Month: July 2006

My good friend Marc “Leathersnake” Beauchamp is leaving Boa. He’s been one of Montreal’s best bartenders going on 6+ years – working at Blizzarts for 5 years and Boa for…

Last Sunday was the first time I’ve been able to surf at Hampton Beach, NH without a wetsuit. After a spring of wearing my awesome Excel 4/3, this was truly…

We watched Le Déclin de l’empire américain last night. I had only ever seen a small portion of the movie in my Quebec Cinema class. It’s one of those movies…

A second code superimposed onto the first … props if get the Contact reference. “Researchers believe they have found a second code in DNA in addition to the genetic code….

I remember the first time I saw MTV – in Grade 5 – the first video was Madonna – Like a Virgin …. “MTV famously claimed its first casualty with…

I can picture a couple very fun uses of a bigger version of this …. “Researchers at Akishima Laboratories (Mitsui Zosen), working in conjunction with professor Shigeru Naito of Osaka…

Great tip for OS X users that move files around a lot or archive work frequently, “Copy and Delete at the Same Time If you’re archiving a file to disk…

Banane went a did some recon this weekend down by the river. I posted about this spot a while back, “Christened on board about six years ago by Addison, the…

Another awesome weekend has come and gone. Drove down to NH with my brother on Friday night. The promise of a tropical storm offshore Saturday morning held true. We drove…

This photoset is awesome, Wikipedia says … “While part of Warner, Atari achieved its greatest success, selling millions of 2600s and computers. At its peak, Atari accounted for a third…

Time magazine does a decent piece on the past, present and future of surfboard design and construction, “They may come across as defiers of convention, pushing the edge as they slice through…

Snowboarder magazine has put out a list of all the trailers for this seasons upcoming snowboard movies, Couple of the standouts seem to be… Alterna – In Transit Site |…

A few days ago, while in a normal state of mind at a normal part of my day while thinking normal thoughts — something different came to mind. It concerned…

“Close your eyes. Open your heart.” — This new film from Michel Gondry looks very good. I have enjoyed “Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind” a couple of times over….

I like the Firefox developer tools, but still use Safari as my main browser. This little hack helps in at least one aspect of creating sites … “The Safari Tidy…