The movie industry has done an awesome job lately converting comic books into movies.  Just look at this last year with The Dark Knight and Ironman.  Both were absolute blockbusters and starred some of the industries best talent.  They even managed to appeal to people who had no idea about the comics.  I stumbled upon a list at King-Mag that has comics that will never get to screen.  In fact, I have no fucking idea how they made it to print!  These are some stupid, and disturbing comic book covers.  Click this LINK for the entire list at King-Mag.  Below are some of the better covers off that list.

*Archie vs The Punisher…right…that’s fair.

*The girl who loved the swastika…that sounds like a movie waiting to happen!

*Hahahaa…Pedophiles everywhere are waiting for this one!

*Whatever club this person is a bouncer at…remind me not to go there!

Most of you are back at work this morning.  For some of you, this is the first day at work for 2009.  SUCKERS!  I am kidding.  But, I am not at work.  As I mentioned earlier, I will be starting school next week at this time.  So this week is spent just tying up some odds and ends.  Like, I need to buy something to haul my books around.  Seriously, the last time I needed one of those was high school!  Anyways, on to other matters.  Will I be trading anytime soon?  I would love to, but the market movements will determine my timing.  I definitely won’t have time tonight.  Canada is playing Sweden for gold in the World Junior Hockey Championships.  This is an  awesome hockey tournament played every year at this time.  I will be watching the game at a friends place.  That is definitely not a time to be looking at Forex charts.  But, you never know!  I might try some day time trading later in the week.  I don’t trust myself to jump into that right at the start of the year.  So, what can I offer you today?  I thought about giving you something totally mindless.  Something to get your mind of work.  Then I thought about being more helpful than that.  How about something that is kinda funny, but also provides you valuable information.  I got this from XKCD and it is an extremely handy chart!  This is especially true for those of you in the States.

Well, it has been a while since I had something to bitch about.  I am done work, about to start school and I had an awesome Christmas.  What could possibly get me in a pissy mood?  Men’s Health and Rodale Books.  I was always happy to get my monthly issue of Men’s Health.  I love the magazine.  It is always packed with awesome fitness and nutrition tips and the thing is a bargain when you subscribe for the year.  In fact, my year subscription was a gift from my girlfriends sister.  A great gift.  At the end of the year they proved to be a little more sleazy than I first thought.  Every month you are sure to get a million little papers with your magazine that offer the world if you renew or order some other materials.  You ditch them in the trash because they are in the way of your magazine.  Apparently one of these little sheets had an offer for a free trial of the Men’s Health Fitness Guide.  It’s a two book set packed with all the info you need to be awesome.  Already being awesome, I didn’t need the books so there is no way I would order them.  Well, they decided to send them to me anyways!  This is what they call the free trial.  They send them to you whether you want them or not.  You get 21 days to decide if you want them or not.  Sure enough, they send you an invoice to follow shortly.  I just got my damn invoice for $65 that I have no intention of paying.  The best part is that there is no pre-paid return envelope or box.  So, they send you these things that you don’t want.  Then, they expect you to return them at your cost!  They have some pretty good nerve over there at Rodale.  Well, I don’t intend to keep the books.  Nor do I intend to pay to return something I never ordered.  If they want these books they can come and get them.  I tried calling on Saturday and was only able to use an automated system to tell them I don’t want the books.  All that got me was a recorded message with the address that I should ship the books back to.  Yeah, they don’t know me too well.  I am far too stubborn to put up with that shit.  I will call during business hours on Monday to see how my luck goes with getting them to pay for the return.  I am sure they will tell me it is my responsibility to pay for the return shipping.  Again, I have far too much money and time on my hands.  I will put them through hell.  If they do not pay for shipping I plan to start shipping them random items from my house as a free preview…and they will have 21 days to return the item or be billed for it.  I am sure that will get me some sort of letter of collections or a letter from a lawyer to stop my actions.  But, I will just get my lawyer to explain that sending items to someone who didn’t request them and then expect that person to pay for shipping them to you is a little bit insane.  Let’s see if Rodale acts like a fair company and recognizes the error in their ways and agrees to pay for this return.  If not, you all are sure to be entertained with my pointless (yet fun) battle over $65 books!

*Here is my lovely set of books that I didn’t want, didn’t order and am now expected to return at my cost

*Here is the lovely little invoice they sent.  Instead of replying with the suggest “No Thank You” I may use the more appropriate “FUCK YOU”

OK, this is pretty cool.  Normally the videos I offer up on this site are either of my bulldog or of people doing stupid things.  Rarely are they educational.  I am changing all that.  Well, only this one time.  I saw this off a Digg link and was very impressed.  This is a video showing how marbles are made.  It sounds pretty boring but it is surprisingly involved.  Enjoy!

