3-D printing is an emerging technology that has the potential to be quite revolutionary. It allows users to “print” three dimensional replicas of real world objects in a variety of materials (usually plastic or something similar.)
I first heard of 3-D printing when I saw a TV show about how Jay Leno, a noted antique car collector, uses a 3-D printer to make replica parts for his cars that he couldn’t obtain anywhere else.
Oh, and to clarify a misunderstanding that a co-worker had when we discussed 3-D printing and who had the more traditional understanding of “printing” in her head – it’s not a new technology where you’ll “print” a new pair of runners but then have to avoid going out in the rain because they’re made of paper! 😉
Tuesday night after a long weekend in a sleepy government town isn’t the easiest sell so it was a small crowd. (“How small was it, Jason?” Well, there was a bigger crowd when I saw Roger play in a friend’s garage in Calgary ten years ago.)
But I still enjoyed the show – after a long day on the road and with two of their band member sick, instead of Roger opening for Gordie Tentrees as planned, the two of them did a more intimate, acoustic show with each staying on stage for the entire show, trading a single guitar and mic back and forth.
Which actually made for a more enjoyable show than we would’ve got otherwise. Sometimes small is better!
Here’s a taste of Roger playing to a bigger crowd at his own Cicada Fest in Niagara.
It’s been a pretty wild year for storms on the Prairies with lots of attention from so-called “storm chasers” who, ironically, make the storms even more prevalent by giving them a lot of attention, spotting storms that otherwise would go unreported and even using technology to provide live video streams/tweets/photo and blog updates.
Before you barbeque or cook a hot dog over a campfire, put a skewer through the middle of the dog then score it in a spiral fashion so that you get more of that crunchy goodness throughout the meat!
The C-64 was the first computer I interacted with on a regular basis.
My elementary school had one at the back of the Grade Six classroom (along with a homeroom teacher who was a pretty big nerd when that wasn’t as cool as it is today!) and we would spend hours (or at least it felt like hours) playing the games that he created by typing the long lines of machine code contained in the back of Compute! magazine or other educational games that the school purchased.
