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Woah someone was just on my computer. I restarted and am now locking my wireless. Losers.

I’m sad I had to lock my wireless b/c it’s the virtual equivalent of leaving your door unlocked. I named it “OperationNO”.

And as many Grandma’s do, she has photos of me hanging up:

april 26 2009

I was at TFcon, Canada’s Largest Transformer Convention; people even drove up from the States.  It was in a 10,000sq.ft. room in a hotel by the airport and I was there helping out a friend who deals the stuff.  

One of my tasks was to build Superion, a Transformer made up of 5 smaller Transformers and ya, it’s harder than you think.  And kinda scary since it’s 25+ years old, delicate, rare and expensive.  It sold.  And that’s the Transformer Bible, no joke.  

I ended up having to get help to finish it.  This ex-soldier guy made it fly together and then taught me how to bring someone to their knees by moving around their knuckles when you shake their hand.  

Top left is a very special, limited edition semi-truck trailer from Fans Project.  Only 500 were made before they broke the mold and all were sold here at the show.  Top right is a dealer there with a rumoured… ready?… $1 million of merchandise.  And there on the bottom are empty boxes for sale. There is even a scale (1 – 10) to rate the condition and quality of a box.

Top right is the Superion I built, bottom left is an Asia exclusive set and bottom right are ones from circa 1980, $90+/each.

There’s also some photos of me and people dressed up as Transformers (my friend has to email me them still) and wait till you see the yellow one (Bumblebee?) – amazing.

april 24 2009

They’re not showing up on camera so hot.  They’re good and swollen still, think it was from the railings.

Meet Geoff Green:april 24 2009

[photo by Tyler Kuhn]     
I read this morning that the Green Living Show was held this weekend at the Direct Energy Centre.  So I’m clicking through the itenerary and see Geoff is speaking at 2pm: a member of The Explorer’s Club and real life Explorer, one of the top 5 in Canada.

After his presentation I went up and introduced myself, told him how I too was an explorer [and gestured with my hands to show the difference between us] and hey, I’d like to interview you in my car for an episode for my show, what do you think?

And Geoff said YES.  Interestingly, he didn’t seem phased I wanted to film in my car, didn’t even acknowledge it… 

Then we were chatting about The Explorer’s Club and I mentioned the video I’d watched where a member rode his horse into the Waldorf Astoria during their annual dinner and Geoff said he was there for that, nice.  

I’m pumped; like, this guy is a big deal, read a good bio here.  He said he’d like to discuss the definition of “explorer” and what that means / should mean.  I’ll ask him about him leading over 100 expeditions to the Arctic and Antartica with his organization Students on Ice, his sweet boat, and any advice he may have for my trip.  After everything he’s done my jaunt cross-country in a car would be be peanuts for him.