Public service announcement: Dieu du Ciel!

November 8, 2009

I can’t believe I didn’t think to write about this before.  At the time, it didn’t occur to me to take a photo until I was half done the glass…
Over a month ago I had the pleasure of attending the official launch party for Dieu du Ciel!’s, a Montréal-based brewpub,  products in Ontario at Bar [...]

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Shaving 2: Brushes

November 7, 2009

Part 1

How do you prepare a lather?
In classic shaving, you have a choice of cheap plain boar brushes ($15-25), or badger brushes.  Badger brushes are generally broken down into, ‘pure badger’ ($23-40), ‘best badger’ ($40-60) and ’silvertip’ ($60-300+).  There are also synthetic brushes ($20-60) available for vegans ($1).
Boar brushes are stiff; pure badger are soft; [...]

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PSPgo review.

November 6, 2009

It’s awesome.
The general online sentiment however is that this device is a pile-of-crap, that you’re “a motherfucking idiot if you buy that piece of shit,” etc.
I really don’t get it.  One caveat: I upgraded from a PSP-1001.  Things like physical dimensions, and the extra memory cache present in the 2000 & 3000 series devices I [...]

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