A Few Quick Notes 580

-For the past few days we've had close to perfect weather until the evening when, all of a sudden, we've had the pleasure of experiencing brief, but torrential, downpours.  Assuming today's forecast holds we should be in for something similar this evening.

-No matter how many dishes I do every day it seems I am never more than 30 seconds away from a half-sink full of dishes.  How is this possible?

-I just made a batch of pumpkin bran muffins for breakfast.  Because I didn't have quite enough pumpkin puree on hand they aren't quite as tasty as I had hoped they would be.

-Last night Jeannette's brother Alex spent the night with us.  After we had dinner we walked around the downtown area a little to see the sites.  As we neared Parliament Hill we could sense that something was up because we could hear something in the distance.  As we drew nearer we could see that 'what was up' was that an A/V presentation was being projected on the centre block building.

This weird animated gif may give you a very limited sense of what was going on.  Eventually Jeannette figure out that what were watching was the Mosaika: Sound and Light Show.  We ended up staying until the show ended a few minutes later.

(Maybe this photo will help paint a slightly better picture of what was going on.)

-So our plants seem to keep on growing.

When I posted a photo of our balcony plants about a week ago they were this big.

Even though it's only a week later many of the plants have put on a few inches or, at least filled out a little.

Talk about exciting.

-Despite the fact that my family seems to think I working from an absurd premise with my wheat plants, these little guys continue to put on a few inches every few days.  Apparently they aren't allowing the criticism to stunt their growth.

Check'em out now!

We'll definitely have enough for a 1/4 loaf of bread in a few months.

A few of my favourite things

Thanks to a Hearing Voices post I came across a site that combines two of my favourite things: libraries and animated gifs.

The New York Public Library's Stereogranimator provides one with the opportunity to convert old stereographs into 3D anaglyphs or animated gifs.  Obviously, I decided to focus my attention on the animated gif option (though I did play around with one of the 3D anaglyphs).




GIF made with the NYPL Labs Stereogranimator

Some of sterographs are better than others, but with a little work you should be able to find one that will allow you to get a neat 3D effect pretty easily.

Cameron: 6
Neil: 0

Maybe About Something

Last night, while I was trying to study, I finally came with something that I could do with the flattened beer bottle caps that I have been collecting for the past number of months.

It seemed like a stop-motion film with the bottle caps was the obvious solution.

I grabbed my digital camera and tripod and started sticking the bottle caps to the wall and taking pictures between each new cap being attached to the wall.

While the final product isn’t much, it was fun to play around with. Even if for no other reason that for my own personal enjoyment, I think I may try to make more of these in the future.

Below is an embedded version of the clip.