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07/20/2008 16:20 #45082

Wemf 2008 was insane
Category: music
It was such an amazing time at a campsite right outside of Algonquin park in Canada. The music was awesome - I have never danced so hard in my life. I think the pinnacle was listening to Andy C of Saturday night. They are going to post recordings from WEMF 2008 at sometime next week. Until then, and before I put up some pictures, he is a video with Andy C's music. Try and imagine this playing on 2 sets of speakers that were 2 stories tall and 2 stories wide. And a while giant row of bass speakers.

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There are notes you just can't hear on this recording, not to mention the ground sharking for about a mile around. And that was only one of four main stages not to mention the 5 other renegade stages. The secondary main stage was similar in size.



We got to swim in a lake near by. The weather was amazing. In fact it was a little to amazing and we had to hide in our tent for a while on Saturday.

I don't know how I am going to feel tomorrow considering I slept for about 4 hours this whole weekend and spent a lot of time stuck in traffic. Might be the recipe for a sick day.

It took us a whiel to get there becaue we hit standstill traffic from Toronto to Barre. I took this picture, just as we were hitting the traffic jam.
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Once we got there it was another hour waiting to have our car searched.

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He is a small section of the tent village. I would say there were at least 5000 people. (e:terry) thought more.
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This was the best cotume I saw. not that many people were outside saturday afternoon. The weather was just too hot and too sunny. I even got a little sunburned.
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Here ares some other videos taken at the event I found on youtube. This was at the 4x4 stage which was where Dr. Trance, OS/2 and anabolic frolic played back to back, just before Stoneface and Terminal which is what this video is of. It was so nostaglic.



Right after that was Mark EG who also played a fantastic set. Sorry they are all dark but I didn't take them. Thanks to wheover did, (e:terry) and I were busy danicng our butts off during this.



UPdate from septmeber 2008 - I found the best recording of the Andy C on youtube recently, here it is:



tinypliny - 07/21/08 22:37
LOL @ (e:drew)'s comment. :D
drew - 07/21/08 08:54
If you look at the sign where it some drum&bassarena too quickly it looks like it might say "dumbass arena."
paul - 07/21/08 08:31
Sadly, it was the last WEMF ever. I went to their first 3-day party called the World Trace Festival back in 1995 and now this last one. Here is the wikipedia page for it :::link:::
dcoffee - 07/20/08 22:54
Wow, that sounds awesome, aside from the traffic jams of course. I'd love to go to something like that, totally jealous.
tinypliny - 07/20/08 21:20
That's Über cool! Lovin' that Andy C tune you posted. \m/
jon - 07/20/08 18:44
sounds like you had a ton of fun! =)

07/18/2008 13:33 #45064

Last post in America
Seriously, coop. $20.99 for almond butter . Is thee some almond
shortagebecause I bought them before and I certainly did not pay that.

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fellyconnelly - 07/19/08 07:43
that must be some damn tasty almond butter!
james - 07/19/08 00:07
:::link::: $13.60

first google result. You suck co-op
tinypliny - 07/18/08 21:07
Strangely ironic that your last post in America is about the one ridiculously over-expensive coop and arbitrary pricing. I think they just get up every morning and pick random stuff to mark up even more beyond the regular mark-up! COME ON! How long can you use the excuse that everything is organic and that you are paying for the building?? At this rate, they should have made enough to buy the damn thing out.
metalpeter - 07/18/08 17:17
four things that factor into that price. When things are labeled healthy they can cost more. Elmwood is more exspensive then say tops or someplace. The co-0p is more expensive, hey they have to pay for the new building, and 4th is that organic makes things more pricey.
james - 07/18/08 16:44
no, you are just shopping in the co-op.
dcoffee - 07/18/08 15:18
Yowza!

07/17/2008 22:58 #45060

Post Gym Yum Yums
Category: food
I am hpoing to find plenty of tasty sea food up north. I imagine the lakes are cleaner ther and the fish is yummy. Today after the gym I settled for mussels to build muscles. I like them but they are also kind of second rate compared to clams. Those suckers are seirous protein, not as much as calamari but close. I am getting closer and closer to deciding that a seafood smoothy would be good. What about cold with some lime juice and salt, or horse radish. Kind of like cerviche.

