Category: Miscellaneous

This is my newest vector drawing. See the rest of my vector art here.

Memry is a memory flash game that uses Flickr tags to choose images for the game.

The 1918 flu virus, that caused the Spanish Flu Pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza Pandemic, has been recently resurrected by scientists in an effort to understand how the virus works, and to potentially prevent a similar outbreak.

It was the culmination of work that began a decade ago and involved fishing tiny fragments of the 1918 virus from snippets of lung tissue from two soldiers and an Alaskan woman who died in the 1918 pandemic. The soldiers’ tissue had been saved in an Army pathology warehouse, and the woman had been buried in permanently frozen ground.

(via New York Times)

One of my roommates let me know that he is moving out at the end of the month. I will now need to find another roommate. If you or someone you know needs a place to live in Lethbridge let me know.

My parents have a rental property in Medicine Hat that they are also trying to rent – it’s a house in Southridge. The previous tenants did quite a number on the place and didn’t pay for their last couple months either. Eventually they had to be evicted, and now I think my folks have finally got the place ready for new tenants.

I thought I finally figured out what the problem was. For the longest time the colours (or colors if you prefer) on Photoshop were not being displayed properly. What I was getting was a red that looked more like orange. It was red again after I saved, which made things pretty tricky because you never really knew how things were going to turn out until you saved your image.

I should have known better because we even talked about the differences between Mac and PC colours in one of my New Media classes. I just couldn’t remember how to change them, and now that I have changed them I realize it’s still not perfect. As you can see below the color swatch below is still not showing a true red.

What I did to sort of fix the problem was go under the View menu to Proof Setup. Apparently I had set it to Macintosh RGB instead of Monitor RGB. Fixing that made quite a bit of difference, but even though the image itself is right, the color swatches are still not back to the way it should be.

I’m so happy to have it fixed as much as it is. I have tried everything including uninstalling and reinstalling Photoshop but it didn’t help. Hopefully someone will read this post and have another suggestion.

I wish it was this easy.

I played water polo tonight at the university and did I ever totally kick ass! It was great, a real confidence booster since I’ve been feeling somewhat down lately. I just floated from team to team and played in all four matches tonight. I scored so many times tonight and by the end of the last match just to spread the love I would tell my teammates where to swim and setup the shot for them. The other team in that match wasn’t that great but still I was impressed with myself in that every time I told one of the guys or girls on my team where to go they scored… EVERY TIME! It was fantastic. I still had energy; I could have played another 1 or 2 games easy.

Fitting right in with topics I’m often posting about, psychology, religion, and what makes us think the way that we do comes: THE VAGARIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE by Daniel Gilbert.

Soon to be found at calendar.google.com is Google’s new online Calendar. I’ve read it’s supposed to do to calendars what Gmail did to email.

Most of all I just hope it will work with my iPod.

I went to Medicine Hat yesterday to visit with my parents. One of the things I love to do is chat with my dad about science, religion, and current affairs. A topic we often cover is the US National debt and how out of control it has gotten.

Today I found a fascinating and perhaps terrifying graph of the United States national debt and the presidents responsible for it.

I’ll leave it up to you to extrapolate your own conclusions.