And Why See

I downloaded the Chess With Friends app, but since none of my friends play chess, it's more like Chess With Randos. Nevertheless, it has been a goldmine of hilarious games. Here is one where I trolled with the Evans Gambit

Okay that barely made sense but Lanvin and Givenchy are featuring dogs this fall, although the Lanvin dog looks much more cuddly.

The Certain Prey shooting begins tomorrow! Having TV shows and movies filmed at the Thompson is obviously a bit of an inconvenience - what with the road blockages, bright lights, and teamsters yelling swears at all hours of the day - but it's all worth it if it contributes to Toronto's cultural capital, right?

The store in the background is called "Salt & Pepper" and all the cars are either black or white? Madness.

Quickly: which shot is of the front and which shot is of the back? Exactly.

So a guy came into the subway with absurdly large shoes. So large in fact that I had to take a picture. Unfortunately the iPhone’s extremely wide angle lens skews the perspective of the picture considerably – although still large in the picture, the shoes were much larger in real life. Without the picture, there is no way for me to convey how hilariously massive this individual’s shoes were… or is there?

Pretty awesome. Unmentioned seems to be some sort of Content-Aware technology for the edges in place of motion tiling/repeating edge pixels. That's huge! Not just for stabilization but for camera shake, camera moves, and I'm sure some other things too.

Finally an accessory that meets the needs of those with shiny foreheads. However, I'm not sure how much UVA/UVB protection is provided by holes in plastic.