Archives for category: Cool!

Tracking Part II

5 August 2008 //
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Hav­ing used the Roy­al­Tek RGM-3800 for a week now I am very pleased with tramore.jpg it. The biggest test to date came yes­ter­day when I grabbed a couple new AAA bat­ter­ies for it and made the fix at the apart­ment. I popped it in my suit jacket and headed off on a road trip down coun­try with my friend Mary. The little unit kept a fix all the way south, whether in the car, inside build­ings, in the train and the bat­ter­ies las­ted an even 10 hours (per­fectly timed for me re-entering the apartment.

I wish the unit could sync with OSX rather than hav­ing to use Par­al­lels to use the sup­plied data sync software.

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Categories Cool!, Ireland

My Niece the YouTube Star

29 June 2007 //
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meaghanweb.jpgMy niece Mea­ghan gave the gradu­ation speech this past week. It has been pos­ted to You­Tube in a fine mont­age by Christina. In addi­tion to her speech mak­ing hon­ours she picked up a total of seven awards includ­ing ath­lete of the year. Her uncle is very proud! Con­grat­u­la­tions Meaghan!

Categories Cool!

Rumi Rocks!

22 April 2007 //
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rumi.jpgWhen in Montreal, one must savour the fine eat­ing oppor­tun­it­ies and I am thrilled to report a gem of a spot. Rumi is a Persian/Sufi res­taur­ant loc­ated in Mile’s End at the corner of Hutchison and Fair­mount. It has a charm­ing ter­rasse and abso­lutely stun­ningly yummy food.

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Categories Aesthetics, Cool!, Food, Montréal, Travel

Classical Creativity

17 April 2007 //
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2393_1_hinf4s07_4outdoor_obelisk_fullsize.jpgDown the line of totally cool fur­niture comes this rather unique objet d’something. Its called Obelisk and come from Jane et cie. Its simply cool — a set of four chairs and a table that, when stored forms a rather intriguing obeliskish fea­ture for the well turned out liv­ing room. Read the rest of this entry »

Categories Aesthetics, Cool!, Furniture

Pervasive Visualisation

13 March 2007 //
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googleclock_byambient_v3.gifWe have seen the face of the near future with embed­ded dis­plays in refri­ger­at­ors and RFID tags so you can track a par­cel as it speeds (hope­fully) on its way. One of the com­pan­ies doing some innov­at­ive work in this area is Ambi­ent. I recalled their won­der­ful glow­ing sphere that reacted to the changes in a par­tic­u­lar stock price, or the weather using a wire­less con­nec­tion inter­net con­nec­tion. Cool, but not some­thing that I would imme­di­ately jump at. Read the rest of this entry »

Categories Aesthetics, Cool!, Technology, Visualization

the Mistress of Spices

12 February 2007 //
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mistress_of_spices.jpg Here’s a hot movie tip. If you are look­ing for gra­tu­it­ous viol­ence and action stop read­ing right now. Instead, if you appre­ci­ate bril­liantly com­posed shots, being sub­merged in a rich, envel­op­ing, sen­sual, and splen­didly con­ceived story, the Mis­tress of Spices a per­fect movie, espe­cially for Valentine’s Day. Paul­ette picked out this movie on the week­end and I have to admit to being abso­lutely engrossed for the dur­a­tion.
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Categories Aesthetics, Cool!, Film

Changing Glasses for Changing Tastes

29 December 2006 //
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glasses.gifThanks to Usama for this one. Glasses that have inter­change­able parts so you can choose a col­our to match your mood or your fash­ion. The toulch ONE eye­glass sys­tem has a series of arms and nosepieces in a vari­ety of col­ours and pat­terns. The web­site itself is pleas­ingly enter­tain­ing. They aren’t cheap of course, but they do offer you the oppor­tun­ity to make a little change to suit your taste every couple months rather than repla­cing the entire frame. The ini­tial pur­chase lenses are cus­tom shaped to fit your features.

Categories Aesthetics, Cool!, Culture