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Aviation Technology Program
Back in Grade 10, I was enrolled in the “Aviation Technology Focus Program”. Over 8 months, myself and about 20 other students built a full-size four-person kitplane, supplied by Murphy Aircraft.
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Mars Society Expedition Alpha
I was part of Mars Society Canada’s two week Expedition Alpha to the Mars Desert Research Station in the Utah desert. Designated the ‘Hab Engineer’, I managed the gray water system, as well as set up a solar power panel. I also filmed footage that was shown on the Space Channel. The above photograph was…
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India isn’t good at bars
I don’t have a picture of an Indian pub, but I have a picture of an India mall! – From Blore Walk to Work I’m in a pub in Cambridge, UK, typing this up on my Macbook right now, 1.5 Guinness pints deep, enjoying the atmosphere around me. The pub is called Alexandria Arms, and…
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Moving some things around here…
I’ve used wordpress with my blog for a while, but I’m annoyed how inconvenient it is to upgrade the rest of my site, which has so far been hand-written html. I’m moving everything in to wordpress now, so some stuff is going to move around and look funny for a while.
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HelmetCam through Cambridge, UK
I took a bike ride through Cambridge, UK with a helmet camera. The results don’t display well on this blog, so I alert you to this finely-crafted link.
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The Dynamo Of Danger
I rented a bike to get around here in Cambridge. It’s not a great bike, but it works. For powering the bike’s lights, instead of using batteries that need to be replaced, it has a dynamo that gets its source of rotational power from a little cog that touches my rear wheel. Thus, the relationship…
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Drunk Theatre Review: The Way Through the Woods
Last night, I saw The Way Through the Woods at ADC Theatre in Cambridge, an original production by The Story Tellers. It wasn’t very good. I thought of writing a review, but I am kind of lazy, so I will instead present my extensive scribbled notes, which I think are more honest and funny. The…
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Human Needs
I think it’s clear up front that, as humans, we are kept alive by a complex web of needs. Various four-siren alarms are going off all the time to stop us from killing ourselves, from a balance alarm to stop you when you’re going down the stairs too fast, to a relationship alarm when things…
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Different Cities, Different Lives
In Toronto, I am a pretty boring person. Whenever I am not in Toronto, I’m pretty awesome. I get to not be in Toronto fairly often, more than most people. When not in Toronto, I am more extroverted, adventurous and I do things that locals might consider a waste of time. Example: (in Toronto) Frenchwoman:…
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2010 in Text Messages
I was digging around recently in my shitty phone’s memory to clear some space and found that all my incoming and outgoing text messages since I got the phone (Nov. 2009) were saved. Naturally, I extracted them as a big csv file, and analyzed it. Here’s a tag cloud of all messages sent by me…