Although I've never really roamed the virtual isles of eBay, I'm aware that you can sell most anything there. Last night the president of Exahost Inc. contacted me through Microsoft Messenger; Peter and I go way back and get along great mainly because he understands my bent mind and appreciates my off-wall sense of humour. The chat started as it usually does, with him asking a quick question, us getting into a brief conversation then him being abruptly pulled away with a phone call from a client (...he's now on the west coast, so I'm drinking a Beer and he's working...) So there I sit staring at "BRB: Phone" -- I call this state Messenger Purgatory, sort of like being on hold except I know Peter's watching his screen while assisting his customer, so like I've done so often in the past, I start chatting with myself. Moments pass before Peter 'returns' to the conversation chewing me out that he had to keep putting his customer on hold because he was laughing so hard. I told him he better save the conversation, it'll be worth millions on the world market. It didn't take him long at all... Look what we found on eBay. ...pull my finger.

Some ask what the point of pre-ordering a soon to be released game would actually be... it's not as if they're only going to make 5,000 copies then you're screwed, they will print more; so why bother rushing to purchased something that just proves you're going to purchase something later? Perks! Here is a classic example of a pre-order deal that I think's great; EA Games fantastic Battlefield series has new and greatly anticipated continuation coming out soon, just take a look at this action from Battlefield Vietnam and if you pre-order you get this spanky CD of the official soundtrack. This CD has 11 tracks by the original artists that held top chart during the period; this is a great music CD worthy of purchase on its own, nice bonus EA.

As it turns out, BTM43 will be after the birthing episode... You don't want our Treasurer, Isis collecting from you in her condition. No really; you don't. We're probably going to be looking at the first week or so in May -- We'll finalize the date and post it here soon!

Now this really pisses me off... Firstly, Canadians still tend to get a little excited whenever there's even a reference to Canada on television in the States (...mostly because we're still not sure if Americans even know we're here...) so to have Conan right here in Toronto for a week was a big deal for the city as far as exposure goes; we're still trying to convince everyone else that we're not walking the streets wearing surgical masks... I've taped all the episodes directly to DVD and had the intension of editing them into a nice four chapter, commercial free DVD; I guess I should have taped the first air date for each show and not relied on the rebroadcast. It would seem the Canadian Government took Triumph the insult comic dog's bit on the French to heart and slaughtered the spot before the show repeated (...and before I caught the bit...) I have a real issue with censorship, I guess that's the appeal of the internet, I can say whatever the hell I want and there's little you can do about it other than threaten to throw poop at me -- I personally think Triumph is a riot, just check out the bashing he gives Hawaii when he does an impromptu weather report as a guest spot. Now because 'someone else' decided on my behalf that I'm not mature enough, or that my morals aren't strong enough to handle his humour I'll not get to see the spot that pissed everyone off... Bite me.

Happy Friday the thirteenth everyone! Seems we've figured out why the media is promoting Conan on the news so much, we think it's to overshadow the big scam that hit our new Prime Minister this week; Auditor General Shelia Fraser found at least $100 million in public funds was funnelled to Liberal supporters for a federalist ad campaign in Quebec, and that most of the work was never done. "I am sick and deeply, deeply troubled about what happened," Martin began, before addressing his own involvement. He notes that the program began in 1997, but that questions began to be raised about it in the year 2002; that's when the Auditor General first identified irregularities. "That is when I began to understand that what had occurred went far beyond administrative failures and involved possible criminal conduct," the P.M. insists. "But even then no one understood the full scope of what was involved until the Auditor General's Report came out recently "Some can't understand how as a Quebec minister I could not have known about the conduct of this program. Well, the fact is that very few ministers did." -- perhaps that should read, most ministers don't have a clue.

Have you nailed the new demo of UnReal Tournament 2004 yet? The official site for the demo claims there's so many people hammering on their servers and mirrors that many are having an issue getting the game demo (...Oh! What's that on the SuperFTP the day it was released; sitting right there in the "All things UnReal" folder?..) I have yet to actually check the game out myself, but we're getting some very positive feedback about it already! Grab it and give it a shot.

Look who's the talk of Toronto right now... The big T.O. has rolled out the red carpet for America's late night King, Conan O'Brien. The Canadian Adventure kicked of his 1,854th show in his tenth season. Canadian funny-man and local resident Mike Myers joined the first show to add some 'shaawing!'; tonight's guest is Michael J. Fox, Ken Capling and Nickelback -- To show our appreciation, the Canadians will be sending the Americans Mike Bullard; please feed him twice a day and give him an open area to run around, he likes cheese. (...if you didn't tape it and couldn't last till 12:30am to watch it, this morning's show will be re-run at 10:00pm on Star!... If you couldn't even give a crap, please disregard the entire upper paragraph, and pay no mind to the image either... It'll fade to the bottom of the minutes in time...)

Seems Isis has begun 'nesting' now, the third floor of the Abattoir is quickly starting to look like a birthing center... As such, it seems unlikely at this time there will be a scheduled BTM till after the birth of (...as yet unnamed...) MiniMeat. You all have the option however, of bombarding her email with pleas and promises that you'll be good if we can have another BTM before April; just tell her you can't wait that long. (...don't tell her I told you to say that though...).

Time to give a shout out to the CBC, or more appropriately Rick Mercer. There’s arguably a quantity of talent at the CBC, I've been to tapings of The Red Green Show, Kids in the Hall several times and Royal Canadian Air Farce (...where I bid over $200.00 on an autographed tee shirt live with the cast *lowers morphine drip* and loved every minute of it...) – these are/were all Canadian shows that are well worth the watch, but there's something new out there I was excited to hear about, and his fourth show is tonight at 8:00pm; Rick Mercer's Monday Reports. For you American types, this would be Rick's own version and formula of you're the Daily Show with Jon Stewart (…not that I'm comparing them, but it would come as close a match that I can think of…) If you don't know what to watch tonight, take a watch; he's made me look forward to Mondays, and has let the world know why they should move to Ontario!. (..oh, and Canada's going to get it's own chunk of paradise as we add another "province" to Canada, eh?..)

There's rumour the next BTM might be after the birth of MiniMeat (…still as yet to be named, and I was the one who gave that guy the idea to call his Son v2.0…) We'll keep you posted here of course.