is more of the cave we had to traverse. I wish we had more photos from within the cave. It was hard to get a lot of shots because we spent most of our time hanging on for dear life or crawling around.
There were points when we had to slide 15 feet down smooth rockbeds with little more than a foot or two of space between the rock we were sliding on and the rock above us.
There were points when we have to stretch across the river supporting our body weights on our hands with the stalactites above.
There were points where we have to climb steep 15 foot smooth walls with nothing more than a rope to pull ourselves up.
It was hard work.
The tour was a real adventure and I will absolutely do this again when I get the chance.
As you can see from our filthy sweaters and our ripped splash pants we didn’t make it out without sacrificing some clothes, but we did make it through pretty much every cavern without injury.
We were very proud to have completed the full tour.
It is not very often that I will say that an event has really made me feel alive, but this journey has definitely done just that for me.
If you go, be prepared to get dirty, ruin your clothes, and get wet (despite them saying they will try to keep you from getting wet). It sounds bad but trust me, when you’re in those caves and the adrenaline is kicking in you don’t even notice what you are doing to yourself until you get out.
So much fun.
If you go to Marble Zip Tours tell them you were referred by GregPike.ca. You won’t get a discount, but it will be funny since their lead guide is Greg Pike.
