027 - A woman missed her shark fin soup in Hong Kong 我要食魚翅呀

A woman missed her shark fin soup in Hong Kong 我要食魚翅呀

ok i can't resist.
From a cbc radio broadcast (dnto), I learned of the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbVw7entkxg of the chinese woman who missed her flight on youtube. Here is a parody on youtube already: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYVfBpMUe4E

I clicked on a related link. And this is even funnier than the airport video. It is funnier because the adjacent customer is laughing, and then at the end of the clip she realizes this tantrum is being recorded.

This lady is having a tantrum because the restaurant ran out of soup!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im7W1AnDmgA ,




(i'm reading the comments on youtube; this sharkfin soup video could have been staged.)

026 - Inouk winter boots

here is my bit on INOUK brand of winter boots


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- I purchased these Inouk brand of winter boots in the early 1980's. I can't remember what store they were from, but I believe they are made in Canada! (Most shoes and clothes nowadays are made in China.) The retailer was either one of these: Woolco, Eatons, Sears, SAAN, MacLeods, Zellers, Kinney, Gallenkamp. I don't believe they were from Army & Navy's department store. My memory fails me.

Check out the neat logo that will be left in the snow by the sole of the boot:


These shoes were put into storage until Autumn of 2008. They were in pretty good shape (Canadian-made quality of course!) but I started wearing them again in a warehouse environment and they are scuffed up now.


The photos are here in Photobucket.com:
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http://s556.photobucket.com/albums/ss4/jcpma/inouk-boots/
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The only website that I found another pair of Inouk boots are here:
http://daggerdebs.blogspot.com/search?q=inouk

(Search engines also point to ebay.com, but the items' auction has already expired or the shoes have already been sold).

025 - gasoline update 2009-05-28

gasoline update 2009-05-28

↓ 2 cents|on 2009-05-28 the gas price at "Co-op" and "Safeway" gas station was posted at
$ 0.969/Litre. This was a 2 cent decrease from May 20th's price of $0.989/Litre.

The last price change was a 7 cent increase 8 days ago (May 20th).

024 - gasoline update 2009-05-20

gasoline update 2009-05-20

Two days after Victoria Day (Monday 2009-05-18) the price of gasoline went up at the pumps. (The last price changes happened on May 07th and May 15th.)

↑ 7 cents| On 2009-05-15 I noticed the gas price at "Safe-way" and "Co-op" was increased 7 cents from
$ 0.919/Litre to $ 0.989/Litre!

023 - gasoline update 2009-05-15

gasoline update 2009-05-15 strange

Something strange happened today. The gasoline price went up and then back down. This morning, Friday, the radio announced gasoline prices were starting to increase in time for the Victoria Day long weekend. Sure enough, the price at Safeway and Co-op went up 4 cents (since the last increase 8 days ago on May 07th).

↑ 4 cents| On 2009-05-15 I noticed the gas price at "Safe-way" and "Co-op" was increased 4 cents from
$ 0.919/Litre to $ 0.959/Litre!

However, later on that same day, in the evening, the gas price went back down.

↓ 4 cents|on 2009-05-15 the gas price at "Co-op" and "Safeway" gas station was posted at
$ 0.919/Litre. This was a 2 cent decrease from this morning's price of $0.959/Litre.

This is strange.

022 - vcd rot

vcd rot & Bruce Lee the Game of Death

I have a movie which I purchased on VCD format maybe 5 years ago? The complete movie is spanned over 2 cds. This is typical for a VCD movie.
Yesterday, I went to watch it but neither disc would play past 5 minutes. There were no scratches nor markings on the surface, but I could see abnormal/irregular concentric rings.
Perhaps this is a type of media disc rot.
Now I have to look for another copy. (note; my VHS copy is still good! and it is much older).

on a similar note
last month on you tube i looked at this fight sequence with Kareem Abdul Jabbar fighting bruceLee. :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGcQ0cGOG0U

ok. awesome;

last week i dig up my vcd of the movie. It wouldn't play. It has been victim if disc rot! (both discs).
so, next i dig up my archive vhs copy of the Game.of.death & it plays like a charm.

The producers edited the Kareem A-J fight totally different than the youtube link above. They spoiled it. The other thing they did wrong was putting at the end, the fight level was with Stieger (the guy with the walking stick). This should have been the proper sequence:

A. Steiger
B. Judo Guy
C. Dan Inosanto
D. Kareem

if you look around on Youtube you can find much lost/unused footage for the game of death. I just found some more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNvdSbMW_F8 ;this is the fight with Inosanto. look at the 2 extra fighters. There must also have been a change in the plot from the released version of the movie.

021 - gasoline update 2009-05-07

gasoline update 2009-05-07

↑ 7 cents| On 2009-05-07 I noticed the gas price at "Safe-way" was increased 7 cents from
$ 0.849/Litre to $ 0.919/Litre!