Tidbits

Sleepover at Ikea - Maybe this is the only way to get to the $1 early enough…
A ramen bath - Japanese spa with special baths resembling instant noodles. I wanna play!
Old age homes for dogs - 1) Old dogs don’t like to be abandoned at strange places. 2) Playing with young puppies will probably cause the older dogs to die faster due to exhaustion.
A remote-controlled pigeon - Oh the poor thing…
An article on a brilliant method of teaching grade schoolers about bats and rabies. I smell a lawsuit.
Will trade beer for Crumpler bags. Tempted by the beanbag and messenger bags…

Too Much Technology Does Not Make Things Easier

July 16, 2006, 5:54 pm

So MacOS comes with a lot of little tools that were useful before Google game along, such as Address Book and iCal. I had no interest in iCal, but I figured I should give the Address Book a try so I can consolidate address, emails, phone numbers into one location. I didn’t wasn’t ready to give Google all the personal info of my friends at any rate. So I started with Gmail contacts, which could only export in CSV, which wasn’t particularly Address Book friendly. So I had use another shareware app to import in my contacts, after formatting the CSV file in Excel to split up first and last name to separate column. Then came phone numbers from my cell, which connected fine with the computer through bluetooth. However, without the Motorola software, there is no easy way to access stuff from the phone. Sure, iSync poppped up, but I didn’t want to risk syncing my phone with my computer when my contacts have not been backed up yet. So I had to manually transfer each individual contact, one at a time. Good thing I don’t have that many numbers. So finally, with the Dashboard widget, searching for contact info is fast and painless.

The Non-Summerlicious Dinner

I usually try to have one -licious meal with family and one with friends. The one with family was fine since picking a date is easy. With friends, however, it’s getting increasingly hard to gather a group of people at a certain date, for a certain location. So by the time everyone finally confirmed, most of the restaurants have already been booked. I guess my method for Winterlicious was better, in that I made a decision on the restaurant, and then booked for ‘x’ number of people, then went around dragging people out to fill the number of seats. This time around, I wanted people to pick the restaurant, and confirm that they want to go before making the reservation. That didn’t work very well either.

So after calling around a few days before, and some annoying experience with online booking, we ended up at this other random non-Summerlicious restaurant in the Beaches. The food was decent, as well as the price (the wine selection leaves much to be desired, however), even though it probably wasn’t the same place recommended to us by a 3rd party. I’ve always wanted to check out this “Beaches” area, anyways.

I’m surprised there was an actual beach there. I thought all the so-called ‘beaches’ in Toronto has some pathetic strip of sand, larger grassy area, boardwalk, and paved biking/blading path. But no, Woodbine Beach actually have a very deep stretch of sand. The prices of housing in the area is crazy though, especially since the beach area is actually pretty ghetto, it being one of the only decent beaches in the area, so all types flock there. So even though it seems like they are still in the process of rejuvenating everything, it’s hard to make it into an upperclass neighbourhood. Sure, you have to rich to live there, but then you are sharing your space with all the poor folks and teenage punks that take the TTC. As for the stores themselves, really diid not see anything that great. I don’t particularly want to live there at any rate. There was a Vespa store though.. Hmmm.. Vespa…

And they have this off-leash park in the middle of the neighbourhood. I thought it was pretty funny how it’s the kids that have to be fenced in their playground and the dogs get to roam freely, and not the dogs that are stuck in their own fenced playground like in all the other dog parks that I’ve seen. The playground rocked though. The main structure was built around a giant tree, almost like a treehouse. They also have this four person seesaw that we had way too much fun on. When this 15-year-old came up to us and said “Excuse me guys” in this polite voice, I thought he was the playground police telling us to knock it off. But no, he just wanted the time.

Hehe, can people really believe that most of us are 25? When will we ever grow up? I think I would sad though, when these tactics are no longer fun. Cause then we would be old and boring!