Video

Here is a little Video of William around in his room
nothing amazing happening but its fun anyways

William Adam

Well its been a while since ive blogged.. alot has happened. my Son William was Born on Feb 15. Here is a photo.

Baby and Mom are doing really well. and everthing seems grand.. its been just over 3 weeks now since he was born. and its really great. hes a beautiful boy. and people keep saying he looks like me.. sometimes i agree. but sometimes im not sure.

what do you think?

Work has been really busy. with some new projects with some large clients. its keeping everyone on there toes. with crazy short deadlines.. Jens not liking it.. and neither am I .. atleast when im working 18hrs a day!

Adobe Creative Suite 3 CS3 is suppose to come out the end of March. which should be great. as my Mac at work is a Mac Pro and it will run much better with CS3 then it does with CS2.. cant wait..

Hmm.. this is annoying!

well its Feb 10.. 6 days since Jen was due.. and nothing.. how annoying! :) somtimes I wish Jen would just be induced and sometimes im glad she doesnt. but regardless I am getting impatient. I wish the due dates they give women would actually be accurate.. if they can predict weather . they should be able to predict a due date!

T-minus.. something.. when's the baby showing up!?

so when is this baby coming.. this counter is just for fun.. I do wish it could tell. when the baby will really show up
it would help.. ive been very excitied and antzy.. waiting for him to show up. the baby room is pretty much done.
my family seems excitied. my mom made a great chair for the baby room and my sister keeps calling asking silly questions.
Becca is also ready to pop any moment and I am looking forward to meeting her baby..

Jen seems content. to keeping the baby in forever.. I on the other hand.. cant wait. but what can I do.. i donno..
I hate waiting!

What to know about me

I got an email asking me about things about myself
and thought i would post this on my blog

1. What time did you get up this morning? 8:15 AM (Slept in!)

2. Diamonds or pearls? im a Guy.. so Titanium but if i have to choose one of those.. Diamonds it is.. I can sell them and buy some cool electronics

3. What was the last film you saw at the movies? Man of the Year, But i want to go see Borat.. today

4. What is your favourite TV show? Hmm.. How Its Made, and Daily Planet., and Star Trek

5. What do you have for breakfast? Cream of Wheat! it rocks.. makes me feel like im 5 again

6. What is your middle name(S)? Christopher after My dad

7. What is your favourite cuisine? Polish food or Italian.. Cabbage Rolls and Spaghetti Rock

8. What foods do you dislike? Mustard, Brocolli and Califlower, Liver

9. What is your favourite crisp flavour? Crisp Flavor?? Sugar Crisp. probably salt.. or ketchup

10. What is your favourite CD at the moment? - "Barenaked Ladies are Me" by BNL

11. What type of car do you drive? 1999 Subaru Forester

12. What characteristics do you despise? Deception, lying ,fakeness

13. Favourite item of clothing? Leather Jacket

14. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation? Europe

15. Favourite brand of clothing? um.. unripped. and clean. othwerwize columbia

16. Where would you like to retire to? Ryza

17. Favourite time of the day? any time im not working

18. What was your most memorable birthday? I can't remember :)
19. Where were you born? Lubartow, Poland

20. Favourite sport to watch? your serious.. um. chess or lawn darts

21. Who do you least expect to send this back to you?.. considering its no longer an email.. no one

22. Who do you expect to send it back first? Jen

23. What fabric detergent do you use? whats detergent?. I dont clean things.. except dishes and for dished i use those things that come in little wrapped tabs cant remembe the brand..

24. Coke or Pepsi? Coke

25. Are you a morning person or a night owl? Night owl. i dont like getting up in the morning especially before 8

26. What is your shoe size? 10.5 - 11 depending on the type of shoe

27. Do you have any pets? Cody is my Dog but he doesnt live with us. he lives with my Parents.. Jen has a Guinea Pig named Lokai. but I dont really consider him my pet

