I got the chicken pox for my 21st birthday. It certainly wasn’t what I asked for! Getting the chicken pox as an adult is far more serious than getting them as a child. I didn’t realize that having them could affect so many things about your body. From your brain to your intestines. […]
Friday was spent at Mike’s house, where a three-quarter-dozen of us played Karaoke Revolution Party till the wee hours of the morning. This is a cool game! Technically, the game measures the pitch of your voice and start and stop time. You can duff the lyrics, or even just hum along, as […]
Some songs are really poignant. Every time I heard this song it just stopped me in my tracks. So last week I started learning it to play it on the piano. The song is Mad World from the Donnie Darko soundtrack (music by Michael Andrews, lyrics by Gary Jules). Donnie Darko […]
Today marks a new addition to Wyck.ca: the Distractions category. Lately there have been a few things that have been interfering with my ability to stay on target, and stay productive. In the event that I should miss a posting, my plan is to follow up with a posting in the Distractions category. […]
So tonight I took a foray into the world of Machinima. If you can’t be bothered to click the link and read a couple of minutes for a definition, I’ll give you the short version: use a video game engine as the camera, set and actors for making films.
Let’s the tech out of the […]
A while ago I did some trading cards for the Robin in the Hood medieval festival in Elmira, Ontario. I came across them recently and went through them all again. I had such a good time making them. It really got me into photoshopping images.
The idea was to do a trading card […]
Today we put up the holiday lights. I highly recommend putting up winter decorations before the snow comes. After years of fumbling around on top of the house struggling not to fall off the roof and have Tim Allen take over my job, I committed to preparing early. It usually comes […]
