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Match #1 A05 Strength

We had our first match on Wednesday 18 May. It was good. We have several talented players and all good attitude.

Matt and Katherine refereed the match.

We opened scoring in the first few minutes, but we were a bit unused to playing together. Some of our players I met that day for the first time. We gave up some chances and got some bad bounces and gave up two goals. Our defence played well. Our challenge was making the transition between lines and keeping control on the full field.

Larry interview from UW Recruiter

The DB ran an interview with Larry W. Smith from UW Recruiter today.

My students. They are totally plugged in to what is going on out there and outdo the media every time. Essentially, they're my early warning system and the best information source I could possibly access. My students have kept me informed and abreast of every major technical advance that has happened since I've been here -- and that's a lot of years.

Students know, says economics prof DB 30 May 2005

DB mentions The New Manic Magazine

The Daily Bulletin included a brief about The New Manic Magazine

Two students in UW's English department -- Bram Wigzell and Andrew Judge -- are behind a new UW arts journal, The New Manic Magazine, which appeared for the first time in April.

The New Manic new UW arts journal 7 April 2005

Armoury Saturday 14 May

Saturday 14 May 2005 10:36 — 13 people
Saturday 14 May 2005 10:47 — 14 people

Armoury Wednesday 11 May

Armoury Wednesday 11 May

Wednesday 11 May 2005 07:56 — 2 people
Wednesday 11 May 2005 08:03 — 3 people
Wednesday 11 May 2005 08:04 — 4 people
Wednesday 11 May 2005 08:05 — 5 people
Wednesday 11 May 2005 08:06 — 7 people
Wednesday 11 May 2005 08:15 — 9 people

Armoury 8 May

Armoury 8 May

Sunday 8 May 2005 13:40 — 13 people
Sunday 8 May 2005 14:04 — 14 people

I saw Lily there. It wasn't too crowded.

Armoury Tue 3 May

Niamh and Andy wedding 01

Niamh and Andy were successfully married on Saturday at St. Mary's in downtown Kitchener. The setting was great as was the service. There was live music with all sorts of instruments including a harp, upright base, violin, and a gaelic singer. The church has some pretty ornate decorations.

At Bomber - Wednesday night

I went to the 'shelter for a brief time Wednesday night. I left my house around 00:31 and returned around 01:01. I had walked by after discussion group and social at about 09:20, but the line was super long.

Photo of Mariela and Larry and Chris photgraphing

In the afternoon when I was walking back with a box I saw Chris taking a picture of Larry and Mariela. I often take pictures of things that other don't, like people taking pictures. Here is one. Larry is telling Mariela about me.

I told them about the hawk and squirrel I had photographed in the morning.

Hawk, crows, and a squirrel

This morning a murder of crows were cawing and swooping down on a hawk while the hawk was trying to hunt a squirrel. At first the squirrel was scrambling among the vines on the south side of ES2 and the hawk dive, swoop and swing between the windows frames, but missing the squirrel.

After a bit the squirrel made a dash away from the building across the stretch of grass to the nearest tree. It climbed the tree and the hawk followed by air. In the photo the hawk is on one side of the trunk while the squirrel tries to keep its distance.

Armoury Tue 3 May

Tuesday 3 May 2005 12:15 — 37 people
Tuesday 3 May 2005 12:20 — 35 people
Tuesday 3 May 2005 12:27 — 40 people

Saturday 30 April Armoury

Chen-Wing gets honourable mention in logo design contest

Sib2 got honourable mention in the accelerator centre logo contest. I also entered the contest, but did not get mention of any sort. I know well some of the shortcomings of my design so I am not confused by the failure.

Since I didn't have easy access to Adobe Illustrator, I needed help converting my bitmap design to vector format. I sent it to L and received a second entry. I submitted both of them and here you go.

Research Park logo contest 29 Mar 2005
UW Research Tech Park closes logo contest UWNews 26 Apr 2005
Accelerator Centre announces logo contest winner UWNews 28 Apr 2005

Accelerator centre groundbreaking 10 Dec 2005
Third R+T building will have accelerator centre and green roof uws 13 Dec 2005

Marcus coments on soccer and our team

Marcus commented on our team at the end of March after the indoor soccer season. I appreciated what he said, in part because I consider myself one of his upper-year teammates.

It had been a great year of soccer for me....
Learned a lot from all my upper years teammates....
ThanK You so much ...

Strength wins lower-A league final 27 Mar 2005

Heramba starts a blog

Heramb started a blog on msn spaces recently Heramb's Harem. Heramb wrote a column of racy humour in Imprint.

His first entry Random Ramblings: Bit on Boys and Girls was on 20 April 2005, about twelve days ago.

The time we got Heramb to comment on election posters resulted in a pretty popular election analysis ([RDC] Goyer, Ramachandran, Chen-Wing comment on election posters).

Getting rid of old Fed Hall chairs

I saw that they were selling old chairs from Fed Hall at the surplus store on 21 April. They are selling them for $0.93 each. The guy told me that they had 100 of them.

The chairs have been around since I was first at Fed Hall (back when it was pink, turquoise, and had light-stained wood and white tiles.

I bought one of the chairs.

FPW features Howard Armitage's office

National Post's Financial Post Weekend featured Howard Armitage's office in a column called "Office Space." It's headline reads: Startup mentality: Dr. Howard Armitage operates from a lean mean office, with few personal effects.

About his office, the reporter Deena Waisberg writes:

Dr. Armitage's lean mean office is in keeping with the startup mentality of the program. He shares a small space with the associate director of MBET. Both occupants have simple metal and wood desks, burgundy fabric-covered office, chairs, grey metal filing cabinets and little else.

Amandeep's startup Endrelia

At camp Amandeep told me about his firm Endrelia

At Endrelia, we are designing simple, cost effective wireless products of the future. We have identified niche markets in the personal/business communication and security market.

4th UW Innovate Inc. camp

McCool's spin-off Serious Hack Inc.

At camp Michael McCool told me about his company Serious Hack Inc..

Serious HackTM Inc. is a company devoted to supporting, developing and extending the Sh GPU Metaprogramming Language, as well as developing applications in the areas of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) programming and real-time graphics.

4th UW Innovate Inc. camp

4th UW Innovate Inc. camp

I attended part of the UW Innovate Business Startup Advantage camp last week. Here is a group photo from the last day.

The camp was a bit different from before. There were more people from the community and fewer people stayed overnight. There was also no team project. It was good to meet some new people and learn some more.