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Author: Stephane Daury

  • Primal Staring Contest

    Gros-bout’ the cat meets Frimousse the hamster.

    My son Teagan brought Frimousse, the class’ hamster, home for the weekend. With two cats in the house, it’s always an epic battle to make sure everybody stays safe. 😉

  • Superior Tweetererer…*deep breath*…rererererers!

    To be read from bottom to top.

    Courtesy of Anthony and Pier-Luc. Good times. Good. Times.

  • Cider and Command Line, BFF

    Cider and laptop at Montreal's tech watering hole, Laïka

    Remember, moderation tastes better. 😉

  • Brakeless in Montreal

    Some like "Sleepless in Seattle", I prefer "Brakeless in Montreal".

    Specs:

    I’ve been riding this puppy since October 2009 and so far, the only things I’ve had to change were the grips and chain (too many ledge grinds…). I am missing two spokes from the rear wheel, but that’s not the end of the world.

    All in all, I love my ride!

  • Super Harvest Moon

    Super Harvest Moon, from my deck, September 22nd 2010

    See also: “Watch out for the Super Harvest Moon” on NASA.gov.

  • City of Satellites

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    City of Satellites, by Hidden Shoal Recordings, via Will Reichelt‘s blog.

  • Calling all WordPress.com Skateboard and BMX Bloggers

    If you happen to be or know a skateboarding or BMX blogger specifically on http://wordpress.com/, send me blog URLs in the comments below. Goodness to come!

  • Iomega Prestige Compact 500GB Portable Hard Drive

    I’ve just acquired a 500GB Iomega Prestige Compact external HD to backup and have extra space for my 15″ MacBook Pro.

    My internal drive being 320GB (~135GB used), I partitioned the drive in two: 340GB for incremental backups using Apple’s Time Machine software and the remainder (~160GB) for extra/portable space when I need it.

    I quite like the stylish black brushed metal enclosure design. For lovers of the Mac Pro design, it also has the tell-tale cheese-grater effect in the front. 🙂

    The drive only requires USB to be powered, and as shown in the picture above, its cable sports two USB connectors. Plugging both at once gives you twice the power, and therefore allows for maximum USB2 transfer speed of 480Mb/second. Plugging in only one will save on power, especially useful when the laptop runs on on battery power, but will reduce the transfer speed to around half its maximum. This, to me, is perfectly acceptable and is a great feature. Having no extra power adapter to carry around is a big win.

    Inside is a 2.5″ Samsung HM500JI SATA drive. Time will tell if this is a good thing or not, but so far, the drive is both very quiet and fast (read/write). It also is not showing signs of overheating, despite having just written 135GB to it at high-speed (1,655,488 items). This is also very important in a fan-less enclosure design (quieter).

    So far so good, very happy with my purchase. At CDN $79 with free shipping, I couldn’t really go wrong or afford to not have full backups of my cherished laptop.

  • BMX ♥ WordPress

    It’s not that much of a stretch when you know WordPress is estimated to be powering around 8.5% of the Web, but there seems to be a definite penchant for it in the BMX industry.

    Here are 20 of my favorite ones to follow, in alphabetical order. Click on the image to visit the related site.

    Defgrip
    Deluxe BMX
    Demolition Parts
    Digital BMX
    Fast Forward BMX
    Federal Bikes
    G-Sport BMX
    Jared Souney Photography
    Kink BMX
    MacNeil BMX
    Mutiny Bikes
    Nice Brand
    Odyssey BMX
    Olivejuuuuice, aka Nuno Oliveira
    Quis, aka Chris Hill-Scott
    Sunday Bikes
    The Least Most
    The Come Up
    Transworld Ride BMX
    Woozy BMX

  • When you See a Great Teacher, You are Seeing a Work of Art

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    Waiting for “Superman” trailer.