After submitting 2 projects to the BCIT ISSP for the September 2017 term I was very pleased to learn that both of my projects were selected to be developed by 2 teams of students. Both teams threw themselves at the projects and 12 weeks later, presented me with some fine examples of their programming efforts.…
Voice Forensics in Artificial Intelligence – Who Knew?
We’ve all heard various things about AI or artificial intelligence. For me, AI was being developed through the collected information via search engines and then social media. My personal position has always been that the big breakthroughs in AI would stem from companies like Google. In fact, the accumulated personal data recorded by Google over…
Shhhh – We will tell you what to think!
The Globalists are set to screw people over in a big, big way today. Nobody controls the Internet with one very large exception; the IP addresses. The US government is handing this control over to ICANN today and with it the protection of Free Speech on the Internet. This might not mean as much to…
Interesting day with the fury chainsaw
What a crazy, fucked up day. One for the record books to be sure. Those of you who know me know that I have been playing in a yearly tournament with a select group of gamers for decades. We try to get together 1 day per month to play our game, today was that day.…
Donald – Sung to the tune of Sunshine by Jonathan Edwards
I was sitting around doing some work last night and I had Anchorman – The Legend of Ron Burgundy playing in the background. During one of the clips the music playing was Sunshine by Jonathan Edwards and while I was working I started singing along but I replaced the word Sunshine with Donald and got…
Tragically Hip Over The Years
As a long time metal head from the 1970’s I used to take a lot of flack from my buddies over some of my choices in music. My love for art rock was tolerated and why not seeing as a great many of the hard core metal bands would often cite bands like Rush, Yes…
Oh horrors of horrors – game day from hell
OK for those of you who know me know that a select group of friends and I get together on a regular bases, for decades actually, to play a game I created. The games we play are part of a yearly tournament for the Expletive Award. The trophy is very unique and the championship carries…
Front Street
A few days ago my son, the one in film school, reached out to me for a little assist on one of his class projects. He told me that the class had an assignment where they had to make up a log line based upon a story from one of their parents. For those of…
A week of Strangeness
So a couple of odd things happened this week, things that give one pause to wonder about the strangeness of coincidences. My roommate is one of those people that likes to go to car rallies to show off his classic car. I, having spent almost a decade working for a major automotive importer, never got…
Evergreen Line of the SkyTrain Light Rapid Transit System
I was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan but relocated to British Columbia with my family when I was a toddler. While I was too young to recall all of the details I do know that we moved to the rural area of Port Coquitlam. The very small port town was a hub for CP Rail and…