Category: me-news

  • 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.

  • FAMINE

    If you’re in and around Kingston in the coming weeks, be sure to check out Famine, the show I’m producing for Single Thread Theatre Company. It’s been one of the reasons why this blog has been so quiet, and I can say that it was well worth it. The show run is November 14th –…