2007

  • The Trails of Champlain Heights

    The Trails of Champlain Heights

    Walking Guide

    Today in the mail I received another advertisement from another Real Estate agent that is trying to promote themselves by creating a community web page for the Champlain Heights/Eastwood Area at www.champlain-eastwood.com.

    Now that website got me thinking that the two neighbourhoods are only separated by a small wood with a set of trails, some better than others so I went to Google Earth and grabbed a satellite shot of the area. Luckily, I’m in a part of Saint John that actually has better resolution than most of the central area of Saint John. Then in Photoshop I added all the trails in green, yellow, orange, and red based on their pass-ability.

  • Red is the New Me!

    Okay so I really don’t have a whole lot to say today, but I wanted to show off globally my new “red” look.

  • I need a new phone!

    Okay so my phone is dying, a very slow death and it is time in my budget to finally get a new one. I’ve been looking for one for that last year it is now been 3 months since my current contract expired. And my battery life is now well under 24 hours. 🙁

    Anyways I think I found one that actually does what I need in a phone, e-mail, excel, browse the web, and make phone calls. This one I like because it is easier to type on. The Blackberry Pearl Red.

    Also with one of these I could even post to this blog easier than I could with my current phone the Nokia 6620. And I have not been able to find a new battery. The only thing is that I will have to probably wait until September.

    The only thing that is not good is that it looks like my very first Cell Phone from back in 2003 the Motorola c333, with the red and silver Roots Face-plate that I had to return in under a week, for an even worse phone the Motorola v66.

    I guess that is it for now, seeing that I need to go to work tonight.

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  • The Dominion Institute National Citizenship Exam Survey

    The Dominion Institute National Citizenship Exam Survey Of 2007

    -Six In Ten (60%) Canadians Fail Mock Citizenship Exam Similar To One Immigrants Take To Become Canadian Citizens

    -33% More Canadians Fail Test Now Than 10 Years Ago

    Okay this survey I find really hard to believe. Do to the one of the statements.

    “Fewer than two in ten (16%) could name the four provinces that joined together in Confederation in 1867. ”

    This question is worded wrong and really annoys me everytime I hear it. It should read.

    “Fewer than two in ten (16%) could name the four provinces that were created by Confederation in 1867. ”

    Because of the plain and simple fact that there were four provinces (NB, NS, PEI, and Canada) at the meetings in Charlottetown, Quebec City and London conferences buy one PEI declined to join until 1874. Therefore only three provinces joined together in Confederation in 1867 (NB, NS, and Canada) and in the Constitution Act of 1867 the first sentence is “Whereas the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have expressed their Desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom:” clearly defines the fact that there were only three provinces to join confederation at that time.

    It is Sections 5, 6, and 7 that divide up the three provinces into four provinces upon joining confederation.

    5. Canada shall be divided into Four Provinces, named Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.

    6. The Parts of the Province of Canada (as it exists at the passing of this Act) which formerly constituted respectively the Provinces of Upper Canada and Lower Canada shall be deemed to be severed, and shall form two separate Provinces. The Part which formerly constituted the Province of Upper Canada shall constitute the Province of Ontario; and the Part which formerly constituted the Province of Lower Canada shall constitute the Province of Quebec.

    7. The Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick shall have the same Limits as at the passing of this Act.

    People just need to be getting their details strait before making these bogus claims. I wonder how many of the 84% that got that question wrong knew the truth that there was only three.

    And for the people that say that Canada East and Canada West were 2 different colonies then I must refer you to the 1840 Act of Union.

    From Wikipedia:

    “The Act of Union (3 & 4 Vict. c. 35) passed in July 1840 and proclaimed February 10, 1841, abolished the legislatures of Lower Canada and Upper Canada and established a new political entity, the Province of Canada to replace them. This act effecting the political union of The Canadas was similar in nature and in goals to the other Acts of Union enacted by the British Parliament.”

  • The pics are up, the question of Life, and other stuff.

    Okay, to start off with I have posted the pics that were taken during my Toronto trip on my camera phone in my gallery https://cefm.ca/category/snapshots/ if you are reading this via RSS or Facebook) I still have some more that were taken with my Digital Camera.

    Remember the Answer to The Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything is 42.

    Crushed Beautifully 2 has now been storyboarded and my other video project, working title is “Remember…” has been rewitten and just needs some more casting. And than filming. I am hoping to get it submitted to a film festival by this fall.

    As for movies I have seen recently I have to make a three really good recomentations, in order of greatness is Oceans 13 (CEFM Rating: 4.5/5), Knocked Up (CEFM Rating: 5/5), and Pirates of the Carribean 3 (CEFM Rating: 5/5).

    I cannot wait until the Simpsons movie (CEFM Rating: 5/5) comes out and Licence to Wed (CEFM Rating: 3.5/5) with Robin Williams.

  • Toronto, Cabaret, and 25 other warm fuzzys.

    While it has been such a long time since an update so this one might be a little longer than normal. And the full blame of this goes to www.facebook.com and www.youtube.com I have spent most of my Internet time on those two sites. Some of you might be even reading this from the notes section on Facebook.

