We headed out to Peter Lougheed Provincial Park, in the Kananaskis region of the Rockies, to do some camping and hanging out with family.
There was plenty of wildlife in the area - there was enough bear activity that the (awesome) bike paths were closed and completely off limits. They were tracking bears right through our campground, and they came within 100m of our tent. At one point, half a dozen deer (that we hadn’t even noticed in the bushes) scattered right behind our campsite. We have no idea what spooked them, but we didn’t go wandering off to find out…
We headed to Race City Speedway for the day, to watch some of the 2011 Drift Mania Canadian Championship. We’d never been to a drifting race, and Evan had never been to the racetrack. It was a really fun day at the track, between watching qualifications of the drifting racers, then some drag racing, then the actual final-16 and final-4 drift races. Great stuff.
We’ll definitely be checking out the 2012 schedule…
When Alan was in town, we played some music (made some noise) and streamed it to DS106 Radio, where DrGarcia recorded some of it. She later rebroadcast it, where Bryan recorded a copy and then jammed along with us. Very cool stuff. It’s extremely rough (well, at least my part), but so much fun.
We spent a few days last week camping at White Lake, in BC. The campground had a couple of docks that we were able to use, and they made pretty good spots for hanging out, swimming, and fishing.
Dock life is pretty good, at least to this land-locked prairie boy…
I’m dabbling with a contact form plugin (again). There should be a fancy schmancy “Feedback” sliding tab on the left side of the site now. I might want to spend some time tweaking how it’s set up. Not entirely happy with the default text etc… This post is really just a way to clear the static file cache without blowing it all away, so it shows up on the front page…
Just as stand-up comedians are trained to be funny by observing which of their lines and expressions are greeted with laughter, so too are our thoughts online molded to conform to popular opinion by these buttons. A status update that is met with no likes (or a clever tweet that isn’t retweeted) becomes the equivalent of a joke met with silence. It must be rethought and rewritten. And so we don’t show our true selves online, but a mask designed to conform to the opinions of those around us.
Or something. I don’t have the attention span to actually read the article. Or the short article summarizing the article. Or, really, to write a proper blog post about the short article summarizing the article.
I know I think of memory first as query structures. I’d be hooped if teh googel went down.
I was sitting on the deck after getting home, cooling down from the bike ride, and was struck by the awesome fast-moving whispy clouds overhead. Had an idea to try to shoot the motion, and shot 15 minutes of video with my phone. I then recorded a few minutes of atmospheric guitar noise, and spent far too long convincing iMovie to do something with the video, and then even longer convincing my internet connection to upload it to YouTube. Anyway, here it is…
The story of the monkeys that snapped photographs of themselves made the rounds last week. A photographer’s gear was borrowed by a band of monkeys, and they managed to squeeze off a few photos of themselves. Some of the photos are actually very interesting.
**Photograph on left copyright 2011, an unnamed macaque somewhere in Indonesia. Photograph on right copyright 2011, another unnamed macaque somewhere in Indonesia.**
Here’s where it gets muddy. The photographs were taken by the monkeys, not by the (human) photographer that lugged the gear to the spot. Copyright is granted to the creator of a work - the photographer, not the owner of the camera. So, in this case, if copyright applied it would belong to the individual monkeys that triggered the shutter.
I took this photo of Evan during the 2007 Calgary Stampede. We were in the kid’s section of the midway rides, and he was soaking in all of the excitement. He was almost 5 years old, so the sounds and lights and motion and energy had overstimulated him pretty strongly. Shortly after this, he hopped onto a dragon rollercoaster, and rode it until he nearly fell over. It was a good day.
**Photograph on left copyright 2011, an unnamed macaque somewhere in Indonesia. Photograph on right copyright 2011, another unnamed macaque somewhere in Indonesia.**