Author: KeriCDN

The Assignment: 100 Words on the Internet and Bell

From: Ben Lucier

The Words:

Every computer has an IP address, a number that looks like 333.333.22.333, think of it as the “language of the internet”.  My computer could not talk to yours if they didn’t speak IP.  

Pulling stuff off the internet, “surfing”, is four times as fast as sending stuff up, “uploading”. A good upload speed would be about 8MBs/sec.  However, Bell has this new service where, ready?, where you can upload at… 24MB/sec.  Like I said to Ben, “that would change my life”.

I said I’d like a Turbostick, a USB key that connects me wherever I am, then I can upload “Live at 5” from the middle of the woods.  Only if I was sponsored though, the per-usage price plan would kill me.

TOTAL WORD COUNT: 120

DISCLAIMER: I’d take absolutely nothing in this article for fact, pretty sure I butchered it all and instead follow the links below to see Ben’s cloud diagrams and more. 

Links: click here and here 

Hey Ben – if I got something wrong correct me in the comments please, kay!

Back to ‘The Canadian Explorer’ roots today, driving around in the studio.

My airline ticket arrived in my email yesterday!  I’m getting shipped out February 11, back March 1 for the Olympics.  Thank you, Canoe.ca.  

Then we pass Hearn Generating Station whose smokestack is the 2nd tallest object in Toronto.  Click that link to see inside, and click here for the video of the same (fast forward to 0:23).

We visit the Cheltenham Badlands where @Photojunkie (Rannie Turingan) and I went last summer.  There’s a giant version of this in Alberta, and it looks like it does because in the 1930s it was over-farmed. 

Come meet me here on Queen St. West tomorrow between 12:30-1:15pm to say hi to Canada, kay!

Thanks for watching, TTYT.

Meet Ben Lucier, and you gotta see the homepage of his blog because it just does not get old for me.

He gave me my 100-word assignment today: internet things and Bell.  He’s a VoIP expert and right now I’m regretting not taking notes; let’s see how my memory does.

Thanks again dude for trying to get me into 151 Front Street; if that works OMG.

See?  Little.  

The red arrow is pointing at Peter MacKay, our Minister of National Defence. 

He’s known as a ladies man on Parliament Hill and was chosen 8 years in a row as ‘Canada’s Sexiest Male MP’ by The Hill Times, ha.  

The Assignment: 100 Words About Yoga

Title: I’ve Started Yoga

The Words: 

Specifically hot yoga, and now that I’ve experienced it I can’t imagine doing it cold.  I go here: Moksha Yoga Downtown.  I think it’ll be good for my head, plus I can’t argue with something 5000+ years old.  

You shouldn’t talk during the hour long class and I’m terrible at relaxing, there’s nothing to focus on except your breath, so your world gets small and really, I’ve never thought about breathing before even though it’s always happening.  I’m a shallow breather.  

I’m also crooked.  Not like, “I wanna swindle ya” crooked, but physically, from always being bent over my laptop.  You’re probably reading this online so don’t be like me, sit up straight!

This morning I told my teacher she’s the most bendy person I know, because she is.

 

TOTAL WORD COUNT: 128

(watch Jan. 20 – “Live at 5” for why I’m doing this)