January 24, 2012
Java is a silly language!
If your sitting there thinking, "Where do they speak Java...?" then this post is probably not for you. Moving on: I'm going to be "that guy" for a moment to say how silly of a programming language Java is. I didn't say bad, I said silly. I've just begun learning how to develop ...
January 18, 2012
Get around the Wikipedia Blackout
30 minutes ago I loaded up Wikipedia only to be blocked from accessing any content. Well after looking a little closer, I found it to be pretty straightforward to bypass it. My belief is that blacking out a global website for one nations policy choices seems pretty silly to me. ...
December 29, 2011
Learning Chinese
China is the future. I can see myself with a lot of business opportunities there soon, so it's time to dive in and learn the language. The culture and history is quite fascinating too. Who wants to go to Hong Kong? I'm learning Chinese over at www.memrise.com for now. ...
Getting Started with Arduino
Picked up an Arduino for Christmas. I got the starter set from Ada Fruit: http://www.adafruit.com/products/170 I'm very excited to be learning about electronics. I did a bunch of those awesome Radio Shack books when I was a kid, and have been taking stuff apart and building basic ...
December 21, 2011
Young and Ready to Run
What do you work for? Benny Rodriguez: Man, this is baseball. You gotta stop thinking. Just have fun. I mean, if you were having fun you would've caught that ball. You ever have a paper route? Smalls: I helped a guy once. Benny Rodriguez: Okay, well chuck it like you throw ...
November 17, 2011
How I approach learning
I'll describe the mindset and show you how it can be applied to just about anything in life, with examples. It boils down to two things: How hard could it possibly be? Probably easier than it was for someone to teach it. Really. It's obviously doable. One way or another, I ...
October 6, 2011
Shortcuts
A couple of days ago I wanted to promote my 'poll' on facebook. I wasn't getting many responses so I clicked the "Ask friends" button It looked time consuming to click everyone manually, so I thought: There has to be a better way Once I was in the mindset that everyone was going ...
August 31, 2011
the bike to work summer
A simplistic post to resurrect this space with: Wrapping up 4 months of working for the tech startup Wishpond, I biked the 7.5 kilometers to work every day. Couple thoughts about this. - biking is way more satisfying than transit - fitness in the morning puts the brain in a good ...
June 30, 2011
paradise dive trip to victoria
This was a great weekend. As my first dive outside of Howe Sound, it definitely opened my eyes up of what's possible out there in the ocean... and this was only an extra hour or two away. Hope you enjoy this one! Grab a nice pair of headphones, kick back, ... and then sign up for ...
June 28, 2011
extra extra read all about it!
I read on the web constantly. What I didn't do as of a couple days ago, is to save these links for future reference. I will be posting links daily to articles/blog posts/essays/tutorials/etc that I found on the internet that helped me in some way. I err towards content that is ...
June 25, 2011
Protected: your brain’s kpi
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January 24, 2011
Night Dive along the wall at “The Cut” Whytecliff Park
1000 foot drop into dark nothingness. We went to 110. Had a brittle star crawling on me, saw some legit sponges, rockfish, fields of weird clear globule thingies, and chased a few giant prawns. All in all good
December 11, 2010
Jeff Blake’s first night dive.
It seems I've found a place where a cold, flooding darkness is not terrible - but actually wonderful. This video is of me at Porteau Cove, along the Sea to Sky Highway in British Columbia. It is filmed using a GoPro with the underwater housing by Russel at EyeOfMine. Go to Youtube to see ...
October 13, 2010
Life is Good When You’re Diving: Ansell Place, BC
Ansell Place, just past Horseshoe Bay on the Sea to Sky is quite a gem underwater. The reviews about it being a hard to access site is bologna ... it's easily trudged and definitely worth the effort. I was feeling a bit poetic afterwards and wrote a couple one liners about my ...
August 20, 2010
New Ubyssey website is live!
I'm proud, relieved, and happy to say the new Ubyssey Student Newspaper Website is now live on the internet. I thought I'd write a little blurb about my experience doing the paper, and tactics used. Production started in May and wrapped up yesterday. I spent A LOT of time (like an ...
Another website live! HKIN Student Development
I'm proud to say my work with Human Kinetics student development this summer as a work learn student has been a great experience, and a success. www.hkinstudents.ubc.ca is live! Contact me if you need help with
August 17, 2010
SCUBA Diving Porteau Cove .. 5 wrecks, 1 tank and a video
I faced a dilemma friday night: my family had left whistler after spending a week there at their resort, Club Intrawest. Me, I was diving nearby saturday morning. I weighed two options: drive home then back AGAIN in the morning, and .... find somewhere to camp in the woods for a night. I ...
August 16, 2010
Weekend in Whistler: Rafting and Ziplining with the CEO, video
Hey out there... I went up to whis on Wednesday after work to meet up with my family. The sea to sky highway bloooows me away every time. I could drive that all day. I'll skip to the meat... I went rafting, which was, fun. "Fun bouncy waves" as the brochure said. Something a bit more ...
July 20, 2010
White Chocolate is back with “Naughty Night School”
Last Thursday, the 15th, I threw a sick party for WCE. With the Party Bus business all but shut down, we were scrambling to find a charter company willing to take a group of kids to a club for a decent price. Alas, I found a company, Vancouver School Bus Charters. I worked it out with ...
My new favorite hobby
Spearfishing with a SCUBA tank is not the same as on your own lung power. As I calmly glide prone over the surface of the water... a certain weightlessness overcomes me as the wetsuit keeps me buoyant on the water. Time moves slow. Sound is slowly numbed from me by the pressure of the ...
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