by Brian Garside | Apr 16, 2017 | Movies and TV
On Friday April 14th, I set my iPad up with the live stream of Star Wars Celebration in time for the 11am The Last Jedi trailer. Josh Gad hosted Kathleen Kennedy, Rian Johnson, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, newcomer Kelly Marie Tran, and finally, Luke Skywalker himself,...
by Brian Garside | Apr 5, 2017 | Business
I was on LinkedIn recently, when I read a post from a friend of mine. He was appalled by the fact that during a recent job search, he didn’t hear back from more than 90% of the places he applied to. He also shared a note he got back – 3 months later...
by Brian Garside | Mar 19, 2017 | Comics
Bernie Wrightson passed away on Saturday night after a long battle with brain cancer. He was 68 years old. He was best known as a comics illustrator who was instrumental in the horror comics of the 60’s and 70’s, and as the co-creator of the Swamp Thing...
by Brian Garside | Jan 16, 2017 | Business, Our Family
Each year I write a review and goals blog post, these posts help me to look back on the year, and figure out what I want to do going forward. There have been a few years I didn’t write these posts, and I regret those years as I can’t look back and figure...
by Brian Garside | Sep 7, 2016 | Comics
I’ve been going to Fan Expo Canada with Kaylin and Maks for the last three years. They’ve both reached the age where we can manage to do the entire show floor with a minimal amount of whining, and it’s fun. I decided about five years ago that I...
by Brian Garside | Sep 4, 2016 | Games
It’s hard to believe, but we stopped working on BalanceDo two years ago. In order to truly wind down, I bought a game that had just come out two weeks before. I had loved the Halo series, but hadn’t really played a game fully since GTA IV, and Destiny...
by Brian Garside | Aug 31, 2016 | Internet
I want to start this post out by saying how hard this decision was for me, and how much I hated doing it. For the better part of a decade I worked for a large Canadian media company. In my division, all of our revenue was generated by Advertising, so ad dollars paid...
by Brian Garside | Aug 26, 2016 | Business
A year ago I walked out of the Info-Tech Research Group for the last time as an employee, and walked into my new career as a small business owner. It’s been an incredible year, and I’m doing things now I couldn’t have imagined a year ago. So what...
by Brian Garside | Aug 23, 2016 | Movies and TV
Don’t believe the negative press, it’s a good fun ride with strong performances, awesome characters and great moments for each character. Liam and I talked at length about the movie on Sequential Fiction Episode 38 – Suicide Squad. There are amazing...
by Brian Garside | Aug 22, 2016 | Movies and TV
Something has happened in this last year, it might be because we saw the depths of idiocy with Rob Ford acting like a laughing stock, or it may be that we looked into the eyes of Stephen Harper and found him lacking. It might be because we elected a fourty-something...
