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Lyndsey and I went on a camping trip this labor day long weekend and it was my first time camping so I figured I would make some observations as a noob.

10 Awesome Things

10. Outside is pretty neat
I spend a lot of time inside, working, living, wasting time etc so being outside for a weekend was a nice change of pace. Nature is pretty cool.
9. Chipmunks
I could watch Chipmunks all day, they make cool noises and contently run around like they had ADD. One stole a wasabi pea from the ground near out site ran off with it then came and put it back after no doubt realizing it was really hot.

8. Beaches
Beaches are good most of the time. Even though it was pretty cold to swim I was able to hang out on the sand and watch random stuff go down.
7. People are generally nicer
Most people are going to have a good time so you don’t get the 9-5 Monday to Friday I am an asshole look from people as you walk by. It’s a smile and a nod which is a good change. As soon as you go back to work it is mean mugging time though.
6. Fishing
I don’t fish but a lot of people were doing it. Don’t drop your tackle box when you flip your kayak though one guy spent hours looking for his, I doubt he ever found it.
5. Kayaking
Pretty cool and a good work out. Just keep me sort of close to the shore or I start talking about drowning, death, and sharks.

4. Quiet
Camping is nice and quiet which gives you a good chance to catchup on thoughts that the world drowns out when you are in it outside of camping, provided you have thoughts that is.
3. Meat
I like meat, camping involves lots of fire which you use to cook which means you grill meat. Meat is good, fatty, animal murder, but good.
2. No schedule
The only time you have to worry about is check out time on your last day, other than that you can do what you want. Feel like sleeping at 2pm in the afternoon? Go for it. Want to eat dinner at 9pm get er done. Not having to do things at a certain time rocks.
1. Fires
If you don’t like fire I question your humanity. I could poke fire for hours and be amused. You can also make s’mores on it and what not but I really just like gram crackers.

10 Not So Awesome Things
10. Fires that won’t start
We had this one night, the combination of crappy wet wood and no hatchet lead to a pretty lack luster fire. The fire the next night rocked though.
9. Bugs
Actually we got pretty lucky this weekend and did not need bug spray, but you know, it could have sucked.
8. Setting up your tent in the dark
I do not recommend this, it is pretty tough we did it though.
6. Peoples bad music
Turn Sean Kingston off.

5. Loud talkers
We had some loud talkers near our site and once we got to know them they were actually not bad people just really loud. They liked big fires though.
4. Cold water
I have only been swimming in a lake once when it was warm enough to be fun. Our climate sucks.
3. Walking to the washroom
We were too close to other camp sites for me to pee on a tree without people hearing which meant I had to walk to the comfort station when I wanted to pee. Better than an outhouse though.
2. Sleeping on the ground
Make sure your air mattress is big enough for 2 otherwise you have to sleep on the ground. My sleeping bag has a memory foam bottom and I was sleeping on top of an old sleeping bag but I still woke up each morning pretty sore. Stupid chivalry.
1. Smoke smell
It took 3 lather rinse repeats to get the smell out of my hair! Geeze.

I know I have been light on the posts lately. I have been really busy with my other blog, riding, and playing Arkham Asylum (which is AMAZING) when I have the chance. However I saw this picture over on gizmodo and it is so awesome. Will Smith will forever be the freshest.

Going camping this weekend but I plan to bring a note pad and scribble down some blogs while I am gone so maybe new content when I am back?

This idea hit me last night for no real reason at all but I figured it was a pretty good one so I shouldn’t let it just drift by like a lot of my other ideas. Before I get started though I would like to say that this is my own personal list of games I played, not games that existed, I didn’t play a lot of good games so that is why some of your own favorites are not on this list so don’t kill me.

10. NHL 93

Never mind the oddly blue ice this game was lots of fun, relatively quick game play for the time epic hits, injuries, and fighting. EA sports cut its teeth on this game and it’s the reason why they are still creating some of the best sports video game tittles today. I logged a lot of hours playing this game, mostly during hockey season.

8. Golden Axe
I never owned this game but my best friend at the time did and we played a lot of it, looking back on it the female playable character was quite scantily clad I wonder if thats why his older brother bought it. None the less it was an pretty awesome game for when it was released (89) and you got to kick little elves for power ups! Take that short stuff.

7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist
After playing the damn near impossible to beat TMNT for the NES I was hesitant to play another Turtles out of fear that my dreams of being a radical fighting turtle would be crushed further. However this game was thankfully modeled more after TMNT arcade game and had none of the frustration of the NES game. The bright graphics and sound made it really stand out but the best part was that at one point you could ride a rocket powered surf board!

6. X-men 2: Clone wars
This game was pretty unique due to the fact that as soon as you turned it on and selected a character you were fighting, before the tittle screen, no waiting no listening to a story just fight! Again vivid graphics and fun side scrolling action came into play here and they game also had a pretty decent difficulty curve so there was no blowing through it incredibly fast.

5. Comix Zone
This game is awesome, and had an original (albeit it completely insane) story line with great game play, levels, animation and power ups. However this game was pretty difficult and you had two continues at most so that kept the frustration factor pretty high. One cool fact about this game though was that it came with a free CD which was my first CD I ever owned. I listened to this song a lot

4. Toy Story
This game was able to capture the imagination of the Toy Story movie and transfer it to 16 bit form for the Genesis. Having a fun lofty feel and genuinely nice looking 3d animation it was very hard to ever get frustrated at this game and with its inclusion of multiple different puzzles there was not much monotony. I actually still play the ROM of this game from time to time and will probably end up playing it soon after I finish this blog.