28. What did you want to be when you were little? Police Man, Army dude, Car Designer, Graphic Designer

29. When is your birthday? July 5th 1978 is when i was born

**********FAVOURITES****************
Shampoo? Head and Shoulders.

Soap? any soap within arms reach

Summer/Winter? Summer.. But i like driving in the snow in winter

Favourite Advertisement? Any that I created

Book? I liked the Robert Sawyer trilogy of Hominids, Humans and Hybrids

****RIGHT NOW*****************

Wearing? A Gray T-shirt and Underwear

Eating? Just had some Cream of Wheat. but not eating right now exactly

Drinking? just finished a 2-4 of Bewski's.. no Im not drinking

Thinking about? - when this silly survey will end.. and what stroller to buy

Listening to: barenaked ladies are me cd.. before you asked me for my album. so i had to look it up and now its playing

**********THE LAST 24 HOURS**************
Cried? its been a while

Met someone new? I meet people everyday. but have no intention of looking for a new special someone

Cleaned your room? what am i 6? my room has been overtaken my my sister and her old room was turnedinto a guest bedroom. at my parents place.. otherwize my room or apartment hasnt been cleaned recently.. we only tend to clean when we know someone is going to drop by.

Drove a car? Yes. we went shopping somewhere

How many hours sleep? 7.5

*************DO YOU BELIEVE IN* *************

God? No not really.. if there was one religion and everyone believed the same thing.. maybe i would but since 1 Billion believe in this god. 1 billion in that god.. whos to say who is right.. Its all a farse.. There is no God.. sorry but its true..
I wish there was.. maybe then he/she or it would make this world a better place

Yourself? sometimes i do sometimes i dont. depends on how im feeling at a given time.

Santa Claus? only during chritmas when little kids are around

Destiny/Fate? not really.

Ghosts? nah..

**********FRIENDS AND LIFE**********

Who have you known the longest of your friends? Christian Clark

Who do you go to for advice? Jen

When do you cry the most? when im sad

Preggers T - 17 Weeks

Jens well on her way to a full blown preggers belly
I believe she is 23 weeks now
thought I would post a new pic

T minus 17 weeks and counting

If I had a crazy amount of Money.

If I somehow won or inherited a crazy amount of money I would go on a spending spree (well first i would take 80% or so and invest it to that i have enough for the rest of my life) and the rest i would spend on high end gizmos gadgets and cool things.
I thought i would dream about all the material items I would like. but dont really need. cause its fun to dream. so here is a list!

Car(s)
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Subaru Impreza STI
Aprox $50,000
Ive liked subarus for a long time. having driven them since ive had my license. I always dreamed of this car.. in the classic blue!im sure i could use this as my daily commuter


Aston Martin Vanquish S
Aprox $255,000 USD
Now I must say I love this car.. its not the fastest car in the world but I do believe it is one of the most beautiful.
not that 6.0 Liters of V12 goodness and 520HP wont do me for a while.

Motorcycles
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I havent ridden a bike in a while but would love to get back into it.


BMW R1200 GS Adventure
My real first bike was really my dads a R100GSPD, a great bike. i miss it. but my dad moved on to bigger and faster things
but i think i would get this one. since i dont feel im a fast typa guy on a bike. and that this one seems mean enough
$aprox 17,000 USD

Computer
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Being an Apple Guy i cant help to choose this computer

Apple Mac Pro workstation
but i would ofcourse Fill it up with the best i could get!
here are some specs
Dual Xeon 3.0GHZ Dual Core processors (4 cores)
16GB Ram, 2 TD of Hard drive space
Dual 30" Apple Cinema Displays
Nvidia Quadro FX 4500 with 512MB
Dual DVD Burners all for a Cool $17,000 USD
Plus I would prob get a topofthe line Mac Book Pro laptop which would run me about $3500
and an IPOD 80Gb for $349

Camera
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Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Truly the best Digital SLR Camera Body one can buy
for only $8000

Now some lenses
Canon EF - 16-35 F2.8
Canon EF - 24-70 F2.8
Canon EF - 70-200 F2.8 IS
Canon EF 24mm F1.4
Canon EF 50mm F 1.2L
Canon EF 85mm F 1.2 II USM
Canon EF 135mm F2 USM L
Canon EF 300mm F4 IS USM
Canon EF 400mm F 2.8
Canon EF 600mm F 4 IS
Canon Extender 1.4 and 2x
Canon EF 180mm Macro F3.5
Canon EF 100mm Macro 2.8
Canon Speedlight 580ex

The value of all these lenses.. whoa.. um im guessing around 20,000
Im being Greedy i know but its fun!'

