27 posts tagged “blog a day”
Ok, so I lied to you. Yes, I know I said I would get another audio-VOX out by Monday, but with work, plus me being part lazy, I am recording it tonight and getting out first thing.
But anyway, I just wanted to make a post saying that I have just spent about an hour (would've taken me faster, but I'm at work with a slow connection) moving posts over from my old blog to Vox. I have finally made the jump. I'm here on Vox to stay.
The blog entries that I moved over where all blogs I made in an expermient where I forced myself to blog at least once a day for a whole month. I missed maybe a few days near the end,but I was proud of the fact that it lasted as long as it did. So,if you want to read them all, clck on any of the tags labeled Blog a Day.
The entries I like are:
Breakfast with the Breafast Club
Entry #005 - Snowball's Mixed Bag of Crap
Entry #006 - Nurse Ratchet vs. Fish Guy
Entry #013 - Opening up? Pshaw
Hope you like them, and let me know what you think.
Toodles!
Steve Saylor "Snowball"
Ok, so it's been a while since I posted anything. However, I must unfold the details of my weekend which was surreal to say the least.
It started as a normal Friday night. I was working. No other way to describe it other than by only saying one word, Boring. A lot can be said from that word. It sums up everything from how a person feels to what they are doing when they say that word. Amazing how the English language will use the same word as an emotion and a descriptive term in one.
Now the thing is about Friday nights at work is what you must understand. While working in downtown St. Catharines on a Friday night is like being an accountant working on a Friday night in Las Vegas. Except for the casinos part, the night life in the downtown area can be busy. So while watching the ant size people having a good old time from the third story of my workplace, I was making calls to people in another country interrupting their own Friday nights. Just so I can make sure that they are having as little of fun as I am.
Well, around 8:30, I was sick and tired of doing that, so I “left early because I was sick” and called a few friends seeing if they wanted to hang out. I told them to meet me at Starbucks and we will move on from there to do whatever we wanted to do.
I got to Starbucks first, and while there the place was buzzing with activity. Some people conducting late night business meetings, other young couples finishing off their dates while drinking expensive coffee which the men paid for. It's expensive to have a girlfriend while enjoying the addictive stimulants at Starbucks. It cuts deep into a man's pocket. At least a gentleman. There were also some people such as me that were waiting for other people to show up so they can watch a movie in the cinema in the same mall that this Starbucks/Chapters Bookstore enclosed.
I bidded my time by hanging out with a friend of mine while he was working on a project with other people who I met that night. We talked tech, we talked stuff, we drink addictive stimulants, all while surfing the net on the freely available Wi-Fi. All the cool things I love about Starbucks.
Eventually my friends started to find their way to me in the crowded Starbucks, and we basically stayed there and talked until Starbucks closed. It was weird because I was in the middle of a massive group of people I knew and I was having multiple conversations with varying friends at once. It felt cool. I can't explain it in any other way other than, “It is so cool to be in this position.”
Around the time that Starbucks was closing we started to head over to a bowling alley that was also enclosed in the mall. Unfortunately it was closed, so no me kicking ass as “Twinkle-Toes Snowball,” but we went across the street to a Kelsey's restaurant and ordered a late night dinner. We talked about everything from girls, to movies, to girls. From that statement you can obviously tell that there was no estrogen in this particular Friday night get together. But even still, i'ts a guys night. And what do guys do when it's late at night on a Friday night? Well we shoot pool at a bar. So after filling out guts, we then went to a local pool hall/bar. There were already other people enjoying a good game of the ol' billiards, so we bought a rack and decided to play while we each took turns monoplizing the jukebox playing such classics as ACDC, Led Zeppelin, The Who, and Styx. I fared well in this endeaver. Being a former Online Radio DJ, I was the favourite song-picker of the night, and it kept the crowd of players in the hall entertained. Now only if I had my music collection, and it would've been a very happenin' place.
In between the song selections, I played a decent game of pool. I didn't do too bad, but I didn't do too good either. Let's say I wouldn't come First place in a Billiards tournament, but I fared well when it counted. And sucked when it didn't.
