Category: Miscellaneous

Here is a list of interesting links I’ve stumbled upon lately (in no particular order):

• UBUWEB::365 Days Project (an MP3 for every day of the year)
• Tetris Final in Japan (video)
• Goggle Maps Globetrotting (photos)
• Sheep Dash! (reflex game)
• Watermelon Carvings (photos)
• BBC’s Step-by-Step Guide to Charisma (article)
• Chaos Theory (game)
• Good Experience Games (list of games)
• Crazy Ebay Mom (personal story w/ photos)
• Steve Jobs 2005 Commencement Address
• Will Ferrell: Class Day Speech
• Jon Stewart’s Commencement Address

I hope you enjoy some of these links.

I’m heading back to the Hat to visit with my family before my brother and his wife take off to Australia for a year. They are leaving in about 9 days. My sister and her baby, Ryker, will also be in Medicine Hat.

All I can say is what a great week I’ve been having. Today has been especially good because I ran into someone that I’ve been admiring from afar since my first year of University. Obviously I’ve been unavailable up until now so things were a little different when I talked to her today. I was happily surprised when she remembered my name from the one time we had talked previously (way back last fall). We’ll all have to wait and see how things turn out.

I was just reading about the terrorist attacks in London and just have to say how pissed off it makes me. Other than that, there isn’t much to say.

Apparently the attacks are being claimed by an Al Qaida group. Here is a news report with information from some of the people near the explosions.

I’m teaching the New Media Movie Making Camp at the University again this summer. (The photo displayed in the link is of a student silk screening a shirt in the Art Camp – looks like they have a lot of fun in that camp too).

I will be teaching four one week camps that run each week in July. During each camp my students write their own scripts, film, edit, add special effects, and burn their movies to DVD. On Friday, the students’ families are invited for a screening. It’s been two days so far, but so far the students have been fun as usual and I’m really enjoying it again this year.

I came across a neat tool that lets you search Flickr tags visually. Give it a try.

Today is Canada Day! I had lunch with a huge extended family at my Aunt Lois’ house. We chatted, we ate, and we took some photos – it was a good time.

Afterwards, Corry, Aaron, and I went kayaking down the Belly River. I love the 1st of July.

I would have more kayaking photos, but as we were playing in the hole where Aaron usually takes his camera out I got flipped and although I was able to right myself, somehow the seal on my skirt came undone and my kayak filled up with water. I was up-side-down, completely submerged with a kayak that was completely full of water but I still flipped myself up and paddled to shore. It looked more like a submarine than a boat. Anyway I drifted pretty far downstream and didn’t feel like taking my kayak back up to the hole, hence no pictures.

Update: Oh, and I forgot to mention this at the time of posting. Happy Anniversary to my sister and her husband Glen!

I stumbled upon a site about a building in Paris that has its lighting setup like a display for images, short animations, and even video games. Using a cell phone you can play Tetris, pong, or other games live while everyone around watches you play.

I’ve been discovering the joys of podcasts lately; the new version of iTunes is really handy for getting new content. I should mention that even if you don’t have an MP3 player like an iPod, you can still listen on your computer.

There is one podcast in particular that I really love. It’s the CBC Radio’s program Quirks and Quarks. I highly recommend adding their feed. (http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/quirks.xml)

This week the topics ranged from Australian Spiders that eat each other during copulation to how biologists are creating real life chimeras, and as well the ethical and moral questions that come along with such endeavors. They also talked about Chickadee speech patterns and how radiation, something that is known to cause cancer, can be used to treat it. It’s really fascinating stuff.

I’d like to expand my podcasting palette, so if you’ve got a good podcast please leave a comment with the feed.

My brother was about to throw out an Austin Powers “The Spy Who Shagged Me” baseball cap that my mom has been saving around the house for awhile, but instead I decided to sell it on ebay. If you want a great hat, you better get in on this auction!

After reading a post I saw on BoingBoing.net I decided to take an MIT Weblog survey.

This is a general social survey of the greater weblog community being conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our goal is to help understand the way that weblogs are affecting the way we communicate with each other. Specifically we are interested in issues of demographics, communication behaviors, experience with weblogs and other technology, and the meaning of various types of social links within the blogosphere.

If you have a blog and you want to participate, click the image link below: