I was recently (yesterday) dismissed from my job as a result of continual budget trimming. The following is a letter I emailed to the staff earlier today, a somewhat bittersweet goodbye of sorts. (more…)
Although it won’t officially be on sale till tomorrow, I’ve been playing Nintendo’s latest installment in the Mario Kart series since I got home from work last night. There’s an independent video game store downtown that I usually shop at and they happened to get their stock in a bit early. As such, I managed to scoop up a copy a bit early and get a head start on the action. The wife’s working all weekend, so suffice to say I’ll be spending a lot of time behind the wheel. On a side note, I’m issuing an informal challenge to anyone who visits this site. So send me an email at colin@colintherobot.com and we’ll battle it out online.
Had a great weekend with a bit of relaxing and a trip down to the Royal Ontario Museum with my girlfriend. The renovations look great, both to ROM and the subway stop below it. The exhibit currently running on Charles Darwin was quite interesting. Loads of artifacts and information from his voyages, and even a reproduction of his study where he’d do analysis and writing. Lots to see, but too much for one trip I’m afraid. We did manage to squeeze in dinosaurs, birds, and the bat cave among other things. Probably heading back tomorrow for another go since we didn’t even cover half of it in the first visit. (more…)