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CHOO-CHOO!
I finally had an excuse to ride the O-TRAIN! It’s a rail line running North-South through an odd collection of stops, so it’s hard to find a compelling practical reason to ride it. The few times I’ve...
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You know, for a guy who hardly ever eats out, I run into a lot of gross stuff in my food. Last night I picked up a slice of pizza downtown, and when I finally got around to eating it (after a meeting...
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Quiet Halloween
We had a pretty disappointing Halloween – only four batches of kids showed up at the door. Even though I set up a creepy ghost-pumpkin hologram and everything! I pointed our projector with a polarizer...
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Photo Challenge: Hands
A gang of my friends are participating in a weekly photography exercise, shooting images according to a theme. This week’s theme was “Hands”. Finding time during the week to take creative pictures...
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Monopolatte
Natasha and I joined a friend last night at Monopolatte, a cool Ottawa board-game café that serves drinks and candy alongside their 700+ board game collection. They easily have every version of every...
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Laurence Lesser at uOttawa
A nice perk to my job is that on special occasions we have musical royalty drop by to play for us in the Hugette Labelle hall, which is really just a stairwell away from my office. Cellist Laurence...
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UXCamp Ottawa
I spent Saturday and Sunday at my first UXCamp Ottawa, a cool conference about usability and “User Experience”. The event ran both days with a full track of speakers on a range of subjects. Overall the...
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Gold Fever
Synchronized swimmer and Canadian Olympic gold medallist (and author, and Cirque de Soleil trainer) Sylvie Fréchette came by the university today to give a terrific talk about motivation and reaching...
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Hey you, you got that something…
I had a couple of Beatles songs stuck in my head this evening, and it reminded me to look up this scene from the film Across the Universe, where T.V. Carpio basically runs away with the movie and sings...
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Everyone loves reviews!
Sorry for the long pause between articles – I managed to establish a decent pace there for a while, but the past few weeks have been a bit of a personal rollercoaster, so I haven’t really had the time...
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Plusses
Just experimenting with shapes! A friend sent me (last year…) some really cool pictures of geometric tilework in the Paigah Tombs in Hyderabad and I’ve been inspired to experiment with some more...
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Newspaper Doodle
I’m not particularly ecstatic about the drawing, but I doodled this out over some newsprint and I kindof dig the effect. I’m a bit retentive about clean drawings, so starting with a messy newspaper...
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Blizzarded
I left a bit early this morning to get to an appointment, and got blizzarded on pretty fiercely as a reward. It wasn’t really cold outside, but the snow was blowing in every direction and seemed to...
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Tibetan Girl
This is a Tibetan girl I drew using National Geographic for reference. I’m not completely sure I’m done – I think she’d come to life with a big heap of colour. I heard a funny artist quote the other...
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Tightrope Cyclist
If the computer nerd thing ever falls through, I’m thinking about starting up a career in daredevil tightrope bicycling. This is me riding the SkyCycle along a 50m cable suspended over a 3 storey drop...
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Montezuma’s Castle
I’m back to my castle-invading shenanigans, this time at Montezuma’s Castle, carved into a desert cliffside by the Sinagua people over five hundred years starting around 700AD. Typical for European...
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A Really Big Hole
We took an overnight trip during our vacation to hike around and through the south rim of the Grand Canyon – it was pretty incredible. I have seen canyons before (in nearby Utah) so I had a pretty good...
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Happy New Year 2014!
Starting the year off on a fashion high point – I rang in the New Year dressed in a tux! It’s all downhill from here – sweatpants and ratty t-shirts for the rest of the year. I think 2014 is going to...
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Judith
Charles Landelle was a prolific french painter in the mid 1800s who produced (sometimes as many as 32 copies of) orientalist portraits – paintings of exotic middle-eastern (mostly Egyptian) beauties in...
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Doodle: Anousheh Ansari
Anousheh Ansari is a brilliant Iranian-born businesswoman, co-founder of the X-Prize, and the fourth self-funded “space tourist” (although she prefers “spaceflight participant”) to visit the...
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