I’ve been thinking lately of how I’ve ended up where I am today, and how life has unfolded thus far. I find it particularly interesting to think back to earlier times and the contrast where I thought I would (or wouldn’t) end up versus where I actually am now. Some examples to illustrate: Before my [...]

In doing some research for UMES today, I was browsing the SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) website. While I guess I can see the need for all of the different tariff classes that they have for use of music, some of them seem a bit ridiculous. Want to run an [...]

Having been a bad blogger as of late, I trawled through my iPhoto collection looking for an interesting photo for the ol’ blog. The perfect thing to do on the eve of an Engineering Economics midterm. And here you are dear reader: September 30, 2005 — Ryan, me, Scott, Jane and Daryl sitting behind our [...]

So, the Engineering Year-end Formal/Grad last night, and it was a fantastic time. Showing off the Stick of Office was lots of fun. I had to speak, and while I don’t think my speech was all that amazing, I found a good quote for it, an excerpt of which is given below: George Bernard Shaw [...]

I’ve not blogged in a while, so I figured my poor blog deserves an update just when I need to be studying the most. Go figure. Here are a few (in the words of Bob McLeod) “short snappers” about what’s going on with me right now: First off, I’ve been elected as the new Senior [...]

// START SHAMELESS PROMOTION Come one and all to UMES’ upcoming social, The Big One: Urban Sprawl, on Saturday night (Jan. 28). We’re turning the WAG into an urban wonderland, complete with a good and bad side of the tracks. Feeling upscale? Stay on the good side of the tracks with the Posh Café and [...]

As I sit here writing this in the hallway of Windsor’s Radisson Riverfront hotel at 3am EST, with Britney Spears’ Oops!…I Did It Again playing very very quietly as muzak on the hotel’s PA system, Bernard Dione wandered out of his room to see what I was up to and remark on what a nice [...]