Podcamp Toronto is happening this weekend Saturday February 25th and Sunday February 26th

 

     Sunday February 26th  Room 185

It’s not surprising that most podcasts out there are single hosted podcasts. It’s not easy to find someone who matches your energy and shares your values despite personal views and experiences not to mention complete different cultural backgrounds. That was not the case with us (Jim and Hisham). Back when we started our podcast (Quantumly Leaping), we did not expect anyone to listen but we’ve got some loyal audience with decent following.

In this session we share how we started our nearly no-cost podcast, and successfully co-hosted it discussion topics that most other podcasters won’t come near. The challenges, the long preparation debates and the success. Learn how host or co-host your podcast for almost zero cost. Let’s quantumly leap into this experience together.

Key Take Aways

• Dr. Strange and the beginning of a partnership with a bumpy road.
• The Road to Load: 18 months in the process of making a podcast.
• COVID-19 and the birth of Quantumly Leaping Podcast: Challenges, opportunities and victories.
• The Rigmarole in the Rabbit Hole: How we chose some tough rabbit-hole style topics yet quantumly leaped out of them intact.
• If We Did it then You Can: Starting a successful podcast with no-cost.

Checkout the Quantumly Leaping Podcast  Learn more and subscribe

Podcast Promo S01 Episode 00

                                                  

COVID-19 Living under Quarantine (S01 E01)

                                      

ChatGPT: What executives really need to know | Executive Webinar | Tech Horizons : Segment Review

 Jim Pagiamtzis Review:

It was amazing session that Jimmy Lin shared insights on ChatGPT.  Amazing insights and provided answers to some great questions!

                                                        10 out of 10 stars

ChatGPT: What executives really need to know | Executive Webinar | Tech Horizons

                                                       

Since the release of Open AI’s ChatGPT, the popular press has been buzzing with wild speculation about the nature and extent of the disruptions that generative AI will have on business, government, and society. In this free webinar, University of Waterloo AI subject matter expert, Jimmy Lin, separated myth from reality and highlighted the plausible impacts that ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies will have on Canadian businesses and industries. Lin also offered early indicators on how these technologies may evolve and emphasized the implications for business models, work processes, and talent management.

Worry - Free Money The Guilt Free Approach to Managing Your Money and Your Life: Book Revew

                                                                                          

Jim's Review

Shannon Lee Simmons delivers a cool book with client stories that prove her insights on money management done correctly yields results.

8 out of 10 stars

About book

Get rid of your debt without giving up your life

No one wants to be in debt. But life happens and if you’ve got debt, life has happened to you. Whether you have a rolling balance of $2,000 on your credit card or an $80,000 line of credit you are positive you will carry to your grave, debt can be a huge cause of stress—affecting both your emotional and financial wellness.learn more and buy book

Love is the killer App: Book Review

                                                                                         

                                                                                 Jim's Review

     This a thin book with a powerful message that Tim Sanders delivers with lots of strategies, tip and resources

                                                               10 out of 10 stars

                                                                                  About book

Are you wondering what the next killer app will be? Do you want to know how you can maintain and add to your value during these rapidly changing times? Are you wondering how the word love can even be used in the context of business?

Instead of wondering, read this book and find out how to become a lovecat—a nice, smart person who succeeds in business and in life.

How do you become a lovecat? By sharing your intangibles. By that I mean:
Your knowledge: everything that comes from all the books that I’ll encourage you to devour.
Your network: the collection of friends and contacts you now have, which I’ll teach you how to grow and nurture.
Your compassion: that human warmth you already possess—in these pages I’ll convince you that you can show it freely at the office.

What happens when you do all this?
* You become a rich source of information to all around you.
* You are seen as a person with valuable insight.
* You are perceived as generous to a fault, producing surprise and delight.
* You double your business intelligence in one year.
* You triple your network of personal relationships in two years.
* You quadruple the number of colleagues in your life who love you like family.

In short, you become one of those amazing, outstanding people to whom everyone turns, who leads rather than follows, who never runs out of ideas, contacts, or friendship.

