Two of my buddies, Aiden and Tyler, have just left my home in Victoria, BC to bike across Canada. I went on a 100km ride with them for the first leg and I am glad that I am not going all the way. Just thinking about the whole trip makes me tired. This is the sort the thing that everyone talks about, but nobody actually does. Aiden and Tyler are actually doing it

They are planning on stopping at the Big Valley Creationist Museum in Alberta, which I have blogged about previously. Since last posting about it, the museum has produced a promotional video that I have embedded below. I am looking forward to Tyler and Aiden’s first hand report

Check out their blog and Tyler’s Fickr photostream. Good luck with the trip guys, all the best.

Here’s that Creationist Museum promo video for a quick laugh:

This is the last post resulting from my free time this week off as I am back at school today.

I was back at home, and my old box of Lego from my childhood was beckoning me. I didn’t know what to make, but I knew I needed to make something. I decided to make Chris Prillo’s set up. I have been watching Chris Pirillo’s live stream from time to time. I like his rants and have gone through quite a bit of his stuff on youtube.

Check out my creation of Chris Pirillo below. Sorry Chris for depicting you as a pirate. This was for the fact that Lego has much better pirate figures than ninjas. If they had better ninjas, I would have depicted you as one.

Here are a bunch of pictures that have just been collecting dust in a “to be sorted” folder deep in my hard drive. Most of these are self explanatory. The animated beans are not actually animated, it is an optical illusion. Stare at one to prove this to yourself. The last picture is there just because Montreal is in the middle of a playoff run….Go Habs!!

My presence here has been lacking in the last week due to exams. They are done now and I am back online.

Here is a TED talk by Daniel Dennett. If you have 20 minutes, I highly recommend watching it. Although he is a regular atheist athour, his main field is consciousness. The talk is titled: “Can we know our own minds?”

Here is my latest experiment. I have exams coming up, my first being on Friday (uh oh that’s today), and I am recruiting my readers to help me stay at my desk. I had a few people stop by yesterday. It was only my sister, mom and a few twitter followers. I am now announcing this for the big time.

I have started a live webcam feed of me at my desk. All I ask of you guys is pretty simple: If you don’t see me studying, feel free to verbally abuse me to make me study.

Hopefully, this will be up until my last exam on the 21st. I hope it doesn’t creep me out too much. In that case, I might take it down

Here is the link.

Here is a few of my favorite Dilbert quotes that I was saving in a text file while watching the two seasons of the TV show.

“I will not be pressured into having fun just because we arbitrarily use a base 10 counting system and a big round number is coming up” - on year 2000

“It seems to me that this whole charity concept is nothing but an exercise in redistribution of guilt”

“How did I end up with all this obsolete equipment, it seems to multiply”

Mom : “How did you get so distrustful”
Dilbert : “Well, I’m just guessing, but maybe it was because you lied to me about the toothfairy, then you lied to me about the easter bunny, then you lied to me about santa clause, then you lied to me about the stork brining babies”
Mom: “He knows about the stork”
Dogbert “My fault, I let him watch the nature channel and he put 2 and 2 together”
Dilber: “Now I don’t believe anything i’m told unless there’s proof”

“I’m addicted to email. My endorphins spike when I get a message. When there are no messages, loneliness and despair overcome me.”
“Have you tried sending email to yourself?”
“We don’t talk about that.”
- Dilbert and Dogbert

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

 

I have come across a few interesting videos of a guy called Max Cornelisse. Google hasn’t indexed much on him except for his youtube channel.

Even if these videos are fake, they are still pretty impressive. On several occasions, he hacks into public computer systems and displays content of his choice. In the last video below, he claims to use cell broadcasting to deliver SMS messages to all people in his immediate vicinity. After reading the wikipedia entry on cell broadcasting, it does appear that the infrastructure for this kind of hack is there; it might be possible.

I really hope that these videos are real, but I have a feeling that they are not.

Check out a few of his videos below, or his youtube channel.

What do you guys think? Is he for real?

Changing Signs at a toll booth.

Hacking big TV in a train station

Prank - Hacker at Utrecht Central Station - A funny movie is a click away

Sending SMSs to all people in vicinity

I recently came across a really neat concept for a bike: the swing bike. It has a pivot in the frame, providing another way to turn. This idea has the potential to be really fun on a mountain bike.

I searched around the internet for these, and found that they do actually exist outside the realm of homemade prototypes. Although now discontinued, they were produced for several years in the ’70s.

Check out the video below.