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Scott Adams (AKA Dilbert) on Weddings

Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, has some wonderful insight into weddingson his blog.

He comments on Wedding Favors:

Apparently the point of the wedding favors is to avoid embarrassing ourselves in front of the Pope or Martha Stewart or whoever else we invited. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of any of my friends or family that would judge us by the quality of the wedding favors, as in “I kind of liked them until the whole bottle-opener-with-a-bow incident.”

And on Wedding Registries:

One of the curses of wedding planning is the whole gift-giving dilemma. This is especially acute for people like my fiancée and me because for us, all material goods fall into one of these categories.

1. Already have it
2. Don’t need it
3. Too expensive for a gift
4. What the hell is it?

Hatfield Job Ad

Hatfield is advertising for a number of positions in this next weekend’s Vancouver Sun. I got to do the ad artwork for this one. The best quote from management while doing up this ad was (you’ll like this Barb): “could you just make the logo larger?”

Valentine’s Cake

Gillian and I made a heart shaped cake for Valentine’s day. Aren’t we cute?!!

Sunday crack-up

This flash song had me rolling with laughter. I think someone really has too much time on their hands!

And I can’t resist linking to this crazy cute dog , or these crazy cute kittens. All from the Cute Overload blog.

Cool Videos

Today being a nasty, rainy day, I spent quite a bit of time surfing this cool website.

Here are my favourite links from this site:

• Jib Jab’s 205 Year in Review (staring George W)
  
• Taco Town (SNL)
• Lazy Sunday & Narnia (SNL)
• Washington Mutual Ad
• Dr Pepper: You Can’t Do That

Conferences I’m Interested In

I’ve found a couple of conferences going on in Vancouver that I’m interested in. Chances are I’ll just go to the GeoWeb one:

GeoWeb 2006 – July 24 – 28 in Vancouver

“…the premier conference for Web-based geographic information systems–the meeting point of consumer location services and professional geographic information technologies: Geography Markup Language (GML), KML, MapPoint, LandXML and OGC Web Services for GIS.”

Information Architecture Summit 2006 – Learning, Doing, and Selling IA

The 2006 Information Architecture (IA) Summit is the premier gathering place for information architects. Everyone who touches on IA is welcome to share and learn. Last year’s IA Summit attracted over 400 attendees, including beginners, experienced IAs, and people in a range of related fields.

This year we’ll roll up our sleeves and tackle three key areas: Learning, Doing, and Selling IA.

Wedding Date Set

Gillian and I have been over in Victoria for many of the past weekends doing wedding planning. We went around to a whole lot of of places, and have now decided on the date and place for our wedding: Saturday August 12, 2006 in Victoria, BC.

The ceremony will be held at Saint Aiden’s United Church, and the reception will be held at the Delta Ocean Pointe Hotel (located on the Inner Harbour).

With this set, now maybe we’ll have some time for Christmas shopping!

Trans Siberian Orchestra

Gillian and I went down to Seattle after work on Monday to take in the Trans Siberian Orchestra. Neither the looming threat of a massive snow-fall, nor the 4+ hours of driving after a day of work would scare us off.

Show Rating: 110%
Show Comment: “It blew our minds”
Show Warning: do not go if you have any epileptic tendencies
Best Part: the playing or Carmina Burana with the full strings, synths, and a heavy guitar

Vonage

I figured that it was about time that I got a new phone number. Talking for any length of time on my cell phone started to fry my brain.

So I decided to try something new. I gave Telus the boot, and went for the Shaw/Vonage connection.

In my previous price calculations, Telus was actually a bit cheaper per month (saving around 8 dollars for both my internet and telephone connection). But being a geek, and really disliking Telus, I thought that it would be worth it.

To make the deal sweeter for people, if you buy one of Vonage’s phone adapters from London Drugs right now, they will give you a mail-in rebate for $35 off the harware cost, and give you 2 months free. So that actually tipped the price calculation over to Vonage without a doubt.

So far the call quality has been really good, but I’ll see how it goes over a number of months.

In conclusion, you can now call me here: 604-628-7710