Here’s the real scoop: Nice guys don’t finish last. They rule!  Learn more and buy book

The "Insider Secrets" to Marketing Your Business on the Internet: Course Review

                                                                                     

          The beginning of 2023 has been very exciting year so far and it started in mid January when I came across this course in a local book library in my neighbourhood.

    It took a few weeks to go through the material and in the end I learn lots of great strategies, tips on how to market my business on the internet

 Look forward to using the resources to get some amazing results! 

                                                           10 out of 10 stars

                          

Antman at the Wasp Quantumania (2023): Movie Review

                                                                                                       

Jim's Review

Scott Lang ( Paul Rudd ) is back and he is trying to enjoy life with his daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton) and Evangeline Lilly (Hope Van Dyne),  Janet Van Dyne ( Michelle Pfeiffer ) and Hank Pym (Michael Douglas)

They are all having some quality family time as Scott Lang is enjoy success with his book and Hope Van Dyne is changing the world with new science.

The family time goes from bad to worse as Cassis Lang has been making innovations with a new device and quantum realm. This doesn't sit well with Janet Van Dyne who want her to stop it immediately as she has many secrets the she has not shared with the family as the time she spent in the quantum realm.

The quickly get all zapped and meet Kang The Conqueror  (Jonathan Majors) who has been stuck in the quantum realm and is been wanting to escape for long time. A version of Kang has already made an appearance in Loki Season 1 that version was very diplomatic.

All is explained about Kang and his journey and soon the real adventure begins by everyone to get back to the real world

There are lots of cool surprises with new character being introduced and some old one making a strange new appearance  M.O.D.O.K (Corey Stoll) who was yellow jacket in the the first film.

The look and feel of the quantum realm and has a Star Wars look and feel which makes it pleasure to watch and admire!

The story does move along as sacrifices will made by everyone and it will have impact on a few of them.

The climatic end will feature some cool antics by Scott Lang, Cassie Lang and Hank Pym who will bring in some cool reinforcements!

In the end Kang The Conqueror has only been delayed and will make his next appearance in Avengers The Kang Dynasty due out in 2025.

9 out of 10 stars

 

Post credit scene read more

Movie plot

Ant-Man and the Wasp find themselves exploring the Quantum Realm, interacting with strange new creatures and embarking on an adventure that pushes them beyond the limits of what they thought was possible.

       Post credit Scene explained

 

      

                                                           

              

The Doodle Revolution: Book Review

                                                                   

Jim's Review

It was an amazing experience to read this book and do the exercises! 

Sunni Brown created a step-by-step process on how to become a doodler with clear and concise instructions on building on a gradual manner.

Started from stick figures to creating stories with words and characters.

You can call Mr Doodle

10 out of 10 stars

About book

There is NO SUCH THING as a mindless doodle

What did Einstein, JFK, Edison, Marie Curie, and Henry Ford have in common? They were all inveterate doodlers. These powerhouse minds knew instinctively that doodling is deep thinking in disguise-a simple, accessible, and dynamite tool for innovating and solving even the stickiest problems.

Sunni Brown's mission is to bring the power of the Doodle to the rest of us. She leads the Revolution defying all those parents, teachers, and bosses who say Stop doodling! Get serious! Grow up! She overturns misinformation about doodling, demystifies visual thinking, and shows us the power of applying our innate visual literacy. She'll teach you how to doodle any object, concept, or system imaginable, shift habitual thinking patterns, and transform boring text into displays that can engage any audience.

Sunni Brown was named one of the "100 Most Creative People in Business" and one of the "10 Most Creative People on Twitter" by Fast Company. She is founder of a creative consultancy, an international speaker, the co-author of Gamestorming, and the leader of a global campaign for visual literacy called The Doodle Revolution. Her TED Talk on doodling has drawn more than a million views on TED.com. Her work on visual literacy and gaming has been featured in over 35 nationally-syndicated news programs and reported on in The Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, the BBC, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, etc. She lives in Keep Austin Weird, Texas. learn more and buy book

Hoax The Kidnapping of Sherri Papini (2023):Movie Review

                                                                                  

Jim's Review

Sherri Papini (Jaime King) disappears for 3 weeks and later reappears and her story draws attention and results in unbelievable hoax!

