You know a stag is good when the groom-to-be looks like this at 5 in the afternoon:

(artist's depiction)

... this is what I'd look like...

Yes, yes, it's not exactly an Asian dude, but there's no Asian people in whitey Colorado anyways...

Have some fun creating your own South Park character...

Stag-o-rama!  Stag-a-licious!  Stag-in-a-bag!  Stag-asaurus!
Stag-amama!  Stag-ster!  Stag-eriffic!  Stag-meister!

One stag party, coming up!!

The Day After Tomorrow opens up in theatres tomorrow, but I'm busy so I'll go watch it "the day after tomorrow".... 

hahahahahhahahahahah

I spent a week in Maui back in early March, and I took a ton of pictures there.  It's been two long months, but the pictures have finally been posted.  Enjoy!

ps. don't forget to use the slick new slideshow feature...

I just had to make this announcement: I've got slideshows for my photos now!!!

In any of my photo albums, there's a new icon near the top of the page:


Click it, sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

Jeff was working on a project in Chicago, so I decided to drop in for a cold and rainy last weekend of April. Cold as heck there, but there are lots of great buildings to photograph.

If Tim Duncan played in Toronto, he'd be known as TD Bank because of his patented bank shots, and Chuck Swirsky would constantly be screaming "TD bank is open!!!" and "Canada Trusts TD Bank!!!" after each win that Duncan would lead the Raptors to...

"TD to the Bank!"

Drug dealers call their clients "users".... so do developers....   Hmmmmmm......

Kevin saw my post and made a nice sign. 

Can't decide between Leafs/Flyers game 6 and Scrubs?
You could record Scrubs on your VCR and watch it after the game.

Or you could go with Kevin's Solution.

Do you hear that?  That's the sound of NO MORE DAMN HONKING FROM LEAF NATION FANS in the middle of the night....

So I get on the subway yesterday, and there's a pair of police officers on the train, just riding the rails to Union Station.

Subway duty??  This has got to be the lowest rung on the Police Career Ladder...

Bad boys, bad boys,
Whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come <onthesubway> for you...

I went through St. Andrews subway stop today, and Monster was running a promotion by giving away post it notes with their logo on it.  Commuters were mobbing for them like they were Krispy Kremes and the whole scene got me thinking about how ingenious Monster's plan is:

You love your job.  You have no intentions of getting a new job, and specifically you have no intention of using Monster's services.  Monster wants you to use their services.  So Monster gives you a pad of sticky notes.   Next day, your manager walks by your desk and discovers the Monster.com sticky notes, and assumes you are looking for a job.  They'll fire you or they'll start treating you poorly and you'll quit your job.  Either way, you end up using Monster's services in the end.  Monster wins.

Bloody brilliant.

Stretch??  Who needs to stretch?  Just show up and start playing basketball!

That's my theory when it comes to pre-basketball activities.  Don't get me wrong, warming up is important - just not stretching.

The Toronto Star has just published an article about this very thing.  One important thing jumped out at me:

Stretching does little to prevent injury during exercise when done outside a warm-up. In some cases, the increased flexibility that stretching promotes may actually impede performance.

So my "no stretch, just play" warm up regimen now has scientific backing.