As an in-store technician for a big box retail, I am shocked by how little people are aware of the evanescence of computer storage. Countless times I have seen customers come back with defective hard drives in their 6 month old laptop and be dumbfounded when they are told that their data can not be recovered. Of all the ways that the computer industry has found to make customers spend, it seems that too little effort has been put into making the public aware that hard drives, like all other things, will eventually die, and that when they do, you better be prepared. That's why I am happy to see D-Link come out with a product like the DNS-323 that facilitates practice of safe data storage.

Quebec doesn’t have a very big appetite for politics. Being totally bilingual, I get to compare the content from the English Canadian media outlets to their French counterparts, and this lack of interest for politics is something that you get to notice pretty quickly when you have a standard to compare it to. On weeknight TV at stations like CBC, it seems (and I’m going by gut on this one) that much more time is put on actual important issues like local, provincial and national politics, and less on silly human interest stories (hrm hrm, looking at you TVA!). Maybe it’s a cultural thing, but we French Canadians don’t have shows like RMR or 22 Minutes to make politics less dry, and when our stand-up comedians mention the subject, it usually just ends up in politicos bashing using overworked stereotypes.

This week’s combo, Kaimal Mark 2 on BlacKeys Ultrachrome.

• Typo or cool new way to spell computer?
• Shouts to Manmade clothing, a little indy brand from New York who screenprints in-house. Ordered two shirts from them the other day, top shelf stuff.
• I can't believe my Daewoo Lanos. Under a grand of repairs and maintenance over more or less 8 years, original brakes, original ignition, original everything basically. Hopefully it stays that way and I won't get killed.
• Couldn't have said it better.

Next week is a special week: I’m going on a cruise in the Caribbeans! For this reason, I won’t be posting up a TWiP next week, but I’ll be back in two weeks!

First is Salvador on Alfred Infrared, others are Roboto Glitter on Alfred Infrared.

• The now traditional Monday omelette. 5-6 eggs, an assortment of meats (usually ham and bacon), red onions, metric tons of cheese, and whatever else happens to be in the fridge at the moment pretty much. Protip: a very thick omelette needs to cook slowly if you want to be able to flip it!
• When somebody at a booze-fueled party climbs on some other person's shoulders, it usually means disaster. But this time, what came out of the ordeal is probably one of my best iPhone pics to date.
• Nothing like cuddling up with your newest acquaintance after a night of debauchery. Do it while you're young, I was told!

Chunky on BlacKeys B+W.

• Special edition collabo shirt from Defgrip, Animal and rider Edwin Delarosa. Shirt is sick and I'm currently working on getting some laminates done to compliment my Mike Brennan poster.
• It's this dude's birthday. Two big tens, a few gulps of straight-up white rum and a couple of random drinks later, he's out in the freezing rain downtown puking his guts out. Hard stuff.
• Late night snack at the golden arches. You just can't beat nuggets when it comes to alcohol-induced hunger.
• I've been seeing this car all over town but never got a chance to take a picture of it. Can't get any more gangsta than a murdered out Sebring, right?