Check out my new Surveillance Chair

Just when my house couldn’t get any cuter, it did this weekend.

Surveillance Chair – keeping my street safe & secure

Material was wood found around my property, below is the blueprint.

I made the sign.

Pretty soon all the neighbours were over helping.

And everyone is into it.

Last night I’m typing on my couch, door opens up, neighbour’s head pops in and yells, “Keri! I was just in the chair, everything is safe out there tonight, sleep well” door slams.

 

 

It’s Fall Fair Time, the Best Time

I love them so much you don’t even know.

The scrappiness, how it appears overnight and transforms a field into a blinking nighttime wonderland. The people watching.

That’s why in my ‘Canadian Explorer’ days back in 2007, “Exploring a Fair” was my first ever exploration.

This video held up pretty good over time eh. It’s also how I taught myself Final Cut… there’s probably 50 hours of editing in there.

Shame its views are so low eh.

Then 2 years later I filmed, “Exploring the CNE”

Went to my first fair this past Labour Day weekend, and have 2 more lined up in September, see you there!

I even like how they’re tough to photograph.

 

 

Went to my 1st “Tractor Pull”

Turns out it’s a competition using a modified pickup truck.

They pull an obscene amount of weight, which causes the added stack to spew a massive amount of smoke.

The truck pulls the trailer about 280 feet, then the crowd claps while getting washed with exhaust.

It was amazing and I’m going again.

 

 

Watch Mr. Robot

Discovered it on Friday, then mainlined the 10-episode series over the weekend.

The premise:

A techno thriller that follows Elliot (Rami Malek, ‘The Pacific’), a young programmer, who works as a cyber-security engineer by day and as a vigilante hacker by night. Elliot finds himself at a crossroad when the mysterious leader of an underground hacker group (Christian Slater, ‘The Adderall Diaries’) recruits him to destroy the firm he is paid to protect. Compelled by his personal beliefs, Elliot struggles to resist the chance to take down the multinational CEOs he believes are running (and ruining) the world. – Showcase.ca

It’s the stuff I’ve been blogging for years – social engineering, phishing, ransomware, my Security section really.  And maybe I don’t seem so weird anymore… how I kept my last name offline for 5 years, the frequency and content I post, not having geolocation turned on…

When have you ever heard me talk about a TV show? Never. It’s that good.

Why? Clever twists, how it incorporates real-life websites, the accuracy of the tech (Kali went by?!) and the cliffhanger ending. Just the premise alone – one of the best depictions of how the world really works, 1% of 1%.

It’s from the USA Network, but we Canadians can watch it on Showcase.