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This one’s for Liz. I think you’ll find this pretty good.

The Font Conference

Hmm…what’s been new?

Well…my contract work at the Student Life Office has come to a close, and I’d like to think I left it in a pretty good place. The new OLT Database is up; people are using it; it hasn’t horribly crashed yet. All in all, I’d say that’s a good thing. There are still some loose ends I have to handle though, so I’ll be doing that next week.

In terms of gaming, I’ve done a lot of video gaming, and very little of board gaming. I’ve just found myself too busy [in a good way] to find time to go to Darcy’s place for a round or two of something. Still, I’ve been playing a pretty wide variety of games including GTA IV (360), Okami (Wii), CrossWorDS (DS), and Wii Fit.

It’s quite odd, actually, about Wii Fit. At this point in my consumer career, I feel that I really should only be able to buy something that rare by pre-ordering it 6 months in advance. In fact, I really shouldn’t have such a penchant for finding these things at random whenever I stroll into a store. I feel quite fortunate to know that being a consumer whore pays off. : – P

I’ve been putting my iPod Touch into good use recently. I have it almost wherever I go, which almost makes it a second cell phone. I’ve been listening to a lot of my old anime OSTs and whatever’s been passed down to me through my external hard drives, which is nice. I’ve also been listening to a lot of podcasts including The Bugle podcast put together by John Oliver [of Daily Show fame] and Andy Zaltzman. It’s marketed as “An Audio Newspaper for a Visual World”, and it is simply hilarious. I recommend this to all.

Hmm…so what’s next for me? Well…more job hunting. I’ll be in Toronto on Wednesday for an interview in the afternoon. I’m still mulling whether to go down to Boston Thursday and Friday to visit people [Main Concern: How to get to Buffalo easily.] After that? Well, there’s Zohan…but what about after that? Who knows? It’ll be an adventure. I’m sure. Fingers Crossed.

But until next time,

sammee

For those of you [well...I'm pretty sure none of you] who actually visit the site through wordpress, you would’ve experienced a bit of downtime today.

Let’s just say I was an idiot for trying to upgrade wordpress before heading out to Toronto for Mother’s Day. In my haste, I borked something.

By the way, Mother’s Day went well…even though my thumbs are sore from screwing in bolts for my sister’s new desk.

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originally uploaded by sam_cw_leung.

I’ll be presenting this website in a little under an hour!

Doors Open Toronto,
originally uploaded by sam_cw_leung.

8:14 PM May 26, 2007 Sunset 2 Went to Doors Open Toronto yesterday (and it will continue today too, if you want to go). There were a lot of really neat places open, but we were really only able to go to a very very small handful of them. In all, we stopped at the Tall Ship docked by the Rogers Center (don’t remember the name), the Steam Whistle Brewery and John Street Roundhouse (I got to pull on the Steam Whistle), St. Lawrence Market (for lunch), and the Redpath Sugar Refinery (the smell of so much raw sugar is often times nauseous).It was truly a lot of fun.

Doors Open Toronto,
originally uploaded by sam_cw_leung.

8:12 PM May 26, 2007 Sunset 1 Went to Doors Open Toronto yesterday (and it will continue today too, if you want to go). There were a lot of really neat places open, but we were really only able to go to a very very small handful of them. In all, we stopped at the Tall Ship docked by the Rogers Center (don’t remember the name), the Steam Whistle Brewery and John Street Roundhouse (I got to pull on the Steam Whistle), St. Lawrence Market (for lunch), and the Redpath Sugar Refinery (the smell of so much raw sugar is often times nauseous).It was truly a lot of fun.

Doors Open Toronto,
originally uploaded by sam_cw_leung.

1:04 PM May 26, 2007 Steam Whistle Brewery with Someone in the foreground Went to Doors Open Toronto yesterday (and it will continue today too, if you want to go). There were a lot of really neat places open, but we were really only able to go to a very very small handful of them. In all, we stopped at the Tall Ship docked by the Rogers Center (don’t remember the name), the Steam Whistle Brewery and John Street Roundhouse (I got to pull on the Steam Whistle), St. Lawrence Market (for lunch), and the Redpath Sugar Refinery (the smell of so much raw sugar is often times nauseous).It was truly a lot of fun.

Doors Open Toronto,
originally uploaded by sam_cw_leung.

12:52 PM May 26, 2007 Model Railroad Went to Doors Open Toronto yesterday (and it will continue today too, if you want to go). There were a lot of really neat places open, but we were really only able to go to a very very small handful of them. In all, we stopped at the Tall Ship docked by the Rogers Center (don’t remember the name), the Steam Whistle Brewery and John Street Roundhouse (I got to pull on the Steam Whistle), St. Lawrence Market (for lunch), and the Redpath Sugar Refinery (the smell of so much raw sugar is often times nauseous).It was truly a lot of fun.

…Is not a flop!

That is all.

It’s been a light day here in the Big Room (the classroom) and a lot of the people have retreated to the confines of the breakout and conference rooms.

We’ve got a presentation by the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada on inflation. It’ll be good times. Watch for a recap here afterwards.