If anyone out there is looking to donate to helping out Haiti, please take a look at HAITI & INTERNATIONAL APPEAL: By The Emergency Response Team (ERT SAR).
This is my brother’s emergency response team, and they’re looking for donations to help fund their trip to Haiti in order to deliver medical aid, search and rescue services, and help set up temporary aid sites, etc. They do on-the-ground work, and often pay out of their own pockets to do so.
If you’d like to check them out, their website is at: http://www.ertsarhq.webs.com/ You can take a look at some videos and images of their past work in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and elsewhere.
So this is actual vacation stuff from my vacation which ended with a stunning five hour delay of our plane causing us to not get home until about 5am.
Whooo!.
This is the five taco plate from South Beach Bar & Grill. They had half-price appetizers during happy hour, so this cost about $5.
We went out for Thai food one night. These are, Thai curry, something called a Pineapple Crater (or something. It was fried rice.) and some glass noodle Pad Thai.
More pics are in my vacation gallery on Facebook.
Here’s some stuff I’ve seen in my journies…
Awesome. They made a Mouse Guard toy set. So cute:
In the videogame section, Futureshop now sells this:
You know, this looked more appetizing when we were actually at Smoke’s Poutinerie… Oh well, it was still delish!
Here’s the view from the 68th floor of BMO’s tower at First Canadian Place:
Today is Election Day in Canada! Get out there and cast a ballot!
…if you’re legal. Which I am. So I did.
Go democracy!
I had a great time. As seen below, I got to try out Champions Online and chat pretty extensively with the lead developer.
I also got to meet perhaps my favourite artist ever, Adam Hughes. He seemed kind of shy, and I unfortunately arrived as he was being interviewed, so I didn’t really get to speak to him. However, his lovely fellow artist and girlfriend Allison Sohn was pretty wonderful, and they both remembered my ridiculous “Baroness in a Nun’s Habit” photoshopping of Adam’s rejected GI Joe cover.
On top of that, I got to see Alex Maleev again, and got a couple more signatures, though sadly I was too late to get a sketchbook, and too poor to get a custom sketch.
There was no sign of Alex Ross, whom I suppose had a private room or something, but I did manage to find Stuart Immonen, who was the artist on my favourite book ever, Superman: Secret Identity. Apparently, he no longer sketches at cons, which is sad, because I’d have loved to have had one, but I did buy a copy of his book “50 Reasons to Stop Sketching at Conventions”, which seemed ironic. He inscribed it, “I’m no fun”, and it makes me laugh.
Worth $25? Yup. I still don’t know how people spend three days at these things, though.
The Eyes of Justice forum is down due to domain expiry. It should come back in a little while once we’ve gone through the usual rigmarole. Fear not!
In other news, I’m suffering from a little carpal tunnel, which is annoying. I’m trying to do exercises to work my way through it.
Also, on the comic review front, I had two very light weeks (I bought maybe two books), and didn’t really feel they needed a review so I skipped it. Horrifying!
Normal service will resume shortly.
This is a pretty cool new feature they’ve just recently added. I’d embed a video to show it off, but it doesn’t work in embeds right now, so you gotta follow a link, like a sucker.
I’m in Calgary right now, doing some work. This is horrible for a few reasons:
1) I can’t play with the Spore creature creator because this laptop is crap.
2) I can’t play Age of Conan, so I’m going to be totally outlevelled.
3) I can’t buy new comics today.
On the plus side, it’s actually quite nice here, and I’m getting sleep without Munchie jumping on my face every morning, and I have been able to do a little work on commissions since I have Photoshop on this computer.
Maybe I’ll upload a work in progress later…
