Jay’s Life

My buddy Nick has started his own blog up called Musing of a mad man. I look forward to reading what he has to say. Although I’m forced to hear his opinion every day at work as well. *Sigh*

I read NSLog(); fairly often, and he asked on Friday “Will this entry force you to get a TypeKey ID?”

To answer his question, I have TypeKey enabled on my site for comments. But I don’t have it set exclusively. The main reason for this is that my site occasionally has topics that are really directed towards my friends and family, most of whom are not going to make the effort to get a TypeKey account to post comments on my blog. I prefer it when people use TypeKey, but I’m not about to remove the option to simply fill in your name and email.

I bought Fable last night for the XBox. I must say, it lives up to the hype. It is a lot of fun to play. The voice acting, musical score and story are very cinematic. I highly recommend it to any one looking for an outstanding role playing game for their XBox.

I found this article on Boing Boing. It points to the British Library where they have scanned a number of Quartos and provided them online. So what are quartos?

What are the quartos?
Shakespeare’s plays began to be printed in 1594, probably with his tragedy Titus Andronicus. This appeared as a small, cheap pamphlet called a quarto because of the way it was printed. Eighteen of Shakespeare’s plays had appeared in quarto editions by the time of his death in 1616. Another three plays were printed in quarto before 1642. In 1623 an expensive folio volume of 36 plays by Shakespeare was printed, which included most of those printed in quarto.

It is very interesting to browse through. See how things have changed. And since none of Shakespeare’s original manuscripts survived, these are the only printed copies from that period. I don’t know why I never learned this in school.

The latest Resident Evil movie, due out on the 10th should be even more entertaining for the residents of Toronto. The movie was filmed primarily in Toronto, and features Toronto City hall as the Laboratory where the zombie creating chemicals are created. Which invariably gets blown up. Much of the Toronto core is shown, with certain digital omissions and duplications. Watching the trailer show more than a few places you might recognize.

If you want to buy a piece of the movie, the site even has their Auction of props up on ebay. A portion of the proceeds go to ‘Find the Children’ charity.

A couple of months back my friends Kat and Evan were kind enough to adopt two badly abused cockatiels from the Toronto Humane Society, these two birds recovered from their traumatic past quickly in Kat’s care and soon had two eggs. The eggs hatched into two adorable little babies. Recently Spike, one of the babies, chewed through the window screen and disappeared into downtown London Ontario.
They’ve done everything humanly possible to find their lost bird, this is all the information they have about the location of their cockatiel. If you have any information at all or any suggestions as to how they can find their bird we would really appreciate your help. You can call Kat and Evan or call or email myself. Thanks so much.

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