I’ve been back to Toronto three times since I moved out to Belleville, each time for less than a day.
First time was with my parents because they had a bunch of appointments and I really wanted to go back to get some stuff.
Second time was this past Sat. for Irene’s wedding (which was awesome, btw!) Ran into an old high school friend at the Sheppard Centre. She knew I’d moved out to Belleville so she thought it was really weird to see me. It was of course, because I was only there for about 15 minutes to buy a paper while waiting to meet Kate and Wilson (get a blog, dude).
Second Random People Spotting was today, I decided to go into Toronto with my parents (more appointments for them) and when I got onto the subway at Sheppard Ave. there was another friend of mine on the car, right at the door where I was getting in. Weird eh? I see my friends so often when I don’t make plans to see them that I wonder why I have a phone.
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Sucked.
For one thing, Star Trek villains always stink. This guy’s motivation was stupid. Leonard Nimoy was in it, can’t figure out why.
Simon Pegg was awesome, but the rest of the movie sucked liked everything else Star Trek.
Ooooh, I can’t wait for the G.I. Joe movie to come out later this summer, that’s just going to be awesome, I bet.
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From the Motley Fool in 1999 (emphasis mine):
But not all deferred revenues are created equal. I recently came across a company for which I viewed deferred revenue as not being very meaningful. The company was X-ray device maker Hologic (Nasdaq: HOLX). In the Revenue Recognition section of the company’s financial statement footnotes, it said the following: “The Company has reserved for potential losses under these contracts by deferring revenue of an amount equal to 10% of the contracts funded.” While on the surface this seems to be conservative accounting, it’s certainly not deferred revenue that you can count on to make its way to the income statement in the future like you can with Microsoft or AOL.
From a Smart Money article in 2000 (just after the beginning of the .com shakeout) about AOL:
“The trend in backlog and deferred revenue reflects a shift to more established advertisers and is not a reflection of slowing ad/commerce momentum,” Kiggen said.
From a CNET News article in 2000:
These AOL sourpusses said the company’s ad/commerce backlog, which was flat at $3 billion, and deferred revenue, which fell, proved AOL was hurt by the dot-com implosion.
But that bearish case doesn’t hold up. For a reality check, I called William Blair analyst Abhishek Gami, who calls it straight and isn’t tangled up with the sheep crowd. Gami was surprised by the negativity from some analysts, who were obviously playing along with the market sentiment. “I’d almost call AOL a value play,” said Gami, who rates AOL a “strong buy.”
“I’d almost call AOL a value play,” said Gami, who rates AOL a “strong buy.”
In 2000.
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Greg’s Rating: 0/5
This movie stunk. I thought it was going to be bad but it was even worse than I thought. I read the comic and thought it was pretty bad but the movie made it worse. The characters were okay, and the first few minutes of the movie were pretty promising but the story went straight to the moon (in a bad way) 1/3 of the way through.
The very beginning was pretty cool though (like, during the credits sequence, downhill steadily after that).
Oh well, on the plus side, movies in Belleville are only $4.20 on Tuesdays, so I think I’ll be watching more!
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The Unprecedented Economic Crisis is worry a lot, so I decided to hijack a famous song and put to words what everyone’s thinking.
I give you ‘What the World Needs Now (is Wealth, Sweet Wealth)
What the world needs now is wealth sweet wealth,
its the only thing that there’s just too little of.
what the world needs now is wealth sweet wealth
no not just for some but for everyone.
Lord we dont need another mountain,
there are mountains and hillsides enough to climb,
there are oceans and rivers enough to cross
enough to last until the end of time
what the world needs now is wealth sweet wealth
its the only thing that theres just too little of,
what the world needs now is wealth sweet wealth
no not just for some but for everyone
Lord, we dont need another meadow,
there are corn fields and wheat fields enough to grow,
there are sunbeams and moonbeams enough to shine,
oh listen Lord, if you want to know
What the world needs now is wealth sweet wealth
its the only thing that theres just too little of.
what the world needs now is wealth sweet wealth
no not just for some, oh but just for every every everyone.
what the world (whoa whoa) needs now,
is wealth (is wealth) sweet wealth
what the world ( oh oh) needs now
is wealth (is wealth) sweet wealth
what the world (whoa whoa) needs now
is wealth (is wealth) sweet wealth
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February 27, 2009 9:18 pm
Awards handed out recently include Consumer’s Digest naming The Prius the best car you can buy, the Academy Awards naming Slumdog Millionaire the best movie you could have seen last year and The Guiness Book of World’s Records naming these the 10 most influential games ever:
1. Super Mario Kart
2. Tetris
3. Grand Theft Auto
4. Super Mario World
5. Zelda Ocarina of Time
6. Halo
7. Resident Evil IV
8. Final Fantasy XII
9. Street Fighter II
10. GoldenEye
This is a ridiculous list.
At the top should be, I think:
1) Super Mario Bros.
2) Ultima
3) Wolfenstein 3D
4) The Legend of Zelda
5) Tetris
6) Alone In the Dark
7) Test Drive
 Madden Series
9) Street Fighter II
10) Bomberman
11) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
12) The Romance of the three Kingdoms
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February 25, 2009 10:44 pm
Flipping channels today I tuned into me!
It was an episode of ‘Rich Bride Poor Bride’ filmed at my friend Trudy’s wedding, which I attended!
I hadn’t watched the episode before (this was the first time I was able to see it because I only now have cable).
Wow, time flies.
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February 17, 2009 5:03 pm
Isaac Asimov wrote his Three Laws of Robotics (below*) in order to protect humanity from rampant robots.
I hereby present to you the Six Laws of Robots In Movies which shall serve to protect humanity from robot movies that suck like Transformers did.
1. A robot movie shall only include enough humans as are necessary for the story’s narrative.
2. Humans shall only be seen: 1) getting hurled out of buildings, 2) running in fear, 3) jumping out of moving or high objects in terror.
3. Robots must injure human beings, aliens and other peaceable creatures
4. Evil robots must not obey any sort of code of ethics with any semblence to rationality
5. Good robots must have a code of honour that does not render them sappy, easily taken advantage of, or prone to ignore the mission objectives to save another’s (robotic, human or other) life
6. Evil robots must have a ‘Blast first, think later’ philosophy
*Asimov’s laws are (thanks, Wikipedia!):
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
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