This is the big news of 2009!  A few months ago I gave notice to my employers that I was leaving them.  My job was good, my bosses were awesome, I was reasonably well compensated and was given free reign on when to come into the office.  Sounds perfect, doesn’t it?  Last year I turned 30 and I realized that if there is anything else I want to do that the time to make a massive jump was now.  We only get one chance at life and I do not intend to spend it with any regrets.  I would rather try something bold and fail than not try at all.  I am far too head strong to play it safe.  So, what will I be doing?  I know most people would expect that I will go to full time trading.  Well, the thing about that is that my trading style is anything but full time.  I spend like 30 minutes a day looking at charts.  What the hell would I do with the rest of my day?  Even though I plan to jump into stocks later this year, it still isn’t enough to fill a day and make me feel like I have a life.  So, I asked myself a simple question: if I won the lottery, what job would I want to do?  The answer was exactly what I expected it to be.  Firefighter.  I have wanted to be a firefighter since I was a kid.  Somewhere along the lines I decided to seek my fortunes in the business world and lost track of what I actually wanted.  Sometimes your head can get in the way of what you were truly meant to do in this world.  Over the last few years I have found myself thinking about the life of a firefighter more and more.  The challenge was that I would have to take a year off work to go to school.  Here in Ontario there are a couple of colleges that offer a pre-service course that is approved by the Ontario Fire Marshall.  I applied and was accepted late in 2008.  I will spend 2009 as a full time student (and still a part time trader).  My days will be spent studying and working out.  I am definitely looking forward to this new challenge.  At the end of the year, when my program is done, I will have to start applying to fire departments.  It could be a long time before I get on, maybe even a few years.  I have made this my goal and will keep moving forward for as long as it is an option.  The only thing that will stop me is if I have an injury that would not allow me to pass a physical and will not heal.  Short of that I will be a firefighter sometime in the near future.  For those of you who follow this blog you can definitely look forward to a little change of pace.  I will be talking a little more about school, health and fitness.  Of course you will still get all the details of my Forex trades and I still hope to come out with a strategy guide for all of you that will be completely free.  Since the life of a student is rather leisurely, I will be able to spend some time working on developing a strategy for trading stocks.  I will be very careful with this as the stock market isn’t quite as liquid as Forex, so even if I can accurately pick directions I may not be able to find shares at the price I want.  It will be an interesting adventure!  Don’t worry, in between all that serious stuff I still plan to bring you comics and stupid videos.  Happy 2009 everyone!  Hopefully my example can help inspire some of you to take the steps to achieve your goals.  You can either sit there and dream about how nice a change would be, or you can actually do something about it.  You don’t regret the things you did, you regret the things you didn’t do.

uhhhh, last night turned out to be a rough one for me.  I am not going to say I drank too much…but I did get a little sick!  But, that was just at the end of the night right before I went to bed.  I think the sparkling wine threw me for a loop.  As a result I am going to put in zero effort to this post and just throw in an XKCD comic.

It’s new years eve!  The universal drunk night!  I hope everyone has a fun and safe time tonight.  The girl and I will be headed to a friends place for games and drinks.  As always, if something funny happens then I will try to get it on camera.  As promised, I finally uploaded another video of my bulldog.  This time it was two short clips of Chubbs fighting my parents cat.  As you can see, Chubbs was definitely the aggressor.  Although, I am not sure if he ever actually landed any blows.  The cat on the other hand has easily landed about 50 shots to Chubbs.  I need to have the camera ready to go sooner.  Both of these fights had already gone on much longer by the time I got to filming it.  I really wish I had a camera around when they first fought.  Chubbs backed the cat into a corner and the cat delivered and barrage of about 20 punches.  He then flew over the dog and was gone like a ninja.  Chubbs just sat there looking confused as to how he managed to lose control of the situation.  Funny stuff.  Anyways, here is the video.

Gotta love a David Letterman top ten list.  The man sure knows how to rock a list.  I think that he could have easily had about 50-60 items in this particular list.  He decided to focus on George Bush moments caught on tape for this one.  Kinda funny.  I am not sure the man was ever qualified to run a country (or graduate high school) but he sure is good for a laugh.

Sadly, I have no crazy videos or pics from the wedding I went to last night.  Everything worked out well and it was a nice night.  Good for me, bad for you!  That’s OK.  I have a funny video of Chubbs taking on my parents cat.  It was an interesting battle.  I will get it on YouTube later today and then will post it on here.  Right now, I bring you the damn dumbest sign I have seen in a long time.  It is a very North American thing to have signs explaining exactly how to do absolutely everything.  The problem is that this can cause some interesting problems.  I have no idea how to follow the sign below.  I guess you just run through it.

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!  Today is one of my favourite days of the year.  I get stuff.  Lots and lots of stuff.  Hehehe.  I also get to have an extremely lazy day.  I have been lazing around on the couch with Chubbs.  Even he knows it’s a day for rest.  He was out cold during Iron Man.  I got the Blu-Ray from my girlfriends parents.  2 hours of action and the bulldog was fast asleep!  As I type this my mom is rocking the kitchen trying to get all the dishes ready for dinner.  We have our usual dinner with my uncle and cousin coming over.  This is definitely a bad time of year to attempt getting into shape!  Tomorrow is going to be another exciting day as Julie comes back to town and we do our Christmas.  She always gets me a bunch of good stuff, so I am very excited for that.  I will most likely be posting from her place tomorrow and I will show some pics of the presents.  I hope everyone has an awesome day today.  To help you with that, here is a funny little comic that explains where the Xbox 360 got it’s name.