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Month: April 2004
Her flight lands at 5:40 p.m. and she’s here until Monday morning.
We’re hitting the town and anyone who wants to join in is welcome.
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Scenes From a Video Shoot
Although the clip of me and Elliot (Tucows’ CEO) at my desk did not
make it into David Akin’s CTV News story on the upcoming Google IPO (mentioned in this entry), my
co-worker Darryl borrowed my Nikon Coolpix SQ and made his own meta-video shoot.
All these movies were shot in the middle part of the middle aisle, home
of Product Management, Domain Direct and the the Technical Community
Development Coordinator. My desk is in the
dead center of the Tucows offices, which I like to call the “Keanu
spot”, after the location of his cubicle in the first Matrix movie.
The first video is of Darryl trying out the camera for the first time:
Here’s one of Darryl doing a slow forward shot of the middle aisle:
Here’s one of Elliot, me and David talking about the OpenNet Initiative.
I love the still capture shown below. The poses that Elliot and I are
in are straight out of those stock photo CDs of office scenes.
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"Less chanty! More stretchy!"
Deenster’s not too keen on the spritual aspects of her yoga class, and somehow I am reminded of the cautionary tale of Ed Gruberman at Tae Kwon Leep class [2.8 MB MP3].
Deenster, I suggest BodyFlow (which is done at GoodLife gyms across Accordion City) or Pilates. All the stretching and strengthening, none of the faux-Hindu / faux-Buddhism.
Or, if you really want to work out hard (which doctors are recommending), join me at BodyPump or BodyCombat!
In a comment for the previous entry, Sloot pointed out this story, Blog-Tracking May Gain Ground Among US Intelligence Officials:
Some blogs are whimsical and deal with “soft” subjects. Others, though, are cutting edge in delivering information and opinion.
As a result, some analysts say U.S. intelligence and law enforcement
officials might be starting to track blogs for important bits of
information. This interest is a sign of how far Web media such as blogs
have come in reshaping the data-collection habits of intelligence
professionals and others, even with the knowledge that the accuracy of
what’s reported in some blogs is questionable.
Still, a panel of folks who work in the U.S. intelligence field – some
of them spies or former spies – discussed this month at a conference in
Washington the idea of tracking blogs.
“News and intelligence is about listening with a critical ear, and
blogs are just another conversation to listen to and evaluate. They
also are closer to (some situations) and may serve as early alerts,”
said Jock Gill, a former adviser on Internet media to President Clinton
(news – web sites), in a later phone interview, after he spoke on the
panel.
Hmmm…
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Discuss!
I’m busy racing to get the Blogware
manual done in time for the release, so my time for personal blogging
is a little short. However, I’d like to point you to a couple of
discussions.
The Serious
The Shotgun is the blog for The Western Standard, “Independent Voice of the New West”, a new Canadian magazine for conservatives. In response to a post called “the Tragedy of Torontonian compassion” (which rightfully rips Accordion City’s men’s shelter Seaton House for providing free wine and cigarettes to the men they serve, sometimes as an incentive to get off the street), Kathy “Relapsed Catholic” Shaidle suggests bringing back the vagrancy laws, to which Tim from Right On! replies:
Further to bring back the vagrancy laws, let’s dump the charter. It’s killing our legal system.
(By “charter”, he means the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.)
To which I asked: “What would you put in place of the Charter?”
Bob “Let It Bleed” Tarantino discusses my question on The Shotgun (he also covers it on his blog) and I’m hoping to get my two cents in later today. Go give it a look and see if you can contribute.
And the Not-So-Serious (or: “Fur and Loathing in LiveJournal“)
The fact that it’s a debate on LiveJournal should be a warning in itself, but it’s like a gruesome car accident: you want to look away, but you can’t.
Here’s the debate topic, written by one Mr. High Road:
…a member of this community identified them selves as “a shapeshifter
Otherkin” it also states that it is “human. But no, none of my forms
are human or humanoid.” Now we have heard this kinda of wacky bull shit
before. I wonder though if it really believes it’s somehow more than
human? I didn’t take much Psychology in college, but from what I do
remember that state of disassociation with humanity is sociopathic in
nature, and potentially dangerous. This may seem silly, but remember we
see them as moronic twits is retarded costumes, but they see them
selves as those creatures they dress up as
For Debate:
Should we fear the furries and otherkin? As they become more demented
and farther away from true reality what is to stop them from truly
acting like the animals they identify as? Should I be fearful for my
children’s safety if a furrie is near?
My Stance: I feel
that we need to be proactive on this issue. These freaks are a danger
to our children, and I say that we do something now before they start
trying to molest and eat our babies. At least the FBI profiles those
sick childmolesters Child Haters like those that hang out in ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small}
childfree,
but I doubt that furries are even in the range of their radar. These
people are sick demented perverts, and should be handled as such.
That’s right, it’s a debate about furries and otherkin,
and it goes on and on and on, with trolls putting out the flamebait and
LiveJournalers “rising” to the challenge with less debating skill than
the omelette I had for breakfast.
Still, fascinating stuff. Much better than reality TV!
David helps Lucien the camera operator focus as Elliot gets set up for the interview. This took place in the lobby of the Tucows offices.
This is a shot of journalist David Akin (who reports on business and technology for CTV News and writes for the Globe and Mail) setting up Tucows CEO Elliot Noss (a.k.a. my Boss Ross’ boss, Noss) for an interview that will appear on tonight’s 11:00 edition of CTV News. David wanted a local high-tech CEO’s opinions on the upcoming Google IPO and Elliot provided them.
(I met David at the DefCon 8 conference in Las Vegas back in 2000, when Chris Cummer and I were down there to give away copies of ColaVision, a strange but wonderful little OpenCola project, to the hacker hordes. He interviewed us for a National Post article in our hotel room at the Luxor, consuming several cans of Guinness along the way.)
David and Elliot were kind enough to let me video the interview (in fact, they encouraged it — thanks, guys!), and I’ll post the video, more photos and notes later today. As I write this, we are told that David and Lucien the cameraman are fetching a new camera, with which they will film a “you are there” clip with Elliot talking to me at my desk as I show him some new Blogware features.