Dress

After consideration, I would choose this dress as my fav look from this year's Oscars. It has texture and photographs well under harsh light:

Margot Robbie wearing Tom Ford

Get_a_CoaT

Turning Pink

The results are truly dramatic: I have been using a SPF50 Coppertone sunscreen everyday, my Lancôme tint on sunny days and staying indoors mid-day. My complexion is turning pink and those freckles and brown spots are disappearing. The oily spots on my skin are also starting to go and I am getting the results I have always though I deserved from my healthy fruit and veg diet.

Well done everybody!

Woa!

Smug

For once, Canada is smug. We are the ones with a young well-oiled government.

Because for all the consternation on the parts of pundits commenting the American
Presidential election, the core issue is not Left or Right, it is senility. We are hearing
the mad inner dialogue of the old:  win, win, win...build a wall...lies like a dog...and so
forth. B. Sanders, H. Clinton and D. Trump are the major contenders left, and all
three are retirement age. And they have arguably cleared the decks of opposition by
blurting stuff out. What about that server...

I haven't checked Congress on the age question, but their behaviour has been pretty
childish as well: shutting down the government, and now declaring up front they won't
allow the nomination of a new Supreme Court Justice. It is not as if they could argue
this would be pre-emptive. Just well, because.

American media seem at a lost in dealing with this. Youngins!!!

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Dinner-Call

Was reading a restaurant review in the Guardian this morning, and here's the twist:
a restaurant where the queue is virtual; you get to go for a drink or coffee and they text you when your table is ready. How awesome is that:

Then a friend told me the queue was fine after 9pm, so I went along. The friend was wrong. We were told there would be a 30-minute wait, so you’d expect me to be grouchy. But no. Having experienced the way a little bit of tech was used to manage it, and weighing up the impact on pricing at a restaurant able to keep its tables constantly full, I’m going to recant. No-reservation restaurants are fine when, as here, the place is surrounded by good bars and cafés and they use a text system to call you to your table from nearby. And yes, I’m told this has been in use elsewhere for a while now, but what the hell would I know about that given I don’t queue?
The point is I did queue for Hoppers, albeit in a very civilised manner, over an espresso with a shot of Amaretto in it at Bar Italia across the road. I’m glad I did. Inside, the space, formerly the Koya noodle bar, has been panelled in glossy wood. There’s rattan on the ceiling, old movie posters on the walls and Ikea plates on the tables. It feels like they’ve done it over with a tight eye on the bottom line for which again, hurrah. I hate going out for dinner and paying an enormous bill to fund the interior designer’s mortgage.

Jay Rayner, Hoppers

February 21, 2016.

Sharp One

Here is a first impressions on the new Samsung phones presented in Barcelona.
The review is nice, and the phone - long the favourite of Android gamers, for its
visual sharpness - seems awesome. In Canada, the Edge might be coming in at
1 050$.