Posted in Personal, Photography, Travel, Where on Oct 29th, 2007 4 Comments »
Arriving at Lake Atitlan from Guatemala City was an adventure in itself. I was the only foreigner on one of the jam-packed “chicken busses” owned by Rebuli, a company that ploughs the route between the capital city and lake town Panajachel with repurposed American school busses. The trip made for a great introduction to the [...]
Posted in All Tech, Canada, Gaming and XBox, Microsoft, Personal, Photography, XNA on Sep 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Just 2 days before her surname will no longer be correct in the credits of the game, here’s my sister Elizabeth, who designed the Frosh character, playing Legend of the Greasepole on the XBox360!
Posted in All Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Canada, Gaming and XBox, Personal, Photography, XNA on Sep 8th, 2007 No Comments »
… in fact it’s probably happening as I type, but I’m three-and-a-half hours down the 401 in Toronto. Sigh.
A huge thanks to the folks who have beta tested the re-release of the game. I had hoped to have it ready for today, but I’ve received some great feedback about a few things to tweak, and particularly [...]
Posted in Gaming and XBox, Moose (Random), 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 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 Personal, Photography, Scuba, Travel on Jul 31st, 2007 1 Comment »
Safe Scuba Diving is about redundancy and routine.
On the redundancy front, not only do you learn backups and workarounds for the unlikely event of an equipment failure, but you also dive with a buddy, making some of your equipment quadrupally redundant.
On the routine front, the gear is assembled “just so.” A “buddy check” before you [...]
Posted in Personal, Photography, Travel on Jul 31st, 2007 No Comments »
Petra was amazing.
Posted in Personal, Photography, Scuba, Travel on Jul 28th, 2007 No Comments »
In May 1941, the British Merchant Navy freighter S.S. Thistlegorm left port at Glasgow and headed towards Alexandria, carrying a cargo of motorcycles, trucks, transport trailers, two light tanks, two steam engines, spare parts for airplanes and land vehicles, tires, rubber boots and more. Sailing back up through the Red Sea, with her anchor cast in [...]
Posted in Personal, Photography, Scuba, Travel on Jul 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
Arrived back into Dublin yesterday with my lungs intact, a beaming smile and quite a few more dives under my (weight) belt.
Between our time in Dahab, two sojourns to Ras Mohammed for more diving, and a side-trip overland to Petra in Jordan, I’m swimming in memories and photos.
I did promise underwater photos, yes? None of [...]
