Right now I have two blogs. This one that you are reading is one I plan to keep for short blog posts that are mainly about things I find (and I hope you find) interesting.

I am planning to use my other blog for longer posts that are more opinionated. If you are not interested in that, you can just say “meh” and move on.

Over time I may consolidate them, but for now I may just post over there and point to it.

For example, here’s one: On how to focus

Is it cheating if I say: I find this post, which I just happened to write, interesting? 🙂

This is a so-so picture I took of the wonderful Black Camel cafe, just outside of Rosedale subway station in Toronto. As they say:

“The goal of Black Camel is simple: to prepare good tasting, high quality food, to deliver it quickly and to price it fairly”

I had the pulled pork sandwich with chipotle mayo on a kaiser-like roll. At other places, you would get bland mayo, dried bread and stringy pork. At the Black Camel, you get just the opposite. It was a delicious sandwich. I can’t wait to try the others.

It’s a little gem of a restaurant. You should go.

One thing I have loved about the web since the beginning was the ability to access newspapers all over the world. At first there were only a handful, but now I would guess every major newspaper in the world has an online edition, including this one: DER SPIEGEL.

It has everything, from very serious stories to a section on Europe’s Weird Ways (better are the Flour Wars of Galaxidi to the real wars of…well, too many places).

Der Spiegel has news and views you won’t find in North American or English newspapers. It’s worth adding it to your reading list.

If you enjoyed the coverage of the Olympics NBC and would like to watch it again on DVD, there are two ways you can do that:

1) If you are one of the first two people who comment on this blog post, you will be eligible to get a free copy, courtesy of NBC.
2) And if you aren’t one of the lucky two people, you can still buy your own copy of  the 2008 Beijing General Highlight DVD, the 2008 Beijing Opening Ceremony 2-Volume DVD, or the DVD of “Michael Phelps: Greatest Olympic Champion”. Simply goto to http://nbcdvd.com

The DVDs are expected to ship in the middle of September.

Tina Roth Eisenberg is the brains behind this wonderful blog, swissmiss.

It’s chock full of goodness. I found the PosterList there, and there’s lots of other posts that I liked, like this one:

Yes it is a pebble alphabet from this site

Are you or do you know someone going to college this September? If you do, you need posters. Great posters. And you can get them here, at The Poster List.

I had a hard time picking one to highlight here, but I particularly liked this one:

So don’t waste time: get over there and get some. And don’t forget to follow them on twitter, too.

I love it because I can capture moments with my digital camera phone and share them with others. Moments like this:

Watching pink roses while waiting for the kids to descend for… on TwitPic

More than that, I can look back over the week or month and recall events and moments that otherwise would be even more fleeting than they already are.

I encourage everyone to use twitpic. If twitter didn’t exist, it would have to be invented just to support twitpic. 🙂

I’ve been coming across alot of very negative reviews of the new Star Wars film, but of the reviews I’ve come across, this one hits the mark for me: Review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Kids Will Love It, Geeks will Shudder | Geekdad from Wired.com

When the lights went up at the end, all of these men — like me — trooped out with the 5 and 6 year old son, no doubt many of them to Toys R Us to load up on new Star Wars toys or McDonald’s for a Star Wars meal. And the kids (well at least my son) loved it. It was perfect for him.

As for me, I thought it was going to be painful. But I tried to see it from his perspective, and I thought it had alot in it for him. I also thought it moved along at a pretty good pace, too.

As for George Lucas, he now has a whole new fan base to work from, and a more accepting one at that. (Plus he has all those Dad’s to buy all that follow-on merchandise! 🙂 )

This should be interesting. According to Yahoo News — ok, Reuters — we will have:

“Daniel Okulitch (as) Seth Brundle and Ruxandra Donose (as) Veronica Quaife in the opera ‘The Fly’. David Cronenberg’s sci-fi (sic…I would use SF) terror movie ‘The Fly’ has taken on a new life in the Canadian director’s first foray into the world of opera. ‘The Fly’, described as a classical re-imagining of the 1986 movie about an eccentric scientist who turns into a massive fly, will open the new season at Los Angeles Opera in September with LA Opera director Placido Domingo conducting the orchestra.

I think Cronenberg is a significant artist, and if Domingo is on-board, it could be a great opera. In some ways, “The Fly” has similar themes to “La Boheme”. Cross your fingers/wings. 🙂