Thats it for now but i will keep adding more!

Baby onboard

incase the YouTube version doesnt work ive also posted it in a higher resolution on Google Video
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-1013516036862659327

Found out today that the baby in Jennifers belly will be a boy!
im really happy about it. I would have been really happy with a Girl too
see the Youtube video of the ultrasound!

Name wise its not finalized but we are thinking of going with William Adam (first and middle)
any suggestions?

Due Feb 5, 2007 Stay tuned

Here comes the Future!

I love new technologies and gadgets that make me feel like we are in the future
here are a few i just found out about

Hitachi EMIEW Robot



The Driverless Car!

Here is a ripped off description from another site
"CHANGCHUN, China — At its hometown show last week, China's First Auto Works wowed the locals with a demonstration of what was described as the country's first unmanned vehicle — not counting spacecraft, of course.

The vehicle in question was a specially modified version of FAW's Hongqi (Red Flag) HQ3 sedan, which was unveiled last year as a concept and bears a startling resemblance to the Toyota Crown Majesta, not to mention an older Hyundai XG350.

FAW tested the driverless sedan at speeds of up to 37 mph but said the car can actually reach a top speed of 93 mph. The demonstration took place at the Northeast Asia Investment and Trade Expo here, according to the Shanghai Daily.

According to the newspaper, the specially equipped HQ3, which monitors the road via two onboard cameras and receives its instructions from a computer, "has a strong ability to recognize the environment around it and tackle turnoffs [and] street crossings, as well as broken lines instantly. It's also able to adapt to changes of driving attitude and natural lighting, as well as shadows of trees and bridges."

I will Try to keep posting cool things i find on the net!
stay tuned

Boy? Girl?

This coming Thursday, Jennifer has an ultrasound , she will be 20weeks by then
and hopefully we will find out if we will have a boy or a girl.

I cant say what i would like more.. only because i dont know. sometimes I hope its a boy.. sometimes a girl.. but in the end it doesnt really matter. i really hope its healthy and normal (normal for us)

I did feel quite jealous when our friends Becca & Drew told us they were having a boy (they are about 2 weeks more pregnant then Jen & I)

anyways I will keep you posted. its exciting and i cant wait to find out.. and i hope i actually find out. We will try and get a video of the ultrasound and maybe i will post it online

Stay Tuned

GLORCS

Here is one photo from the GLORCS RC races taken last sunday
i took lots of shots this is one of the better ones.

these cars sure are fast. its quite hard to get a decent picture.

If i could change the world

If I could change the world. Here is what I would do.
(assuming I had unlimited control and power/influence) like the power of the Q from Star Trek

unite all countries under one form of government, so basically it would be a world government with provinces (countries now).

I would get rid of organized religion and church. But encourage personal belief’s

Protect all animals that are endangered. Including whales, seals.. any any needlessly hunted animals. (for furs, accessories.etc)

Destroy all pointless weapons ,especially mines, nuclear bombs, machine guns, hand guns.

I would encourage the building of a space elevator. To make space tourism possible.

Provide high speed wireless free internet access to the world.

Fund the genetic engineering of crops that wont die or atleast need little water so that they can grow in dry places.

Spread food and wealth around the world. So that there is no more 1st, 2nd and 3rd world countries.. everyone is equal.

Make English the language of the world (questionable), but still encourage a hertitage language.

Make cigarettes illegal. Stop manufacturing. Huge fines. Taxes, destroy any remaining stockpiles.

Encourage fuel cell. And fully electric vehicles.

Try to stop using fossil fuels whenever possible.

Encourage the thought that . more research is better then the cheaper way out.

Build a space ship to explore our solar system

Encourage research on alternate forms of space propulsion.

Colonize the moon and mars. (begin terraforming mars)

Develop robots to assits that can help us do anything.

Encourage working from home

Build communities that are as self sustained as possible. So that lots of travel isn’t necessary

Make all homes have solar panels. So they can power the world energy grid or use it..

Make a typical work week from Tuesday – Friday – 10am – 4pm

Make spam illegal. (prob is already)

Make universal health care available to everyone. Everywhere. (including full dental, chiropractic, drug ) at no charge

A 10% income tax everywhere. With no sales or service tax on anything

Build smaller vehicles to transport people.

