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On This Day...

• 2012: Discovery: I like making sketched animations — So I spent Monday figuring out how to create three simple narrated one-minute sketch animations. My clients loved the videos, [...]
• 2011: Volunteer notes: Free Geek Toronto — From Saturday: We’ve just come back from volunteering at Free Geek Toronto, where we’ve been helping people refurbish donated PCs. [...]
• 2010: Twenty-seven; life as a twenty-six year old — UPDATE: Fixed PDF. I turned 27 years old this week. If life as a 25-year-old was about taking small steps to [...]
• 2009: Garden updates — Our organic fruit, vegetable and herb garden is coming along wonderfully. That’s about two-thirds of the garden. The other third [...]
• 2009: Five hats — We picked up some lamps from Home Depot and used them to light a sheet of plexiglass. Here are the [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Weeks ending August 8 and 15, 2009 — From the previous week’s plans: Find ways to recognize the contributions people had made to the idea lab Learn enough about Lotus [...]
• 2007: Thinking about September — If everything goes as planned, then I’ll have a whole month of slack this September. I’ll be waiting for the papers [...]
• 2006: Rock-climbing — Simon Rowland and Roger Yang invited me to go rock-climbing at Rock Oasis (Front and Bathurst) last Friday (2006.08.11). Richi [...]
• 2005: Charity — Philippine photographers show their mercenary side, and Charo is incensed. I think those people missed the point. (Except for Charo, who’s [...]
• 2005: Teaching assistantship — I wasn’t sure whether I should go for a teaching assistantship. New campus. New university culture. New subjects I’d never taken [...]
• 2003: Engels and Magie — Engels: From time to time, I return to my first love—electronics. I sometimes long for the excitement of competitive swimming and [...]