I must not like the idea of getting back to school since I seem to have a tendency to write long posts on Sunday afternoons. It’s a gloriously sunny day today, if a little cold at a few degrees below zero. The wind doesn’t help matters too much, but it is still nice in the [...]

As I am sure many of you are aware, Mr. Reznor recently released the NIN album Ghosts I–IV. This album is released under the Creative Commons, and as such, may be legally distributed. You may pick up the entire collection in lossless (FLAC) format here. I encourage you to purchase the album. The same download I [...]

I have begun the initial steps of preparing my 4th year undergraduate thesis. I have chosen to write my thesis in LaTeX2e because of the simplicity of writing large amounts of mathematical equations as well as the superior layout capabilities offered by the TeX typesetting system. This leaves two problems. The first is “how should my [...]

Due to the badness of someone else, we currently have 2 excess Skule Night tickets for March 15th (Saturday). If you are interested, please e-mail me and let me know.

Today, Matt Good posted an entry titled Zero Hours. It has since been taken down, though I am not sure why. According to the copyright notice on his blog, Creative Commons licensing applies to the work of contributors, allowing the copying and sharing of the content provided attribution, non-commercial purposes, and no derivative works. As [...]

It is Sunday night here in Toronto, and I’m trying my hardest to avoid schoolwork. I’ve a thesis meeting tomorrow morning and a midterm (in Aeroelasticity) on Tuesday. Since theses are due (I believe) on April 11th, this leaves me about a month to work on it. In that time I need to Pick a [...]

I like to say I can play guitar. I got my first electric guitar when I was 12 or 13, a Peavey Predator. I still have it. When I was about 16 I started taking lessons from John Ellis. John was really into Classic Rock, and thus, by extension, so was I. I learned a [...]

I have been working on modifying the Minimalia theme by Dale Mugford and Matthew Good, tweaking it here and there to suit my needs. I was planning to wait at least another week before updating the site, but decided its close enough to just work for now. I will continue making changes to it over the [...]

Is Dexter ill today? Mr. Kirk, Dexter’s in school I’m afraid he’s not, Miss Fishpaw Dexter’s truancy problem is way out of hand The Baltimore County school board have decided to expel Dexter from the entire public school system Oh Mr Kirk, I’m as upset as you to learn of Dexter’s truancy But surely, expulsion is not the answer! I’m afraid expulsion is [...]