A late 20s west coaster currently residing in Toronto, working as a freelance frontend web developer. Interests include Toronto's never ending activities, its diverse and tasty food, and the great people. I'm also in the course of learning Japanese.
© 2009 Mike Lin
Dec
3
So Pat got this ridiculous and awesome game where, get this, you test your reaction time against others by pushing a button when a light goes off, and if you’re the slowest, and here is it straight up, you get electrocuted! Check it out: Lightning Reactions
Of course we had to get some suckers… I mean friends over to try it out. So we had a party at me and Kerry’s place.
Sep
24
I needed to get one of these –>
So I was looking around online and I found these descriptions of essentially equivalent products from three different retailers:
Do you notice a slight discrepancy? Guess where I do my hardware shopping?
Sep
24
Animals are like children, in that it’s amusing when they fall over, or bonk into things etc.
Like today Poki the dog tried to get his head onto my lap from beneath the table, and bonked his head on the table’s side. Oh how we laughed.
Neither do animals stop to look around to see if anyone noticed.
Link in case the embedded youtube didn’t work
Aug
20
This is really just an excuse to mess around with google maps, but I thought I’d show you where the disc golf course is near UBC. It’s near Jericho beach, and is accessible from 4th ave. You start at the bottom of a big hill, and work your way to the top, criss crossing as you go. Once you reach the top there’s a nice view of the bay, and juicy blackberries as your reward.
Then from there, it’s not a far walk from slurpees at the gas station at 10th and Discovery!
Aug
19
One of the things I hadn’t managed to do in Van until last week was go shopping for comics and CDs on 4th. The comic shop on 4th and … Yew(?) is stocked! Then across the street is Zulu records, where me and JonF spent a good time with their 25 disc changers. The changer I was listening to was titled “Canadian and Local” which contained another band I like, You Say Party!, and stuff. In the end I got one called Ghost House, which I thought was pretty fun.
They’re right down my alley, being high energy and fun. Furthermore the lyrics were pretty much describing the time I was having with lines like ‘Fly by night on bicycles’ and ‘Midnight adventures in a drunken state.’
And it turns out this is one of these bands that lets you download the entire album online! which is good because I got the last copy at Zulu. Check it out. I think my favourite track is ‘Your Big Day.’