7 out of 10 stars

About film

Young mother Sherri Papini disappears while jogging and reappears three weeks later on Thanksgiving Day. She claims that two Hispanic women kidnapped and abused her. Four years later, new evidence reveals that her abduction was a hoax she perpetrated to spend time with an ex-boyfriend.

National Treasure - Edge of History (2022): Movie Review

                                                                                           

Jim's Review

National Treasure Edge of History continues the sage with new cast and amazing adventures

7 out of 10 stars

About film

Jess, a brilliant and resourceful dreamer, searches for answers about her family; she embarks on the adventure of a lifetime to uncover the truth about the past and save a lost Pan-American treasure.

Chat GPT has arrived and is make news! : Feature article

      The arrival of Chat GPT has created more drama online and offline that I have every seen!

     2023 has arrived and there is a new digital service making the waves online Chat GPT

     Highly recommend you try it and be open to the possibilities!!!!             

                                                        

  

           1st Question 

            What is Chat GPT

        

                                             

Looking for Jim Season 3 Episode 1: Mini Series Review

The much anticipated Look for Jim Season 3 Episode 1 has finally arrived in February 2023

Looking for Jim Season 3 Episode 1 Jim Pagiamtzis & Jim Carey celebrating birthday at the movies! In season 3 episode 1 Jim Pagiamtzis and Jim Carey visit Cineplex Theatres in Downtown Toronto (Yonge and Dundas) to celebrate actor Jim Carrey's Birthday which was on January 16th and to watch James Cameron's much anticipated sequel to Avatar (2009) Avatar The Way of Water (2022) and to do a gift exchange between us of ACTRA (movie union in Canada) and Toronto International Film Festival 2022 gifts. 0:00-0:003 opening credits 0:26 Jim Pagiamtzis and Jim Carey sing Happy Birthday to Jim Carrey celebrating his 61st birthday on January 17th. 0:40 Jim Pagiamtzis gives Jim Carey Actra bag full of cool memorabilia. Mug, book, frisbee and cool socks from Jim Pagiamtzis mom! 2:10 Jim Carey gives Jim Pagiamtzis Toronto International Film Festival volunteer shirt from 2022 (Jim Pagiamtzis volunteered in 2016) 2:50 Jim Pagiamtzis and Jim Carey shares insights on Avatar The Way of Water 3:50 TIFF22 shirt 3:58 Jim Pagiamtzis and Jim Carey and Avatar The Way of Water poster 4:05 Jim Pagiamtzis and Jim Carey and the Avatar The Way of Water massive standee in the lobby of the theatre 4:06 credits 4:22 Closing credits

                                              

Jim Pagiamtzis (left) and Jim Carey (right) at Toronto International Film Festival in September 2022

Knock at the Cabin (2023): Movie Review

                                                                                          

Jim's Review

Knock at the Cabin is a movie that starts of very interesting and by the end I was confused and mystified.

M. Night Shyamalan is a gifted director with movie classics my favorite Signs (2002) with Mel Gibson, Jaoquin Phoenix with stellar performances! 

6 out of 10 stars

About film

While vacationing at a remote cabin in the woods, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand they make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. Confused, scared and with limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.

Black Panther Car: Feature article

 

   It was September 2022 and I was at Crossroads Mall on a Sunday morning when I saw a car like no other I have ever seen.

   Honda decorated with Black Panther 

   enjoy the photos below

                                                                                   

On the Line (2022): Movie Review

                                                                                                  

Jim's Review

Elvis (Mel Gibson) is a late night radio host with some edge until he gets a call that turns everyone on there head. 

It turns into a game of cat and mouse until the climatic end when it comes to an end that you will not expect!

7 out of 10 stars

About film

A provocative and edgy radio host must play a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a mysterious caller who's kidnapped his family and is threatening to blow up the whole station.

A Little Bit Broken -A Memoir: Book Review

                                                                           

Jim's Review

This is a very serious and personal book that Roz shares all his faults and choices he made the ramifications he had to deal with.

The first half of the book was very intense to read and try to understand what Roz Weston did to himself and  survive!

From his dad and his working life in full force. The last part of the book the pieces are explained and the person he became was still little broken but alive with a new purpose.

