Posted in Personal, Tech on Aug 31st, 2007 No Comments »
Have you seen Google Earth’s new Sky feature? It is a distilled example of one of those ideas, once you’ve seen it, that seems so perfect, so natural, that makes you wonder why it wasn’t OBVIOUS for all of us to wonder why it wasn’t already in Google Earth, Live Local, and their geography-rendering [...]
Posted in Gaming and XBox, Moose, Personal, Photography on Aug 26th, 2007 No Comments »
I’d better take a moment to explain the most recent photos on my Flickr photostream, which feature folks dressed as Star Wars characters, playing Guitar Hero behind their backs, and getting autographs from sci-fi celebs, sometimes all at once.
I’ve just returned from Fan Expo Canada 2007, which was undoubtedly the geekiest event I’ve ever attended. [...]
Posted in Canada, Nikon, Personal, Photography on Aug 13th, 2007 2 Comments »
I was up at Mazinaw Lake over the weekend, where my sister’s fiancé and his family have a cottage. This is proper Ontario, where you head out to the lake and scurry across by boat to your getaway.
Go on hikes, watch the meteor shower, swim, chill with the other lads in the wedding party, have [...]
Posted in Canada, Gaming and XBox, Ireland, Location-based, Microsoft, Personal, Tech, Travel on Aug 8th, 2007 16 Comments »
I’m writing this post in case anyone else out there wants to know what will happen to a European XBox 360 (in my case, from Ireland) if it’s moved to North America (in my case, Canada). [update] The story started out not particularly great, but now, a few updates later, it is significantly better. By [...]
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Tech on Aug 3rd, 2007 2 Comments »
Making that scuba video was fun! As long as I’m playing with video I might as well dust off an old one.
The last time I worked with video was six years ago, at the MIT Media Lab, when I cut together Waiting for Goatzilla.
Goatzilla is the autonomous character that offered a proof-of-concept for the predictive [...]
Posted in Egypt, Personal, Photography, Scuba, Travel on Aug 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
…fish! (And eagle rays! And giant moray eels!)
For the second half of my diving in Dahab and Ras Mohammed, I shot video footage instead of photos. Here’s a 2-minute highlight reel, in YouTube format:
The shots were taken on dives in Egypt, at Dahab and Ras Mohammed (between Shark Reef and Yolanda Reef). They feature [...]
Posted in Egypt, Jordan, Personal, Travel on Aug 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Here are two unanswered geological questions from our trip to Egypt and Jordan:
1. Why is the desert sand red in Jordan?
High iron oxide content in the sandstone from which the sand was formed.
2. Why are there black streaks in the rocks in the Sinai Peninsula?
I can’t find this one out. My working theory is that [...]
