I’m a pretty pessimistic guy (ok, brief pause while everybody who knows me says “No shit, Sherlock” and rolls around laughing), and so as I’m working in a job I like a lot (ok, I’m partially responsible for delivering all those god-damned ads at the beginning of movies, but really it’s not my fault) and I’m making a ton more money at it than I ever have in the past, I naturally have to wonder what’s next after this gig runs out.
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Recognition – only 8 years too late
One of the projects I’m proudest of having worked on, Cineon, won an Academy Award for technical excellence a few days ago. Too bad they shut down the project 7 years ago. (Yeah, the article says it shut down in 1997 – my resume says I left in 1998, not 1997).
The local paper has a badly written article about it:
Democrat & Chronicle: Business
But a better article can be found at Australian IT.
Somebody tell me why…
…just about every single cough medicine in a Canadian Shopper’s Drug Mart I was in this weekend is sucrose free, but both the local Wegmans and the local Rite Aid only have one or two sucrose free cough medicines, tucked away in a corner separate from the other cough medicines?
BTW: This cough has gone on over two weeks now, I think it’s probably time to see a doctor. Fuck.
Oshkosh, b’gosh
I don’t know why, but I very suddenly have been hit with a strong desire to go to EAA Airventure 2005 (yes, I wrote 2004 the first time, sue me), or “Oshkosh” as everybody who has ever been calls it. I can think of very little else these days. I looked at the club’s schedule, and sure enough 3 planes are already booked for that week, but the Lance wasn’t. So I’ve booked the Lance for just sort of “on spec”, but I will be looking for others to go with me. Or I might decide no to fly myself and go in the “airlift” – the local EAA chapter charters an airliner and one fee gets you the flights there and back, and dorm accomodation.
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Ten Things
Ganked from a friend’s friends locked LiveJournal.
Ten Things I’ve Done That I Bet You Haven’t:
- Got my pilots license.
- Cross country skied 168km in 2 days. Twice. (Canadian Ski Marathon, 1981 and 1982.)
- Silver medal in Ontario Orienteering Championships, 1981. Competed in Canadian Orienteering Championships.
- Landed at EAA Airventure, Oshkosh 2003 (along with 11,000 other planes).
- Only Canadian (out of 4,000+ participants) at Jan Kjellstrom Orienteering Meet, Lake District, UK, 1992.
- Backpacked in Banff, canoe tripped in Algonquin Park and Georgian Bay.
- Adopted two children from Romania.
- Married twice – got it right the second time.
- Took the train from Toronto to Vancouver, saw Banff by moonlight.
- Registered and then gave away the domain “canoe.com” to the lying assholes at Toronto Sun Publishing.