After last call was declared, our group of friends split up for the night, and went our seperate ways. But the night was not over yet my Online readers. Oh no, the night was too early for that. So while everyone went their seperate ways, there was three of us that didn't want the night to end. So like the partyer who doesn't want the party to end, we droe around looking for something to do. After several stops to 7-11 to get drunk and hyper from slurpees, we went out into the night on a sugar high. We went back to a friends place, and much like stoners that were high on, well whatever they were stoned from, we talked and debated about philosophy and theology. That I am not making up. We literally spent from 2:30am to 9am debating theology with each other. It was surreal, and fun at the same time. It may have been the caffine and the sugar talking, but it was still a fun and passionate debate.
So if you ever want to just discuss theology with your friends, I highly recommend it. Trust me, I think you would enjoy it.
So after we realized, “Oh crap it's 11am”, we went out into the very bright sunlight with our bloodshot eyes, and made our way home to finally let our minds rest to fight again.
Saturday was a complete blur to me. I remember something about going out to a Bar and Grill with more friends, and Brian, who was part of the heated discussions that morning. And I also vaguely remember going to Brian's house to watch a movie, but I would have to rely on video surrvelance to know exactly what happened that day.
After the blur-fest that was Saturday though, Sunday was I thought was going to be a day to just lay on my ass in my bed and watch movies all day. Well little did I know instead of laying on my ass on my bed watching movies, I would lay on my ass on Brian's couch with more friends watching movies all day...
...and all night.....
....and all morning.....
Literally we watched everything from The Faculty, to Rat Race, to even Ferris Bueller's Day Off. All while in between screenings we would tell stories about our childhoods watching those movies. We recalled child hood snowball fights, to even 911 pranks. Which did bring up a funny story that I almost forgot about, but that will have to wait another day.
So after the final credits of Ferris Bueller telling us that if you don't stop to look at life, you're going to miss it, we decieded to do the best thing that you can ever do after staying up for another all-nighter, getting barely any sleep, high on caffine and sugar would do at 5 o'clock in the morning. We made a trip to McDonalds for an obligatory, Student budget cheap, artera filling, Grease covered, Super-sized Egg McMuffin combos to go. Why did we get it to go? Well when you are that sleep deprived, and willing to do just about any crazy thing you could think of. We went back to Brian's and ate breakfast while watching The Breakfast Club.
Pure genius, am I right?
Come on, isn't that like the coolest thing anyone can do early in the morning?
Watching a classic movie which has nothing to do about Breakfast, but eating Breakfast with the Breakfast club.
It's like eating Breakfast at Tiffany's at tiffany's!
Or it's like having a drink at a Cheer's Bar in boston!
Come on, it's freakin' hawesome is what it is.
So after the movie was finished, and we had stuffed ourselves with the third McMuffin each, we gave each other mental-high fives for having the brilliant idea. And much like John Bender, Andrew Clark, Brian Johnson, Claire Standish, and Allison Reynolds back in 1985 walked out of the school on a Saturday to go back to their respective lives, we all left Brians, at 7am not as friends that we had arrived hours earlier, but leaving as really good friends realizing how much fun it was to do something we would all remember for a long time. So as the credits roll on this weekend of mine, I walk on the football field of the Interweb, and pump my Cable modem powered fist into the air. All while Simple Minds plays on my radio,
“Don't You Forget About Me
Don't Don't Don't Don't
Don't You Forget About Me”
Toodles!
Steve Saylor “Snowball”
So the Holidays are over for Canada and the U.S., and it has been an interesting weekend to say the least. It had it's ups and downs, and parts of it I wish didn't happen, but I was talking with Jenn Cutter today, and she said that if it didn't happen to me, "I wouldn't have this great anecdote." Which is true, so I will try to recall this weekend in detail for you blog readers.
First of all, as you know, I was at Call For Help in Toronto last week, and like I said before, it was a great time. To end the week on Friday, Amber had a Canada Day/End of taping week BBQ at her place, and it was also great. The Crew from Hak.5 Kyle, from Pure Pwnage , and Andy Walker was there. Wess from Hak.5 was even BBQing. All in all, fun was had, and it was a great way to start off the weekend. Now cut to me around 11pm. I didn't want to go, but I had to in order to catch my bus back home. So I said my goodbyes to everyone, caught a cab, and raced to the bus station to catch my bus. Well little did I know it, as the cab was pulling up to the station, the bus was already leaving, and it was packed, so there was no way I could've gotten a seat. A lot of people were upset too, because there was a long line up to catch the bus, and they didn't have enough buses to handle it.
