The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here ...
Today I got an email from an old friend I hadn’t heard from in a while. Jill wrote me an email and let me know than her boyfriend thought he would be the poster boy for immaturity and break up with her via email. Obviously, I don’t think that’s very cool. You would think if you care about someone you would at least have the decency to do it in person.
That period of time after I got tossed through that window was obviously pretty hard on me. I went through two surgeries, months of recovery time (during which the left side of my face was completely numb — it’s actually still pretty numb, ...
I plowed through three books while I was down in Cancun, and unfortunately, don’t really have any reading material around. Can anyone recommend anything that they’ve read recently that they thought was excellent? I mostly read non-fiction these days. ...
The photo above is from my 19th birthday. I don’t even really remember the circumstances that led me back to Chilliwack that weekend, but I actually do remember blowing those candles out, and being at the same condo where I graduated from high school. In that same condo I showered after a lot of rugby games, I did a lot of physics lab write-ups, and I even wrote my first song on my Fender strat after some girl stood me up. Sadly enough, I spent most of that night sitting in the dark on the couch in my mom’s living room and wrote most of it on my electric, completely ampless. My mom would ...
My good friend Jason Fischl (who coincidentally used to be my old boss for while) just joined the Skype team down in the Bay Area as the Director of Developer Relations.
I think it’s a great role, and I’m looking forward to seeing what Skype continues to do in the future now that Jason is involved. Congrats Jason. ...
I gotta say — I’m fairly amazed that it’s still snowing on the west coast. I woke up to a white coating on the local mountains and houses here.
I actually spent a few years living in Ottawa, and one of the reasons I came back was because the weather was so much warmer out here. But this is without a doubt one of the craziest winters I can remember. Cultus Lake provincial park is only a few weeks away from opening, so it’s pretty incredible that we’re still plagued by this cold snap. I sure hope we’re privileged enough to have an extra warm summer as payback for this dismal winter.
Anyone ...
Dave Shea is trying to help a fellow designer raise a bit of money for their adoption fund. To that end, he’s donating the proceeds of the sales of his Chalkwork icons to the Snook adoption fund for the next few weeks. If you’re looking for icons, now’s a great time to grab a set and help out a good cause at the same time. ...
Heading to the beach in a sec, but wanted to do a quick entry. So far I’m having lots of fun down here. This is easily the nicest resort I’ve ever been at, and the food has been pretty stellar. I was a tad hungover yesterday, more so because of the heat and lack of water than the beer, so I took it easy. Today is a pool day at one of our sister resorts, Coba. So I’m just going to read and relax.
Tomorrow we’re heading to Chichen Itza, which is one of the seven wonders of the world. So I’m definitely looking forward to that. I haven’t pulled out my SLR yet, and have been using my little ...
About a week ago I went through the formal interview process for my Nexus Border pass. Other than when my friend Dan has been working at YVR, I can’t really remember many times I’ve crossed the border where I didn’t feel the border guard was excessively rude. Maybe it’s because I always cross the border alone, or maybe there’s something weird flagged on my account, but I always seem to get the nth degree.
The interview process was fairly straightforward, until of course they asked if I wanted the card for business or pleasure. I said that while it was primarily for pleasure, I would ...
On Thursday I’m getting on a plane and heading out to Hamilton for a few days prior to heading down to the Mayan Riviera. I have a lot of things to get off my plate before then, and am hoping to even hit the mall at some point to do a bit of shopping. My laptop has been down in Vancouver getting fixed, and hopefully I’ll be getting it back tonight (that’s a whole blog post in itself). I have to say that not having a laptop around has been a total pain in the rear end. Tomorrow I plan to work from a coffee shop again, as I find it’s a really nice atmosphere (and the scenery is a bit better ...
I spent some time working on Viper Cache last night. It’s going to get a new name at some point, but it’s close to being done. I’m going to test it on this site for a while and see if I can iron out any bugs. ...
Ellen Degeneres recently signed up on Twitter and somehow managed to get 100,000 twitter followers in a relatively short amount of time. She’s fairly new to Twitter, and a few people think she might need a bit of help.
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Laura Roeder is hoping that Ellen will bring her onto the show to try to learn a few things about using Twitter. I’ve exchanged a few emails with Laura with regards to WordPress and WordCamp over the past few months, and think it’s a pretty cool attempt by her to get on national TV. So ...
I’m updating WordTwit right now to be able to show responses to Tweets in a blog post. A use case for this would be someone asking a question on Twitter related to a particular blog post, and wanting to incorporate Twitter feedback to that question into a post. Hopefully in a few minutes you’ll start to see some tweets show up here.
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Having driven over the Port Mann bridge probably close to a thousand times in my life, I’m pretty much an expert on how traffic works in that area. Years ago, in an effort to relieve some congestion for westbound traffic heading into Vancouver, the city created a dedicate HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lane that goes pretty much from the Port Mann bridge all the way to the Hastings exit downtown.
Unfortunately though, one of the characteristics of that lane is that it’s rarely used to capacity. There’s nothing more frustrating than sitting in grid-locked traffic and seeing a completely empty ...
I just heard this on the news, and it’s the kind of thing that makes my blood boil. The Hastings Racetrack is being forced to close for a month during the Olympics due to security concerns by VANOC. Lots of employees will be out of work, and some may even lose their jobs.
Given the Olympics are supposed to help the economy, it’s rather ironic that VANOC is forcing some people out of work. Shouldn’t the rights of the individual business owners be respected, regardless of what VANOC wants? ...
Now that I have cable again, I’ve been watching a bit more TV. Except for last night’s Heroes and 24, I’ve been keeping up with all three shows.
Of them all, Lost is the only one that’s really keeping me interested. I think the whole concept of 24 has just gone on too long now. I thought season two was pretty awesome, mainly because it focused on character development. Now it’s more of an action flick. They had a good opportunity with that cute FBI agent, but they really haven’t used her to her full potential yet.
I’m not sure why, but I find Heroes pretty boring these days. I guess ...
