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ToorCamp 2012 Write Up Wrap Up

ToorCamp 2012 Write Up Wrap Up

Monday, August 13th, 2012

Well ToorCamp 2012 is over, and there is plenty to show for it. I ended up going after winning a ticket by answering a GeekWire tech-tune challenge correctly, and offered to write a few “camp journal” style posts for them while I was at it. GeekWire – Arrival (pdf) – Day 1 (pdf) – Day […]

TEDx Vancouver well worth the drive #TEDxVan2011

TEDx Vancouver well worth the drive #TEDxVan2011

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

Even though TEDx events are generally attended by locals, for some reason I received an invite. It may have been because of all the media coverage a few years ago surrounding the RFID implants. For a time I was visiting Vancouver a whole heck of a lot and the Canadian media (TV and radio mostly) […]

Secret passageways and the like

Secret passageways and the like

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

When I get the gumption to build my own “dream house”, I’m going to make sure it has plenty of secret passageways and the like. I started this trend a couple years ago in my current home by simply placing a conspicuous piece of paper in a slot between two bricks in my kitchen. Observant […]

RTOTD – Prank: Hack Google Maps

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Random Thought Of The Day Today’s RTOTD involves a prank I thought of while walking to work today. As I passed one of the many buildings between my home and office, I noticed the address number on one of them was 404. How funny would it be if someone hacked into Google Maps and made […]

No pain, no gain à la MythBusters

No pain, no gain à la MythBusters

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

MythBusters recently did a show on pain, and who’s better at dealing with it… men or women. On the show, women won by a narrow margin. I think it had to do with the fact they couldn’t actually hurt anyone for the purposes of the show, so they used a simple ice bath to induce […]

Tesla was the electric Jesus

Tesla was the electric Jesus

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Love it:

I -knew- I was doing something productive!

Friday, March 19th, 2010

When I posted about how playing games wasn’t wasting time it was giving myself an odd sense of accomplishment… turns out I wasn’t wrong about just how useful and even therapeutic that can be: Jane McGonigal says “games allow us to experience epic wins, incentivizing us to give them millions of hours to them in […]

Best trade for service ever!

Best trade for service ever!

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

I first got started with computers in the 3rd grade, where someone had left a PET computer. I started actually working on other people’s computers when I was 16. At the time, I started by only charging $10 per hour for on-site help. Still, there were times when people wouldn’t have much cash but needed […]

Killing mosquitoes with lasers!

Killing mosquitoes with lasers!

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Now this is something I can really get behind. It involves lasers (very cool) and killing mosquitoes (the only animal I wish didn’t exist… ok, mosquitoes and fleas). The idea is to stamp out malaria by tracking mosquitoes in flight by IDing them based on their flight/wing noise, and shooting them down using lasers. I […]

Borderlands co-op mode

Borderlands co-op mode

Friday, February 12th, 2010

So I’ve been playing Borderlands at night before going to bed, but now I’ve expanded to playing in the morning before work. I think I’m right at the end of the game, but who knows… it could just go on forever. Eventually though, the solo-fun will run out, and that’s where things get interesting. I […]

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