Seen Elsewhere and Noted
Sunscreen : Too good to be true, apparently.
The Bad Apple : Group Poison
The Nerd Handbook : A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff.
The Abominable Snowman vs Seasonal Depression : The Abominable Snowman is a beautiful creature
Videogame Aesthetics : The past, present and future
Baghdad Year Zero : Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia
The Sucker List : Also for suckers
Having your cake and eating it too? : Taking a 90cc trailrider on the voyage
Argle Bargles (and other beasts) : A field guide to modern enemies of rational debate
The Long Tail : Just Enough Piracy
Cory Doctorow : Why Digital Rights Management is bad and won't work anyway
When is a kilobyte a kibibyte? : Looks like they've finally figured out how to distinguish 1000 from 1024
Doc Searls on Powerpoint : And how to keep it from screwing up your presentation
Interstate '76 Love : "Hey Taurus, how 'bout a poem?"
Tetris 1D : Tetris made simple
Piercing the p2p myths : Amid the claims of industry losses, the industry failed to make the case that music downloading is significantly harmful to Canadian artists.
Fractional Rig Offers Advantages Over Masthead Rig : A comparison
Dunbar's Number : Social networks max out at about 150 people; much fewer if there's anything the group needs to accomplish
Endangered Gizmos : A look at some of the devices that have been killed, threatened, and saved from extinction
Suspended Spherical Home : Kind of kooky and neat
The Daily Oliver : Often fantastic photographs of Dean's Weimaraners, tragically saddled with a comments section
WiFi-SM : "You have the impression that the disasters of the world do not touch you anymore? You feel vaguely sorry for other people's misfortunes but you don't feel the inner urge which used to make you help your neighbour? WiFi-SM is the solution!"
Bartosz Milewski : What's wrong with C++?
Jon Stewart : "I didn't realize - and maybe this explains quite a bit - that the news organizations look to Comedy Central for their cues on integrity."
Cooking For Engineers : “Have an analytical mind? Like to cook? This is the site to read!”
governing.com : “Governing is a monthly magazine whose primary audience is state and local government officials: governors, legislators, mayors, city managers, council members and other elected, appointed and career officials.”
The Naked Face : An article about the work of Paul Ekman, the guy who first catalogued the range of human facial expressions
Go away Rock Paper Scissors : RPS isn’t the game balancing panacea it has been trumped up to be
Streetwars: Killer : A round-robin, all city, 24/7 water-gun assassination tournament
Collision Detection : VoIP spam looms on the horizon
Palm Beach Post : Woman molecularly bonds with sofa
Game Girl Advance : The Perils of Scripting
Movie : “I’m George W. Bush and I approved this message. In fact, I think it is awesome.”
Lacuna Inc : Do you dwell on negative experiences from your past?
Surgeons Who Play Video Games Err Less : What can I say?
Court Rejects Music Lawsuit : Moments like these make me proud to be Canadian.
Lasqueti Day 2 · Saturday April 24, 2010
Work day today. A couple of trees had come down in that big storm that blew through Easter weekend, and they had to be cut, split and stacked. It turns out that there’s quite a bit of wood in a tree.
The sun came out in the early evening in time for us to take a walk along the rock at the beach.
Tidal pools are fun for everyone.
Lasqueti · Friday April 23, 2010
Kelsey and I are en route to Lasqueti Island today to do some building, fixing and cleaning. As a special treat we were able to take the car instead of the motorcycle on the ferry, which meant that we didn’t have to sit in the cold, dank dog dungeon at all.
Reading the voiceovers · Thursday April 22, 2010
We spent an evening at Jef Gibbons’ place last night working on sound effects and hashing out the voiceovers for the cutscenes in Steam Brigade. Here’s Ryan rocking the sound booth.
My (former) parking spot · Tuesday April 20, 2010
I liked this spot. I felt pretty clever parking in the foot and a half between the metered spot to the right, there, and the commercial loading zone to the left. I’ve been parking there since we moved offices, and so far I’ve met with no trouble.
However, today I talked with one of the city’s parking enforcement staff as he was walking by and he said that while he doesn’t personally ticket motorcycles who find little spots here and there downtown, he has colleagues who do. Furthermore, he said that the way the law is written there are no “dead spaces” between spots. If it looks like there’s a little space between zones in some places like there is in this one, that space is considered to be part of the adjacent metered parking spot.
I guess I’ve been lucky these past weeks and not run afoul of strict parking enforcement at the inevitable times when the meter has run out, but who knows how long that’ll last. It might be the train from here on out.
New lunch opportunities · Friday April 9, 2010
And with the new office come new lunch opportunities. Here’s my man Ryan telling you what’s up at the Cambie.
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New office · Thursday April 8, 2010
So as I’m sure all of you know by now, last week Ryan and I moved our office from Brentwood to the border between downtown and cracktown. We’re on the 6th floor of this neat old building, which was apparently the tallest building in the Commonwealth in 1909.
There are tradeoffs to the move — we don’t have the kitchen, janitorial services, thin walls, cramped space, high rent, sufficient electricity, good parking or windows that don’t open that we did in the Willingdon Business Park, but we do have the opposite of those things here.
And our view is different, but just as interesting.
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Crescent beach · Saturday March 20, 2010
Kelsey and I went to whiterock today to give the pups a bit of a romp
in the mud flats. And it gave us all a chance to sample the local
cuisine.
Rainbow! · Monday March 15, 2010
And you know what that means: rain!
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