So I had a problem. I was literally stuck in Toronto until the next morning, and I was stuck. Normally this doesn't happen to me, and I was not sure what to do. So I called Amber, told her I missed the bus. She gave me her number because she wanted to make sure I got home OK. So she answers and says to come back and we can work something out instead of me having to stay at the bus station or on the street.
So, I caught a cab back to her place, and the party was still in full swing. I'm a bit pissed for missing the bus, so I tell everyone the horrid tale. Ok, it wasn't that horrid, but it's my story ok?
Anyway, great thing about the people that were there, was that they all wanted to help me out. Luckily, Andy Walker was willing to put me up for the night so I can catch the bus the next morning. Which was greatly appreciated. We both started talking about broadcasting, and what was involved with it. Andy gave me some good advice about what I wanted to get into, and we had a great conversation. After the party was wrapping up, Andy and I went back to his apartment, and he gave me some blankets to sleep on the couch. And if you ever saw Lab Rats
Anyway, I was so tired, I went to sleep right away. After a few restless hours, I got up to the soft purring of Andy's cat Biff laying down on my chest looking at me. It was cute, and a great way to wake up in the morning. Andy was not up yet, so I quietly left him a thank you message for putting me up for the night, and left to catch the bus.
When I got home, it was 8:30 and I was dead tired, but the day was not over yet my friends, oh no. An hour later I was in the car with my brother and my Dad driving to Mississauga to see Superman Returns at the IMAX. Read here if you want to know what I thought, but be forewarned there be spoilers
Even though I was dead tired, I was so excited to see the movie, and it was great that I saw it with my brother and my Dad. It's know that I will always look back at the moments I've spent with my family, and the most memorable moments with my Dad, are the ones where him and I saw movies together at the big screen. If there was a movie we both wanted to see, we would wait until the other was available and see the movie together. I would purposefully make sure I did not see the movie just so I can see it with my Dad. Everytime I think of those moments I smile. And the fact that my brother shared in that moment, makes me smile more.
Anyway, when the movie was finished we went home, and I was supposed to go to Movie Group that night, but I was so tired, I literally crashed on my bed at 7pm and didn't wake up until 9 the next morning. Man it felt good to sleep when you've had none for a whole week.
The next day was my brother's birthday, and to end a long story, it was a good day, I took my brother to a local diner where they sell the best burgers ever! And, we had a good time just hanging out. After that I crashed until today. LOL Just kidding.
Anyway, that was the end of my long, long weekend, and if you have gotten this far and are not bored yet, you should be. LOL I hope you enjoyed my tale, and my long ramblings. I'm not really good at writing stories as they happened. I usually like giving it time and gone into full blown story mode, but it's my story ok? So with it's ups and downs, it was an interesting weekend, and I'm glad I can share it with you.
Anyway, hope your weekend was fun, and enjoyable, and I will talk to you all tomorrow.
Toodles!
Steve Saylor "Snowball"
I'm going to meet up with an old friend that I've had for a long time.
She is the only one I can tell anything too. And I think I'm going to tell her how I feel about her.
I'll let you know if it works out.
Update: Struck out :(
Toodles!
Steve Saylor "Snowball"
***SPOILER ALERT****
***If you have not seen this movie do not read this post.****
Like a true Superman fan, I was ready. I had my Superman t-shirt and my Superman ring on. I had tickets for the IMAX theatre in Mississauga for Canada Day, and I was ready for a great movie. Early reviews said it was good, and I was, if you pardon the pun, Super-excited.
Unfortunately that excitement did not match the experience I had watching Superman Returns.
I'm not saying I thought it was terrible. I thought it was freakin' fantastic, but after following this movie for over 2 years, and knowing certain things about this movie that many other people didn't, I didn't feel like they added more to what I thought was an excellent movie. It left me wanting more.
First off though lets disect the characters. Brandon Routh, who looks uncanny as a Christopher Reeves clone, did an excellent job of bringing Clark Kent/Superman to life. Even when deliviring lines from the original 1978 movie, it was as if Routh was channeling Reeves to play this part. Unfortunately due he did not have a lot of lines to say. He was very silent throughout the movie, even as Clark Kent. Which if you watched the original religiously, you would see that Kent had more lines than Superman. Either way though I still think Routh gave a good performance and would like to see him develop this role further.
Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane, was good, but not great. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would give her a "meh". She played more as a lawyer than a newspaper reporter, and her performance, like Routh, was trying to channel Margot Kidder for the part, which like I said before, I would like to see her develop the role more.
Lastly Lex Luthor himself, Kevin Spacey. His was actually the performance I liked the most. Yes, he is no Gene Hackman, but Hackman to me was more of a Used Car Salesman, than a multi-billionaire businessman. Which Spacey played well, with a bit of Hackman in him. One thing I did notice in the role that he played was that he did the genius part justice. You ever notice when villians in movies are faced with a situation that could potentially have problems, they don't follow their gut instinct and want to see it play out? Or basically the old addage when you see someone open a door in horror movies and you're yelling at the screen to not open the door because there is a monster behind it? Well this was played well in Superman. In one situation when Lois and her son Jason were kidnapped by Luthor and we find out that Jason has some special powers of his own. When Lex finds this out, his immediate reaction is to run as fast as he can. Which he does. Where normally in Moviedom, Lex would've stayed to see if he could exploit those powers. Spacey did this throughout the movie and it finally gave some smarts to the role. He saw things that were coming and knew how to handle them. He is not the one to open the door in a horror movie. He would've taken a shot gun and shot at the door then opened it. Anyway Spacey gave a good performance, and made me feel better about him as Luthor after he was announced to play the role.
Now in regards to the movie as a whole, the special effects were awesome! Plane sequence, freakin' fantastic. The beat-up of Supes, heart wrenching. The bullet in the eye effect, so kick ass. Story, little bit plain, but good stepping stone to sequals. Music, John Williams is a genius, and he didn't even score this movie! Jor-El, great even without Marlon Brando providing new lines. Scenery, definately deco in style and loved each bit of it.
All in all it is a great movie. One suggestion that I would like to make though is, don't see it in the IMAX theatre. The extra 3D sequences in the movie were good, but kind of took you out of the movie when you had to put on and take off the 3D glasses. And, the movie didn't even fill the whole screen. There wa s a letterbox throughout the entire movie and it would've been better if it took advantage of the 6 story real estate.
Anyway, without those faults I mentioned above, any true Superman fan would still love this movie, and I would highly recommend it. I'm definately going to see it again at a regular theatre so I can get the full on effect, without the 3D distractions, so that should tell you something.
Anyway, like Superman I'm going to fly away to my Fortress of Solitude, and I will emerge again tomorrow.
A friend,
Steve Saylor "Snowball"
The rumours of my death have been extremely exaggerated. After just finishing a week at Call For Help sleep wins over blogging any day. So that is what I have been doing for at least the better part of today (with also seeing Superman Returns, which was good I must say). Anyway, I don't have much to say today other than check out the Flickr Pictures I just uploaded.
And also if you ever wanted to see a lot of podcasters in the same room? Well check out the image below.
Oh and Happy Birthday Tim!
Toodles
Steve Saylor "Snowball"
Snowballs.pc Episode 3 is on it's way!
Expect it later tonight.
Short, sweet and too the point. Plus I'm tired anyways.
Later!
Steve Saylor "Snowball"
Ok, so corny title I know, but being in Toronto you see stranger things.
Anyway, today was another day at Call For Help where we did a full 4 shows taping as usual. Mike Hogue came in again today, which is good to see him again. For those who don't know Mike, he is the Flash Master for CFH, and he is also a professional animator. He's worked with many famous animators and has worked on many animated movies, such as Titan A.E. as an example.
Anyway, him and I know each other from where we worked last at a Call Center in St. Catharines. We actually worked the same job, but he worked the midnight shift and I worked the day shift. I remember back in March when I first started at CFH, I saw Mike again on set, and at that moment that was when I realized that Mike the Flash Master of CFH is also the guy I knew from work. I had never added the 2 together before.
Weird huh?
