I’ve been on a crazy baking kick the past few days. I think with the cold weather setting in on us, I’m craving carbs to stay warm. These are some organic raisin oatmeal cookies about to go into the oven – organic to avoid the sulphite preservatives on raisins that Natasha can’t eat. That means [...]

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Here’s another weird Photoshop quirk that I thought I’d post a fix for. As usual, no mention on Adobe’s help site, because I think they think this one’s a “feature”.
Since about CS2, when you’re using shape tools (particularly rectangles) sometimes your edges will mysteriously be fuzzy. It’s a little difficult to see at first, and [...]

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One of my winter project goals was to finally get around to writing a Slitscanning tool. I’m hoping to eventually make a mobile version that uses a cell phone camera, but it ended up being surprisingly easy to write up a PC version using my webcam. I’ll write up a more elaborate how-to on another [...]

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I got my flu shot this morning! There was some “flu-proof club” fistbumping in the office earlier, but our zeal for secret handshakes diminished a bit as some of our arms got sore.
I didn’t get a cool band-aid, probably because I was off like a “shot” (haha!) as soon as the business end [...]

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So I had a rhythm going of a few posts a week before I left Winnipeg, and I’ve been really quiet lately, leaving a lot of people wondering if I’ve been abducted by aliens or something. I’m still around, I just haven’t had a lot of time between settling in to have zany adventures. A [...]

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So, I have the video camera, I have my storyboards, I have actors, I’m ready
to go out and film a short, and WOOSH! A fog rolls in.

So I’m going to do some laundry and hope it’s a bit clearer tomorrow
afternoon. Rotten weather. *mutter* Someday, when I build my weather
machine…

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This is why I have no right to criticize anyone’s photography for a while.
What you’re seeing here is not a giant black fuzzy monster coming out of the
alley, but rather, my thumb.

*so embarassed*

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I don’t know if I’ve gone on about this before, but I have to gush about
Aeroplan cards. I think they’re fantastic. I can’t go on enough about them. -
Every- time I fly on Air Canada or Tango, I just swish on past the 300 people
lined up to one of the (always available) kiosks, swipe my [...]

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Science magazines everywhere are jumping on the Core bandwagon,
publishing bits and peices about our imminent polar shift with less and less
information and more and more sci-fi speculation. This is the sort of thing
we saw with Armageddon, when suddenly everywhere on the news was talk of
incoming asteroids and the end of civilization.

If you want your daily [...]

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I just noticed that I’ve begun a whole pile of blogs with “So”.

Pretty weird, eh? I wonder just how many I’ve begun that way.

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