Dany Sabourin on Waivers

Sunday on the train I got a text message saying Sabou was traded to the Oilers for Mathieu Garon and I found it a little fishy. With more info from the news and Saby, the Oilers already have their 2 starting goalies, they wanted to get rid of Garon 1million $ salary and were forced to take him in the trade. Now the Islanders are a good prospect to pick him up on waivers today with DiPietro and MacDonald sidelined Dany Sabourin au ballottage. NYC wouldn't be too shabby.... definitely a better city to live in.

Thats it, thats all

"What is snowboarding to me? It's when I feel passion. That is if passion is a combination of utter joy, frustration and rage. It's my life"

Coming back from a frustrating Snowboarding trip(powder wise, because the scenery, friends and experience was awesome) to the Chamonix region, I saw this amazing film. There expecting 80cm of snow this week, I should head down there again next week-end to ride the real thing.

British humor, too funny

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Thought Audio Dot Com gives you The Art of War narrated free on mp3 so you can listen to it on your iPod, perfect for those metro rides where you are squeezed and can't read. This is the bible on warfare, its more than 2000 years old, check it out.

Cern Supercollider, the quest for the Higgs boson

It's almost ready, experiments are to start this year, here is a nice talk by Brian Cox on the beast.

Wingsuit evolution

Now this is adrenaline, I'm glad I haven't taken parachuting yet, cause this is the shit.



wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

Dakine Sequence Camera pack

This bag is just all you need to Ride and shoot. Got to put my hand on one.

Lapierre

How sweet it is to see a guy like Max Lapierre who's been grinding his way up there score a hat trick last night still grinding in a game over stealing a puck from that fat McCabe fuck(can feel the old T.O. rivalry here ;) to score in an open net. Gave me goosebumps.

New apartment Paris 11e

It all started with JR craziness of the moment to tear his place down to make a loft and to show a beautiful rock wall that was hiding out there. Then he decided he was moving to Vietnam so has we became like brothers he offered me his place. So now I live in this nice little apartment which I contributed to, feels good to live somewhere you helped building up a little. So much went on in here, its a little weird at first but I will get use to it. My landlords are now his parents, they helped me move here and are just too cool with me. That ancient antique wardrobe you can see is like 150 years old and belonged to JR parents great grand-parents. Took us 3 ours to put it back together. Plus, I use my 2 first months of rent to buy furniture(1600Euros), can't wait to put the place together... thanks buddy, good work! Enjoy yourself in Nam.

Ripple Effect

There is a man. He lives in a village. He has one stallion. He uses it for work. One day the horse runs away. Everyone in the village comes to him and says “Oh, we are so sorry for you. Now you are so poor”. And the man says ”Maybe. Maybe not”.

The next day the horse returns and brings 20 mares with it. All the people in the village say ”Praise God. You are the richest man in the village. You must be so happy”. And the man says ”Maybe. Maybe not”.

The next day his son rides the stallion, and he falls from it. He is paralyzed. And all people in the village come and say ”We are so so sorry. You are the poorest man now. It’s a horrible thing that happened to your son”. And the man says ”Maybe. Maybe not”.

The next day a war breaks out, and all children from the village are called to go to war. But his son stays behind because he is paralyzed. People in the village say ” You must be so happy. You got to keep your son, and all our sons had to go to war”. And the man says ”Maybe. Maybe not”.

Life is guiding us to something...

Automakers Bailout

Coping with a Genetically Engineered Environment : "The Future of Food" Documentary

You've all heard about Monsanto genetically engineered seed and its unethical patent infringement lawsuits against farmers that happen to have their crop contaminated with the unwanted and intrusive GE seeds. It's pathetic to see how the economical greed of Mega Corporations can have catastrophic biological consequences, which some fear, might even become a treat to existence of life by eliminating diversity.

What is so scary is that mankind doesn't fully understand the consequences of these genetic modifications yet. The scientific community is currently very concerned by the genetic engineering technique consisting of inserting an antibiotic marker gene in the insertion package to then be able to test if that same insertion package was successfully attached. The medical community is terrified at the concept of loosing that antibiotic because it is suspected that the antibiotic gene markers might lead to an increase of the numbers of bacteria that are resistant to the antibiotic.

As Ignacio Chapela said in the documentary, "This is probably the largest biological experiment humanity has ever entered into" and we are not testing on rats but on earth's population.

I recommend everyone to take the time to view this documentary to be able to put what you eat in perspective. See the entire documentary on youtube with the following playlist, it consists of 9 parts of 10 minutes

Slideshare and Twitter

Calendrier du Pinna

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

I started to use 2 new free online information sharing applications last week and both are pretty good in what they do.

Slideshare. To view and post and keep track of slide shows.

Twitter. After all the hype around it, I decided to give it a try my account. I think if your friends start using it it can be very convenient instead of all these instant messages and emails to huge lists of people... lets see.

Finally going to Mont Blanc

The first week of riding for this season is now booked for January 13th in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains / Mont Blanc We'll have a big house for the week with the Sophia-Antipolis crew, the Chilenos and Max, should be a good one.

Then I'll probably have a week with Max and Benny Blanco in Max's friends apartment in Chambéry in February.

To top that, we are in the process of booking the second week of march in Austria/Switzerland with mates from Montreal, Germany and France.

Can't wait to wax the board and hit the POWDA....

Who throws his shoe, honestly?

Théatre "Elle t'attend finale" -- Leatitia Casta

Last week, Benny Blanco sent a mail saying there was this play with his friend Magali, opening the link of the play the main character was Leatitia Casta, famous Corsican model considered by many and myself like the most beautiful model/women in the world in the 90's. So I said I would join the crew, we had tickets in the front balcony 2 meters from the stage with a surreal view. Since it was the last representation, there was a nice champagne soirée with the actors, that followed witch was easy to enjoy. Good Paris night out tonight that I'll remember for a long time....

ICON A5 Sport plane

This plane is insane, for 140K you get this toy instead of a Mazaratti. Once you get your hands on one you just need to get your new FAA sport liscence (FAA's Sport Pilot Certificate / Light Sport Aircraft Category - LSA) and your ready to go. The first planes will be ready in 2010.

Check out the Amphibious model flying tests and ICON's website

Money As Debt - How banks create money

Simple informative video describing the power of the banking system, the incoherence of its fundamentals in creating money that does not exist and the impacts it has on society.

"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in.

But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits." -- Sir Josiah Stamp

Bruno Blanchet made my day

Bruno Blanchet - Le pauvre petit Bonhomme pas de cou

This video is monstrous, those will be my moves for the next night out.

3 must see Movies

Mulholland Drive
Is a David Linch masterpiece you probably all know of. A mistery film exhibiting some film noir and surrealism perspectives, a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality, that will leave you out of words and with no certainty on whats going on.

Ripple Effect
Is a good LA movie with a spiritual awakening plot, the way it was shot is great and the message is one I believe in.

RedBelt
Is a Indie Jujitsu movie I saw on the plane coming back from Montreal and is a good picture, shows good attitude, lots of deceptions and how to prevail. I love Jujitsu.