climate, photos, miscellany
1) Keeping masses of batteries charged 2) The incompatibility of various wireless trigger systems (PocketWizard, Paul C. Buff, the proprietary system in the new Canon 600EX flash) 3) Finicky hotshoe adapters, for the majority of flashes lacking miniphone or PC connection ports 4) The ludicrous expense of cables required to connect radio triggers to flashes
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Presumably after considering the consequences of doing so, Google has become a sort of unusual executor of the digital estates of users who opt in to their ‘Inactive Account Manager’ feature. They are given the option to set how long a ‘timeout period’ must pass before the system kicks in. They are then allowed to [...]
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An extremely preliminary version of the Toronto 350.org divestment brief has been pulled together. Now to work on the second version of my self deception paper (due Tuesday), a new paper on globalization for my Canadian politics core seminar (due Thursday), my forthcoming presentation on the patriation of Canada’s constitution (the 26th), and my two [...]
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The decision of whether or not to update iTunes is always a wary one for me. On the one hand, it is possible they are patching essential security bugs that are leaving one or more of my devices vulnerable. On the other, it is likely that the update will include at the very least a [...]
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From a time-management perspective, I seem to have become a much worse student since my undergrad days. Right now, I am on a computer in my study working on drafts of two papers simultaneously (one due tomorrow, one due Thursday). Occasionally, I am drifting back to the well-lit zone in my bedroom to do the [...]
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Somehow, this coming week is shaping up to be even more insane than the weeks so far this term. I have to grade all the papers from my international relations students by Thursday (after re-reading the papers they are based on), as well as do the reading for this week’s tutorials and teach them on [...]
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Can the Liberals and the NDP please just merge already? Source: ThreeHundredEight.com The Liberal and New Democratic parties have now spent years operating under the apparent assumption that the key issue is leadership and that if they can just find the right leader they will be able to form a government. I think a much [...]
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I am in the middle of grading stacks of undergraduate essays. If I could give one piece of advice to the students, it would be that they should read their essays aloud to themselves when preparing the final version. For each sentence, they should ask: What is the argument I am trying to make with [...]
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President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both think their best odds of winning the election arise from a full-throated endorsement of fossil fuels, with no mention of climate change: Mr Obama’s energy policy goes beyond a new-found enthusiasm for oil and gas. He has even borrowed a phrase from the McCain-Palin campaign—“All of the above” [...]
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Now running for the leadership of the Liberal Party, Justin Trudeau said something especially depressing today: “There’s not a country in the world that would find 170 billion barrels of oil under the ground and leave them there. There is not a province in this country that would find 170 billion barrels of oil and [...]
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