I’ve been looking into getting a new bag for school.

I really like this one by Hard Graft. You can use it in 8 different ways which I’m always in favour of. I use my fanny pack as a shoulder bag a lot. The trouble is that it costs around 400 Euros and is a limited edition. I like the brown leather but that one is sold out. The next batch is gunmetal grey or something like that. So it’s out.

These next two are by a Canadian company called Matt & Nat. They’re “vegan leather” which is fancy pants for fake leather. I’d prefer the real thing but reviews are positive. They’re a little bit big and I would prefer something in a brown but oh well. I’m leaning towards this first one.

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Cool handlebars with basket built in. Via NotCot.

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Nerdy wine.  Right up my alley.

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I plan on doing a what-I’m-thankful-for thanksgiving post later but right now I’m going to talk about greed. 

I was clearing tables at my serving job the other day when a special section of The National Post newspaper caught my attention.  It was a six page spread about Online Investing.  I saved that part, took it home and gave it a read-through. 

My conclusion was that this was something I’d like to try my hand at.  However I don’t really have any disposable cash right now.  So I signed up for an online “game” called Wall Street Survivor.  It let’s you use pretend money to pretend to buy real stocks using real market data.

I bought 5 shares in Apple at $104.88 apiece.  As I’m writing this post they’ve gone up 5.13% and I’ve made a cool $26.90. 

What I’m interested in is what will happen tomorrow after Apple’s big press conference.  They’re announcing new laptops and maybe some other things.  Analysts are expecting stock value to jump if they announce cool stuff or to drop even further if things are just so-so.

Anyways, I’m trying out some other fake stocks too.  For a couple of trades I just copied the guys ranked highly in the “game” section.  They must know what they’re doing.

The idea is that by the time I’ve saved a few dollars I will have learned enough to not completely waste my hard-earned scrilla.

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I am awaiting the arrival of three items:

1. Art

I ordered a Jumbo Print of Christopher Walken building a robot in his basement.  Brandon Bird paints funny paintings.

2. Night Vlogging Kit

I ordered a Do-It-Yourself LED Camera Light Kit.  Attaching this little number to the bottom of your digital camera allows you to film in total darkness.

Why does this kind of scare me?  It means Party Video is now a viable option.

What did people want that was missing from my Paris Fashion Week video blogs?  Celebrities.  I only saw them in dark clubs.

I’ve been thinking this over… do I really want to try to become The Cobrasnake of video?

Maybe.  Here’s what I would like to do, I want to put together a demo-reel of my Paris stuff, maybe some other funny things, and submit it to Nylon, Paper, etc.  and try to get a job as their web-video-correspondent for next NYC Fashion Week.  I think that would be very, very fun.

I don’t want to be a reporter, people can get facts anywhere.  I think my talents are giving people a story, making friends and finding exciting things to do.  I think that kids who read fashion blogs would really be into my outsider-goes-insider/normal-guy-living-the-dream perspective.  So why not give it a try?

Plus being that this is a kit I get to solder it together myself.  If nothing else that is worth it.

3. Earphones

My third pair of Tunebuds Mobiles are on their way.  The first two died.  Good thing for warranties.  I don’t really dig the standard iPhone headphones.  These are the cheapest in-ear alternative with a microphone.  They’re okay. 

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I missed a phone call from Rogers yesterday. The voicemail said that I needed to call them about some unusual usage on my account.

When I got my new iPhone I signed up for the $30/month, 6GB data package. I called them back and found that the data package had not actually been applied to my account.

I had used around 450 Mb of data which translated to around $15,000 in charges. I actually started laughing out loud when Sheryl (the surprisingly very nice lady I was talking to) told me that.

I told her what package I was supposed to have and she fixed everything right away.

Although it was kind of interesting to note that the number I phoned back to was Rogers Executive Services and that I got a real person after pressing one key. On the regular Rogers service line you get a computer for the first three minutes and then put on hold for the next seven. It pays to be an executive.

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I’m kind of interested in this sweater.  But maybe not $19,000 interested….

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