I’ve always been interested in the idea of information visualization–that there are better ways to present information than the simple ones we always use. In fact, I once wrote a university paper on things that were experimental at the time, like transparently overlaid GIS information, etc. In this spirit, I present the eight other players in my weekly poker game,… Read more →
Category: Storytime
As promised…
…some photos. They wound is very minor, but the pictures are a bit on the gross side, so I’m not using thumbnails. First, here’s how it looks professionally dressed by the hospital staff: hospital_dessing.jpg The first closeup, while a little blurry (I suck with the one-handed macro lens), clearly shows the depth of the cut, right through the thumb, and… Read more →
A Day of Firsts…
… first time I’ve injured myself while making a club sandwich. … first time I’ve injured myself in a residential kitchen. … first time I’ve driven myself to an ER. … first time I’ve been to the hospital in Halifax for myself. … first time I’ve had a ring block. … first time I’ve had stitches. … first time I’ve… Read more →
Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays, to you all. (Oh, and if you have a problem with “Happy Holidays”, then I have just the site for you.) Things went pretty well here for Christmas–I just put up a ton of Sarah-based pictures on her blog, so that the family back in Ontario could follow along the first Christmas that Sarah was actually involved in… Read more →
January 1997: Life With Dave
As I promised Alex earlier, I have dug up the “Dave photos” of legend, and am posting them here with the accompanying story. The quality of the photos is not great–they were taken on a disposable camera and scanned on a crap scanner, but they’re enough to show the funny. So here’s a little bit of geek comedy from the… Read more →
A Tale of Process Enlightenment
For your amusement, a little parable I wrote many years ago to illustrate a point about goals being directions and not destinations… Read more →
Argh.
Computer still mostly dead. Some recovery on Friday, but tonight–no keyboard. This will continue to affect blogging. However, I do want to note that this weekend brought us the first snow of the season–we went from “none” to “a foot” overnight. To put it another way, Friday morning there was no snow. Saturday morning it looked like this outside my… Read more →
The glory that is my rice!
Chris’ Special Rice 4 cloves of garlic Quantity here can be varied to taste and/or tolerance for effects the next day. I have been known to use whole heads sometimes. Peel the clove and slice them thinly. 1 medium size red onion Doesn’t have to be red really, but the more ‘fragrant’ the better. Cut it into chunks bigger than… Read more →
Why I work from home
Alex found me a page that clearly illustrates, with the aid of Venn diagrams, why I prefer to work from home. Read more →
Drakemas
It’s been a very busy week & weekend, given that the old social life has been fired up, and all the Americans being off work meant Sean & I were carrying the load at the office. Hence, not a whole lot of posting. However, there are lots of stories arising from the last few days. On Wednesday night, for example,… Read more →
A few more
You know, a lot of the pictures that I have scattered in various folders across my hard drives seem to be pictures of women. I wonder how that happened. Here’s one from a decade ago or so, where you see my roommate Sarah (a.k.a. “Mick”), wearing the very same hat that Keith McPhee was wearing at our poker game a… Read more →
Still looking at pictures
This was my first ever attempt at “Photoshopping”. Not a bad job for a first try, and it still makes me laugh. This file has to be ten years old, at least. The body is a high school friend, who is now apparently a PhD. The head, of course, is Sean Miller, a.k.a. “Freakboy:, who has been my coworker now… Read more →
Nostalgia
I’m feeling a little nostalgic tonight, looking through some pictures I haven’t looked at for a while, and missing lots of people. Like these people: This is one of my favourite of all the photos I have taken. It is also the only photo I’ve ever take with a Real Serious Camera ™. I took this on the trip we… Read more →
I should totally make this t-shirt
Text (C) CVR 2005 Read more →
Best Of Halifax
Every year Halifax’s free weekly, The Coast, has a couple of Best Of competitions, where the readers vote in numerous categories (typically the Food & Drink voting is one competition, and all the other Best Of voting happens in the other competitions. This year’s Best Of results are out now. I note that Strange Adventures has won again. I am… Read more →
