A Qik video from boardgaming last night

Posted by rae in entertainment, friends, gaming, the Net
at 12:50 pm on Saturday, 16 August 2008

I use the “Qik” iPhone application last night on my jailbroken iPhone to stream some live video to the ‘Net.

You can see all my awesome videos over at qik.com/rae.

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David at Bat in Wasaga

Posted by rae in entertainment, friends, video
at 12:24 am on Thursday, 24 July 2008

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Chandler Goodbyes

Posted by rae in friends, work
at 1:29 am on Wednesday, 16 January 2008

A lot of people are saying their good-byes in email to everyone. An “alumni” mailing list has been set up to keep in touch. This seems like the civilized way things end.

I feel a bit guilty (but not much) because my last day is Jan 31, not today like many others. But I, too, will be moving on.

Given the small world that is software development, I expect I will run across many people over the years. That’s one thing that Facebook and LinkedIn are good for — keeping in contact.

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Alias get-together, and music

Posted by rae in Reid, entertainment, friends, music, work
at 12:35 pm on Friday, 4 January 2008

cest what
Lisa, me, Bob, Tom and Moira

I went downtown to ¿C’est What? last night to meet up with Maria and several other Alias folk. Since Alias was swallowed whole by Autodesk a while back, I guess we were all ex-Alians..

While talking about what people are doing, someone mentioned Chris and Anita’s catamaran, which led to finding their web page about their year-long journey: www.summatrix.com/padma.

It would be cool to do an video iChat with Chris and Anita from ¿C’est What? some time..

Then today I ran across a haunting song that I’m sure I’ve heard before and like very, very much:


It’s CC licensed, which is cool, and probably why I’ve heard it before. I think it was used as the soundtrack to a YouTube video or something similar that I saw.

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BGG Con

Posted by rae in Reid, family, friends, gaming, travel
at 12:08 am on Thursday, 15 November 2007

BGG Con
BoardGameGeek Con!

Michael and I are headed down to Fort Worth, Texas for the 2007 BGG Con!

We leave on a 1:45pm flight tomorrow and return Sunday night. Jeff and Scott left this morning, and we’ll meet up with them there.

Last year Jeff and John went and came back with some excellent games. Hopefully something similar will happen this year.

Also, with the 91¢ US dollar, we can go shopping at Fry’s Electronics!

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Way Cool Chandler T-Shirts

Posted by rae in Reid, friends, work
at 1:17 am on Friday, 5 October 2007

The Chandler team got cool new T-shirts to celebrate the 0.7 release of Chandler:

t-shirt front t-shirt back

Enter the Reid school of design, where T-Shirts are Meant To Be Seen! Or, “how I would have designed the T-shirts” :-)

t-shirt front t-shirt back

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Sick again, sick again, jigeddy-jig

Posted by rae in Reid, family, friends, hardware
at 12:15 am on Tuesday, 19 June 2007

What a great Fathers Day present, eh? Bleaugh

To offset this, my new 17″ Hi-res MacBook Pro arrived today (Monday). Love the bright, bright screen. Much brighter than my old 17″ 1.6GHz PowerBook, which will now be taken to Europe by Michael for four weeks.

The built-in iSight camera is surprisingly good! It seems to handle the low light conditions of m basement much, much better than either of my standalone iSight cameras do.

Priss is in Toronto this week and I’m hoping to get together. Until recently, she was my fellow Toronto-ite at OSAF.

Iain’s photos continue to amaze me. He has an excellent eye for angles and lighting that capture the imagination.

Ok, time to have some chicken noodle soup. Too bad all I have is Campbell’s, and not Lipton. :-(

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Isabelle Lorraine Hazlewood!!!!

Posted by rae in friends
at 4:44 pm on Wednesday, 30 May 2007

Caroline and Steph are proud to announce:

Name Isabelle Lorraine Hazlewood
Girl/Boy girl
Date of birth Wednesday May 30 2007 2:26 EDT
Weight 2 lbs 6 oz / 1.1 kg
Preemie scale 8 out of 9 (9 out of 10?)

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Uploaded gaming movies to YouTube

Posted by rae in friends, gaming, video
at 9:53 am on Thursday, 19 April 2007

On June 6 2006 we played Pit and I made a few movies. So I just uploaded them to YouTube for fun.

The people who are playing, from left to right, are: Vartan (off-camera), Iain, me, and Michael

2006-06-03 Pit 1

2006-06-03 Pit 2

2006-06-03 Pit 3

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William & Mona visit

Posted by rae in friends
at 2:59 am on Sunday, 8 April 2007

Today William, Mona, Iain and Ria came for a visit all the way from Mountain View, California. They were greeted with [!!]snow, cool temperatures, and a group of friends..

William and Mona

We had alerted people to visit with William, Mona and family, and they descended upon our humble abode. During the course of this, many pictures were taken. You can see my pictures either on tnir, or on Flickr. You can also see John’s pictures, and Debbie’s pictures.

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