Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Wrote the final exam in my Biotransport class today, finishing off the first year of my PhD.
Only about 4 or 5 more to go.
For the next few months all I have to think about now are just work and research. I don’t expect things to get less busy over the summer.
Time to figure out how to build an MPI enabled version of MCNP. Should be fun.
Every time I think about that, I hear the Emperor saying “Now witness the power of this fully armed and operational workstation”.
Yeah, I’m that nerdy.
Saw Kick-Ass at the Hippodrome this evening. Didn’t really think much about it when I first heard about the movie, but after hearing the buzz about it online and from some friends, I decided what the heck.
I still didn’t expect much out of it but the movie ended up vastly exceeding my expectations. There’s a lot of big action that really begs to be seen on a Really Big Screen. Sure, parts of it are cheesy and covered up with spurts of over-the-top comic book violence, but it was a fun movie to watch and I quite enjoyed myself. Plus, it was at the Hippodrome, and I always enjoy myself when I get to see movies there. Seriously, after you see a few movies here you’ll never want to go back to the puny (by comparison) multi-plex theater screens.
With all the people being shot in the head, blown up, exploded and stabbed, it’s definitely not a movie to bring kids to.
Smoked pork, smashed potatoes, green beans topped off with a brownie for dessert.
Another fantastic Friday Night Dinner at Ted’s Butcherblock.
Saturday was roadtripping up to Myrtle Beach for CREATESouth 2010. Only got there a little bit late.
This year’s event turned out to be another good time, like last year was. Looked like attendance was up from last year. Started off with good keynote talks by Tee Morris and Mur Lafferty. Came in during the second half of Tee’s keynote. Really liked Mur Lafferty’s keynote talk. Big emphasis on social media this year. After going to Tom Lucas‘ talk on Google Buzz, I decided to give it a closer look. Seemed a lot like Friendfeed, so I hadn’t really paid much attention to it.
There were several iPads around, so the other thing I came away from CREATESouth with was a case of iPad envy. I want. I need.
Yes, Tee Morris really is wearing bunny ears.
Another delicious BBQ lunch by Andre Pope.
Tee offering some sound advice in his “Remaining Safe in Social Media” talk
What social media is all about, according to Jared
After seeing (and hearing) the Blue Angels doing practice flights over downtown for the past few days, I headed out to see the second day of their air show this afternoon. I joined a bunch of other Aquarium staff and volunteers up on the third floor terrace, which provided some reasonably decent views of the Blue Angels show. Not quite as unobstructed a view as being down on the riverside terrace, but still a pretty good view of the show. Even managed to get a few good shots, although I missed the low altitude pass one of the jets made.
