Category: General

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The Trails of Champlain Heights

The Trails of Champlain Heights

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.

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…

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,…

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.

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.…

All about Melanie

You would think that it calling Rogers and talking to the voice automation is bad. Then you have never had the pleasure of meeting, Melanie, the inbred country cousin that guards the pay-as-you-go phone line. This computer does not even recognize the common commands that you can use with other auto-gatekeepers. And what is worse is that every Rogers call centre rat is trained to sick Melanie on you. Why can Rogers use the same system as every other service for Pay-as-you-go. At least that person has half a brain to understand what you want, and not listing everything.

And the fat lady has sung.

Wow, what a nail-bitter of an election. After 7 long years of prosperity it is now time for Lord to ride off in the beautiful sunset. New Brunswick is in such good shape now that Graham should have an easy term ahead. Some of the results were shocking but in the end a Camille Theriault said in 1999. The people of New Brunswick are always right and they have decided it was time to change. But is it really, is our system really right or is it time that it becomes fixed. When CTV News Atlantic signed off the popular vote (votes of everyone combined) came in the it did not match the real seat count results. 29 Lib / 26 PC / 0 NDP / 0 Ind. Which in percent that works out to 52.7% Lib / 47.3% PC / 0% NDP / 0% Ind. But the popular vote was. 47.7% PC / 47.0% Lib / 5.1% NDP / 0.2% Ind. That in seats would be 26 PC / 26 Lib / 3 NDP. So the question to ask is this. Is this fair that close to 10% of votes in NB do not matter.

Another Letter

Another Letter

Within 20 hours of an interview, this letter came in. Like come on if you end the meeting with “I’m going to hand this off to the Seasonal recruiters. As I explained we schedule our shifts two weeks in advance. So you should hear from us in about a week and a half.” Then like wait a week or so before sending out the letter. Even the approach IBM takes is better. “Thank you for coming in, but I don’t really think you will fit in this department why don’t I hand off you application to the other department.” But any recruiter that is this spineless to say a week or so and then run to stuff an envelope in the mail as soon as you leave gees…