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1001 Books to read
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…
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Can you copyright a brain?
I just got back from an interesting (although limited) session on Canadian copyright for artists at Kingston’s Artel, which got some mental juices going from something I heard about when I was visiting the Dynamic Graphics Project (where I’m doing my Master’s) There is currently ongoing research in augmenting participant’s memory and other cognitive abilities…
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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,…
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Improv Show Videos
For The Improv Show‘s last gig on April 14th, I managed to record both our longform and the jam. The Jam is our half-cast, half-audience thing whose format I nabbed from Upright Citizen’s Brigade in New York. I’ve youtubed it for the loyal fans who missed it. Here’s the longform: Here’s the jam:
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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.
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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…
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Rock Paper Scissors is live!
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…
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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…
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Blobjects are fun!
Blobject? A photo from a research project I’m working on.
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Mimicry-Afforded Gesture Instruction
I was exploring techniques to teach novel gesture interaction “in the moment”. The alternative is to have the user learn everything interaction up front, or to have a large toolbar that takes up screen real estate. I created a concept video that showed me working on a multi-touch tabletop I was using “for the first…