As an experiment, Melanie and I traded places with the blogging this weekend. The following is her account of how we spent last weekend, so if you'd like to see my account, you'll have to check out my own post on her LiveJournal.

Hello, this is *cough*ahem*deep voice* Hello, this is Daniel, the cute and cuddly boyfriend of the most awesomest Melanie ever. I will now commence my 35 page dissertation on How and Why Melanie is So Damn Cool.

In the beginning there was nothingness. And then POOF there was Melanie!

teehee. Just kidding. It's not really Daniel. It was Melanie all along! Fooled you!

So Daniel thought it would be cute if we blogged for each other, and because I think he is so gosh darn cute, I agreed with him. So here is my account of what Daniel did this weekend:

Friday was teh suck, so Daniel came over to my place and was sad and tired from working so hard all weekend. I suppressed the urge to tell him he works too hard, because he looked like he was tied on with a very thin string that might snap at any moment. The poor boy looked miserable at the prospect of going to the party we had been invited to, so I encouraged (read: begged) him to stay at home and get some sleep. He was momentarily distracted by something shiny (music), but sleep was had.

There was also some Men in Black II action going on, but this is a PG blog.

Saturday there was sleeping in, which is always nice. Daniel woke me up early because he had been sleeping for 12 hours. Then we ate breakfast. I love watching Daniel eat, because he seems very focused on the food. Sometimes I stare at him and watch his jaw move, and wonder what he's thinking about that is so important that he can only concentrate on it when he is eating cereal. Oh, the mysteries of men.

Saturday afternoon Daniel's friend Tanya (who is also awesome) came over to visit with a friend of hers. The four of us (and my Australian, amber) played video games and ate birthday pizza. Here would be a good spot for a picture of the birthday pizza. Are you surprised that there is no picture? Don't be. Daniel took a photo, but has barely had time to breathe since then, so there is no uploading. Just try to imagine a very cute pizza with a smiley face and a very cute Tanya with an even prettier smiley face. It was adorable.

Oh wait, Scott was there too. I forgot. Scott and I teamed up in Cranium and kicked all kinds of ass. We rock. Sorry, Daniel, but it's kill or be killed. I take no prisoners in Cranium! This entry is long. For those of you who are not skimming, hello! Nice to meet you! I offer you millions and millions of dollars! Oh, also, I just said that in Daniel's voice, so he's the one who really offers.

Sunday we met about ten million people for an all-you-can-eat brunch at the Golden Griddle, and Daniel got water spilled all over him by a waitress. Teehee. The man was wearing three layers of clothes, including a raincoat, and somehow he still ended up wet. On the plus side, his breakfast was on the house. On the minus side, I forgot my money at home and had to ask him to pay for my food. Thanks, Daniel! You rock.

Afterwards we met up with Stephen, Irena, and Robin and went to the car-free Kensington Market thingy, which I have never been to before. Daniel mingled briefly with his TPSC buddies, scowled at a man who was badly moderating a debate, and argued with a girl about the need for air in chip bags. He's so cute. Meanwhile, I looked for giant chess.

After the Kensington Market thing (did you know that Don McKeller lives in Kensington Market? True story.), there was more gaming. Oh no wait, there wasn't. There was supposed to be gaming, but instead we watched Red vs Blue, and Daniel geeked some more. Some day that boy will geek himself right into a coma.

Daniel's personal vow to go home early on Sunday failed, and he stayed at my place until almost midnight -- although it should be noted that he was working the entire time. I hope you TPSC people praise and shower him with love and cookies! He rocks so hardcore, even Daredevil is afraid of him. Daredevil is the man without fear people, so you can appreciate the significance of such comments.

I am done now. yay! Sorry to babble so, but I do maintain about five blogs. Apparently I have a lot to say about everything.

Melanie

ps: Hello! Nice to meet you!

I'll see if I can get that pizza-cake picture out of my camera at some point this week :-)

Blatantly ripped off from Wyrd's blog:

1. List 10 television series.
2. Have your friends guess your favorite character from each one.
3. I'll cross out the show and put the character when someone guesses.

Note that like her post, these aren't in any particular order (though I maintain that Babylon 5 is still the best)

I've not been paying attention to a lot of my RSS feeds lately, but today I found these two gems on GroovyGreen and wanted to share:

No matter what you may think of his vehicular preferences, Arnold Schwarzenegger is definitely an environmentalist... at least in his politics. He's just signed into law new legislation that will encourage and enforce more solar electric power generation across the state of California.

The bill, which cleared the state Senate last week, calls for the installation of 1 million rooftop solar panels on homes, businesses, farms, schools and public buildings by 2018.

Complete story is on Reuters via GroovyGreen.

The second story they had included a cool invention that lets you recycle "grey water", (that's water you run down the drain and bathtub, but not your toilet) and re-use it to water the garden/crops in your backyard. Created as a work-around for water usage bans during heat waves, they're calling it The Ban Beater.

Is it just me or is it kinda sad that water had to be restricted before this was invented? Why the hell aren't all buildings built to flush with grey water in the first place?

Initial story via GroovyGreen.

I really don't understand why this whole Snakes on a Plane phenomenon is funny. I do however know that it makes me laugh every time.

Via Ted's blog, I give you All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us.

Hey check it out, there's lots of famous Daniel Quinn's out there. Aside from the author and the NDP candidate, there's also the Canadian comedian!

I guess I'm in good company :-)

Since becoming involved in the Public Space Committee here in Toronto I've started looking at the city in a new light. I remember reading about the "reclaiming of public space" back in the late 90's when I was reading Adbusters a lot, but I don't think I really got it until I moved out here. It probably had a lot to do with growing up in a crappy suburb, but I just didn't understand why someone would like to put a couch in a parking spot and sit out under the sun in the middle of 7th Ave...

But now I get it.

I was walking home tonight after Lee-Anne's birthday shindig and realised that despite it being an absolutely beautiful evening, there was no were for me to sit down and blog a bit before going home to bed. On my right was a bunch of closed retail stores, and on my left was a 4 lane, busy road. No benches, no greenspace, nowhere suitable for a person just to sit an enjoy the city.

When people talk about "The Liveable City" from now on, this is what I will have in mind.

I know I've been falling behind on the blogging lately. I've been really busy (three TPSC meetings this week two birthday parties, new girlfriend, new job, etc.) so I've not really been writing about any of that stuff, just doing it.

I might be able to find some time though if I can just kill off Gannon and rescue Princess Zelda from his evil clutches. I tried out the final dungeon today on my way to work and got my ass handed to me... Wish me luck for the commute home today eh?

Anyone Interested? I'm sure BikeShare might be able to help the non-wheeled, but interested parties :-).

Why do people who leave newspapers on the train think it's ok even after you call to them with "hey buddy, you forgot your paper"? Just a quick thought for the morning.

I'm on the train to work and I'm quite late. I blame Melanie 'cause she was so damned distracting while I was trying to get out of the house. I can't be mad at her thought 'cause she got me the coolest gifts ever last night while we were having Korean Barbecue. What were these wonderful gifts you ask? The first was a pair of tickets to see a show called "Videogames Live", a symphonic series that covers all sorts of music from our favourite video games. Imagine hearing the Zelda theme in a Massey Hall... It'll be frikkin' awesome. The second gift was a rose! Yes, I'm aware of the points deducted from my Man Card for getting excited over this, but she got me a rose! It's very pretty :-)

I am now going to plug in my controler and see if I can find my way to the 7th dungeon the Dark World before I get to my stop. Wish me luck :-)

If only the Israelis and Hezbollah would listen to these people.

Image via The Dominion, via This Modern World via Aftenposten, from the New York Times.