Music of the wikipedia

Found this interesting website. Looking for some randomized pseudo new age soothing music to listen to while you write? Check out http://listen.hatnote.com/ From the site: “Bells are additions, strings are subtractions. There’s something reassuring about knowing that every user makes a noise, every edit has a voice in the roar. (Green circles are anonymous edits […]

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Wild blue yonder

Finished my UAV Ground Flight School course on the weekend.  A certificate that is one key component and getting an exemption for the SFOC needed to use the UAV for commercial reasons.  I don’t know if I will ever be this good at flying it though.  [vimeo 167532429 w=640 h=360] Byzantine – BigFly from BigFly.fr […]

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To Bokeh or not to Bokeh

Over the years as we have transitioned from film to digital, one phrase keeps popping up, “film look”.  This was some mythical holy grail of image attributes that professional videographers tried to capture.Early video technology was hampered by small sensor sizes. Due to the physical properties of these sensors in relation to the lenses, we […]

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YouShow guess the location.

a sound file recorded during youshow. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/192004148″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]

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Splotsquelch

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/189312403″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]

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Gutenberg’s curse

Over the years I used to try to keep track of what I read. Slips of paper and scribbled notes blew around the house and drawers and backpacks.  Then I found Goodreads.  The first year I used it in 2003 I read 29 books.  Last year I managed 17. Although I have 5 or 6 […]

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Technology and Community

So in my other life away from TRU I am the current Chair of the Kamloops Film Series.  This is a series of feature films we show in three series; Spring, Winter, and Fall. The final film in our Fall series of 2014 we showed the wildly popular The 100-Year Old Man Who Jumped Out […]

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What the heck do I do?

Do I have a communication shape? I think it may be a crumbling slope, maybe a slump. David Robertson [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons I have systematically done less and less writing since leaving University. Short sweet and to the point is often my modus operandi now.  Running after small children kind of […]

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Operational preparedness

Simple task: Help Brian and Alan capture audio of his Tuesday lecture for the Google Hangout session.  Couple of problems presented immediately; one, how to get the best quality of Alan’s talk and still get decent audio of the room since people will be answering questions and Alan will be playing video clips to the […]

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