Hello, An Update

Been a busy May, eh.  Can you believe it’s mid-May ugh.

Let’s see…

Went to a Toronto FC game recently, always a great time beacuse it’s a loud and rowdy crowd.

Learned that soccer is called, “the beautiful game”, because once the clock starts it doesn’t stop, so therefore the game is always contained to two hours. Unlike football, which has so many stops and starts I practically died of boredom last year and left early.

Box view:

Got a haircut, this time Matthew from Brennen Demelo Studio. He just returned from Berlin Germany, where he was furthering his education,.

That’s one of the best parts about this place… you can go to any stylist there if your regular isn’t available, and everything will still come out amazing.

What else…

Oh, I got this idea in my head a few weeks back…. I’d like to be a Toronto tour guide atop a double decker bus, spouting off into the microphone facts about the city and Canada. You do not even realize how much Canadian facts I have here in my head.

I’d film the entire experience of course, and then ideally I sell the video to some tourism outfit which promotes Toronto, and this is just one of a million ideas I have everyday and WHERE IS MY ARMY TO HELP ME EXECUTE IT ALL???

Now please give a warm welcome my new music sponsor, Capo Productions!

Royalty-free music is pricey and important. Did you know  YouTube uses a robot to scan the audio on your video as it uploads, determines if you are  using a song you don’t own and flags your video for further analysis?

Thank you Fred, I’m pumped about this!

Here’s some noteworthy technical things:

From top left to right:

– I’m quite proud of that pie chart, specifically the yellow chunk… this is the average time spent on my blog.  35% of visitors spend over an hour here. So thank you for pushing play!

– I think the private cloud market will explode soon, and have been thinking to invest in it

– there’s something you don’t see everyday, a red light on the side of a Macbook, my Macbook.

– that’s my Klout score, holding at a solid 50, not bad not bad. See how it says I’m an “activist”? I like that.  It got many of my “influential about” topics correct (McDonalds, ha), except for ‘Keri Hilson’, I’ve never typed her name ever?

Kay that’s a long blog post, TTYS.

My Car Keeps Breaking

Yesterday I was beside Moss Park when my car just shut down at a stop light. Two weeks ago it happened five times on the 401, remember when I had to get towed twice to my destination?

Then, out of nowhere, this lady comes up to my window, would I like a push? Please!

Then another guy just appeared, they pushed me to safety around a corner, and before I could get out of my car to shake their hands thanks, they were gone.

Moss Park doesn’t have the best reputation, and that’s what happened.  I’d bet that had this happened in a rich neighbourhood things would have unfolded differently.

Maybe my car broke because that morning my hazard button came off, much like the buttons for my window there, and see how I have to use a knife to open up my glove box?

CAA to my rescue. The dispatcher lady and I were dying of laughter, because the neighbourhood residents were shouting at me directions and trying to be helpful. Repeatedly.  From across the street.

It’s at Canadian Tire right now getting a new ignition coil, it had stopped arcing.

UPDATE:

Back on the road by the next evening, it wasn’t arcing and needed a new ignition coil, just like 2 weeks ago, it’s a mystery, all in it cost me $0, I win!

 

Such a Nice Saturday! This is My Face!

Hi!

Finally some sun this week eh, least it came on the weekend.  Buds are out on the trees now – proof of spring.

And isn’t this parking spot confusing?

I didn’t get a ticket, , it’s on Bathhurst and Niagara, now you know.

I’m blogging here while this song is jammed in my ears, then going to kick around downtown this afternoon.

Went to a Chilean Wine Tasting at the Spoke Club Tuesday, hosted by Notable TV. They’re soon launching in multiple Canadian cities, and if you live there, go attend their events, they’re great.

There’s footage of me saying something like that, “I like these things because it’s a good crowd, no douche bags”. I probably shouldn’t go on camera after tasting wine on an empty stomach.

It’s Pam, Casie and Karly! Always good seeing you, ladies.  Here’s Casie’s (better) blog post about the event.

Then we snuck out, Irish Goodbye as she calls it.

In other news, next weekend we’re hosting CUTC – the Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference, pumped.  This crowd will like my Skynet jokes, ha.

And that’s right, thought computing!  It is the future, you heard it here first.

You’ve heard me go on and on about it over the years…. like in My 2012 Prediction and other times when I’ve blogged about Canadian company InteraXon… one of the world’s leading thought-control-computing companies.

They were at the Olympics last year, fast forward to 0:43 below and I’ll explain them a bit.

It’s UFC day!

I’ve had it in my calendar forEVER. Definitely more excited for this than yesterday’s wedding.

The best part won’t be the actual event, it’ll be the aftermath…. everyone hopped up on testosterone and adrenaline, rolling outta there thinking they’re GSP… the city’s gonna be nuts tonight.

Kay getting offline now, TTYL!

Have a great night

xo Keri

30 Carats of Diamonds

Remember Keith, the ‘Official Gemologist of The Canadian Explorer‘?

Ha, YES, that was the best.

Here’s Exploring Diamonds.

Here’s a close up of the 30 carats of diamonds, and at the time that photo was taken, that maybe the largest total amount of loose stones together in Canada.

You want to always face north when inspecting diamonds, because that’s where the light is best.

There’s another little video here too.

Just a Minute – Why Canadian Winters are Awesome

Forward this to someone having trouble getting home in today’s snowstom, maybe it’ll ease the journey a bit.

And what I said about not complaining… it really is bad life luck, because I figure life hears you and is all, “oh, don’t they know how bad it really could be?  Maybe they need a little reminder…” and poof, you just jinxed yourself.

Here’s all the Just a Minute videos.