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The fishtank is pretty much done now! I'm going to leave it for a couple of weeks before taking any pictures to let the plants take root and more firmly establish itself, but I went out to the store yesterday and managed to get that price deal (considering that I only bought the tank 2 weeks ago). (This particular Big Al's - Scarborough location - is my fish store of preference now.) I then turned that store credit around on plants. I've spent a pretty penny on this tank, but the fish seem to be quite taken with the new environment and they're exploring/hiding everywhere. I've found the glass shrimp (three of them! I didn't know I had three! I found the third after I had cleared out the old tank) hanging out on the driftwood, the pineapple platy/swordtails (?) are hiding in the back, and the cardinal tetras are actually schooling. :) I unfortunately lost an otto-cat but he was having problems even before the tank move. I managed to find my green rocket shrimp as well, he's still tiny and I bet he's still hiding. :P As for all the plants, I've made a "planted tank" and put plants everywhere, I'm hoping for some Marimo ("moss balls") soon, and I put in a Java fern in a piece of driftwood and some bolbitus on a rock (which apparently will attach, how strange!) - I'm very happy with the way things are looking. :D

Christine and I saw Be Kind Rewind on Tuesday. I'm a fan of Michel Gondry's previous films (and his music videos are bizarre but enjoyable to watch) so I was expecting similar works. It's strange, but I can see the Gondry was aiming for a more publicly-accepted piece with this one, spoofing on movies and re-imagining them on shoestring budgets ("sweding", which, I would say, is one of the best parts of the movie, especially a music-video style one-shot montage which I loved). Mos Def and Jack Black play some oddball characters - Jack Black notsomuch, but Mos Def's timid character is far different than his Ford Prefect, and I thought that was actually nervousness at the onset, but that's his character. It's got a nice, touching story behind it as well. I can understand how it got mixed reviews - I felt a little strange after it was finished, but it was still an enjoyable film, and I'd recommend it. I'd also recommend the website since Jerry erases the internet and as a result, they "swede" the Internet. Very funny. :)

If I can get over the initial itchyness of it, I'm going to try to grow a beard and see how it looks. Personally, I don't like it (probably because of said itchyness), but I might as well try it to see, and I'll make a decision after that. It doesn't look bad... I think it's the "growing interim" that looks bad, though. Looks, well, like I haven't shaved. Which is the truth. XD

Anyone having trouble sending stages in SSBB? I tried sending one last night and the only person I could send it to was Kinnon. (Also, are your Smash Services enabled? Maybe they need to be enabled, similar to Metroid Prime 3's connection services...)

Slow News Day

This was on the "front page" of TheStar.com today:

http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/345527

Bear convicted of stealing honey

SKOPJE – A Macedonian court convicted a bear of theft and damage for stealing honey from a beekeeper who fought off the attacks with thumping "turbo-folk" music.

"I tried to distract the bear with lights and music because I heard bears are afraid of that," Zoran Kiseloski told top-selling daily Dnevnik after the yearlong case of the bear versus the beekeeper ended in the beekeeper's favour.

"So I bought a generator, lit up the area and put on songs of (Serbian "turbo-folk" star) Ceca."

The bear stayed away for a few weeks, but came back when the generator ran out of power and the music fell silent, Kiseloski said, adding, "it attacked the beehives again."

A court in the city of Bitola found the bear guilty, and since it had no owner and belonged to a protected species, ordered the state to pay the 140,000 denars ($3,500 U.S.) damage it caused to the hives.

There was no information on the whereabouts of the bear.