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Posted by Brad Pineau on January 5th, 2004 at 6:56 pm AST [50845 views]
Two weeks ago, I posted my list of the top 10 best movies of all time. This week, I'm going to post my list of the top 10 actors of all time. Again, keep in mind that this is just my own opinion, and by "All Time", I really mean "in the last 20 years". See, I haven't seen many movies pre-1980.
Anyways, here we go...
10. Christian Bale
9. Russell Crowe
8. Jack Nicolson
7. Tom Cruise
6. Brad Pitt
5. Edward Norton
4. Robert de Niro
3. Al Pacino
2. Tom Hanks
1. Kevin Spacey
So who's your favourite actor?
Posted by Brad Pineau on January 10th, 2004 at 8:09 pm AST [5742 views]
A few months ago, my girlfriend and I got a cute little teddybear hamster, Shadow. This week, I bought a bunch of Habitrail cage addons from my friend, Rodney. Shadow now has a bitchin' new kick-ass cage. He's so excited with his new upgrades (wouldn't you be too?).
Here are some pictures of the new cage. As you can see, he now has 3 sets of sleeping quarters, 2 running wheels, a sky restaurant, a maze, and 2 full cages.
Posted by Brad Pineau on January 11th, 2004 at 8:18 am AST [2616 views]
Not only did I buy a bunch of hamster cage addons from Rodney, but I also bought a fish tank from Rodney as well.
So far, we bought 4 fish. We named them Ben, JLo, Nemo, and Simon. I wanted to name one of them "Fish", but Zoe wouldn't have it. So we compromised, and out next fish will be "Fishie". I also wanna name one "Gill".
Here are some pictures of the new tank.
Posted by Brad Pineau on January 11th, 2004 at 2:53 pm AST [7411 views]
I was channel surfing last night, and I came across something that I found quite amusing... on channel 10, where they usually have Eastlink ads and information displayed and music playing, you could see this:
If you can't make out the popup, it says:
Your updates have been installed successfully. To complete installation, you must restart your computer.
Do you want to restart your computer now?
I just find this quite amusing. It makes you wonder about all the things that Windows is powering. Airport information screens, Lottery ticket machines,... seems like everything.
Posted by Brad Pineau on January 11th, 2004 at 8:19 pm AST [5512 views]
I've recently been invited to be a guest poster on The Movie Blog. I just posted my first post on the weblog, A Look at the Movies of 2004.
If you're a movie fanatic like myself, you'll love the readings over at The Movie Blog. I recommend checking it out, and I'm not just saying that because I'm an author for it now. =)
Posted by Brad Pineau on January 13th, 2004 at 1:39 am AST [4845 views]
Survivor is coming back to CBS, with a whole new twist. The next Survivor will be Survivor All-Stars. That's right, the new season's castaways will include 4 previous Survivor winners, and 14 of the best Survivor runner-ups.The new season begins February 1, airing after the Super Bowl (what a timeslot!). Taking place in Panama, we can expect some serious competition... as the contestants are not only competiting for another million dollars, but also for the title of the Best of the Best.
Here is a breakdown of the 18 castaways:
Alicia (Austrailian Outback), Amber (Austrailian Outback), Colby (Austrailian Outback), Ethan (Africa), Jenna L. (Pulau Tiga), Jenna M. (Africa), Jerri (Austrailian Outback), Kathy (Marquesas), Lex (Africa), Richard (Pulau Tiga), Rob C. (Amazon), Rob M. (Marquesas), Rudy (Pulau Tiga), Rupert (Pearl Islands), Shii Ann (Thailand), Susan (Pulau Tiga), Tina (Austrailian Outback), Tom (Africa)
Posted by Brad Pineau on January 13th, 2004 at 10:09 pm AST [5542 views]
Over the weekend, I gave the Bloggerman website a new look. I thought it would be nice to have a new, fresh layout, and I wanted to move away from the old grey... and I've always liked sites that have an all-white background.I was playing with the layout in Photoshop... and I had the text exactly how I wanted. I was using a Verdana font with Smooth anti-aliasing... oh how I wish web browsers could render text with anti-aliasing... it looks so nice and smooth and sharp. I'll have to settle with a plain Verdana font for now.
Something that has been driving me nuts about the layout... for some reason, in Mozilla Firebird 0.7, whenever you go to any particular page, the page will randomly render twice the width as it should be, and the side menu will stretch out to like 600 pixels instead of the usual 300 pixels. Then, if you click refresh, the page will render as normal. Can any Firebird users shed some light on what's going on here?
Posted by Brad Pineau on January 15th, 2004 at 11:38 pm AST [4915 views]
There has been a heated discussion about customer service over all Will's and at Nelle's. Basically, to sum the discussion up, Checkers is a place that has very poor customer service.On the other end of the spectrum, Pizza Delight is a place that has awesome customer service. My girlfriend and I ate there the other day, and we were both just blown away with how nice we were treated.
