Archive for October, 2005

Internet, phone acquired

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6 years ago
by Jonathan Puddle in

At last Rogers and Bell have both got their services working in my house. If you want our phone number, e-mail me.

I’ll probably call Rogers again next week and switch my phone from Bell to Rogers. I’m disgusted with Bell. I’m not that impressed with R’gers either, but they seem to be the lesser of two evils. And… I’ll get a discount for bundling phone and internet.

Humbled

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6 years ago
by Jonathan Puddle in

This morning we were given another wedding present. It arrived in an envelope like so many others.

This one however, wins all the prizes.

It was a card, a message and some money from Caroline Cerovski. If you don’t know who she is, suffice it to say that her husband died of cancer on September 27th. And yet she wished us the happiest of marriages, told us to take as many photos as possible, and said our wedding was a beautiful one. It’s probably one of the most unselfish things I’ve seen anyone do in a while. I mean, she gave out of her financial poverty, but also her emotional poverty. I’m still floored by it.

Father, would you reward Caroline and her family so richly for the way she has blessed us. Like Job, may you return to her everything that was stolen, whether that be here or in Eternity. And would you teach me this level of humility too.

In a different world

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6 years ago
by Jonathan Puddle

If I mysteriously had a son with Mike Livingston, his name would be Frank Gentile.

Review: Resonate

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6 years ago
by Jonathan Puddle

This being pretty much my first outing to a Toronto club, (the secret is revealed) I had a good time. Resonate was put on by 2 the Beat records, a place I shop at.

Venue: System Soundbar. It featured 3 rooms, one house, one drum and bass, and the main room techno. The house room was kindof the loser room, and the DnB room was kindof the devil’s room, so it was all techno all the time!

Sound: The room is not too big, maybe 75 could fit with room to dance, and there are 4 speaker stacks in the four corners of the room. To be honest, I wasn’t very impressed with the sound setup. The bass was overly distorted and the room was too loud in general. Standing anywhere but the exact middle of the room caused definite ear pain. But it wasn’t so bad you were distracted.

Vibe: Everyone was there to have a good time and the overall sleaze level was minimal. I was discussing this with Maija – this middle ground party scene. It’s not really a rave, cause raves have mostly died out in this city. It’s also not really a club, cause it’s there’s techno music and that’s a bit to underground to Toronto’s nightclubs. So… it’s somewhere in the middle, which I enjoyed. It means it lacks the drug induced euphoria of a rave, but also lacks the sleazy pick-up dudes of a nightclub. But it’s just underground enough that most everyone was there because there were sweet DJs and banging choons.

DJs: We left shortly before 2am, so we only took in two DJs: Isis, the chicky from Halifax, and Jelo (I guess from Toronto). Jelo… both thumbs, way high!

Overall: I say 3.5/5 It was definetly a fun time, only sacrificed by the pained eardrums and the fact that techno is not my number one choice. But for what it was, it was a good time.

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