    Okay so let us start with Toronto, I took lots of pictures that I will add to my gallery soon, and some very interesting ones at that. The greatest story was the one where I was sitting in the Glenn Gould Studio in the CBC Broadcast Centre as the marble tile fell off of the 60th story of First Canadian Place it shook the ground and nobody really noticed that is Toronto for you. And I went to see the show at Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament  www.medievaltimes.comit was defiantly one of the coolest things I have ever seen in my life something that I would for sure go see again, and the food was amazing. I’m not sure what the soup was but my mouth is watering just thinking of it.

    I also took a trip up the CN Tower again it was kinda boring I was not the same as my first time the highlight though was watching from the Sky-Pod a truck trying to make an imposable backup turn 142 stories below. But later that day I saw lightning hit it and it was cool wish I could of had a picture of that.

    Oh, and I stayed at the Days Hotel on Carlton again, I was really lucky since I had reservations in another hotel and they were sold out. I was very fortunate to be on the very first WestJet flight out of Saint John, even though I had to suffer the ear piercing horrors of a Bag-Pipe farewell WestJet is soooooo much better experience than I have has in the past with either VIA Rail or Air Canada.

    Cabaret

    This is one of the most culturally uplifting shows I have ever seen. The performers were amazing beyond belief. This was definitely the type of show that you could go back and see many many times. There are not many words that can describe the greatness and hard work put forward by the performances of all the actors, and musicians.

    25 other warm fuzzies

    25- May 9th was my 25th birthday, and by tradition, I spend most of it including dinner alone.
    24-My next movie is in the filming stage right now, some of it was even shot in Toronto.
    23-I’m still addicted to FaceBook.com
    22-Hi to the Goonz @ hiredgoonz.ca
    21-I went to Elwoods a few weeks ago and it was good.
    20-I went to O’Leary’s after Elwoods and at was still good.
    19-Gulping half a bottle of Jagermeister before Elwoods and having it come back up and re-swallowing it was “not” a good thing.
    18-Hitting the town with Tony was a good time.
    17-I need to meet-up soon with Tony to revise my script for another project.
    16-Walking against the crowd at Union Station at rush hour was not a good thing.
    15-Sunset at Nathan Phillips Square was breathtaking.
    14-Curry Chicken from the Bay will burn off all your taste-buds.
    13-Daytime is one of the Best TV Shows Ever.
    12-I’m tired so I guess you can use the comments to give me the rest of the fuzzies.
    11-I will write more I swear.

  • Toronto 2007
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    Toronto 2007

    • SJ Welcomes WestJet
      SJ Welcomes WestJet
    • SJ Welcomes WestJet
      SJ Welcomes WestJet
    • Barbara Frum Auditorium
      Barbara Frum Auditorium
    • CHUM TV Museum Display
      CHUM TV Museum Display
    • CHUM TV Museum Display
      CHUM TV Museum Display
    • CHUMCity Building
      CHUMCity Building
    • CN Tower from Nathan Phillips Square
      CN Tower from Nathan Phillips Square
    • First Canadian Place
      First Canadian Place
    • Nathan Phillips Square
      Nathan Phillips Square
    • Nathan Phillips Square
      Nathan Phillips Square
    • Nathan Phillips Square
      Nathan Phillips Square
    • Sir Winston Churchill
      Sir Winston Churchill
    • Toronto City Hall
      Toronto City Hall
    • SJ Welcomes WestJet
      SJ Welcomes WestJet
    • Tommy Hunter Book
      Tommy Hunter Book
    • A View of Downtown Toronto
      A View of Downtown Toronto
  • My 2007 25th Birthday

    My 2007 25th Birthday

  • Crushed Beautifully 2

    I’m planning on making a Part 2 of my video “Crushed Beautifully” everybody, send me close-up or macro photos of something crushed in an artistic setting. Everyone will get credited if they want. 

  • Happy St. Patty’s Day!!!

    Greetings to everyone that is reading this.

    Well the several weeks have been very busy. Haven’t had much time to put a post here. But now here it is. I am currently working on a script for a short film that I wan’t to produce this spring. It will be very cool and about 10 minutes long.

    So over the past two weeks I have seen many new movies in the theatres, The Last King of Scotland, The Astronaut Farmer, Happy Feet, Stomp the Yard, 300, and most recently I seen Wild Hogs. All of these were very good movies.

    Anyways I hope you all had a chance to see my daytime graphics for St. Paddy’s Week, They were killer.

    Anyways that is all for now to all my friends currently reading this on Facebook, Yahoo 360, Windows Live Spaces, RSS, or here on my one website CEFM.ca. (The MySpace is now dead because they make it too hard to blog there.)

  • Goals… and the Future.

    Okay, so if you know me I really hate people telling that I can’t do something. As an example someone told me that it was too complicated to make a moving background for a TV show, and I did. Someone told me that programming an RTX program required lots of coding that I could not do, I bought a book on VB and within two weeks had a functioning TV Bingo program that basically changed all the dates, and played the animations and that was it. Now my pride in joy pinnacle of accomplishment, the Too Close to Call graphics, is very close to being complete. It pretty much does pretty much everything but a few very advanced features that I am still working on.

