Listen to Me Live on the Radio This Afternoon

Dec 22 2011

My brother Pete runs the afternoon show here in Brooks The One 101.1

Click where that arrow is pointing at to listen to us live.

He’s hilarious and is asking me to tell stories from when we’re little and poke fun at him. Phft, okay no problem.

What I Look Like With Antlers

Dec 20 2011

This Is My Face

Dec 13 2011

Our New Canadian Plastic Money

Dec 8 2011

Remember when I told you were getting new money? It has arrived, the bank gave me one today.

They’re made of a polymer that is washable, they’re expected to last 2.5 times longer than our current cotton currency, and difficult to counterfeit.

The $100 bills are out, the $50 bill arrives in March and the rest will be distributed by 2013.

I’ve Been a Geek a Long Time

Oct 17 2011

Specifically since 1985 when I got my first Mac – the Apple Macintosh.

It had 128k of RAM, the computer you’re reading this on probably has 2-4GBs of RAM. People built drafting programs, flight simulators, graphic programs with such little memory, think about that.

My favourite Mac of all time was the LC 575, that’s my only photo of it, yes those are lipstick kisses, and that’s its system software install disc.

A close second would be my Powerbook 170.

My worst computer by far was my Umax. Remember that brief time when Apple allowed other companies to make the hardware and clones for their OS? I despised mine, spent more time fixing it than I did using it.

Then when the iMac came out, and Apple gave out watches to test one at at their store. I wore that watch out.

SCSI!

Remember when crazy computer language started infiltrating our everyday conversations… BubbleJet, DotMatrix, Midi, WYSIWYG….

I kept that connector, might turn it into a piece of jewellery.

Dark Castle, 1986.

The world’s biggest floppy.

I originally had four, which I framed and displayed like art, then over the years I gave away three.

I have no idea what’s on the discs, they’re from a military base in the 90s. I should just say it holds a copy of the world’s first computer virus haha.