Website of the month

Once upon a time I did a post about a website of the week (didn't I?) and this next website is so cool it deserves to be website of the month. I'm there everyday and for hours at a time, so check it out because you won't regret it.

Here is another site that deserves an honorable mention called Freeware Home. It is just a site of all kinds of freeware from home office, graphics, utilities, games and more. Forget all that stuff because all I wanted was a text to speech generator. Now my computer can tell me how handsome and cool I am. It is just nice to hear somebody say it.

Enjoy the websites, I am off to make some Jell-O.

Limited time offer.

I was browsing the cereal isle at Safeway and saw the the words "free" and "t-shirt" on the box and was instantly sold. If you buy certain General Mills cereals you can get a free red "signature" t-shirt that in support of Canadian athletes in the 2010 Olympic games. When I say "free" I mean completely free because you don't pay the shirt and you don't even pay for the shipping. Now that is a deal! I picked up a box Honey Nut Cheerios and inside was a code that I redeemed at http://www.generalmillspaintthetownred.ca/. Yeah, it will take 6-10 weeks to get, but it is free! If you want one you'd better hurry because shirts and sizes are limited. Expect a picture of it...in 6-10 weeks.


Also, Elaine tipped me off to Crystal Lite Slurpees, or I mean Frosters at Mac's. I went over to the Mac's by my place and they had three machines and the one with Crystal Lite in it was broken. I went down behind the Superstore where another Mac's is except it wasn't. Mac's was gone and replaced by a yoga studio. Somebody hates me! I drove all the way over to Signal Hill Green to the Mac's there and luckily they had that it. There is only one flavor, Cherry Lime, but it is not bad, sweet and sour. Mac's has crappy cups though. Where are the X-Men, Transformers, and G.I. Joe movie tie in cups?? Lucky for them I have no other choice but to get my Slurpees, sorry, Frosters there.

Check your head.

The new Beastie Boys CD is out today! Okay, it's not new, but a new version of Ill Communication. I think I read somewhere that a new Beastie album is due out later this year and I guess to keep the Beastie Boys from starving they're reissuing four of their albums. Paul's Boutique is out as a remastered 20th anniversary edition and Check Your Head and Ill Communication are now released remastered with an added disc of bonus content. The bonus discs have b-sides, remixes and live cuts. Some of the b-sides and remixes were already featured on the Sounds of Science but some are new songs. So if you are a die hard Beastie fan and already have the album plus Sounds of Science then you will have to get the remastered versions for the new songs. That is a bit cheap because there is no way I'm going to notice difference in sound quality between the old album and the new remastered version listening to it on my bookshelf stereo. I'd really like to hear some of these new songs and remixes though. An expanded version of Hello Nasty is due out in August too. Here is the plan between me, Mike and Cam we can each buy one of the albums and then copy the bonus disc for the other guys. And as long as the Beastie Boys or one of their lawyers read this it will totally work!


Just to prove to everyone that I'm not all into copying music and movies here is the proof. It's off a Malaysian DVD for a Hong Kong movie called The Nocturnal Demon. When I popped the disc in I got this screen which was giving me a big pat on the back for not buying a bootleg movie. I'm so special.

I haven't watched too many HK movies lately, so I figured it was time. The movie starts off with a taxi cab driver picking up a skanky ho in the rain. Once in the cab she starts wiping the rain of her cleavage then puts on a pair of lacy panties. She lights up a joint and the cab driver starts freaking out and pulls over the cab and pukes. The girl gets out and leaves. The driver pours lighter fluid on his gloves and starts smelling them. He chases down the girl, slashes her throat with a box cutter knife, makes out with her then urinates on her corpse. Did I mention it is a comedy?! I miss those wacky Hong Kong movies. The movie had some funny parts and a couple nice fight scenes that were too short, but I liked it. It's still better than most crap that hits theaters here unless it's a 3D movie with guinea pigs!

Too cool.

Who needs Oakley's or whatever sunglasses the hip kids are wearing these days? This morning I went to get my eyes checked and they put drops in my eyes to dilate the pupils so they could check the "health" of my eyes! I'm good! Anyway, for the first time in a week it was actually sunny out this morning which is blindingly bright when you have huge dilated pupils. The optometrist gave me a pair of disposable sunglasses that tuck behind your regular glasses so I could drive home without hitting anything/anyone.

