Want to kill some time?
http://www.tredz.co.uk/game/
My high score is 1088.4 m. Beat that!
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Monday, February 26, 2007
Funnies
My friend Barrett has a website, Randomness of the Day. The comics live up to their name. I found them more than amusing, especially if you go back to #1 and work your way through in order.
Uh-oh...
Looks like the years of abusing my body with junk food are finally catching up to me. My gut is becoming a lot squishier than it used to be and pants just aren't fitting like they used to. Combine this with my quickly receding hair line and you can see that I'm incredibly lucky to be as awesome as I am or else I'd probably be a fat bald loser :PTime to hit the gym...
No, that's not me in the picture, but give me a few weeks
Futuristic Photo Album
Check out this photo album software from Microsoft. It's incredibly neat and really brings photos to life. It must be pretty memory intensive though so probably not the quickest way to browse through your pictures of bordellos or what have you.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Fun, Fun, Fun
I thought I'd start a new post to keep talking about the Riders. I didn't want that last one to keep dragging on and on.
It's been an exciting off season, that's for sure. When was the last time that the Riders made so many moves? Shivers was better at finding talent and developing it, perhaps out of necessity since he had a lot of enemies due to his outspoken personality.
It's been an off season of change. We've said goodbye to Davin Bush, Omarr Morgan, Nate Davis, Jackie Mitchell, Rocky Butler, Jamel Richardson, Andrew Greene and Fred Childress. These are all long-time Riders and a lot of them can expect to be future Plaza of Honour inductees (Omarr, Nate and Andrew for sure). Also, we may have seen the last of Kenton Keith if he manages to stick on with the NFL's Colts. The earliest we'll see him back is Labour Day, if ever.
Despite seeing all of these guys leave, we've brought in a lot of new, great talent. We managed to rob Hamilton in the Rocky trade, bringing in a starting Canadian OL in Wayne Smith and a great speed receiver in DJ Flick. We also signed Mike Abou-Mechrek and Marc Parenteau, making an all-Canadian OL possible (which opens up A LOT of possibilities for using import receivers - see last post).
This is going to be a season of rookies stepping up and filling in the voids left by our departing veterans. In the days of Danny and Roy, it seemed as though there was an "old boys club" attitude preventing rookies from starting unless injuries forced them into play. Now, expect to see Rontarius Robinson, Luc Mullinder, Dwan Epps and a bunch of others ACTUALLY HAVE A CHANCE to compete for a job at training camp.
I really don't know what to expect next season. On paper, I think Tillman has improved our team. The biggest question mark will be our defence. With veterans Mitchell, Bush and Morgan all gone, it will be an inexperienced group back there. Hopefully Eddie Davis can step up and lead by example like he did last year. Either way, I'll be in the stands with my Aldag jersey cheering them on.
It's been an exciting off season, that's for sure. When was the last time that the Riders made so many moves? Shivers was better at finding talent and developing it, perhaps out of necessity since he had a lot of enemies due to his outspoken personality.
It's been an off season of change. We've said goodbye to Davin Bush, Omarr Morgan, Nate Davis, Jackie Mitchell, Rocky Butler, Jamel Richardson, Andrew Greene and Fred Childress. These are all long-time Riders and a lot of them can expect to be future Plaza of Honour inductees (Omarr, Nate and Andrew for sure). Also, we may have seen the last of Kenton Keith if he manages to stick on with the NFL's Colts. The earliest we'll see him back is Labour Day, if ever.
Despite seeing all of these guys leave, we've brought in a lot of new, great talent. We managed to rob Hamilton in the Rocky trade, bringing in a starting Canadian OL in Wayne Smith and a great speed receiver in DJ Flick. We also signed Mike Abou-Mechrek and Marc Parenteau, making an all-Canadian OL possible (which opens up A LOT of possibilities for using import receivers - see last post).
This is going to be a season of rookies stepping up and filling in the voids left by our departing veterans. In the days of Danny and Roy, it seemed as though there was an "old boys club" attitude preventing rookies from starting unless injuries forced them into play. Now, expect to see Rontarius Robinson, Luc Mullinder, Dwan Epps and a bunch of others ACTUALLY HAVE A CHANCE to compete for a job at training camp.
I really don't know what to expect next season. On paper, I think Tillman has improved our team. The biggest question mark will be our defence. With veterans Mitchell, Bush and Morgan all gone, it will be an inexperienced group back there. Hopefully Eddie Davis can step up and lead by example like he did last year. Either way, I'll be in the stands with my Aldag jersey cheering them on.
