So I’ve moved to Toronto and started my Master’s in Computer Science. I’m living in a basement bachelor apartment only 15 minutes walk from school, surrounded by a variety of multi-cultural restaurants. In my building, The Bahen Centre for Information Technology, I have an office (cubicle, really) in the Dynamic Graphics Project on the fifth…

In Human-Computer Interaction studies, we often simulate new interfaces in experimental trials before actually putting the effort into making them. Sometimes this simulation is interactive, like Human Media Lab’s Display Objects, and sometimes it’s a crappy non-interactive piece of styrofoam (like the first prototype for the iPod). Although the device is non-interactive, we can pretend…

Here is where I work at the Human Media Lab. I’ve got a great view overlooking the construction on the Queen’s Centre, and I’m sporting two computers, and a bunch of random other techno-gear, which makes me excited. The giant blue ball under the desk is a prototype I’m working on.

Here’s a list of great books one is apparently supposed to have read. Sadly, great non-fiction works are omitted. Here’s how I add up: Book – Author (Reason) Read:Choke – Chuck Palahniuk (last year, I think)Life of Pi – Yann Martel (borrowed from Dad two years ago)Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson (read two years ago, must…

After some helpful comments, Rock Paper Scissors Infinity is now live! Rock Paper Scissors Infinity is a massively multiplayer matching game. Honestly, the best way to experience it is to just go look at it. And play with it, so it grows, of course. From the about page: By playing this massively multiplayer game, you…

Blobject? A photo from a research project I’m working on.

It looks like several “artists” I’ve been following for a while have come together and created something. I’ll have to keep tabs on this: thoughts on the audience

I just read the Realtime Art Manifesto. It is one of those documents I’ll obviously have to read again, preferably out loud, with lots of Guinness running through my bloodstream.

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=165016 Wow. I’ll think up a more thorough response to this later. But in the meantime: – The most advanced game the author ever played is Tetris, which somehow gives him license to condemn the entire medium. – Video games are NOT passive in any way! Sure, they leave less to the imagination than books…

Paper pad, Bic pen, a hearty stout and a patio.