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RIP: Jeff Roche

A guy I went to highschool with and use to hang out with for a while just passed away last week in one of the saddest stories I have ever heard. He died an accident that also took his new wife and dog.

http://www.obituariestoday.com/AssociateFH/31647/Home.cfm?Section=Obituaries&&Obituary_ID=43711

Rest in peace Jeff.

Movie Review: Star Trek

JJ, you are a Sci Fi GOD! First you co-create Lost (my obsession), then you manage to pull off the best reboot ever with the new Star Terk film(not to mention the only good Trek Film ever). It was perfect...casting, storyline, sets, effects...and you get special consideration for how you managed to re-launch the franchise without disrespecting the original storyline. It is clear that everyone involved had a deep appreciation for the source material.

You have taken the world of Trek to a new level and I eagerly await a follow up to your sci-fi masterpiece.

5 stars!

P.S. Can you please relaunch X-Men....I am really tired of seeing my favourite comicbook franchise repeatedly raped by people with zero appreciation for the source material.

As I predicted...

There is talk of bailing out Air Canada...again.

Hey, Airline Industry and Governments. Can we please stop this crap? I mean just about every airline ends up being bailed out, bankrupt or nationalized every few years. So can we just stop and maybe alter they system to maybe make this all a little less ridiculous?

How you might ask?

Well lets start with landing fees...Pearson has the highest landing fees in the world...twice that of Hong Kong, and they had to build an island to put theirs on! The reason for this? Loan payments to the government. So here's an idea, since were spending government funds bailing these guys out all the time, why don't we instead forgive this debt on Pearson and view it as a infrastructure expense. This would in turn help to lower ticket costs, leading to increased travel and tourism, which in turn increases load ratios, which makes companies more profitable.

Idea #2: More turbo props for domestic flights. the costs of putting those birds in the air is substantially lower and therefore more profitable.

Idea #3: Unions...stop being jerks. Sure you want to get paid, but your also bleeding your industry dry and costing the tax payers, and yourselves as taxpayers, a fortune. Get realistic with wage, pension and workload levels.

There we go 3 quick ideas which all make sense. The only one that costs anyone anything is the first, but even then its just a shifting of tax dollars and if it helps establish a more viable industry, then it will save us all down the road.

However, lets get realistic. Any plan involving government foresight or union non-dickishness is likely never to see the light of day.

Too bad.

Pacquiao vs Hatton

What a disappointment. Hatton couldn't even last 2 rounds. But as dissapointed as I was, imagine his huge group of fans who traveled all the way from Manchester to watch a total 5 minutes and 59 seconds.

Maybe they will have better luck at the tables in Vegas.

The Economy

Leave it to South Park to make sense of it all.

http://www.xepisodes.com/episodes/1303/Margaritaville.html

Burke calls out Tavares

So Brian Burke has made it clear that he wants John Tavares in Toronto, and he will stop at nothing for it.

So basically now the Islanders, owners of the #1 pick are no doubt figgure out how much to fleece Toronto for as much as possible.

As a Torontonian who would like to see the old storied club actually make a run before we hit the 50th anniversary of the last cup win, I have mixed feelings about Burke's head hunting.

On the positive side the great prok chop hope looks to be the real deal, and given that hockey players tend to have very long careers relative to other sports, and that success in the NHL is also heavily dependent on how well you do in free agent markets, this could be worth trading the entire draft for him.

On the other hand, big trades historically don't work out well for the team going after the big name player. Case in point:

- Worst trade ever: the Hershel Walker trade. The Vikes got Walker, Cowboys got enough draft pics to create their dynasty.

- The Lindross Trade. The Flyers got Lindross and had some success before he imploded. The Nordiques got enough talent to lock up 2 cup wins...sadly it was in Colorado.

In fact the last time someone called out a player like this was Mike Ditka when he traded 8 draft picks to Washington in order to secure Ricky Williams. How did that work out? Ditka fired a few years later. Williams a pot smoking, head case bust. And Washington? To stupid to turn 8 picks into anything. Sometimes both sides of a deal can be a mistake.

How will this work out...we will see. But it would be nice to see the Leafs land someone so promising.

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Finally a Segway that is practical

GM and Seqway unveiled a joing venture: The Puma.

A 2 person motorized rickshack for lack of a better analogy.

So why am I interested:

- $0.35 to fully charge over 3 hours and will travel up to 50k

- top speed, just shy of 60k

- estimated sticker price: $5,000

Given its speed and size, it should have a problem getting approved for travel on city streets, unlike the current segway.

So clever I would even condier getting one.

My life is now complete

First the blackberry ap store launches

Now I cna get bacon in squeezable form