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It’s been gloriously hot in Vancouver this past week, which has been great. Went to the beach yesterday, where the sand was the only thing hotter than the women. I’ll do an update with photos later.

Today, I have to finish writing an essay outline about nuclear and coal power in Ontario, which will take up the majority of the day.

Cool things:

Smart FM-a Tokyo based learning platform that offers free education. Sort of. There are certain limits on what’s available, but they offer a good variety of languages (Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, German, Spanish, etc), Geography, English, Physics and other stuff.

Clarity of Night- I have it on good authority that Jason Evans over at Clarity of Night is doing another writing competition in the very near future. I’ll be adding my own submission to this contest as soon as its open.

One Manga-I’ve mentioned this one before, and fairly recently, but I think it bears repeating. One Manga offers a huge number of anime series online, in English, and open for anyone to read. If you like manga, but hate paying, or waiting for translated versions, this is a great place to go.

The Lonely Planet-Boombox-LOVE this video and the song. NSFW

I have gone on super obsession mode of Doctor Who this past little while. I’m all caught up on the new releases of the show (revamped in 2005, and in season 5), but I have the first-and I mean the THE FIRST- couple seasons of the show ready for me to watch as soon as I have some time to kill. By some time I mean an absolute fuck tonne.

David Tennant is my doctor. I’m sorry Matt Smith, but you are on the bland side, and, even with improvement, you will never be as awesome as David Tennant. Or Christopher Eccleston for that matter.

That isn’t to say that I don’t like Matt Smith, I do. He’s actually growing on me as the season progresses. I don’t think he’s going to get to be as epic as Tennant, but I do think he’s going to be good. I should also mention that karen Gillan as Amy Pond is one of my favourites, as far as companions go.

The companions are a totally different story though. I have seen top 10 lists of a lot of the companions, and most of them don’t agree. As there are a lot more companions than doctors, I think that I would have to watch all the seasons to be able to actually pick a top 10. I will say that there wasn’t a single companion in the David Tennant/ Christoper Eccleston time that I didn’t like. They were all great in their own ways, even if some of them took a bit longer to get used to.

EDIT-I watched about half of the FIRST season, and, frankly, its just too much, even for me. I want the storyline, but I gotta tell you, it’s hard to watch. I skipped to the third doctor, and I’m enjoying him a lot. I have the fourth doctor downloading, and unless I am much mistaken, he is the doctor with the longest run time. The size of the download tells me I am likely right.

Went to see Ironman 2 this past weekend. I have to say that I liked it, because I did, but there were certain things that bothered me. I don’t want to ruin anything for people that haven’t seen it yet, so be forwarned for potential spoilers.

Is it just me, or does Tony Stark always seem to make almost impossible things in a shockingly small amount of time? I mean, honestly, somehow I doubt that no matter how rich you are, you don’t just “happen” to have the parts for a particle collider kicking around. I think that Scarlett Johansson could have had more face time as Natasha Romanoff, seeing as how shes being billed as one of the huge stars of the film. Some of the plot was fairly predictable, especially where Hammer was concerned.

Don’t get me wrong there were a lot of things that I did like about the movie. The whole Ironman suit in a case, just like the comic, was awesome. Whiplash was fantastic in every way possible. And, really, who doesn’t love a superhero, who is a complete badass?

While I was at the Ironman showing, they  has previews for a bunch of upcoming movies that looked totally sick. Such as:

July 2nd will see Avatar:The last Airbender come out in theaters.

It’s actually almost insane how stoked I am to see this movie. I’m still not 100% about how I feel concerning the 3D aspect of the film, but the content seems pretty legit. I have to admit though that the fact they are putting 3 books (seasons) into one film sort of worries me. I mean, its a series that has what, 61 episodes, all compacted into one 2 hour movie. It’s a little worrisome knowing that huge chunks are going to be taken out of the plot.

Despite that, I still think the movie is going to be great.

It may seem silly and a little pathetic, but I am ridiculously excited about  my new toaster. Through the thoughtfulness of family and friends at the wedding, we were given money to spend at Sears, which is damn handy in that it enabled us to buy-that’s right-a toaster1

Oh, and we also got a slow cooker, which is also fucking awesome, but damn slow.

But, back to the toaster.

Why would I love having such a cheap, common every day item? Because I didn’t have one, and in all reality, i LOVE toast. Fuck heating bread in the oven bullshit, we moved up in the world.

I just knew something good would happen out of this wedding.

Every time I hear the little toaster pop up my now delicious toast, I can feel the world become a slightly better place. I think, deep down, if everyone had a toaster, and some delicious toast, then there would be no reason for war, or hatred and shit.

Just deliciousness.

Oh, and add some bacon into that mix. I love me some bacon. er..fake bacon, at least. But, if I wasn’t vegetarian, it would be real bacon!

Bacon and toast are a great mix too. Throw some tomato on that bitch, and I’m yours.

I’m pretty easy to please.