3. Aladdin
I originally had no interest in playing Aladdin as I don’t really remember if I have seen the movie all the way through but regardless of that fact or the fact that Arabian Nights is a song that can remain forever stuck in your head the game was a lot of fun. Similar to Toy Story it was a hard game to get mad at no matter how often you died. Don’t forget, hammer pants are AWESOME!

2. Sonic 2
Sonic games really need no explanation. This one game with my Sega so I played it a lot, I let my dad play once and he got killed so fast no one in my family could play a video game worth a damn even my brother, not sure why as they are all well educated and capable of walking and chewing bubble gum.

1. Streets of Rage 2
This is my favorite game of the Streets of Rage series however all of them are awesome. If game rating existed at the time this would have recived an M rating because you could stab, shoot, and club people with big aluminum pipes. In addition to all of that there was a copious amount of scantly clad women in the game who you got to beat the crap out of, it was an equal opportunity beat em up game.

Ain’t it a bitch?

Short post today as I have spent most of it looking for jobs and watching bmx videos. However check out these videos from this years FIRST stop of the Dew tour. This year is going to be crazy. Damn.

Dirt Finals

Park Finals

Vert Finals

For the past 3 or 4 years Lyndsey and I have been going to the Toronto Ribfest at Centennial Park in Etobicoke. It is a pretty great way to  kill a day if you bring some picnic supplies to go with your ribs. This year we actually remembered to pack everything and spent a good six or so hours in the park eating ribs, flying kites and hanging upside down. I also took a few pictures on the way.

Surprisingly I find this extremely terrifying to do.

I took this shot from the entrance normally we go  on Canada Day but since it’s  raining this Canada Day we went a few days early. This is the least busy I have ever seen it on Canada day it’s  packed.

One day I want to drive a cool promo car like this:

Or this:

The Ribbers always have cheesy/creative signs

We always choose based on sign and even though this one had no  previous awards we decided to give the under dawg a chance

God bless you rib man

The best part of the day, I always get the mix  this time I got 1/4 Rack, 1/4 Chicken, Beans, Coleslaw and it was good!

Nothing burns off a good rib feast like flying kites, I actually really enjoy flying kites. Lyndsey’s got stuck in a tree, typical.

I should really  start cooking my own ribs… hmm anyone have an  recipes?

One day killing time at a chapters I picked up a comic called “Old Man  Logan” and flipped through it. I am not really a big comic book reader mainly because the stories can span so many different issues and tittles that  it takes forever  to finish a story arc.  This one however was an 8 issue mini series so keeping tabs on what was going  on wouldn’t be hard. Once I read through the first issue I loved the  concept.

Wolverine is popular and has been around forever and I have read quite a few of his mini-series sets (Origins, The end etc) but this is by far my favorite. The basic story line without ruining things is this: 90% of the hero population was wiped out after the villains teamed up with each other and organized an attack. During this attack  Wolverine (now Logan) was hurt so bad mentally  that he vowed never to hurt another living thing again.  If you can believe it he is now a farmer who has to pay rent to the grand  sons of the  Hulk.

That is until he is short one month and needs extra money and therefor goes on an adventure  with Hawk eye…

The post Apocalyptic setting  of the comic gives it a Mad Max feel and the dark and then  suddenly vibrant panel compliment  the present and flash back based story telling. It’s worth checking out and if you don’t believe me take a look at some of these panels.

They Hulk Kids

Hawkeye is blind in this continuity, still drives though

Wolverine pre life altering fight

Wolverine During life altering fight

Hawkeyes Daughter is kind of a bitch

The Red Skull wearing Captain Americas Uniform that he claimed after killing him

Uh oh

He’s back

I really hope they extend this story line slightly past 8 issues (maybe 30?) so that I can get a little bit more of the action.

This is amazing. I wish I could do flips and take off my clothes I would get all the ladies!

Man shot dead at Mississauga condo – I live here

A man is dead after being shot behind a Mississauga condominium last night.

Emergency crews were called to 4205 Shipp Dr., southeast of Rathburn Rd. and Hurontario St., around 10 p.m. to respond to a shooting.

“We found a male who had been shot. Paramedics rushed him to hospital but despite their efforts, he died,” said Peel Const. Wayne Patterson.

Police are not releasing the victim’s name or age until family is notified.

Patterson declined to say if the man was a resident of the building.

Witnesses told police three suspects, described as black males, fled the area following the gunshots, and two vehicles were spotted speeding away from the area.

Police are searching for a dark-coloured Mercedes SUV and a 4-door, silver passenger vehicle.

Investigators have closed Shipp as they try to piece together what happened, and officers are canvassing the area in hopes of finding witnesses or security cameras that captured the shooting.

A post-mortem is expected to be completed today.

The shooting marks Peel’s eighth homicide this year. – The star (I work here)

Toronto Street Jam History

Street jams have been going down in Toronto since the 1990’s. They originally started with a small group of 10-15 flatland/street riders who would meet at the banking district and ride the downtown core areas. More

Milk I am your father – Fashionably Geek

Bacon Infused Waffles – Via This is Why You’re fat

Tofu

Man mocks cops, gets tazed, runs away

Blue In Da Face

Crazy idiots

Insane Motorcycle Stunt on Freeway

You know what they say the couple that plays together, stays together. Then dies together.

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Isetta In Auto X nearly tips over

Suicide Fail?

One of my favorite video parts by one of my favorite riders

I am normally  not a big Honda fan, since a lot of them are riced out something fierce but when  I saw these ones from the 2009 meet at Eibach headquarters I had to step back and say damn!

Props donut on Honda Tech for taking some great shots.