- The restaurant was fairly empty, so they sat the two of us in a six person booth. (Not like Mike's Restaurant, where they wouldn't sit 3 people in a booth, even when the place was empty)
- We both had the buffet, and Zoe asked if they had plain pepperoni pizza in the buffet... they said no, but there "can be", and the waiter sent an order to the kitchen to make a pepperoni pizza for us. So we started eating meats pizza, garlic fingers, pasta and salad from the buffet, and five minutes later, they took a pepperoni pizza out, and put it on our table. And when we were done eating, there was half the pepperoni pizza left, so they boxed it up and sent it home with us! They didn't even charge us extra for it...
- We were asked about every 5-10 minutes how things were going, and if we needed a refill on our pops.
- At the end, when we paid the bill, they asked if everything was ok, and we were told to be sure to come back again. It was just a nice feeling to be treated with such respect, ya know?
Having good customer service sure pays off in the end. I gave our waiter a five dollar tip, and I'm writing about how good Pizza Delight is on my weblog. Oh, and by the way, Checkers sucks.
Posted by Brad Pineau on January 18th, 2004 at 4:51 am AST [12155 views]
You all remember the show Whose Line is it Anyway? Boy was it ever a good show. I'm talking about ABC's Primetime version, by the way... London's version was good too, but the American version with Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochery, Wayne Brady, Brad Sherwood, and Greg Proops was the best of the best of primetime television!So what the hell happened to it? I don't remember ever hearing it was cancelled. Heck, it was even nominated for an Emmy... so why would they cancel the damn thing? Does anyone know anything about this?
If you check out the ABC site, you'll see that they stopped updating it last September. It's a shame that this show isn't on anymore... I just loved it. Even if they showed reruns, I'd be happy.
Posted by Brad Pineau on January 19th, 2004 at 5:48 pm AST [1474 views]
As a lot of you already know, Prince Edward Island is a beautiful province in Eastern Canada... it's especially beautiful in the Summer time!If you plan on spending your vacation on PEI this year, you can check out a list of the best PEI Cottages for Rent at Prince Edward Island Cottages. This site has a wide variety of listings, and you can view cottages by location on PEI, by the weekly rate, by how many stars the cottage has... and all the listings have nice pictures of the cottage and a quick summary of the accommodation.
Posted by Brad Pineau on January 20th, 2004 at 10:14 pm AST [17946 views]
If you're a reality TV fan, or even if you're not, you would like FOX's new sitcom, My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance. I watched the series premiere of it last night, and I thought it was hilarious!If you're not aware of the show concept, it's about these two people who have to convince their families that they are in love, and are getting married in 2 weeks. If they fool their parents, they each get half a million dollars. Now, the twist is that the guy, Steve, is an actor, who is going out of his way to be the most abnoxious fiance he can be. So the poor girl, Randi, is horrified that she has to pretend to be in love with this fat obnoxious guy... the whole time not knowing that the joke's on her.
If you missed the premiere, they are gonna air it again on Thursday night, Jan. 22. I suggest checking it out... I think you'll like it. =)
Posted by Brad Pineau on January 28th, 2004 at 6:56 pm AST [27541 views]
I popped into the Charlottetown Futureshop last night to pick up a new video card for my PC at work. I was looking at their selection, and one of the sales guys came up and asked if I needed help. I asked him if they had any of the cheap GeForce video cards left (there was none left on the shelf), and he asked me what kind of computer the video card would be for. Thinking of my home PC, I mistakenly said I had a Pentium Celeron computer. He quickly informed me that the video card I was looking for wouldn't work on my PC anyways, since Celeron computers don't have AGP slots.Well, I didn't say anything to him, I just said "ok" and left the counter... but the whole time, I found what he said quite confusing. My home Celeron PC indeed has an AGP slot, with an 8 meg AGP video card in it... making what he told me complete bs.
It makes me wonder... how many times do these "experts" at Futureshop (or other stores) give incorrect information to customers. If I didn't know the difference... I probably would have ended up buying a PCI video card... and end up missing all the goodness of AGP.
Posted by Brad Pineau on January 28th, 2004 at 7:33 pm AST [2167 views]
Has anybody else been getting hit hard with these new email viruses? The email looks like one of those "Mail Delivery Error" emails... and includes an attachment. And the attachment is titled something like "something.txt .exe" except there's a bunch more spaces, and it looks like the file is titled "something.txt" to fool people into opening it without fear.
I've been getting hit hard with these emails... and they all just started coming in the past few days. Man it's annoying.
Posted by Brad Pineau on January 31st, 2004 at 1:02 am AST [5722 views]
Well, this year's Oscar nominations have been released. I was suprised by a few things this year...
- Cold Mountain was NOT nomiated for Best Picture. This is great - it means that Lord of the Rings is a guarenteed win!
- Johnny Depp was nomiated for Best Actor. He was awesome in Pirates... but I didn't expect a nomination.
- The Matrix movies weren't nominated for any Special Effects awards.
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