On Roughriders!
Wow. Over the past few years, one of our biggest weaknesses has been our receivers. With the exception of The Doctor, Matt Dominguez, we've been cursed with slow receivers with wooden blocks for hands. It seems as though the times have changed...
Today it was announced that the Riders have acquired Thyron Anderson from Montreal in exchange for a conditional 2008 draft pick.
We now have 11 receivers coming to camp this year:
Matt Dominguez*
Andy Fantuz
Jason Armstead
DJ Flick
Thyron Anderson
Yo Murphy
Jason French
Corey Grant
Craig Yeast
Kahlil Hill
Joshua Tinch
Curtis Jackson (No, not 50 Cent)
I would be ecstatic if we were to start the year off with MD, Armstead, Flick, Fantuz and Anderson for receivers. That's four established 1000 yard receivers and Fantuz (the future of the Riders at receiver)
* I wouldn't be surprised to see Matt Dominguez traded somewhere. There have been A LOT of rumours of sending him to BC for Aaron Hunt or Jason Clermont.
Friday, February 16, 2007
The Speak Easy
Well, I arrived in Calgary today. I'm staying the night at Evan and Kris' place then heading to Banff tomorrow afternoon. Country cooked us a lovely supper tonight - roast. That's right, four of us split a roast...and that's it. It was really good roast, but I would have enjoyed some potatoes or...water...
After our delicious supper we all went out to The Speak Easy, a local strip club. That was fun. The ladies were good looking but generally lacked enthusiasm. I don't know why feminists complain about strippers being degraded...the one must have cleaned up at least $15 in loonies bounced off her abdomen. $15 for 10 minutes? That's a good paying job if you ask me.
After our delicious supper we all went out to The Speak Easy, a local strip club. That was fun. The ladies were good looking but generally lacked enthusiasm. I don't know why feminists complain about strippers being degraded...the one must have cleaned up at least $15 in loonies bounced off her abdomen. $15 for 10 minutes? That's a good paying job if you ask me.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
WNPPC07
Thursday I leave for Calgary, and then Banff, for the Winter Nuclear and Particle Physics Conference. I'm currently scheduled to give a presentation Sunday at 9:30AM. Those of you who know me well will know that there is an excellent chance that I'm going to sleep right through that time slot. Oh well, it's only my reputation in the physics community at stake.
My talk is about one of the projects that I'm working on in collaboration with Texas AMU. We are running simulations to study the feasability of measuring the mass difference between the two lightest supersymmetric particles, the neutralino and the stau, at the ILC. Another way to explain it is that we're looking at the relationship between dark matter and supersymmetry where the neutralino (the X with a squiggle over it) is a candidate particle for dark matter.
When I find a place to store it, I'll post my powerpoint file for those of you who are interested to browse through. Notice that there are lots of links in the above paragraph. Nobody has an excuse for not knowing what I'm talking about :)
My talk is about one of the projects that I'm working on in collaboration with Texas AMU. We are running simulations to study the feasability of measuring the mass difference between the two lightest supersymmetric particles, the neutralino and the stau, at the ILC. Another way to explain it is that we're looking at the relationship between dark matter and supersymmetry where the neutralino (the X with a squiggle over it) is a candidate particle for dark matter.
When I find a place to store it, I'll post my powerpoint file for those of you who are interested to browse through. Notice that there are lots of links in the above paragraph. Nobody has an excuse for not knowing what I'm talking about :)
This is the reaction that we want to study at ILC.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
ILC
Here's a link to an article discussing the cost of the project that I'm working on.
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/2/10/1
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/2/10/1
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
F&$@!
With the fresh snow on the ground, I slid into the intersection at Parliament and Albert when the light turned yellow. Of course, I was still in there when the light turned red and now SGI has a picture of the back of my car. I'm kind of hoping that the snow that was on my license plate and the fact that my car was at an angle (hopefully back end away from the camera...) will make the photo useless to them and I will get off scott free.
Sunday, February 04, 2007
SPIDERS!
I've killed two spiders over the past week, most recently there was one on my toaster. If there are lots of spiders here in the summer, you can expect to find me curled up in a ball in some kind of hermetically sealed anti-spider room. Just looking for a picture to post in this entry had me severely creeped out, checking the environment around me for lurking spiders.I hope that Blake isn't as big of a pussy as I am when it comes to spiders or we're in trouble.
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