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The newest animated movie out in theatres is HILARIOUS!

With quirky "inside" comments, such as "Code Nimoy", "By Hawkings' Chair!", "Spaceballs", and "Has the Earth gotten warmer, 'cause that would be a very Convenient Truth", and slap-stick humour (the kids were laughing hard), this movie gets a THUMB UP from me!

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Sucks, horrible maze of just going around in circles. I just want my bed a poutine and maybe a toasty.

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I've never seen soo many people in one area my whole life, moving around during the parade/tapping of the keg is next to impossible. My friend and I were shoulder to shoulder with people from all over the country I caught some Italian,Spanish,Chinese and Japanese.

After the parade finished we decided to walk around the Oktoberfest grounds, this place is large the pics I took do not do it justice, beer is only(kinda) available at the tents, which means no seat no drink. After walking around for half an hour visiting all the tents and their outside gardens, we found two places that sold beer and werent tents, one was a retrofitted merry go round with a bar in the middle and the other was just your typical shack, the latter had an amazing beer can't really remember the name other than it was a Russ(red)

After downing these we were able to snag a table at the Paulner beer garden, I think the only reason we got this table was that it was behind a large stack of pretzels(think that seat on the bus behind the busdriver, what I call the tomb) So we finally got our large beers! we also met some people from Prague who sat with us Stan,Martin, and Amelia. Stan was the only of the threee that spoke english so he played the part of translator back and forth to his friends.

I forgot to tell your Munich is freeking cold

Anyway after downing what I last counted as 7 steins(each) we decided to just walk the fairgrounds again, this is when we found out one of our Czech friends has a real problem with authority figures, the security for the tents are real aholes when it comes to drinking to far away from their tents with their glasses, so to cut things short we met the Munich police, nice people who don't like making repeated trips as we were warned that should they come back for us again we get arrested, oh and they forced us to jug our beer and leave the tent.

Things startet getting hazy at this point, my friend was at the pass out point he feel asleep a couple of times at the table, we lost one of our Czech friends(who must be one of the view euro w/o a cellphone) the fair was closing and they had to catch the last train to Prague. We wandered for a bit and came up with the great idea of just meeting up at the ferris wheel, good plan but I don't think Martin was aware of this... so we waited there for a while and decided to just keep walking to the train station, (stuff happened won't mention this here but it was very me) we parted ways we took the u-banh to our hotel and hopefully the Czechs got back home safely.

It's currently 12 and my friend is still sleeping, bitch can't drink.

Niv

pretty much sums me up as of late. monumental cluster F**K.

I suck

Niv

My first, and it's being held at the coolest place google the gashouder. Pics to come.

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Is actually hard to do, the map given by the hotel looks intimidating but according to it the daily walk to and fro from the convention (20 minutes ) I've already walked half of the city. Anyway it's rainning tonight and I went looking for some cuisine I didn't find anything local but now find myself In a Dutch/Italian resto fidelios sofar the escargots are pretty interesting(they add bacon?) looking forward to my rizzoto dish.

The food here has sofar been mediocre with the excemption to my rizzoto I just received and the flambé parmesian pasta dish I had at the restaurant ( took a video will post soon) Amsterdam is odd melting pot of culture here, with cuisine like Egyptian( lebaneese with a twist ) to American club sandwiches with boiled egg slices, hell my risotto has bits of merguez In it( no complaints its very tasty) later I plan to find a cafe for free net and a coffee.

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Well just finished my first day manning the mxo pod... Let's say this was a baptism by fire eveything that could go wrong did go wrong. Let's start off with having to set up my pod meaning reconnecting the laptops to our products that usually takes 5minutes max but today took 15 each(2 to setup )

Next with 5 minutes to open our pod lost 110 power meaning all north amricam stuff had no juice, wait I lie power went on and off occasionally which resulted in me losing my avid project, recovering this was next to impossible as just when I was about to finish bam lost of power again.

This sucks as at some point all my systems where down and I had nothing to show passers by, fortunately after this fiasco it was easy sailing after. I even go to catch some footage of the next James bond movie quantum something

Decided to slip from the group this evening and do my own thing.

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Seems like some demoing company left their router on default. Anyway here's a short recap.

Setting up the booth and our products pods sucks ass. The night we arrived or should I say day, we had breakfast and went straight to work. Keep in mind some of us were awake from 6am Montreal time. So that put us at 36 hours straight sans sleep. Fuck towards the end I started laughing about the stupidest things, that and my motor skills went to hell couldn't even stick a pcie card on the proper slot.

Getting tired more to rant

Later

Niven

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Free Internet is very rare, and 27 euro for a day at my hotel, my shawara was a even 30 euro. By accident I made a call so I'm really interested in see what my bill will be

More updates when I get free avces again

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Well i'm off to Amsterdam, before you say anything this is for work... They will have me demo'ing our Apple product. It's my first time there and i'm very exited especially since I'll be moving to Munich after amsterdam for Oktoberfest. Yup I live quite the life...

Of course I'll try my best to keep everyone updated.

n|v