Category: me-news

  • Wierd times on the internet

    Keywords: advertising, user-generated content. So I just got an email from youtube about a music video I made a long time ago. Here it is below: ——————————————————————————————– YouTube | Broadcast Yourself™ Dear YouTube Member: UMG has claimed some or all audio content in your video Golden Videotape (part 1). This claim was made as part…

  • Meta-blogging

    My friend and fellow improvisor Monica Heisey interviewed me about blogging for the Queen’s Unversity Journal (student-run paper). Link!

  • Weekend Roundup

    This past weekend: – My best friend Dave came up from Guelph.– I volunteered for Admitted Students Day at Queen’s.– I saw Iron Man with Dave, and my other friend Daniel and housemate Jack.– Visited Free Comic Books Day, saw nothing I really liked.– Watched three famous movies I had not seen before: Shawshank Redemption,…

  • I broke 50 kilometers!

    I just got back from a 54 k bike ride! Here’s the google map. View Larger Map Now, my average speed sport of sucks, as it took over two hours, but that can be improved. I think I’ll need to buy a bike clock.

  • Massive Life Update

    In the last month, I:– got an Iron Ring– finished my last exam in the Mathematics and Engineering Program at Queen’s– was accepted for a Master’s in Computer Science with the Dynamic Graphics Project at the University of Toronto, where I’m hoping to focus on Human-Computer Interaction and Ubiquitous Computing. Phew! Post-graduation, I was also…

  • Real-Life Spam

    Well, the house just received 30 identical looking standard-size envelopes, none of which were addressed to any of us. Most of them were weird variations of either Phillip Van Stone (18) or Andrew Collins (9). I opened one for “Mike ColinManing”, which I assumed I couldn’t get prosecuted for since it obviously wasn’t a real…

  • City 7: Toronto Conflict Reactions

    I’ve had the install file for City 7: Toronto Conflict sitting on my desktop for a long time, but I’ve been too lazy to install it. So, here it is. It’s a mod for Half-Life 2 that represents an alternate timeline where, at the beginning of the game, Gordon Freeman gets teleported to Toronto (City…

  • A hint of things to come…

    Here’s a preview of a project I’m finishing up.

  • What's on your mind?

    Earlier today, I recorded for an art project with a student in the Queen’s film department. I’m not going to give up too much, since it’s going to be on display in mid-February. For the project, I had to sit in a room by myself and a camera recorded me for fifteen straight minutes, and…

  • Encroaching Automata (but, you know, in a good way)

    Holy wow, Google Reader is now making recommendations.