If you’re a fan of the original Star Wars franchise and haven’t already seen this, then take the hour or so and watch the first season of Space Janitors. Great web series that has a lot of fun with the trilogy. Written by the Toronto based writing team Davin Lengyel and Geoff Lapaire it has been renewed for a second season and airs on the commercial YouTube channel geek&Sundry Tuesday nights.
Hope you enjoy this as much as I did!

Since our failed attempt in 2010 to take some culinary classes in Cozumel, we had hoped to try again when we went down for Nicole’s 2013 birthday. Unfortunately the chef in question wasn’t available while we were down there, and so we ended up deciding to play it by ear when we got to the port. And while we didn’t manage to get out of the port itself, we did get a lot of shopping done, and discovered some of the best Margaritas we’ve had in some time. Tucked away …

For Nicole’s 2013 birthday we decided to take a weeklong cruise out of Miami. Here’s some fun footage of Nicole bustin’ a move on the seven seas (video’s just over 4:20 long) as she performs Young MC’s ‘Bust a Move.’ Perhaps a mainstain of cruise line entertainment, karaoke is almost always on the day’s itinerary. Apologies that the footage is a little dark.

While we’re still getting back into the swing of things since returning from our cruise last week – pictures and video to follow soon – I thought I’d post this great video I came across which explains the history and evolution of typography. Video runs just over 5 minutes and does an awesome job covering the major innovations that have occurred in typeface since the fifteenth century.

Bringing some of my favorite things together I came across this and had to share. In an effort to encourage interest among inner city students in advanced science teachers in New York are using rap. Joining their cause is the legendary rapper GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan whose upcoming solo album ‘Dark Matter’ covers topics like the Big Bang. Performing some of the material at Bronx Compass High School, GZA has joined forces with Columbia University professor Christopher Emdin and ten New York City public schools where they intend to …

While tentative confirmation of the Higgs Boson particle was made on March 14, 2013 after a previously unknown particle with a mass between 125 and 127 electronvolts was discovered back in July 2012, I thought I’d revisit the ongoing efforts at the CERN organization and how exactly they’re managing all of the data they collect from the millions of collisions produced in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) each second. Generating approximately one petabyte of data every second none of today’s computing systems are actually capable of recording such rates of …

Came across this great time-lapse video shot by Javin Lau that illustrates how Toronto always seems to be on the move despite what the weather might be doing. The footage of City Hall at night is especially nice. Video runs about 3 1/2 minutes long. Hope you enjoy!

Toronto is Home from Javin Lau on Vimeo.

As you know, we’ve cruised a few times, and covered it here, and though we’ve cruised the now-somewhat-beleaguered Carnival Cruise Lines, we had no issues during our short trip. In fact, we really enjoyed our time on board the Imagination, and liked the Carnival experience more than the Royal Caribbean in some ways. (Given there’s so much discussion on differences between the two, we may have to do a comparison sometime.)
However, given Carnival’s recent issues with their ships and the fact that we’re hoping to do a Carnival cruise shortly …

For those looking for a good recap of last season – or at least one from Daenery’s POV – check out Adam WarRock’s remix of theMarySue’s Game of Thrones hip-hop song. Only one more day to go!

During our first 2012 visit to Disney World we visited Epcot and took in all of the must-sees that Nicole remembered from her childhood visits. Which of course meant a stop by Imagination! where Eric Idle in his role as the chairman of the Imagination Institution greets you for a tour of the facility before everyone’s favorite fictitious dragon Figment hijacks the visit. Located on the western side of the Future World area, the pavilion was originally opened back in 1982 and over the years has undergone three significant evolutions. …