Make a government run airline service. Providing inexpensive travel anywhere to anyone

Provide free, housing for everyone. If unemployed (small homes. No luxuries) to help eliminate homeless

Provide mental help for homeless in institutions.

Consolidate the worlds armys into one. Global force to global defence

Create a global defence system. Incase of off world attackers.

Restore the ozone layer.

Restore the pollution in the air to levels 5000 years ago

Ban coal burning or anything that pollutes the air substantially

Free internet telephone for all (including internet based VOIP cell phones)

One standard to High Def DVD’s!

Make apple computers the one and only choice :P

Bring back start trek. With a new episode every week.

Make it so if you are convicted of a crime. Like murder or rape. You are sentenced to life in prison. By life I mean.. in jail until you die. Or are given the choice of death after 20 years in prison

Create a GPS network 1000 times more accurate and able to work anywhere (in buildings, forests or underground or underwater) and have it intergrated into all vehicles. Watches, cell phones, homes, planes or anyting else that’s mobile that could use the functionaility

Make amusement parks free.

Make movies cheaper and popcorn a reasonable price

Pour trillions into health research.

Make pharmaceutical drugs cheap. With no markup.. drugs provided at cost. And available for free to those who cannot afford them.

Online voting mandatory. For any significant change in government policy

Biometic (iris and fingerprint) used for all financial transactions

Global id card (multipass)

Invent the Flying Car! (bout time) and the hoverboard cause its cool

Bring back the delorean

Invent a new kind of battery that can last a month. Takes 2 minutes to charge and weights next to nothing , and is very small and provides lots of power)

Free public transportation systems (buses, taxi, and trains)

If possible create a replicator (like on star trek)

If possible create a transporter (like on star trek)

And a holideck (heck just make the good stuff from star trek a reality)

What would you like to do.to make the world a better place, yes this is somewhat silly. but thats ok.

Xray Eyes

Here is a cool link about some military tech that can see through wall and detect people in another room

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jan2006/20060103_3822.html

the technology behind it is terahertz imaging . very cool stuff.

Here comes the future!

Burlington Panoramic

Here is a Panoramic i took on monday night
of Burlingtons coastline

Click to see a larger version, I plan on printing this. but it will be about 30" long and 12" high just for the photo not to mention a matte. and frame

Windy City

A very windy day (80+ km/h winds). let some local wind surfers loose. and i was lucky enought to grab some action.

Leaves - Burlington

I stopped by a field near my parents home and took this picture.. nothing fancy. just like the colours

Bad lands

THE SKY IS FALLING.. No i just updated my blog

What you may ask is this. an update within a year of the last one.,.. well yes its true.

Here is an update since the last one on my life

Well im an Now Married to Jen! YAY! wedding was great. all went really well
Jens Great :)

we went to mexico for our honeymoon. mexico is very cool nice place.
hotel was the Riu Palace Mexico. a really nice place. i very much recommend it.

I am working full time for a marketing company in mississauga
the work is good. graphics stuff

we just got some Guinea Pigs. its for Jens Birthday they are cute and dont make much noise.

I am now living in an apartment with jen in burlington. right near Brant and Prospect
its pretty good

um what else.. i donno.
take care

why do i even try

sometimes i signup for different things. thinking oh yes this is neat.. i will use this all the time. its the next best thing..but no.. like my blog for example.. in the 6 months or whatever ive had it .. this is my 3rd post.. so really no one really cares.
me included. but its still up and im bored at the moment so here goes.

here is an update on my life.

im working at Metropolitan printing aprox 30 hrs a week. doing graphic work. and very slowly learning how to run a press
also working on the program guide for the sound of music festival a big project but very doable with my current set of skills
working on making invitation and bottle labels for my wedding in september
got a new used car.. 1999 forester. its pretty good. have some minor things i still need to work out. but im confident everthging will go well.

i would like to not care if i make any typos , as correcting typos is a pain and no one really cares if i do it or not. well maybe jen but thatrs it. oh same goes for punctuation. I dont have great grammer or punctuation skills and when i type without looking at the screen or keyboard. sometimes stuff i write goews wonky.. im not sorry for this .. but this little piece of text really isnt signifiant enough to justify wanted to proof it.. like who cares really..

so,,,,,, k im done

thanks for reading :) take care