• Death Metal Rooster. This totally makes me giggle every time I see it.
• Dublin guy slips on ice. Poor guy. The worst part is, this was probably the worst fall they recorded. Bet you they were sitting there and got several falls, but this was the most epic.
• Combination lock made of wood. I never knew how combinations locks actually worked … but now I do. Neat video.
• My Favourite Liar. This is the most excellent story of a guy’s favourite professor, who’s teaching style encourages people to evaluate everything that he says. I’ve had some pretty good profs in my day, but I think I would’ve loved a class like this.
• Demolish School Prank Call. I think it’s the accents that made me love this. That and the cuteness.
• Rush’s Drummer version of Hockey Night in Canada theme song. Very Canadian. Very awesome.

What this lets me do is stay on top of what’s going on in fields that interest me the most. Anyway, one thing that I think I might start doing a little more of is posting some links to stuff that I’ve found that are cool. So here’s what I’ve found this past week or so.

• Two Gentlemen of Lebowski. A screen writer spent three weeks writing the movie The Big Lebowski in the form of a Shakespearean play. Seriously.
• Great Britain under snow. This incredible satellite photo of the Great Britain shows with remarkable clarity what this cold snap we’re experiencing in this part of the world is like.
• Alma. This short animated film is very well done. Definitely worth the 5 minutes or so playtime.
• Car chase set to Benny Hill theme music. The music truly makes this, although the footage is kinda amusing too.
• Inspector Gadget music played on bottles. Simply awesome.

All of these were stuff I shared with google reader. You can see these items and more on this shared page: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/heraldk.

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Today was the Edmonton Tweetup. A while ago, I joined twitter and blogged a bit about the experience. To put it quickly – I was a bit bummed out that I was the first of my group of friends to join the twitter experience. Well that’s changed a bit, thanks to @mastermaq who found me using twitter local. After just a couple of weeks, I had several twitter friends and the service became useful for me. Not long after that, Mack started organizing a twitter meet, which apparently is affectionately called a tweetup. The planning and organizing ended up with today being the day for the tweetup.

I showed up with Diane and we had a great turnout. We had at least 14 or 15 people there, and it was great to meet everyone. There was quite a large range of people who showed up — young people, older people, and a fair range of fields (although most were tech related in some way). It was quite a fun time actually. I spent a lot of time chatting with @bruceclark since we shared an interest in photography, but I also chatted with quite a few other people. It was a most enjoyable afternoon.

After the party seemed to have waned a little, I returned home for a short time before heading out to the airport to pick up my parents who were in Europe on holidays for a month. I took them out for supper as a mother’s day thing since the actual Mother’s day involved driving my sister to a couple of gigs. I got to hear a little about their trip, and it was good to have them back in town

This evening I played a bit of poker, having my first real downswing at 200NL since an early downswing when I first moved up. Downswining 7 buyins is not my idea of a fun time. All sorts of crap happened to me that I had somehow avoided for the most part over the last little while of playing. Oh well, it can’t all go my way. I’m still up playing those limits, it’s just unfortunate that I couldn’t continue the trend that’s been lasting for the past little while. I guess it brings my winrate down to a much more sustainable level. It just sucks for it to happen all at once like this.

So I’m off to bed. I’m taking Megan to her first of two gigs tomorrow at the Radisson Hotel (formerly the Coast Terrace Inn) tomorrow morning. If you’re in the mood for some fancy brunch with some harp music for entertainment, feel free to stop in between 10:15 and 2:15.

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Hope you enjoy this near feature of my blog!

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Clever AACS Tshirt
Canon in D improv
I’m a Marvel … and I’m a DC
How to kill a President

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The first thing that struck me is that the site is well-organized and easy to browse. It is very much a web2.0 style done right. Just enough AJAX (I’m assuming) to make the elements of the page interactive to the right degree. Everything feels very easy, but the lack of full customization means that viewing other people’s profiles is actually pleasant (unlike myspace … *shudder*). So all in all it is an impressive piece of software.

The other big thing that struck me right away is just how many of my former schoolmates were on facebook already. I suppose mileage might vary depending on whether facebook has hit critical mass for the people you know. Definitely, however, a large number of people I went to high school, junior high, and even elementary school with are already on facebook. What that meant was within a few days of creating a facebook account, I already had more than 50 people on my friends list. Insane.

The last thing that I think facebook does amazingly well, is it gives you a big reason to login on a regular basis. When you login, you get a list of ‘news items’ for the people on your friends list. This means that whenever you login you are notified whenever someone adds a new person to their friends list, or when they update their profile, or … all kinds of stuff. This means you can see what’s going on with other people’s friends networks and update your own if you see someone you know get added to someone else’s list.

So, I have now fallen to facebook and it appears to be another good time waster. Just what I needed.

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