the fire project This little viddy is what happens when you mix, a roommate, some ninjas, (no wait that was my imagination going off there) a barking chihuahua, kerosene and a match.6.3 MB
Goo I think Goo and I are going to be really good friends. See the encounter for yourself.2.4 MB
Action figure Jesus Action figure Jesus starring in "jesus…jesus christ." He's so holy.5.7 MB
Hey man (Amen) Action figure Jesus is back in "Hey Man (Amen)". I don't know why he speaks German when he meets the devil.7.2 MB
iSwitched Here's what happens when you mix a new Mac with a former PC user. Rean switched.6.7 MB
RedRocket Crotch This is a typical Friday at school with my students. No seriously.6.9 MB
Outdoors + Gi At the karate bug bash, I gave unsu a go with the cam rolling.5.8 MB
Punchin out candles It's only fun when it works and you don't get burned. Ugh, that was a silly play on words.1.9 MB
Lullaby for V Zo
5/10/2012 10:14:00 PM
The funny things you do as a new mom. I love that lullaby and good night song, (Brahms' lullaby) but I couldn't ever remember the words. When you have a baby in your arms, it doesn't matter what the words are. It's all about the singing and humming.
I made up the words when Vaeda was about a month old, and now I can't imagine singing it any other way.
Lullaby and good night, Little Vaeda is sleepy. Close your eyes, fall asleep, little baby go to sleep. When you wake, I'll be here. I'll be right by your side. Lullaby and good night. Little Vaeda's sleepy. Hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmmm...
Today was the first day of the Lobster fishing season in PEI. I tend to miss my dad when I see photos of boats setting sail loaded to the brim with traps. My dad fished for years, pretty much throughout my childhood. I asked him about it once after he retired. He said he had butterflies in his stomach every time he went out.
You see my Dad's dad was a fisherman. The trade was passed down. My dad's passion was mechanics. He could rebuild anything. I suppose the butterflies had something to do with the fact that my father never learned how to swim. There had been some close calls for my dad at sea too. I recall a time he told about sailing out in rough waters to rescue another fisherman who couldn't make it in. My dad had a bigger boat than anyone in the harbour, so he knew he was the only chance that fisherman had to make it back in that day.
To me that's dedication. I was happy to see my dad retire and start a business fixing alternators and starters. He began to follow his passions and spend his days doing something he enjoyed most. But I'll bet he was out on the water this morning watching over his 3 sons and his grandson as they set the first traps of the season.
We love our pets. They take on personalities. Sometimes we create twitter accounts for our pets. My neighbour created a twitter account for their cat. It's ridiculous. The cat has more followers than I do.
The cat also tweets more than I do...?
On our coffee walk today we were chatting about how easy it would be to create a device that the animal wears that detects motion and sends out tweets based on what the animal was doing. Napping, playing, jumping...and so on.
Turns out Mattel has created such a thing for your dog. Puppy tweets.
My dogs are a bit neurotic, so I'm half tempted. Over 10 years ago when I started this blog, I created a random thought (mini blog) for my chihuahua Ren. It's still there on the right side of my landing page, so I suppose tweeting is a natural evolution.
Cats are still dumb, as popular as they are on the internet right now.
It would seem the WWW is giving designers another reason to rip their berets off their heads and go screaming out the door into the streets.
At least that's how I feel.
With the amazing things you can do with html5 and CSS3 these days it's all just getting your hopes up, only to let Microsoft let you down once again.
Say for example you want to embed a font to make your website awesome. Sure you can still use common web fonts for your body copy, (you can dip your toes into brilliance slowly), but if you want to create impact with your H1s for example, you can boldly go where no web browser has gone before, and embed fonts using @font-face. Everything looks beautiful if you are running a mac. Apple has always accounted for anti-aliasing. Even the latest Windoze browsers will look amazing across all browsers. BUT XP, the most prevalent OS on Windoze, doesn't handle anti-aliasing very well. In fact they went to the trouble to develop ClearType which will make things look beautiful again, but some idiot engineer probably under a tight release schedule decided that it should be turned it off by default to preserve resources. Which translates into = it doesn't exist! As who the hell is going to look into even discovering it. Only a designer or web developer would even venture down that path to discover it and turn it on. So that means that 40% (estimate) of your visitors will just see your fonts as an anorexic version of their former glorious selves.
Jeepers I hate the the internets some days. It's a sad day for design.
Cross browser/platform compatibility - will there ever be a day?
Lots of fun things brewing lately. I've started using Pinterest to do daily posts. I need to build an app for my iphone for this blog. I suppose that's a reason to port it over to Wordpress, but I like the vintage'ness of this blog now. Every line of code brought to you by me.
I decided to go thru my sketchbooks and post some funny sketches. Between pinterest and instagram I've been having fun. I can't decide which will be more fun in the long run, but both are getting love since I can do them from my phone.
I haven't used my laptop in ages. I would like a new laptop. It's been years. Geeeze that's not like me. I can't justify the cost now. A family vacation would be much more enjoyed. Well maybe in the short term.
I just did a fitness test and my mind is running a mile a minute. I did not bad considering I've been back to karate since January this year (post-pregnancy). But I've decided to kick it up a notch and join the home workout movement. Jeff just bought a gym membership. I'm proud of him but I've never been one to go to a gym. Give me sports, martial arts or a dvd to workout at home and I'm happy.
My Dad's name is George. He was a fisherman's son, and became a fisherman before he became a mechanic. He loved seafood. I used to hate eating fish as a child. We ate a lot of fish and potatoes growing up.
Photos of Belize, Jul. 26th - Aug. 10th, 2003. Vacation, Mayan ruins and snorkling.
Funsies!
For your mathly addictions. My java calculator...(You need the Java Plug-in to view.) Psst...try dividing by zero, I think I handled that quite nicely. ;) Check it...
How do you become a geek you ask? Hmmm. I dunno. All I can tell is how it came about for me... Here's an except: 1981: I use a commodore Vic20 for the first time. 5 kb RAM + 15 kb ROM = 20 kb. I want to learn Basic.. Read More...
The funny things you do as a new mom. I love that lullaby and good night song, 
Today was the first day of the Lobster fishing season in PEI. I tend to miss my dad when I see photos of boats setting sail loaded to the brim with traps. My dad fished for years, pretty much throughout my childhood. I asked him about it once after he retired. He said he had butterflies in his stomach every time he went out. 
Ren had a bad attitude most days, he bit people, but he knew tricks too.
