Hexup for Mar 29

It’s been a little while, I know. I’ve been a bit burnt out, and needed some space to gather my thoughts. For real, I was not just playing too many videogames (actually, it seems that I wasn’t playing enough videogames).  But yeah. We’re at Nerd Fest today playing music and doing things, and you should come. Also other things.

Nerd Fest

It’s just a few hours until Nerd Fest, a celebration of all things dorky in Kitchener Waterloo. I’ll be there playing with Woot Suit Riot, opening for Toronto nerd band Copy Red Leader. There’s video games, t-shirt hacks, drinking, speakers, and more! It starts at 2pm at the Victoria Park Pavilion, and tickets are only $15 at the door. Come down, say hello, and have fun, we’ll be there until the wee hours of the morning.

Photo ownership

In a landmark piece of copyright legislation, Bill C-11 has determined that Canadian photographers own the copyright to all of their photos. Even ones commissioned by others, or photos they’ve sold, etc. According to the article on PetaPixel, “Previously, photographers were not automatically the first owners of their photographs when shooting commissioned work, but instead it was the individuals or businesses that commissioned the images who owned the copyrights. Section 13(2) of the Canadian Copyright Act specifically singled out photography as being different than other creative works.”

Muffin Button!

There’s an ATM in New York City that will give you a cupcake any time you want. Put in your card, punch in your order, and get a cupcake. I want one of these on every corner. No, two. At least two. Because sometimes it’s 3am and you just need a cupcake.

Headshots from the Heart

A bit of self-love today. Headshots from the Heart 2014 is underway. We’ve got some incredible sponsors coming on board and a lot of fun planned. We’ll be doing a 24 hour a live stream marathon playing Borderlands 2 for charity, but we’ve also got an open door expo happening during the day, and an all night gaming party. Tune in May 3-4 to support us, and I’m happy to answer any questions here or on Twitter.

Headshots from the Heart banner

Abel Prize, corner pocket

Professor Yakov Sinai just won the Abel Prize, one of the highest awards in mathematics, for a model based on a pool table. From the New Scientist, “Real gases have millions of molecules, making them a very complex problem to study, so Sinai tried to find a simpler model whose behaviour could be fully proved. He came up with a theoretical game of billiards played on a square table with a circle removed from the middle, and replaced by a circular fence. Balls bounce off the outer square and the inner circle, just as molecules bounce off each other in a gas.

It turns out this model reproduces many of the properties of a more complex gas, including one called ergodicity, which roughly means that a ball, or gas molecule, is equally likely to reach any part of the system given enough time.”

Dan taps this sheet of mousetraps. You won’t believe what happens next.

Yes you will. Things get out of hand. Gavin and Dan make all kinds of amazing slow motion films.

 

Come to Nerd Fest!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *