This particular gem absolutely NAILS the sentiment I hear around Ottawa about the possibility of a separate Quebec. These guys do a fantastic job, Quebec is absolutely the sexier and probably more stylish part of Canada, but nobody (to date) thinks that it could survive on its own….
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N5GzYhY2dk
I saw this shared on Facebook, very funny stuff.
If you haven’t seen any of John Lajoie’s stuff  before, be sure to go in with your thick skin on, since he doesn’t pull many punches in the name of comedy, but his latest song is absolutely fantastic and almost mass market friendly. On purpose.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuQt9N4Dsok
The consumerism nod is bang on, and so is the sly music industry snark. I like it, and like all good things, it’s catchy as hell. Remind me to tell you about the time I saw him in Ottawa and woke up with powder for a kneecap….
We will almost surely find out later that this is all part of an alternate-reality media stunt for the Trailer Park Boys, but for at least a few glorious hours there is a 21 meter Budweiser blimp loose above New Brunswick.
I for one salute our new alcohol dirigible overlords, as do many confused New Brunswickers today.
In what sounds like a fantastic display of appropriate grown-up behaviour, apparently a public Easter Egg hunt in Laval descended into chaos and anarchy as 10 000 people literally jumped a fence to start the hunt ahead of the proscribed time, with the following description from the CBC:
Displeased with the delay in the start of the hunt, some parents disassembled the fence, causing both children and parents to lurch forward ahead of the scheduled depart time.
“The hunt was supposed to start at noon, but some people arrived at 9:30 a.m. and got impatient,†said Cocothon organizer Angella Pattas.
“It was really the beginning of the loss of control.â€
Some children got pushed over as others ran forth to scoop up plastic eggs containing treats.
Other youngsters came away with nothing — especially after some parents snatched eggs out of other children’s baskets to give them to their own kids.
Luckily, no one was injured.
Yep, nobody was injured, except civility, common sense and good judgment. Clearly those casualties were evident at this event.
Obviously if there IS a time where knocking children to the ground in a mob-maddened scramble for a few cents worth of shitty chocolate is perfectly fine, it must be at Easter time. You would never get away with this kind of crap at Halloween, hip-checking little Disney princesses and Spidermen out of the way to get some Twizzlers. Nossir. That’s a refined, proper holiday.
So, I might have mentioned last week that I was excited about the new Windows Phone update. Well, it showed up bright and early Monday morning, and it was absolutely worth the wait.
Cortana is the biggest feature delivered by far. It’s Microsoft’s answer to Siri and Google Now, but absolutely holds her own and more.  Considering it’s BRAND new this is an amazing feature that is able to compete very well indeed with the other players in this area that have had 2 years or more to come up to speed. Have a look at this showdown to see what I mean.
Even more than that, the Word Flow Shape Writing keyboard is something I never really knew I was missing (something like this has been available as an Android app for a while) until you use it. It’s nothing short of incredible to use. The unbelievable accuracy of my random swiping around is literally amazing. It’s already won a Guinness World Record, if that’s your thing.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM60BZUTOC8#action=share
Anyway, it’s just way too much fun for a geek like me to play with, and there’s more to come since it’s all just a developer preview…
Once upon a time I was pretty stoked about another mobile device, which now seems so very very boring.  These days I’m completely and totally stoked about the Windows Phone 8.1 release. I mean really stoked. I’ve been really obsessively checking for the developer release bits the last couple of days, since there was a moment in time where folks thought that might show up today. However, it seems that I need to stop hitting update every 30 minutes or so, since this guy know a lot more about the release than I do:
Yowza, you’re going nuts 4 #WP8.1 dev preview. Everyone relax thru weekend, check in early next week. Enjoy Win8.1 update, write apps! 🙂
— joebelfiore (@joebelfiore) April 10, 2014
So I can perhaps give the Internet a rest for the weekend, and probably stop checking. Still incredibly stoked though, in a way that that other phone company used to get me excited for.