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To my new glorious nation, to me and to you all. Happy Canada Day!

People can say whatever they want about Bill Gates, but tomorrow he’s not going to work. Well, I’m actually pretty sure he’s going to work but tomorrow will be his first Monday ever as a retired man. Probably no one will be as rich as him when retired anytime soon. Gates has definitely a interesting history (check out the link, really), and although I wouldn’t like to be him, I would like to be able to change the world as him, and I would LOVE to have half as much money as him…
Happy Retirement Bill, you made it, it’s time to enjoy it.

So I was not really planning to buy any new game until Madden 09, but I guess I will have to get this one sometime this week. Seems pretty good and I’m getting tired of being killed on COD4 Multiplayer…

Oh boy oh boy… It looks like if you are an illegal Canadian immigrant living in Phoenix, Arizona, you are ok, as long as you don’t look hispanic… Take a moment to read this article from Reuters.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Frustrated by a steady flow of illegal Mexican immigrants into Arizona, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has decided to take matters into his own hands.

Arpaio dispatches teams of sheriff’s deputies into Hispanic communities where they stop people and arrest anyone who cannot prove he or she is a legal U.S. resident.

Now he faces an onslaught of criticism from Hispanic activists, local lawmakers and the Phoenix mayor, who call his crackdown on immigrants a clear case of racial profiling in which only people who look Hispanic are targeted.

This idea is cool. McDonald’s has a new advertising in the Chicago area with a billboard that actually grows. Fresh Salad! Kinda cool, no?
As an ad yes, ad a healthy salad, not really. According to this other article from Medical News Today McDonald’s salads are not that good for you.

You can also check out the YouTube video:

I started to use this Firefox addon a while ago and I have to say it’s just great. It’s perfect while you are browsing a site with many pictures (as long as Piclens is enable) such as Flickr or Facebook. The only thing is that if your Internet is not really fast you won’t be really surprised about it, nevertheless you should really try it. Check out the video and download it at www.piclens.com. Oh did I say that now they have YouTube support?

Finally Apple lowered the prices of the iPhone and with all the new features it seems like I will be getting one on July 11th, that is if they released it here in Canada. Please Apple let me finally buy my iPhone.

Just brilliant. More here.

Damn, that’s something that could make Baseball more interesting for me. They should call it the 5th inning brawl and had that as something standard on every game.

Rock Band is fun, even when you fail… And with Aaron singing songs from his “favorite” Fall Out Boy it can only get more fun!

If I could vote in the US I would vote for Barack Obama, no doubt. I really hope that all the talk about changing and making US better country happens. Not only a better country for Americans, compared to anywhere else in the world they have it easy over there (YES YOU DO!), but I would also like to see the US to use it’s power to make something better for everyone else.
Save the cheerleader, save the world…

As someone coming from the “Third World” I can assure you that this is sadly true.

Just saw this on the Torontoist, the result of the work was really good and it also look like it was good fun to do it.

They’re Teeth (responsible for this charming bear-woman) and our very own Posterchild (who is something of a fan of video games).

The two collaborated to put up three nearly identical installations along Spadina: one at Spadina and Harbord (pictured above, at top); one at Spadina and Queen (above, bottom); and the one we spotted on Sunday, at Spadina south of Nassau (above, middle). The three ghosts, three cherries, and three Pac-Men were made out of scrap adhesive vinyl, took a grand total of five hours to build and install, and, says Posterchild, were totally Teeth’s idea. Says Posterchild: “When Teeth told me about it, I said ‘That’s brilliant! Let’s do it!’” And they did, and it was good.

It was good indeed.

Sure gas prices are going up, couple months ago I paid something like $1.09 a liter, now it’s more like $1.27, but if you take a look at this article on Wikipedia you might feel a bit better, or not. Canada is still cheaper than Brazil and much cheaper than Germany. On the other hand it’s way way more expensive than Venezuela. With those prices I would travel way more, 5 cents a liter? Sign me up baby!

Finally is getting warmer here and that means great weather for outdoor activities. As a guy, and as a Brazilian probably one of my favorite activities is BARBECUE, there’s nothing like a big salty piece of Brazilian steak.

Ho’s team, they will give you a hair cut and perhaps a little more?

Watched this great game yesterday and believe it or not I guessed it pretty much right. I guessed right when I said the following things:
-Manchester will score first.
-Chelsea will tie before the 1st half ends.
-The game will go to overtime.
-If it’s stays tied in overtime Man United will win in the penalties.
-Cristiano Ronaldo will miss his penalty.
The only thing I didn’t guessed right was John Terry missing his shoot like that, I was sure Van Der Sar could make the save.
Congratulations to Manchester United and all it’s fans. It was a good game, see you guys next year.
And NO, I’m not going to talk about the Copa Libertadores da America here…

After hearing so many people praising how awesome Rock Band was I decided to give it a try. The “give it a try” part was a couple months ago and after craving the game for such a long time I decided to get it last Friday. Couldn’t be happier with the purchase, just hope I can get a couple more songs for it soon.

Sure the TV doesn’t have the best image possible and the audio is also not that great, but the fun you can get from this little fake set of guitar and drums was never spoiled for us. Can’t wait to play more.