Netflix

October 21, 2010

I’m loving Netflix in Canada. Being able to fire up my PS3 and instantly stream quality content in HD is a convenience I really appreciate. In 2007, for a school assignment, I had to write a case study on Netflix and make recommendations on what it should do to stay relevant and grow. The awesome [...]

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Dialog Trees (or how I learned to love Flash’s XML handling)

October 19, 2010

I’m working with Dialog Trees on my current project. Dialog Trees are a game dev staple and common with branching dialog based games. I originally built my own very simple XML but quickly found that content creation got clumsy and annoying. The solution would be a dedicated Dialog Editor tool. Building my own tool for my own [...]

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Photography: Playing with Light

September 28, 2010
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Last week I saw this inspiring video: Light Drive. The artist has a beautiful mastery of painting with light and fusing artistry with hardware & software hackery. Anyway I got inspired and realized I haven’t done much with low light, abstract, slow shutter photography. So I spent a couple of hours one evening trying! My setup The [...]

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Fresh Meat Begin!

September 14, 2010
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Photo courtesy of Rebecca Blissett & Vancouver Courier The last month and a half has been a complete blur. Let’s try to play catch up. Raw Meat The pre-fresh-meat practice group I started over the summer really hit full stride in August as we regularly started getting coaching help. Attendance peaked at over 50 girls just [...]

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Less than a month to go….

July 24, 2010

Terminal City Rollergirls Fresh-Meat try-outs are on August 22nd and I fear that the next month is going to just blaze past. Next weekend: Pride August 7th: TCRG Championship Bout August 15th: Pre-Fresh-Meat Workshop August 22nd: Try-outs Yup, my whole August is spoken for. Last night’s Raw Meat Skate Night was just as epic as [...]

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Practicing with PFM

July 12, 2010
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This weekend a few Raw Meat friends and I traveled to Seattle to skate with the PFM Practice Squad. It was an incredible experience. The travel down was great because it gave the 4 of us a chance to really connect. I’ve only known Ginny, Amy and Wendi for a month so it was great [...]

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Summer is Here

July 6, 2010

After what felt like the worst May and June weather Vancouver has ever experienced summer seems to finally be arriving. We’re expected to get a minor heat wave this week with temperatures reaching 30c. I’m not a huge fan of hot weather but after the emo-weather Vancouver has been delivering lately I think I’ll live. [...]

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