Archive for the ‘Play’ Category
- Bubble!
If you have not heard of in bubble wrap, drop by today
- The PEZ MP3 player
The PEZ MP3 player – A dream project now a reality from a Maker.
Pat Misterovich is a stay-at-home dad with a one-person company. He had a Dream – to make an MP3 player that looks like a PEZ dispenser. He had been reading an article about a guy who turned an Altoids tin into iPod speakers. Out of curiosity he asked PEZ if they might be willing to license their brand for such a thing. They did not think he was crazy and so was the PEZ MP3 player born. Make Magazine chronicled Pat’s progress and today you too can buy a PEZ MP3 player.
- Play
The Silver Orange team is organizing their 3rd annual frisbee tournament in PEI in September. I would love to attend and play! May be there is a race I can complete too? Would be nice to see Daniel and the team again.
- Ticket Master Woes
I just can’t cope. I tried to buy tickets for the RUFF film festival this evening at the Royal Cinema. Ruff is the film festival put together by Ryerson University in Toronto for its graduating film studies students. Canada’s future Film Makers. I want to go but I can’t stand buying the tickets from Ticketmaster. I need to buy 6 tickets, Ticketmaster charges a “convenience fee” of $1.98 per ticket – even when you buy all the tickets at once. The “convenience fee” really means convenience for Ticketmaster because you fill out the form, you select the tickets, you input your credit card info etc. But… that’s not the end of the fees, when you check out, there is another $2.50 fee added to the entire total. This time the fee is a “transaction fee”. I just don’t understand how a university can do this to its student body: to buy a $9 dollar ticket for an event, you get to spend $1.98 + $2.50 = $4.48 for the privilege. And that’s not the end of the adventure: you need to pick up the tickets at a Ticketmaster booth, no electronic ticket, no electronic receipt that you can use as a reference to get into the event. You still need to rely on a little bit of paper that you pick up and take with you to the event. Oh boy! I mean if even airlines can issue an electronic ticket for travel why can’t Ticketmaster? What gives?
I can’t do it. I won’t do it.
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