I am pretty broke now as I got my eyes looked at which is not covered by Alberta Health and got a new pair of glasses. I get bored of things easy and I'm tired of my current glasses, they are too blue. I just hope that the glasses actually look okay on me, but I'll probably just look weird. I was looking at frames by myself and I don't trust the lady who was helping me. Of course she is going to say it looks good, she's trying to make a sale. I also got a pair of real sunglasses to replace the ones that got stolen out of my car awhile ago. I just hope the idiot that stole them gets a bad headache from wearing them. Who steals prescription sunglasses?

I got my glasses and eyes checked at Iris. They carry some fancy designer frames and I definitely could've found cheaper glasses elsewhere. I saw an ad on TV for this place called Hakim Optical where they have a deal of two pairs of glasses for $299. WHAT?! Just the frames for my regular glasses cost more than that. Oh well, it pays not to be lazy and buy the first thing in front of you. But it's so easy! I just realized that I could've saved a bunch of money by not getting sunglasses and just using the disposable pair I got for FREE!

Yo Joe..again!

With G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra set to hit screens in a few weeks we are starting to see more movie tie-ins, merch and promotional crap. First up are Hersey's chocolate bars running a G.I. Joe contest with the grand prize of $100,00 as well as daily prizes of a Blu Ray player and movie pack. The package says "Instantly Win!" but it is not quite that instant. Back in the good old days "instant win" meant that when youo looked on the inside label of your chocolate bar or inside the cap of your bottle of pop it would tell if you won or not. Now all you get is a PIN number and after you register at a website you enter that number to find out if you won. I entered my number and all I did was unlock a Duke wallpaper. I guess that means I lost because I wanted either the Snake Eyes, Scarlett or Baroness wallpaper. Maybe next time.


7-11 is getting in on the action with some G.I. Joe lenticular 3D Slurpee cups. My biggest complaint is that nobody has invent a diet Slurpee yet. What the hell?! Anyway, there are four different character cups of Duke, Stormshadow, Snake Eyes and the Baroness. I picked up the Baroness because she is hot. They also had character straws, but I already got my huge bag of straws, so I don't need another one. The 3D is kind of lame as it looks good on one side, but on the side it totally doesn't even work and just make the image look all blurry. All I saw a blackish blob, not the Baroness. I would've been much happier if they had gone with just static images you can look at without having to tilt your cup back and forth, the 3D is just a lame gimmick.

Out of the blue

I bet you are wondering what that is? It is a 11.4 L bucket of bubblegum blast ice cream. That is a lot of ice cream. These were supposed to go to the Real Canadian Wholesale Club, but got shipped to us by mistake. We don't have a code to sell them, so the manager just said to sell them for $5 each. $5 for 11L of ice cream?! I wasn't even at work the day this all went down but Dennis from front end told me about it because he bought 3 buckets of the stuff. On Sunday we were cleaning up a pallet of ice cream and I found two of these bucket left. Too bad all the decent flavors were gone, but for $5 it doesn't matter much. The ice cream is Breyers, so at least it is a decent brand. Still I can't see myself eating the entire bucket because that would probably kill me. I just open it and take a couple spoonfuls and then put it in the freezer. Plus I love the smell. I just have to get my $5 worth before I throw it in the garbage.

I think I need a bigger spoon.

New shoes!

I wanted some new slip-on shoes for summer and after seeing these on eBay I decided I wanted a pair of the Vans Johnny Ramone shoes. Buying shoes off the internet is probably not all that smart because you can't try them on. I actually tried checking out stores to try a pair on, but everybody had regular lace up Vans, not the slip on shoes. I just decided to take a chance and blind buy a pair of size 11's and pray they fit...and they do! Kind of. They are little bit tight and my toes are just shy of the end. Hopefully once I start wearing them more they will break in and loosen up a little or else I'll be crippled. I'll take my chances.

I wonder if Willie has got a pair of the Kurt Cobain shoes from Converse. Courtney Love must really need the money first she sells the right to the Kurt's songs, sells out to Converse and now reunites Hole. Kurt Cobain merch coming soon to Wal-Mart!

Let's go! I changed up the boom box with some music more fitting to the occasion.

Happy Rockin' Canada Day!!