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July 31, 2006

Wanna Work for Apple?

Apple is hiring a campus rep for the Univ. of Saskatchewan - if you're interested or know someone who is, send them my way. Part time, should be a student, great Apple perks and decent money.

Send me an email if you're interested.

Look Out...




caminando, Originally uploaded by Jamita.

He's walking.

Schmap Photo




Schmap Photo, Originally uploaded by iChris.

My photo of Sue at Che Cora in Montreal finds it's way into Schamp's map. Thanks to Matthew for sending me an image of it.

July 29, 2006

Ordering Breakfast at Chez Cora's




Ordering Breakfast at Chez Cora's, Originally uploaded by iChris.

I've been published! (sorta)

Schmap, a virtual tour guide, wanted to use this photo in their Montreal guide. I can't download the guide yet as they currently only support Windows (boo!) but Mac support is coming in November. (yah!) Any Windows users want to download the Montreal guide and let me know how my picture looks?

July 28, 2006

Radiohead Video Retrospective

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This site has a collection of 20 Radiohead videos from the past few years.

It's the Year of the Dyck


The Bird at a Birthday
Originally uploaded by iChris.


Congratulations Darren. Give Darren a call or email if you don't know why it's the year of the Dyck.

July 24, 2006

Gone for 10 Days...

Splash 2006 Team

Away for 10 days from phone, internet, TV and newspapers:

  • 440 new emails - I'm guessing 20 of those are actual 'important' emails

  • 930 unread items in Netnewswire. I'll probably skim/skip most of those

  • 1 message on our answering machine.

  • 1 bottle of PH balancing solution in our mailbox. We have no idea where this came from.

  • Bills and assorted other boring 'real' mail.

  • A couple of pre-made meals and two bags of buns from parents of youth - awesome!

  • 1 cold (nearly beaten!)

  • 2 hours of video footage to be edited.

  • 252 digital pictures.

All in all, an amazing week up in Pierceland with our annual Splash trip. Each time I do something like this, it makes it harder and harder to go back to the selfish, money driven world of my 'real' job. Good thing I took an extra day off to decompress. :) Now, back to those emails.

July 14, 2006

Designers Are Dumb

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Brilliant commentary on design from Ze - click here to watch.

And on that note, we're outta here to head 4 hrs north to Pierceland along with 8 grade 8ers to do a fun camp/VBS for the week. I loves me some sleeping in a tent!

July 12, 2006

It's Bacon's Time to Shine

Bacon ad

Play ad here.

I can picture Mark and I having this exact conversation.

July 11, 2006

Free Skype Long Distances Dates

United Kingdom July 15-16, Mexico July 22-23, Japan July 29-30

Skype is offering free calling to various places from the U.S./Canada over the next couple of weeks. Normally with Skype you can call another computer for free from anywhere, but what's different about this is that you can call a U.K./Mexico/Japan based phone number for free during these dates.

Borat - the Movie

Borat

Trailer here. From the genius (?) behind Ali G, I'm sure this will be offensive and yet very funny.

July 9, 2006

Headbutt Heard 'Round the World

I don't really know what he could've said to Zidane that warranted that kind of response - especially since Zidane has been around for awhile and had to have heard every French/S.African slur against his mother.

Update: And the natural video game follow up.

July 6, 2006

Sudoku in the Loo

Toilet Paper Sudoku

I think I know what Sue is getting for her birthday.

July 5, 2006

House Dreaming...

Character Home

Sadly, the house we'd been dreaming about in the back of our minds for the last couple months has been taken off the market. It was a really neat looking older house (built in 1912) that was too expensive for us - hence the dreaming part. Besides the nice house itself, it had a seperate studio/garage that looked like it would've been a great place to setup a audio/video recording studio/jam space. Ah well.. we'll keep looking and dreaming.

Inside house

Monster Truckin

Monster Truck

Get out the red neck in ya and play this monster truck game that plays a bit like the old Excitebike on Nintendo back in the day.

July 4, 2006

Still Alive in the Summer...


Carcassone on the Deck at Waskesiu
Originally uploaded by iChris.


I'm still around 'n kickin. Summer has finally kicked in here in the 'Great White North' and so it's time to grab as much sun as we can while it's out. We were up at Waskesiu for an extended long weekend (more pics here) and now we're house sitting for Bruce and Lisa. Mmm.. lots of BBQing and sitting on the deck, and riding the lawn mower around.