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Little Turk Demo

admin — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:29:30 +0000

I totally promised there would be video. Embedded, it's too small to look at, or too big to fit nicely in the page. So you're jus' gon' have to go to Vimeo and watch it there. Right now. Or later.

Over There

admin — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:37:43 +0000

Hypothetically, if you were standing on my balcony, and it was sunny, and you were looking in the right direction, that’s sortof what you would see.

On Stories.

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:00:31 +0000

“The universe is made of stories, not atoms.”

– Muriel Rukeyser

“The most important part of the story is the part you don’t know yet.”

– Barbara Kingsolver to Kurt Andersen

The first quote, it transpires, is in my pile of things that I keep to remember. It is also how chapter one of the book I just started reading begins (The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil). The second quote, I passed on my way to finding the first quote; and is here because it seemed àpropos.

YUL-YVR-AKL-WLG-AKL-YVR-YUL

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:02:03 +0000

Canada has terrible airport codes that, for the most part, bear no resemblance to the name of the city. YUL? Really?

In any case, I am embarking on an epic voyage in February.

I leave Montréal February 14th, get to Wellington on the 16th (thanks international date line!), spend the 18th and 19th at Webstock, then leave Wellington on the 24th, arriving back in Montréal on.. the 24th. Travel gets weird when you go far.

I imagine there will be some kind of eventfulness and insobriety on the 20th, being that I am not often in New Zealand, and exactly no other reason.

There, I Fixed It

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:03:03 +0000

Hoorah. I just upgraded WordPress after running a weird development version since, as best as I can tell, August 2008.

I think I made it prettier, too.

In Canada For Another Year

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:31:32 +0000

Victory.

I have acquired another year long open work permit, so I’m going to be staying in Canada for another year. At least.

Goings, Comings, Hirings, Somethings!

admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:09:56 +0000

It is April! Already! I am astonished that I have been in Canada almost a year now. It seems both much longer and much shorter.

My year of working holiday is up in less than two short weeks. But I am not going home yet (:

In a slightly more perfect world, I would have been in the process of getting a work permit to continue working at the same place where I’ve been working most of the time I have been living in MontrÃ©al. Alas, it was not meant to be, as said workplace disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

However, in this slightly less perfect world, there is another year-long visa available to me. Which the Canadian consulate in Sydney is processing for me, right at this very moment. I’m hoping the processing for it will finish in the less than two short weeks I have left s: (the estimated processing time was 4-6 weeks, two’ish weeks ago; so in the next two weeks is optimistic. However, my last work visa also had a 4-6 week processing time, and was done in eleven days)

Failing that, there will be a couple of visits to the USA in my future – to come back as a visitor, and then back again when I can get more work visa.

However long it takes, now seems like as good a time as any as to embark on the search for the next place that gets to employ me!

I should become available in two to four weeks (depending on how long visa processing takes); at which point I will have an open work permit for a year (so I can be hired in Canada without additional paperwork on the employer side). I have a CV, which is also available as a PDF. Hoorah.

Evening Snow

admin — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:21:06 +0000

This is about what it looks like when it snows at night. So pretty! So very pretty!

On the other hand, this is the current depth-of-balcony-snow status

So far, winter is being much easier to deal with than summer was. It should be noted that I’ve experienced 50°C of temperature variation so far this year…

Happy Something from Montréal

admin — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:27:19 +0000

Partly Snowy

admin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:38:31 +0000

It has been snowing a little bit. This is the snow which has accumulated on my balcony

I’d go play in it, except the doors have frozen shut.

And this is how it was looking from where I work a little earlier.

So yes. Today I walked to work in the snow. But at least I have shoes and it wasn’t uphill both ways.