Anywho, after CFH Mike and I wondered around Queen St. in Toronto. If you have no idea what Queen St is well let's just say it's the same street that CityTV or MuchMusic is located. So we were walking around and Mike showed me a comic store called Silver Snail. Let me tell you if you are a comic book geek like me, you will die in this place. They had 2 floors of comics, action figures, movies, collectable figures, anything related to comics and that kind of genre this store had. I was even tempted to pick up a few things, but I decided against it due to lack of funds. But let me tell you I wasn't passed begging at that point to get money, but Mike helped to keep that hobo urge down.
Next we went to Chapters at the Paramount Theatre and I never realized how big a Chapters bookstore can be. It was three freakin' levels!!! Again I had to fight the urge to beg for money because I was like a kid in a candy store at that point again. Thankfully Mike was there to help me with the temptation to splurge on books, but man did I want to buy tons of stuff there.
After the mopping up of the drool from my mouth at Chapters, Mike had to catch his train back to St. Catharines. While I went into the Paramount Theatre to see if I could see Superman Returns tonight at the IMAX. No dice. Sold out, of course. Leo Laporte was there, but he said he bought tickets before hand so he was able to get in easily. I felt bad for him when I saw the line up to get into the theatre. I envied him seeing the movie, but did not envy the crowds he was going to be surrounded by. As it is it's good that Superman was sold out tonight, because then I can actually see the movie at the IMAX on Saturday with my dad. Now that I know how busy it was I definately think I will buy my tickets before hand.
After i left the theatre, wearing my Superman shirt I might add(stupid theatre, sold out. Psshhhaw), and I walked down Queen St. again past the MuchMusic building. Now picture the scene as it unfolds, I hear really loud music walking towards the building sounding very familiar, a massive crowd of people cheering and standing outside the building. Well, I walk closer and I see that it is Billy Talent playing an outdoor concert and I was actually able to see everything. Which is saying something because I need to be close to the stage to see everything.
The music wasn't that bad. I'm not a huge fan of Billy Talent, but hey a free concert is a free concert. So I stood there for 10 minutes when they finished their set and went inside the building to be interviewed by the VeeJays.
From there I took the subway back to where my Bus Station was, and I'm again sitting at Stella's Cafe writing this entry for you while I wait for the bus.
Now I know this blog was probably boring to some, but some of you may find what i wrote exciting. And if you do, email me, K?
Talk to ya later from my new version of my Toronto "Starbucks" and I'll blog some more.
Toodles
Steve Saylor "Snowball"
So where did yesterday's entry go?
Well, thats a very interresting story.
I was kidnapped by evil monkeys and was forced to do their evil bidding by peeling bananas for them to consume. But they misunderstood the power of the Snowball, and I was able to make a weapon using 120 banana peels and a stick. I took on those monkeys and not only did I take on them all, I became supreme leader of this Planet of the Apes, and I am now my captor's overlord!
Lazy Stupid Monkeys
Nice story huh? Well, it is obviously false, but wouldn't that be cool? To take on an entire race of Apes Charlton Heston style and become the greatest Monkey Emporer there ever had been!!!!!
Anyway, yes I did miss yesterday as far as posting an entry. And I have a good reason for it too. My computers were unfortunately occupied. They were both rendering video which took an extremely long and painful time. Just see Entry #010 to know what I have to say about rendering. Arrrgh.
But it is all good because I have finally finished editing snowballs.pc episode 3 and it has finished rendering the entire file. So all I have to do is convert the episode into it's individual formats and it will be released at least some time this week. I would like to say tonight, but I can't give an estimate of time at the moment.
Right now I am actually sitting at Stella Cafe in Toronto across the street from my Bus Station waiting to go home. Reason why I am in Toronto is, like I mentioned before, for Call For Help. Today was an awesome day though. It always is with CFH, but today had a fun attitude towards tapping, and everyone had a good time. I'll be here all week and I'll have more updates soon. And hopefully if the Wi-Fi holds out here in Toronto(the Wi-Fi at CFH needs to be clear for guests, and there is no signal at the Bus Station, hence why I am at this cafe), I will be able to blog entries per day. Toronto really is becoming the high-tech capital in the world. There is so much here tech-wise than in St. Catharines, thats for sure.
Anyway, as Ruler of the Planet of Apes, I must leave you now and go forth into the unknown and brave the bus ride yet to come. LOL
Seeya tomorrow.
Steve Saylor "Snowball"
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