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Laura picked up some Coke Blak today. According to Coke, Blak is “Cola Coffee Fusion Beverage.”

After a quick whiff and a tentative sip, I have to say that Blak is pretty good. I taste a lot of caramel and a bit of espresso.

Laura offers a thumbs-up ranking.

SlashFood offers a review as well.

Figure out the damage here.

I picked up a few new books:

The Problem with Physics, by Lee Smolin Apparently, there is something wrong with string theory. Since I’ve read a bunch of string theory books, I’d like to know if I should just forget all that stuff. :)

The Laws of Simplicity, by John Maeda Read about John Maeda here. This book is about simplicity. Duh.

Creative Code, by John Maeda This is more of a playground for good looking computer stuff.

The Effective Executive, by Peter Drucker I’m accusing myself of not being as productive as I could be.

Random sexy guitar link: Sweet hooba jooba this is a beautiful guitar. And it’s a thinline.

It’s been 3 months since I picked up my Vertex 30 and I thought that I’d talk about the pros and cons.

Pros: The hydraulic disc brakes are stunning. In both the dry and the wet they stop me on a dime. The Shimano kit group which is a combo of XT and Deore, shifts smoothly with just one issue. Sometimes under heavy load dropping from the big ring to the granny gear, the chain will drop. This is bit scary sometimes, but managable with smarter shifting. The frame is nice and light and soaks up some of the little bumps the nasty roads offer.

Cons: The bouncy Gran Fondo 2 fork. This may be a short coming with me. I had the pressure set to high, so I wasn’t using about 1.5 inches of travel. Also, the chain dropping issue I outlined above.

Overall, it’s hotness.

And since I have a hard time not buying stuff, I picked up some new gloves.

I’ve listened to this hot cover about 10 times today.

Craig Stephen took a bunch of action shots from our tournament last weekend.

Who’s that ugly dude?

Teammate shots:
Jamie

Chris 1

Chris 2

Jen

Ali ( in Red )

Team huddle

Andrew, Ali and Shu

This endeavour may not be for me, but Dana Hanna thinks it’s for him.

Follow his experiment at An App a Day.

Bonsai? I got nothing.

Laura and I attended the Osheaga Festival this past Sunday.

We saw:
Islands: They were surprisingly good. Lots of catchy songs. A cool dynamic between the violins, bass clarinet and multiple singers.

Tokyo Police Club: Young, loud, fast music. High energy, keyboard player can’t sing.

Ben Lee: We only caught a few songs. Forgettable.

Wolf Parade: These guys are the reason we went to this festival ( and Kid Koala ). Stunning. Amazing. Way too short of a set. They had technical issues so they didn’t play a full set. It was a shame.

Kid Koala: Great as always. Played a bit from his upcoming album, “Your Mom’s favourite DJ.” They set up a camera and big screen and showed his hands during the performance. Half of the time I didn’t know what was going on.

Bedouin Soundclash: Meh for me.

Damian Marley: Meh for me.

Kid Koala ( again ): Hotness again.

The Flaming Lips: These guys are nuts. 10 santas and 10 elves on the stage the entire time, big ass orange balloons, confetti, flames, huge screen filled with crazy images. Their performance was great, the music was meh. Lead singer really likes to swear. A lot.

Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals: The Innocent Criminals have gained a keyboardist and a guitarist since the last time I saw them. Great performance.

Hotel Godin We stayed at the Hotel Godin and felt like the cool kids. It was a very posh place, with great design and modern furniture. It reminded me of The Drake Hotel. I would recommend staying there.

I have to install C# Express to use the XNA IDE? But I have Visual Studio C# Standard Edition.

Boo-urns on your lame requirements. You say they can co-exist, but I don’t want them to co-exist if I paid for an IDE that is better.