Canandaigua, NY

Panoramic view of the lake front of Canandaigua, New York.

Liveability

No shocker here. Top cities to live in based on crime, threat from instability or terrorism, and transportation/communications infrastructure are:

1. Vancouver
2. Melbourne
3. Vienna
4. Perth
5. Toronto
6. Adelaide
7. Sydney
8. Copenhagen
9. Geneva
10. Zurich

How did an island of outcasts manage to become a fantastic place to live? Why don't we have some Aussie invite me to come firsthand and investigate?

Link to report is here.

What jealousy looks like

1. Go to work in morning. Open browser. Go here.
2. Observe mid-afternoon revelry and note ambient air temperature here.
3. Look up, observe your cubicle surroundings, and realize you are still at work.
4. Go to bathroom, look in mirror. Behold: jealousy.
5. Splash your face with water, return to your cube, repeat in 3 hours.

JJ Abrams to direct King's Dark Tower

Let's just hope it doesn't get fucked up. This is a killer series and a great comic book. There's so much that could get messed up in the translation, I just don't know if I trust Abrams. Maybe Abrams' Star Trek XI will be an indication of what is to come. My preference? Get Peter Jackson!

Abrams to direct Stephen King's Dark Tower movie.

The beautifully-done (flash) Dark Tower website is here.

Wedding Site Visit

Just visited the B&B we will be having the wedding at and took a few pictures to have some Autostitch fun. Below are my shots looking towards the front and back - piloting the software.

Expectation setting: big white tents in 2nd photo will not be there.

Stay Indoors

From the I'm-lovin'-it-desk:

Notice to Russian citizens: stay indoors and play Barry White.

Van Halen Do-Over

Hazaa! The Gods have looked favorably on the alpha dog of the 80's rock band that helped launched an entire phalanx of hair bands. Van Halen has announced that they will reunite with David Lee Roth. Seriously. This time it's not a hoax. Well, at least according to the Internet. And everything you read on the Internet is seriously true. srsly.

ARC vs. JNJ

This has got to be one of the funnier lawsuits I've seen in a while. Although the Johnson and Johnson lawsuit against the Red Cross may have some legitimacy, it doesn't matter. The financial advances that they make in the short term (assuming they win the lawsuit) will do nothing for winning the hearts and minds of an entire generation who may associate their name and/or brand with a singular act that's been likened, in the blogosphere, to kicking puppies.

Take a page from the American Red Cross and what a single (legitimate) act, infamously known as the "coffee and donuts" issue, did to impact the opinions of an entire generation of WWII military personnel and families.

Link to Johnson and Johnson's Corporate Blog, JNJ BTW, is here.

Video of the Day

Crazy. Watch Christopher Walken roast a chicken with pears.

Time to go back to dot matrix...

From high school and even into college, one of the most comforting sounds was the screeching sound of my Apple Imagewriter II printer. From the long, soothing startup sound to the quick, jerky, almost giddy sound it made to indicate it was ready - the sounds emitted by the printer were probably the most comforting sounds I heard all through my education. Probably because it meant that I was done with writing a paper.

A new study shows that laser printers can emit microscopic toner particles during printing that are small enough to get into the lungs and cause as much damage as smoking. BS? You decide.

Article is here.