Planning on upgrading to the iPhone 4? The phone comes with some pretty incredible features.
But there are some add-ons you can get that will improve the usability of your phone.
Like these band-aids:
Or this ‘End Call’ button:
George Street during a concert by Jerry Curtis
Here is a listing of bars and clubs on and around George Street where they are grouped for people who may not be familiar with George Street.
I have also created a map of the bars and other establishments on George Street.
Westjet are popular for having fun on the mic. Here are some funny or clever airline announcements and rebuttals from American flights that were sent to me in an email.
United Flight Attendant announced, ‘People, people we’re not picking out furniture here, find a seat and get in it!
‘There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane’
An airline pilot wrote that on this particular flight he had hammered his ship into the runway really hard. The airline had a policy which required the first officer to stand at the door while the passengers exited, smile, and give them a ‘Thanks for flying our airline.’ He said that, in light of his bad landing, he had a hard time looking the passengers in the eye, thinking that someone would have a smart comment. Finally everyone had gotten off except for a little old lady walking with a cane.
She said, ‘Sir, do you mind if I ask you a question?’
‘Why, no, Ma’am,’ said the pilot. ‘What is it?’
The little old lady said, ‘Did we land, or were we shot down?’
Part of a flight attendant’s arrival announcement: ‘We’d like to thank you folks for flying with us today. And, the next time you get the insane urge to go blasting through the skies in a pressurized metal tube, we hope you’ll think of US Airways.’
Heard on a Southwest Airline flight -- ‘Ladies and gentlemen, if you wish to smoke, the smoking section on this airplane is on the wing and if you can light ‘em, you can smoke ‘em.’
A plane was taking off from Kennedy Airport . After it reached a comfortable cruising altitude, the captain made an announcement over the intercom, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Welcome to Flight Number 293, nonstop from New York to Los Angeles . The weather ahead is good and, therefore, we should have a smooth and uneventful flight. Now sit back and relax… OH, MY GOD!’ Silence followed, and after a few minutes, the captain came back on the intercom and said, ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, I am so sorry if I scared you earlier. While I was talking to you, the flight attendant accidentally spilled a cup of hot coffee in my lap. You should see the front of my pants!’
A passenger in Coach yelled, ‘That’s nothing. You should see the back of mine!’
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Ever since I first needed glasses, which was only three years ago, I’ve gone to Vogue Optical.
They’ve always provided me excellent customer service. But recently they went above and beyond their usual call to great service.
I ordered some specialty glasses. Sporty prescription sunglasses. The lens would be difficult to craft, but I understood that.
I placed the order and they told me it would be a couple of weeks before they’d be ready.
Of course.
After a couple of weeks they called me and told me there was a problem with shaping the lens and they had to try again.
No problem.
They called back and begged my forgiveness, but there was still an issue.
To put things in perspective, this was all going on during the 7 days of not-rain in 70 days here in NL, so I wasn’t in a panic for my sunglasses. I assured them it was okay.
A couple weeks after I expected to receive my glasses and they called me excitedly and told me they were in. At that point I had only missed one sunny day waiting for my glasses, so I was perfectly happy. Not like I was going to wear them in the fog 
I showed up and they begged my forgiveness again. It was fine I said. They gave me the glasses which came in a soft case and offered me a free hard case and free lens cleaner for all of my trouble.
There really wasn’t any trouble and I clearly did not express any discontent, but they were still eager to impress me with their service. And they did. I would have been a happy customer without the free stuff, but the fact that they felt the need to pamper me for a slight hiccup made me really feel loved.
I recommend this place every time I hear someone saying they need glasses now. I have always gone there and I will always go there.
The location I deal with is the Topsail Road shop.
Upon hearing that there would a live action movie of Avatar, the Last Airbender, I convinced Riss that she would have to watch the show so that when the movie came out we would be ready for it.
We finished watching it together last night and it was just as good the second time around as the first.
Of course, by now people have seen the movie and warned us about how terrible it is.
Being a man who likes to come to his own conclusions on movies (I liked Alice in Wonderland) I convinced Riss that we still had to go see the movie.
Well we did and now here is my unbiased objective review of it.
Directing: 0 / 10
I doubt the director was even on set
Screenplay: 0 / 10
Did anyone read this? Actors even?
Cast selection: 1 / 10
Surely there was somebody out there suited to one of the characters from Avatar. Aang could have been good if they played to his happy-go-lucky character, but they didn’t. 1 point for potentially finding a diamond in the rough.
Acting: 1 / 10
There must have been a competition between the actors to see who could stink the best. It was an all-way tie. Hat’s off to Yue for not competing in that challenge.
Characteristics of characters: 1 / 10
Iroh is seen drinking tea in one scene.
Special effects: 1 / 10
I have to give them 1 because they did a better job than I could do, with my lack of education or experience in the subject, but the ice couldn’t look more like clear plastic.
Sticking to the original storyline: 3 / 10
Any Holywood production is going to lose points here because you have to make a movie appeal to a wider audience and shrink the duration to make the movie withstandable to those stuck in the theatre chairs for a few hours. I’m not going to say it was great (they did manage to convert good dialog into rotten feces), but it was certainly the best part of this movie (next to the Fire Nation ships; those were badass).
Pronunciation of names: 2 / 10
Congratulations of pronouncing Katara, Appa, and Zuko right out of all of the characters from the show. By the way, their names are announciated clearly enough in the cartoon series that you can pick out what they are. Who the flip is “Uung” and “Aero”?
Everything else: 1 / 10
Just in case I didn’t cover anything.
Overall: 1 / 10
This may be a tie with Hally Berry’s Catwoman. I only give it a 1 because they went through so much effort to entertain us. As bad as it was, they tried. (I could only really give them a 0 if they did not finish the movie really… Actually, I might have given them a 2 if they had not finished the movie. Too bad they did).
RE: The Last Airbender showing in your theatres
Dear Empire Theatres,
You are supposed to be a business. As a business, are you not concerned about people losing faith in the quality of your product? Have you not read reviews or seen the movie for yourselves? Or heard your costumers complain about?
You may think I’m speaking in jest, but I want my money back. As well as compensation for the time wasted in this movie.
By that way, that was not a jest.
I understand that not everyone is going to enjoy every movie as everyone has their own opinion. Unfortunately this movie is the exception since how much it sucks is grounded in fact, not opinion.
Please stop showing this movie immediately and send me a cheque for the money I am owed. You can make the cheque out to: Gregory Pike.
Thank you. I am sure you will not slip up like this again.
GregPike.ca
RE: The floating turd you recorded from your toilet
Dear M. Night Shyamalan,
I do not understand how you could hate such a great show so much to go through such lengths to make a mockery of it. I mean, you could have written a blog post or tweeted or even just punched a pillow. There really was no need to disrespect such a great franchise.
Please eat a turtle shell and choke.
Sincerely,
GregPike.ca
PS: Book 1 was a great spot to end off. In fact, the first scene was a great place to end off. Unfortunately you let the whole first book unfold into your vision.
Editors Note: Just found some more fire power.
“If any movie ever warranted a class-action lawsuit against the filmmakers, it’s The Last Airbender.”—Keith Phipps, AVClub.com, June 30, 2010
“The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.”—Roger Ebert, June 30, 2010
“Once ‘A film by M. Night Shyamalan’ promised suspense and power, but that was 11 years ago. We must stop enabling him and not pay to see this garbage.”—Matt Pais, Chicago Now, June 30, 2010
“He hasn’t mastered the craft yet, but M. Night Shyamalan may be on to something with this action-movie thing.”—David Bowles, USA Today, July 3, 2010
“[S]ome unsolicited advice for Mr. Shyamalan: Stop writing. Direct, but let others write. Don’t produce. Don’t adapt. Don’t polish someone else’s screenplay. And last thing: drop the over-the-title credit. Besides being another sign of hubris, it’s no longer deserved.”—Mel Valentin, Cinematical, July 4, 2010
“But Shyamalan’s strengths as a director are formidable, and unlike other auteurs we’ve written off, we’re genuinely hoping he can get his groove back.”—Bilge Ebiri, New York magazine, in “Don’t Give Up On M. Might Shyamalan,” July 7, 2010
“If you describe someone as ‘a filmmaker of rare talent and creativity,’ as I did, and then they follow your vote of confidence by releasing Lady, The Happening, and now The Last Airbender (currently the worst-reviewed movie of the summer, below Furry Vengeance and Sex in the City 2) on an unsuspecting public … well, let’s just say I wouldn’t blame anyone who cited Shyamalan as exhibit A in the case against my critical acumen.”—Ross Douthat, NY Times, July 7, 2010
“The current national priorities should be as follows: reduce carbon emissions and stop funding the films of M. Night Shyamalan.”—Cliff Doerksen, Chicago Reader, August 5, 2010
These quotes are from Blastr: 40 kindest and cruelest things ever said about M. Night Shyamalan
Yesterday I started to notice some interesting tweets about NHL teams, players, owners, and reporters.
People were using cupcakes to describe them.
And some of there were hilarious.
Here is a compilation of some of my favorite #NHLCupcakes (though I had trouble finding the ones the made me burst into laughter):
And here are some of my own contributions:
This video has come up a lot in conversation lately so I thought I should post it.
It was brought to my attention by Mike last night that this was in fact not an original idea, but rather an idea borrowed and perfected.
Barenaked Ladies were actually the first to use popular internet memes in their music video for the song Sound of your Voice
Improv Everywhere consistently put off great videos. In their latest project they reenact part of the opening segment from A New Hope where the Stormtroopers capture Leia and bring here to Vader.
She wasn’t on any mercenary mission this time.
From Mashable: Improv Everywhere Brings “Star Wars” to NYC Subway Car [VIDEO]
With all the dispelled rumours of Future Day from last week finally past us we can move on to bigger, more important Back to the Future references.
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