    While that being said, this week I was told that the fact I am not bilingual was affecting my ability to get a better job. So there for I have now decided that by May 12th, 2008 I will study hard and become bilingual, and that by this summer I will get my Drivers license. So to these ends I have decided to make a webpage called “My Goals” to track my progress.

  • Facebook vs. MySpace

    So for the last few weeks I have used Facebook a lot. It is really easier than MySpace, and does more. Like these posts for an example. As I write these I am using by blogging software on my website called WordPress. And it makes XML files for an RSS reader. Now Yahoo360, Windows Live Spaces, and Facebook will get my blog directly from this site, but not MySpace for MySpace I have to copy and paste it. The best thing about MySpace is the videos because I can post those on here but I can’t do a YouTube Video easily.

    Also I have found a lot of long-lost acquaintances on Facebook which is really cool. I guess that is it.

  • It’s Superbowl Sunday!!!

    And I don’t really plan on watching it. Even though I made a prediction of the Colts 25-20, on 2C2C:Too Close To Call this evening.

    So I just finished a first draft of a screenplay that I plan on Producing this Spring. It is a short that will be about 10 minutes in length.

    So what have I been upto in the past few weeks… Well you could say work but I work so few hours that it seems more like a casual activity that a real job. Although it is getting kind of boring but the question at this point is that if I left what would I do?

    I’ve kinda had bad luck with a few of my last several jobs. But anyways what’s next…

    I’ve done 5 TV shows over the past few days. Some were very interesting.

    Well, I guess I’m not going to get to finish this, Tony called and we are off to see “The Messengers”.

    That’s all for now.

  • Acadamy Awards picks and comments

    Ok, so let’s begin the post I have promissed a few days ago about my what my Oscar Pics whould have been. Here are my choises and comments.

    Best Actress-

    Performance by an actor in a leading role
        Will Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness” (Sony Pictures Releasing)

    Will Smith really diserves this award. I have never been the largest Will Smith fan but his acting in this movie just about made me cry.

    Performance by an actor in a supporting role

    I really don’t know about this catigory who should get this award. There is really not an outstanding name to look for here in this catagory. Neither nominated or not.

    Performance by an actress in a leading role
      Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada” (20th Century Fox)
      Kate Winslet in “Little Children” (New Line)

    These 2 names are my hopfulls, but I was really hoping to see maybe Kirsten Dunst here for here roll in “Marie Antionette”

    Performance by an actress in a supporting role
      Abigail Breslin in “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight) 

    Best animated feature film of the year
      “Happy Feet” (Warner Bros.) George Miller

    If any movie diserved this more it was Happy Feet. I have never seen more non-moviegoing people go and see a Cartoon movie than I have for this movie. Even though I missed this one.

    Achievement in art direction
      “The Prestige” (Buena Vista)
    Art Direction: Nathan Crowley
    Set Decoration: Julie Ochipinti

    Achievement in cinematography
      “Children of Men” (Universal) Emmanuel Lubezki 

    Achievement in costume design
      “The Devil Wears Prada” (20th Century Fox) Patricia Field
      “Marie Antoinette” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Milena Canonero

    Both are very deserving of this award.

    Achievement in directing
      “Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.) Clint Eastwood
      “United 93” (Universal and StudioCanal) Paul Greengrass

    Best documentary feature
      “My Country, My Country” (Zeitgeist Films)
    A Praxis Films Production
    Laura Poitras and Jocelyn Glatzer

    Best documentary short subject
      “Rehearsing a Dream”
    A Simon & Goodman Picture Company Production
    Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon

    Achievement in film editing

    None of the nominiess seem to belong here, I really think that this award might have been better chosen 

    Best foreign language film of the year
      “Water” A Hamilton-Mehta Production

    Achievement in makeup
      “Apocalypto” (Buena Vista) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano

    Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
      “The Good German” (Warner Bros.) Thomas Newman

    Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
      “Our Town” from “Cars”

    Best motion picture of the year
     My choises would have been:
    The Devel wears Prada
    Night at the Musem
    Prusuit of Happyness
    Marie Antionette

    Best animated short film
      “The Danish Poet” (National Film Board of Canada)

    Best live action short film
      “West Bank Story”

    Achievement in sound editing/Achievement in sound mixing
      “Apocalypto” (Buena Vista)
    Sean McCormack and Kami Asgar
    Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Fernando Camara

    Seriously this movie had to have the best sound track ever. The sound in this movie tells the story better than the acting.

    Achievement in visual effects
      “Superman Returns” (Warner Bros.)
    Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover and Jon Thum

    Really dissapointed that “Night at the Museum” was snubbed. The reason I liked this one for visuall effects was that they looked real. Most visuall effescts are just too computer faked lately it is sickining. 

    Adapted screenplay
      “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight)
    Screenplay by Patrick Marber

    Seriously Borat cannot win this one. That movie is a mockery of Screen play writing.

    Original screenplay
      “Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.)
    Screenplay by Iris Yamashita
    Story by Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis

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