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  • You Don’t See This Everyday

    One Blackberry for each hand:

     

    It’s my replacement, and arrived today.  

    Now I’ll be able to Twitter again from it, play FourSquare, make phonecalls.  

  • Cleaned Off My Camera

    Top left clockwise:

    – the very first sketch I ever made for this website design

    – remember those?  I bet it couldn’t even text

    – that’s a photo text a friend of mine received… pretty boring pic, eh.  Why is it interesting?  Because the sender spent $15 to get it to her.  Ya, I know.

    – somewhere I want to go… that’s the HQ of Steve Mann… he’s a Canadian who was one of the first people to ever broadcast his life online.  He pioneered wearable computers (seriously, click this) and coined the term sousveillance.  I’ve been a fan since the 90s when I read about in Wired Magazine; I’d probably get a bit tongue tied.  Click here to see where that is on a map so you can go, too. 

  • The Theme of Today was ‘Russian’

    Karin and I went exploring Russian things.  I don’t know why but I’ve always adored anything Russian, and having wanted always to go see such things going with a native today was even better.

    Beautiful, eh?  That’s at Troyka, the Russian Art Store.  

    That’s where I was introduced to Cheburashka / Чебурашка, this little guy whom everyone watched as a kid, kinda like our… Tom and Jerry maybe?  Watch his adventures on YouTube here.


    Then we went to Yummy Market where I got a chance to butcher their language, found some fish in a barrel and was poking them with some tongs.  

    We got Russian candy and food and made a picnic in the studio, “look Karin, my sandwich is shifting gears!”

    Then I dropped her off at Ryerson so she could attend an awards ceremony where she was a recipient of a Philosophy award, congratulations lady.

    Belshoyeh spasiba Karin, ya loobleeyu Ruskava yazika.