Posts created during 2007
Project 365
Sun, 12/30/2007 - 13:06 — Sean CarneyThis year will be a year of large changes in my life. I will start out in university, then graduate, start working full time, marry Emily, and move out.
All this means that my life will be completely different in twelve months.
For the sake of documenting these changes in my life, I thought that I should try take some pictures to show what my life is like now, and how it changes over time.
So today is the beginning of Project 365*. I am going to try and take one picture every day and post it to the Project 365 website. I'm not going for fine art pictures, but pictures that are representative of my every day life.
Feel free to stop by the website and check out each days pictures. The pictures will be posted frequently although I may miss a day or two. I have even created a commenting system so you can leave comments if you want.
Once and a while I'll post a few of the pictures here, but the bulk of them will be on the Project 365 website. I have also set up a RSS feed for the pictures for your viewing convenience.
* For all you smart-alecs, I know that 2008 is a leap year but Project 366 simply doesn't have a nice ring to it.
Boxing Day Boxing
Sat, 12/29/2007 - 12:59 — Sean CarneyFor the past few years, there has been a dream in the Whyte Ridge crowd. We had thought to ourselves since there is one day of the year which is designated as boxing day, why not take advantage of it.
Most people take advantage of boxing day to line up outside large retail stores to participate in the post-Christmas sales. Others, back in the middle ages used it as a day to give gifts to the poor. We decided that we should use it for it's apparent namesake - boxing. Giving the gift of a swift punch to the gut to some of your friends.
Consequently a few days ago, Mark, Matt, Trevor, Girish and myself got together for a night of boxing. We started by playing games such as Fight Night, then actually did some proper boxing, and closed the evening with some Wii Boxing.
It was a lot of fun, although incredibly tiring. My shoulders have been sore for the past couple of days although I blame the Wii for that. This event is long in coming, since it was originally intended for last year but, for reasons that escape me, it was postponed. I hope this becomes a tradition every year.
The Best Gift Exchange Gift Yet
Sun, 12/23/2007 - 18:12 — Sean CarneyLast Sunday was the Christmas Nutimik Staff get together. It was a evening of tobogganing, playing empires, and exchanging gifts. Everyone brought a gift and like all gift exchanges, the gifts were swapped around in a pseudo-random way and then people could steal certain gifts from others.
I brought out a copy of my 'Are You Old Man Nutimik?' game. It holds a special title for being one of the most shifty things that has come out of the camp office in the past year (other than myself or my coworkers). The game is like the game 'Mafia' except I have changed all the characters around to be more camp relevant - campers, counsellors, the nurse and Old Man Nutimik.
Other notable gifts were some slightly girlish socks, homemade toothpaste, Jon regifted the birthday present Emily and I got him, a recording of some talent show songs, a large A&W poster, and some several year old vennison jerky.
The one gift that surprised me was a T-shirt entitled 'Field Captain Kip', which was a archery shirt that Aaron had made of himself. This high quality shirt has a picture of Aaron on the front and a copy of the Nutimik archery rules printed on the back. It quickly became the envy of most people in the room. It got passed around a few times and ended up on me when everything was said and done. This shirt has been rumoured about for at least a year, so it is awesome to actually get one now that it exists.
The only thing that could improve this gift exchange would be a 'Sexy Men of Nutimik 2008 Calendar'. Oh well, maybe next year!
Exciting News
Sun, 12/09/2007 - 02:08 — Sean Carney
Last night was a night I will never forget. I took Emily for a late night ski at Beaudry park through the woods. When we came upon the warm up shack, there were candles flickering in the windows and a warm fire burning in the wood stove. I proposed and we celebrated with hugs, brownies, strawberries, hot chocolate and lots of kissing.
We are both very excited, and look forward to spending our lives together.
Edit: Pictures are now online and can be found here.
Venn Diagrams Are Awesome
Wed, 12/05/2007 - 01:32 — Sean Carney...an educational post.
I've seen some cool t-shirt designs over time that involve Venn diagrams, and I figure I may as well throw my hat in the ring. My inspiration is partially from Emily listening to the Kleptones the other day.
If you aren't familiar with the Kleptones and don't understand this design; listen to this and visit here.
Edit: Aha! more Venn goodness.
The Job Hunt Fibonacci Sequence
Mon, 11/26/2007 - 11:04 — Sean CarneyEmily figured this one out a while ago:
1 Job
2 Offers
3 Second Interviews
5 First Interviews
8 Applications
... It's a good thing I didn't get three offers or the whole job search would be far less mathematically interesting.
More IT Crowd On The Horizon
Wed, 11/14/2007 - 13:28 — Sean CarneyThe BBC has just announced that it will be producing a third season of the IT Crowd. Yay! No one knows when it will air, but I'm thinking probably in a years time.
Couple Coordinates
Sat, 11/10/2007 - 13:01 — Sean CarneyLast night Emily and I hung out with Amara, Ben, Lisa and Jon. It was a fun time and we talked about strange nerdy things like XKCD.
After a while we were at a loss for what to and I came up with an interesting idea. I took out a pen and a map, asked everyone their birthdays and mapped each couple on the city using their birthdays as coordinates. The girls were plotted on the latitude where January was the north end of the city and December was the south end, and the guys were the longitude where January was the west side of the city and December was the east. Our intention was to travel to those locations to take some strange pictures, but we lacked any momentum to help us leave the house.
Today I open the adventure to all the readers of my blog. I created Couple Coordinates where you can quickly determine your coordinates as a couple in the city of Winnipeg. I challenge you to visit your location and take a picture of yourselves. I am also setting up a gallery to collect any submissions of photographic evidence.
Let the travels begin!
The Most Terrifying Foods In The World
Fri, 11/02/2007 - 09:49 — Sean Carney... are not some of my more unique and failed creations.
Every now and then I like to read some food blogs where I pick up the odd cooking idea. Usually they remain as ideas and the only thing that reading the blogs accomplishes is just making me even more hungry.
The other day that changed for me. I found a link to the Six Most Terrifying Foods In The World, and I certainly wasn't hungry anymore. It is an entertaining list, the food ranges from "Eww..." to "That's just plain stupid..." but I do not recommend reading it immediately before or after you eat a meal.
My Screen Saver
Fri, 10/26/2007 - 20:12 — Sean CarneyI really enjoy my screen saver, it is an excellent distraction. It is a slideshow that shows random pictures from a collection of nearly every digital picture I have ever taken. I sometimes find myself staring at it for minutes at a time enjoying the memories and pictures, and wondering "What was I thinking?" or "Where on earth was that?" or "Scandalous!".
Anyways, a few days ago my screen blanked and the screen saver started and my favourite picture from camp came up. It's kind of strange in a way - I have taken 30,000 pictures over the years, but one picture has always been my favourite. I could go into the reasons I like the picture, but they are largely sentimental so I won't bore you.
Here it is, Jessie's outpost from Thursday night of Intermediate 2 camp 2006.
