Anna’s last play goes down at 1:45pm today and then she’s on the bus back to good ol’ Alberta. Because the greyhound doesn’t leave Medicine Hat for Lethbridge until early tomorrow morning, I’m heading back to the Hat to pick her up. I’m more than just a little excited.
Fire at the Lethbridge YMCA
Ok, it turned out that it wasn’t really a fire. On Friday night while I was lifeguarding at the Y, the other guard and I smelled smoke so we evacuated the pool. The whole building was evacuated but after the firemen checked it out, it turned out to be nothing more than the motor in one of the vents short circuited itself (or something like that). We reopened and everyone was happy – except me and Phil of course, because we thought we might get to go home early.
Newspaper Plants Fake Footman in Palace
Despite higher security with the arrival of Bush in London, or maybe because of it, reporter from the Daily Mirror yesterday revealed that using false credentials he got a job as a Palace Guard.
As conflicted as I feel about bringing attention to the Royal family (negative or positive) the details in this story are just too good to pass up.
On a semi-related note, George W. Bush just never ceases to amaze me. During his speech at the Banqueting House in Whitehall, Mr. Bush acknowledged that he is not a very popular visitor. “I’ve been here only a short time, but I’ve noticed the tradition of free speech, exercised with enthusiasm, is alive and well here in London. We have that at home, too.”
Need I say more?
I’m so tired
It’s 2:00 AM. I’m sort of done my animation for the DVD I have to burn tomorrow. My hands feel like they are going to fall off at the wrists they are so sore from using the mouse and keyboard all day. I’m so tired.
Stairway to Heaven Backwards Update
So I put up my counter around 10:30 last night and I’ve already gotten over 30 unique visitors. I realize 30 isn’t much compared to what a lot of sites get, but still 30 people in less than 24 hours? I must say I’m pretty happy.
Update (November 2003): I just realized that all the hits I got last night on the stairway to heaven thing don’t mean I’m always averaging that many hits, it just means that most likely I got all those hits after I told Andrew, a student in one of my classes, about the site and he likely told all his friends.
Update (November 2005): Looking at this post now is kind of funny considering I am currently averaging about 5000 unique visitors to my site per day. It’s amazing the changes that can happen in just two years.
Max 6.0 Review
Here is a link to a review of the new version of 3D Studio Max 6. I’m barely learning 5.1, but it looks cool all the same.
U of L Security Problem with Flash Screen Savers
I think I figured out how to fix the University’s problem with their flash screen savers. All they need to do is put a blank text field overtop of their flash screen savers so that they will get the text-copy/paste menu instead of the About Macromedia Menu when people right click. They should pay me or something.
U of L IT Security Hole Update
I talked to someone in IT. They said they are aware of the problem but at this point they don’t know how to get around it.
Where is Boing Boing?
Can’t get on their website, but you can find their mailblog at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boingboing-mailblog/
The Scandal They ARE Speaking About
When people like Maher Arar are seized, jailed, interrogated without charges, on unspecified allegations of unspecified connections to unspecified terrorist groups, and tortured — why doesn’t anyone seem to want to do anything about it?