13Oct 2010 by R&O No Comments
Downloading The Internet

Downloading The Internet

Internet, Of Interest, Silly Stuff
Have a look at the animated image below. It's one of those funny animated gifs that made it's way around the internet via email and web sites four or five years ago (6,322 Internet years). It appears that the viewer is downloading the entire Internet within a single zip file and states that only 14kb of 23,993,564,998mb (that's all??) have been copied at 41.2kb/Sec. It prompts for a new disc (remember those?) to be inserted in drive A (remember drive A?) because disc C is full. Scary shit. Not. It was meant to amuse and was so outrageous that most, even Internet users of a half decade ago should have got the joke. But notice that I said most Internet users. Not everyone took the joke for what is was…
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20Sep 2010 by R&O 1 Comment
Avoid, Avoid, Avoid!

Avoid, Avoid, Avoid!

Food, Observations, Of Interest, Rants
Looking for the very worst restaurant in the history of restaurants on this planet and beyond? Do you crave to be ignored by your (possibly mildly retarded) waitress? Enjoy waiting for over an hour for your cold and sub-standard food? Feel satisfied when the owner of the worst restaurant on the planet actually has the balls to chastise you for complaining about the worst dining experience of your life. Well look no further than Charlie's restaurant right here in Port Moody. A restaurant to be avoided at all costs. In fact, don't even look at it as you drive by. It's for your own good. I won't bore you with details about the absolutely tragic dining experience we had, about the extremely bad service, extraordinarily bad food or the feeling…
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08Jul 2010 by R&O No Comments
When Queen was King

When Queen was King

Events, Music, Of Interest, People
Way back in December of 1979 and again in June of 1980, Doug Bower, a friend and fellow employee, went to see Queen perform at The Pacific Coliseum here in Vancouver. Back in these days of festival seating and lax security, a young aspiring photographer like Doug could bring his camera along to take photos of the band while standing a few rows back from the stage. (Yes, those were the days when we could get close to our rock idols without guard rails and security personnel. We refer to them as the good old days of rock.) Doug mentioned the photos he had taken back then as we discussed our favourite bands from the 70's and I asked him to dig them out and let me have a look.…
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08Jul 2010 by R&O No Comments

Phone Wars

Silly Stuff, Technology
Two animated figures chat amicably about the quality of their respective cell phones and use lots of bad language in the process. Not for children or sappy whiners who can't stand a few four letter words. For those sappy whiners I suggest you go watch Oprah. For everyone else, enjoy.
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