OddThinking

I studied cognitive computing at uni. The class was an interesting mix of computing students and cognitive psychology students. The different backgrounds lead to some interesting discussions.

I met two characters in a little fishing village in Tobermory, Canada. Mal was an old man with one glass eye. Mal’s best friend mate wore thick glasses.

When I returned to Australia after Las Vegas, I gave a couple of very different trip reports.

First, I updated my managers and the rest of my team.

Then, I met with my juggler friends.

Last Saturday, I performed a magic trick in front of a crowd of about 75 jugglers at a juggling convention. Now, I am going to reveal to you the secret of this trick!

When you are a kid, making art is the only job that you can do to pay your way. Colouring-in is the closest you have to real responsibility.

It was a tough bet to accept. At that age, a dollar was a lot of money for me. I was going to have to make some sacrifices, scrimping for the first five years until the debt was paid, but then I was going to be on Easy Street, collecting twenty cents a year, every year, for virtually no effort.

I hadn’t used iTunes for a while, so I decide to give it another go and use it to play a couple of tracks.

The result involves some swearing.

A two Swedish anecdotes, inspired by the Danish WeDoNotUse.com.

I owned a toy hovercraft as a boy.

Later, as a young teen, I made my own working toy hovercraft.

Is it any surprise that I had a desire to travel on a real-life hovercraft?

The awkward shape in the foreground is what you see first. It clearly isn’t a sheep, despite the title. It is black and white, and appears to be floating very slightly off the ground.