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Loblaws Click & Click - My First Experience (Review)

The last few weeks as I have been leaving my local Loblaws I have seen ads all over talking about Click & Collect.  I don't know what this is, but in my usual apathetic fashion I ignore it and move on with my life. The last time I went grocery shopping I see a video while I'm waiting in line - my interest is piqued. "Can it really be that easy?" I ask myself with a moderate amount of glee.  I love these sorts of "innovations" - shopping online is great - it's easy, comfortable, gives me time to think, and, best of all, I don't have to deal with random people (no offense random people, I'm sure you're very nice!). The website is set up a bit like Netflix with horizontal scrolling food options.  Each "aisle" has its own page with categories within the aisle shown.  Only a subset of each category is shown and you can delve deeper to see all the possibilities.  You can also search for specific items instead of clicking th
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This Week in Dave (December 1st to 8th, 2013)

So I've decided to try and sum up my week and get into the habit of blogging with the hope that eventually something useful to others will come out of it.  I will do my best to make this brief.

This week was reasonably busy and exciting.  It started with the first trivia night offered by The Brooklyn (their Twitter or Facebook).  Our team pulled together, but alas, it wasn't enough to take the win in any of the rounds despite our best attempts.  We had some delicious beers (pictured with a vodka cranberry (to add colour?)).


Their was a power outage at Queen's University, where I work / study, on Tuesday because of a squirrel of all things.  The outage only lasted ~20 minutes for most.  Our lab is equipped with an emergency power backup, so thankfully we still had internet and power for external monitors (the sarcasm likely does not come through appropriately here).

I started a Coursera online course aimed at developing Android apps.  I always assumed the learning curve for writing apps would be quite steep and was intimidated by the reasonably complicated setup of even the most rudimentary program.  I am hoping this course will set me straight (or at least put me on the right track).  So far I can display "Hello World!" on my phone's screen, so it's a start!

The trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 came out this week.  I enjoyed the first movie in this reboot and it looks like the second will include Rhino, Electro, and the Green Goblin.  We also get a peek at what looks like The Vulture's "suit" (wings?) and Doc Ock's arms around 1:18 into the trailer (pictured here).  I'm going to assume that they will be showing up in later movies.



Big News - my roommate successfully completed his comprehensive exam / proposal defense and is now officially a PhD candidate.  He is pictured here (at The Brooklyn none the less) looking very candidate-esque.


I have been reading comics a reasonable amount lately with Marvel Unlimited, a digital subscription.  They have an Android app that was broken with Android 4.4 (Kitkat), but is now fixed.  This is exciting news as my Nexus 7 recently updated and I was no longer able to enjoy a comic pre-bed (sad day indeed!).

This weekend I was ill with some kind of stomach bug and have recovered as of today.  I made pancakes for the first time all by my self to celebrate - they contained delicious apple chunks.

Lastly,  I went out for supper at Megalos with a friend tonight (Sunday) who was in town for work.  It was a delightful evening and nice to be able to catch up.
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