The climatic chapter will bring it home with love and understamding by everyone.

9.25 out of 10*

*could resist doing KISS 92.5 is radio station Roz works on

** we do have few things in common I also did witness fight at wedding and worked for two videos stores!

About book

It never gets better, but it does get easier. That's the first thing Roz says to anyone who asks him for advice. Anyone who's fighting like hell, just hanging on or putting the pieces back together. When you're broken, fixed becomes an obsession. 

Roz is a multi-platform entertainer and storyteller who hosts three shows a day and sleeps five hours a night. On The Roz & Mocha Show, ET Canada Live and Entertainment Tonight Canada Roz built an audience and turned them into family. But as with most families, there is just some shit we don't talk about. 

From growing up in a small town to getting lost, drunk and terrified in New York while interning for The Howard Stern Show; from finding comfort in the arms and beds of strangers to kicking an opioid addiction he didn't know he had; from broken bones to broken hearts and a broken marriage. From navigating grief and guilt following the devastating loss of his father to persevering in the face of an ongoing and private battle with his own body. All is shared in Roz's disarming signature blend of blunt truth and humour.

A Little Bit Broken is a deeply personal and inspiring account of self-forgiveness, redemption and recovering from bad choices—because let's face it, the reason we make bad choices is that they usually feel really good. And Roz has made them all. "This book is the whole story I've never shared before. . . . This is the shit we don’t talk about. Welcome to the family."learn more and buy book

The Insider Secrets to Marketing your Business on the Internet: Course Review

              In mid January I came across this amazing course in local book library in my neighborhood.

             I have started to read it and look forward to applying the strategies in these to volumes and make some serious money $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

         Stay tuned....

                        

                                                                              

Jim's Review

Strategies, tips and expert advice to succeed in building a profitable online business!

10 out of 10 stars

The Boys Cup from Season 3: Feature article

   The Boys Season 3 Episode 8

  In the last scene of Episode 8 Butcher walks into the room holding Dawn of the Seven cup that he was drinking and eventually puts it in the garbage bin.

  The little back story is I have been on the Boys since season 1, filmed in Toronto it has been a great experience to meet most of the actors in person.

  In the scene we appeared I was given the Dawn of the Seven cup as a prop and at the end of the scene one my fellow actors dared me to take it with me!  So I accepted the challenge and walked out with it. 

 How I did will unfortunately remain a secret!

 

                                                                      

The Marveled: Feature article

 

         Simply Marvelous!

         I collected comics when I was in my early 20's and have been a Marvel fan every since.  Marvel hit the big screen in 2008 with Iron Man and more title have followed  32 and counting...

                It was great honor to meet Stan Lee twice!  The first time was in late 90's at comic conference and then later on in 2016 at the Fan Expo in Toronto, we met him numerous times in multiple elevators because he used motorized vehicle to move around.

 

             In recent year Marvel Studios has brought so many movies to the silver screen and to streaming.  Moon Knight season 1, Wandavision and Loki were huge success.

  Most recent Marvel Studios and Kevin Fiege announced that they will take it easy on the number of titles being release from a fire hose to more a small release schedule and special presentation.

      

              Stan Lee has done many interviews regarding his career creating this characters.

              I look forward to sharing some small facts you may not be aware of in articles called The Marveled Insight you may have missed...

                                                                                       

The iconic Stan Lee

Captian America and Thanos Bend and Flex

my desk at work all with Marvel Memorabilia

                                                                                     Marvle mini comics and Marvel towel

Jim Pagiamtzis Infinity War shirt and Captain America Hat

Red Stripe Jamaican Beer: Beer Review

                                                                                                

Jim's Review

Red Stripe is Jamaican Beer 330ml

rating 2 out 5 stars

John Tavares 1000 games played: Feature article

 

   John Tavares Captain of the Toronto Maples Leafs in his 4th season with the Leafs played his 1000th games earlier this week and was celebrated at home with fans, friends and family in attendance.

     John Tavares originally started with the New York Islanders in 2008 and came to the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2018 has been welcomed addition to the team.

    John Tavares has many more games to play and hopefully can bring the Stanley Cup to Toronto.

  Congratulation John Tavares on 1000 games played