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An Unexpected Digital Holiday
Strange what's in a name. In Nova Scotia (a Canadian Province), there are two places that, to my uneducated Western Canadian ear, sound a lot alike: Ingonish and Antigonish. Both have timeshares and Covid left my wife and I with a pair of unused trade weeks banked. Interval International has a better chance to find you places if you give them lots of choices and lots of weeks to find you a trade. Since both were in Northern Nova Scotia, I assumed that they were more-or-less equivalent. It turned out this wasn't the case. One is a tiny community spread for several kilometres along a bay in Cape Breton. The other is much larger (a city, in fact). Ingonish is a lovely tiny community that, like most tourist places, virtually shuts everything down in the off-season. That's where we ended up trading into. What can I say? It was before high season so the restaurants were mostly closed. The few that were open were fantastic, though. In Western Canada, it's beef, beef, beef. We
One More Item Off My Bucket List
My son and a few of his friends entered the Alberta Game Jam. Since most of the team was unfamiliar with Unity, he recruited me as the expert. I use Unity as the game engine for a course stream I teach at MacEwan University in the Computer Science stream. In case people are unfamiliar with a game jam, each team has 48 hours to design and implement a game. As a rule, when I supervise final year game capstone projects I insist the people involved have taken the game development stream. Unfortunately, our team met with the expected results. Inexperience coupled with the usual "game making is easy" world view led to 48 hours of headache inducing, feature creeping chaos. I haven't used GIT (a project repository) in years because there are problems with non-text files. Of course, because the rest of the team only knew GIT, integration was used GIT...with the expected problems. Needless to say, it's going to be a day or two before I get back my energy. Both my son and I have
Covid-19 Strikes Home
After watching the spread of this thing across the world, I knew how severe it was. It wasn't until there was the possibility that I, too, might have the beast that it really struck home. After wending my way through the self-evaluation website, I was told to call our local HealthLine. Expecting long delays, I was surprised at how fast I was connected to a nurse at Alberta Health Services. I was scheduled for the test for the next day (today).
Getting to the testing centre, it was more than a little surreal. two decades ago, when I was starting my career as an educator, I taught at the South Campus of MacEwan University. I spent many n
Covid Strikes Home
Going to be a busy week. MacEwan University has decided to switch to online delivery for the last month of the term. Instructors are being given 3 days to switch everything over before Thursday. Much of mine close to switched (it's a project I've been working on over the past few years) but there's still way too much to do and now too little time to do it!
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