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Those pickles are Bubbies pickles I know silly name but they are so good and are naturally fermented instead of with vinegar. I get them at the coop but feel right has them too sometimes. Totally worth it, they are so freakin tasty.
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fellyconnelly - 07/19/08 07:45
i don't know as i would have ever put a baked potato, lettuce, cherries and pickle on the same plate but that all looks amazing...
james - 07/18/08 00:26
You have set a high bar for yummy pics on this journal Paul.
paul - 07/18/08 00:11
Oh I had a protein drink, a sucker and fresh plum, bilberry juice and like 20 other cherries. I just thought they were to boring to qualify and yummies and get a pic.
bailey - 07/17/08 23:23
Hmm...I love clams. Never had a muscle, though. I just recently has my first steamed clam. At first, its texture sort of through me off, but after a few chews, I was all for them. Hope you have a safe trip!
james - 07/17/08 23:16
Pardon me for being a smart ass. But you should bring a piece of fruit and some protein powder to the gym. A big part of recovery is restoring glycogen levels. The best way to do that is to have a sugary piece of fruit. Liquid protein also helps heal the microtrauma in the muscles, which means healed/bigger muscles faster. It is most effective to have both within 20 minutes of ending your workout.

Keep at muscly.

07/17/2008 20:02 #45056

Taking it off the grid - trip to wemf
Category: vacation
I am leaving on a trip way up to the great north tomorrow to go to WEMF . (e:jon) convinced me to buy the tickets. Thank you (e:jon). I will be dancing in the sunny outdoors to all the favorite DJs from my childhood, while :jim sits through a typography conference ;)

I haven't been so far up in Canada. I am taking (e:terry) with me which will leave (e:matthew) to defend the fort. I think this is the first time we have ever been apart since we met. By the time we come back I expect the furniture and garden willl have been arranged so many times it will look the same, lol. I am going to miss him so much. I will also miss squiddy.

But even crazier is that I will be off the interweb for three days. This has not happend since 2003. My iphone will not work in canada, or should I say it will work in canada but cost me approximately $10,000 to run it with roger's damn roaming fees. I considered bringing the windows mobile and trying to buy a pre-paid canadian SIM but where do you get one?
boxerboi - 07/17/08 21:18
i don't understand why the iphone wasn't sold in canada (maybe it still isn't) and why reception has to cost a fortune even though you're on the same continent. My blackberry doesn't work up there for voice either, but i can get data just fine. sounds like it will be a good time.
tinypliny - 07/17/08 20:23
Ooohh, have fun! Take plenty of pictures and put them up later! You could then be on the interweb in a sort of retroactive way (pun entirely intended).

07/16/2008 23:24 #45048

Fighting over pills
Category: chrohns
I was on Asacol for Chron's and moved on Lialda which in fact changed my life. It is once a day, it seem sto absorb way better and it means I don't have to carry around pills all day an d remember to keep taking them. I am also 100% better since the swicth having liek 5-6 good days a week instead of 2-3.

Anyways, so I was surfing around for info about Lialda and found this forum
where pharmaceutical sales people ar arguing about Asacol vs Liadla. It is so freakin hilalrious the way they rip at each other. I never realized that those kind of arguments also went online.

Sales reps are strange individuals.


hey douche. symptomatic relief does not equal symptomatic remission. it took 43 days to get patients into symp remission. it's in black and white and it's in the study that you keep in your bag. look at it. ever ask yourself why the number of days to symp remssion isn't even reported in the Kamm study?



Nice post, douche. If symptomatic remission data is so important why are you assholes telling your docs that Asacol provided symptomatic relief in as little as 9 days? Because if you showed your docs the symptomatic remission data, they'd laugh at you and prescribe placebo. Keep sniffing the P&G glue, how many years do you have left until you can retire with that promised package?




mike - 07/18/08 09:42
you people should seriously read the whole thing, it is ridiculously hilarious!
tinypliny - 07/17/08 18:41
"Keep sniffing the P&G glue"

HAHAHA.. This is hysterical!