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I can’t say I disagree with the frustration some of the commenters from this article in the CBC wrote, we once used Two Small Men with Big Hearts for a move and it was a nightmare of a move.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/02/02/bc-twosmallmen.html
And by nightmare, I mean that’s counting a multi-trip cross-city winter blizzard move here in Vancouver. As if driving in this city isn’t annoying enough, try it when the roads are slick as snot.
Anyways, back to Two Small Men. In our case the two men that showed up were scary looking as hell, and they were SLOW, way too slow for what had to be done. Unloading was even slower, so we just dumped everything out of the truck ourselves and moved it into the house after they left.
What should have been an easy 3 hour move (we had everything packed and stacked by the front door) somehow turned into an all-day time-wasting affair.
We were worried sick that our breakables would be broken because these guys showed as much finesse and care as a hungry bear in a garbage dump. We have two collector bicycles, not worth tons of money but very valuable to us. The guy grabbed it with one hand and dragged it across the yard, smashing a wheel into the cement wall and then just dumped it! I lost it at that point, but that didn’t help. I don’t think what I said to him registered in his brain at all.
Anyways, long story short. We were overcharged for hours, and slapped with a distance/fuel charge that was never mentioned. Avoid this company, shop around, go with anybody else. Heck, rent a truck and drive down East Hastings street, pick out two smelly crack addicts at random — I bet they’ll do a better job.
Glad to see their shady operations are being noted publicly like this.
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I wonder if it works. Actually I don’t wonder, I know it will.
Filed under: Stuff
It was just last week when I posted about these neat little toys, and now one of the better artists Andrew Bell came out with a new collection that has me completely giddy with anticipation. I’m buying a whole box.
Android! Awesome!
Read more here: http://blog.dyzplastic.com/2010/02/android-mini-collectibles.html
Filed under: Stuff
Kudos to the bosses that let the person with the idea to do this run with it. This is the best passenger plane in the world.
Photos lifted without permission from here, go there if you want to see more: http://www.gadling.com/2010/01/30/kulula-air-tries-not-to-take-itself-too-seriously/
Filed under: public news
I’ll never forget it, my favourite calamari EVER was at this hole in the wall side of the highway cafe just North of San Diego that we stumbled into one afternoon. What we got wasn’t your usual calamari with rings and legs and deep fried with a coupon for a free ambulance ride to the nearest heart clinic. Instead it was sliced into nice thin triangles and strips, lightly breaded and yes probably fried but it wasn’t heavy with oil.
And now giant squid are bombarding California! Oh yeah baby!!
Time for another trip to San Diego.
So this article paints a pretty grim picture for your health unless you get enough Vitamin D. More specifically, it isn’t the Vitamin D itself that does something good to you, but its the absense of Vitamin D that screws you from head to toe.
I thought the milk my boy drank every day was enough to get him Vitamin O’D'd but apparently not. How am I supposed to get this kid 10 minutes of sunlight a day here in Vancouver? We haven’t seen the sun in weeks. Does Vitamin D production happen when all you get is the small bits of light that actually do penetrate this constant blanket of clouds over our heads in the winter?
We get tons of sun in the summer, but then we’ve been so hammered with skin cancer scares that last summer we were paranoid about the whole thing and kept our pasty white kid covered in 99 SPF, a parka, and then limited his outside time to 1.34 minutes a day. My sister had a few melonomas cut off, and my kid has the same fair skin, so my fears aren’t unjustified. I probably need to tone down my protection though and let him run around without a hat this summer. At least for .34 minutes.
Vitamin D is important, this is indisputable, so I need to read more to make sure I understand it all. Oh, and the climate change thing in the title, well maybe it would bring us more sun. I dunno.
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I fully applaud Apple’s defiant stance against having Flash capabilities on their devices like the new iPad. I hate how unstable, unreliable, and insecure Adobe Flash is. HTML5 all the way baby!
This just happened to me, thanks for crashing while doing the impossibly hard task of streaming music (rolleyes)….
Apple > Adobe
At least my systems are secure. Don’t forget folks, update your systems or get screwed! http://thinktechnica.wordpress.com/articles/adobe-flash-protection/
Filed under: Stuff
I stumbled into a store on Main Street called Voltage here in Vancouver awhile ago, and ever since that first visit I kept getting drawn back into it for reasons I don’t really understand yet. The place is filled with these little vinyl and plush figurines, among other things, and at first looks either like child’s dream playhouse or a psychopath’s lair.
Yesterday I bought this guy. And I want more. Lots more.
This is odd for me though, I’m not into this sort of stuff. I don’t read comic books, I hate anime and most cartoons, I don’t collect anything other than way too much camping gear and computer parts.
I won’t pretend to know enough about the subject to tell you what this culture is all about, but it isn’t aimed at kid and lots of the things aren’t cute. Wikipedia can probably give you a better idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designer_toys
I really, really want this now:
Here are a heap of websites I found with more stuff:
http://cardboardspaceblog.blogspot.com
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I’ve been listening to radiotuna.com the last couple of days, specifically the Old School Rap Channel. I thought I had all the great oldies from my youth in my collection, but at least half the songs they play are reminding me of yet another song that slipped my mind. Rap was just better back then.
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7 out of 7 celebrities agree, you gotta be here.
