Hi all, I wanted to give my thoughts on the Chobani Flip Cinnamon French Toast flavor. I picked this up at my local Wegmans in Williamsville, New York a month ago.
My Statement on the Wegmans Facial Recognition COntroversy
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Maple flavored Chobani® Greek Yogurt with cinnamon rice crisps, maple flavored cookies, and fudge bark. Made with only natural ingredients.
Unlike the other new flavor I tried (you can read about Chocolate Haze Craze here), Cinnamon French Toast is surprisingly good! A light mapley yogurt (which they really should just make as a standalone flavor because its SO good) with cinnamony bits is a hoot and a half. If I had one issue with it, it would be that the cinnamon itself is super muted (nonexistent).
I’ve been trying to get back into casual photography over the past six months. Unfortunately, photography can be a pretty expensive hobby, so I am pretty grateful that I got a Charmera over the holidays to play around with!
What is a Charmera?
A Charmera is a popular keychain camera, which have grown in popularity over the past couple of years. This one is pretty expensive for a 1 megapixel sensor, but it comes in a blind box with six different designs, including one ultra rare design! It’s perfect for consumerists such as myself.
Unfortunately for me, I got this blue one that I don’t mind, but don’t love either. If anyone has a cool one (the yellow or red) and wants to trade, do let me know!
Now that I’ve been seriously using this camera for slightly over a month, here are three things I’ve learned about the camera, and photography in general:
Wow, this camera has no stabilization!
Everything is shaky, especially if you have stress tremors like me. Snap more than one photo because it’s a huge gamble on which photo will not be slightly blurry.
Don’t count on a good sunset
Surprisingly, low-light performance is slightly better than what you’d expect on this camera. What isn’t good however, is any photo taken during dusk. The camera is not good at picking up a large light range and will end up overexposing the entire photo as a result. Shadows still work, but focus on even lighting in your photos.
People are WAY better to shoot than non-animated subjects
For some reason, photos with people really pop out with this camera. I believe it’s because it softens out silhouettes and faces, which really helps with the crappy look of the cameras.
TrTried
Ultimately, I have really enjoyed using the Charmera, despite all of the issues I’ve faced with the formatting with the SD card. The camera works particularly well with street photography and those candid moments that come and ago, and I’ll continue using it for that purpose. Looking forward to exploring photography more and being mindful of the photos I take!
Hi all, I wanted to give my thoughts on the Chobani Flip Chocolate Haze Craze flavor. I recently picked this up at my local Wegmans in Williamsville, New York.
Crunchy hazelnuts and milk chocolate chips tumble in chocolate hazelnut Chobani® Greek Yogurt. Crafted for everyone from only natural ingredients.
This is kind of gross. The chocolate hazelnut Greek yogurt continue to disgust me (see Peanut Butter Cup). It’s like a really mildly flavorless paste of sorts, colored brown in a way that really makes you think about the food you put in your body. The hazelnuts were a bit stale and cold, because I put them in the refrigerator.
The most offensive part of the hazelnuts however, was the fact that it was flavorless. Just a moist, crunchy texture in your yogurt. The milk chocolate chips were fine, nothing offensive.
3/10. One point over the Peanut Butter Cup because the yogurt is barely less offensive.
Last Sunday, I had the pleasure of visiting Toronto’s latest waterfront park, Biidaasige Park. Biidaasige, which roughly translates to Sunlight Shining Towards Us in Anishinaabemowin, is the flagship park of the Port Lands Redevelopment program. The program is a decades long project to redevelop the Toronto Port Lands into a livable, mixed-use community, whilst restoring the Don River to a more naturalized form.
The park is a 60-acre green space lining the Don River’s new river mouth, with a variety of amenities to encourage playful interactions with our natural environment.
What I loved
There’s a lot of love about this park. The park is intended to be a centerpiece of a massive trail system in the Port Lands, which connects all corners of the city. I particularly liked the variety of trails, which are segregated between faster modes of transportation (bikes) and hikers / walkers. A variety of road surfaces were used as well, which really helps encourage different activities and speeds throughout each area of the park.
The children’s areas were also playfully designed, with a great variety of swing structures, and even a whole cable structure for kids to play with! There’s also a outdoor fitness center, which is perfect for adults to take advantage of the open space around us.
The park also features many connection points to the river, which gives it an innate connection to the water. On my day at the park, I saw a lot of people sitting at the river edge, and surprisingly a lot of paddlers. It’s a park that faces the water instead of retreating from it, which I hope helps people realize the connections we have with the land.
Overall, the park was well designed, with a lot of natural interaction spaces between different groups of people. Although it lacks the traditional open space you’d see in most city parks, it still promotes open play with the large variety of different hang out spaces. The two addition of open leash areas are also useful for fencing off dog areas, which is important as not everyone is a fan of dogs.
What I Disliked
Surprisingly, there’s not a lot of things I dislike about the park, but one important thing to remember is that the park is the centerpiece of a community that doesn’t exist yet. As a result, it is very difficult to get to this park. There’s ample connections on the Martin Goodman Trail, but very limited transit access. On the day that I visited, many visitors chose to drive to the site. Currently, it’s a 15-ish minute walk from the closest residential development, which makes it hard to access. This will eventually improve with the development of the community, but serves as a slight barrier of access to the rest of the city.
Bike Share access also leaves much to be desired, with only two bike share stations nearby (not even at the park). I wish the Toronto Parking Authority was more coordinated with the launch of the park to build out two Bike Share stations nearby. I saw many people waiting for Bike Share slots to open up since it was crowded and many people chose to use Bike Share to the park.
What I Learned
Building a park is hard and people will probably be critical about it, no matter how nice the park is. Also, Bike Share is 100% a victim of it’s own success, and I’d appreciate it if they could be better at bike distribution during large, preplanned events. Thanks!
It’s a partly cloudy day, with a low of 60°F and a high of 72°F. Wind is a maximum of 10 mph gusts. Dew point is around 50°F – 55°F. Slight moments of shade but still really great lighting.
FEELING
The temperature should be on the cusp of feeling a bit chilly if sitting still. It should feel comfortable with a 30 minute walk without sweating. At night, it shouldn’t feel explicitly cold, but chilly at times.
Wear
Layers should be possible for tops, bottoms can be shorts or long pants. Sweatshirt with shorts weather.
