Drawn quickly on the Note 3. Hey, follow these shenanigans on Instagram!
#mo365 Day 3
Drawn quickly on the Note 3. Hey, follow these shenanigans on Instagram!
Author: trevor
#mo365 Day 2
Every so often, I find my character drawings a little inconsistent, and need to rework them. This was one of those times.
#mo365 Day 1
I decided to get in on a little hashtag game on Instagram that’s called #mo365 — simply, upload a mobile photo for every day of the year. Well, to keep myself honest, I’m going to repost them here. Enjoy! Paddle your own canoe, folks. -Trevor
What This Year Was, And What The Next Will Be
This year was good to me. It was. I can look back at January and realize that I had just started working at a school that wasn’t quite yet a school, making peanuts and generally being totally unsure of where I was going and what I was doing. I’m still plenty unsure about where things are going, but I’m a lot more secure in my insecurities. I buried a lot of insecurities this year. I have a generally older peer group, and 2013 is the year in which I owned…
5 Reasons Why You Should Support Cardamom & Cloves’ Indiegogo Campaign
Cardamom & Cloves is an upcoming herbs & spices shop in Ottawa. It’s on track to open, and Jodi, the proprietress, is running an Indiegogo campaign to help launch the store with the appropriate level of pomp and awesome that the foodie community here in Ottawa deserves. Here are 5 reasons why you should support the campaign in its last 14 hours. 5. Ottawa is a frozen, blasted wasteland and we’ll turn to cannibalism without it. Don’t let the pretty lights fool you. Ottawa is the last bastion against the…
Let’s Stop Asking Why We Should Study Literature, and Start Asking What English Class Is For
I’ve been wondering a lot lately what the hell I’m doing. I treat my English class like my own personal rumpus room. What do I think is fun or interesting? What do I think it’s important for my students to know? What is in the news that I feel like talking about that day? It makes for a lot of great class discussions. One of my students from last term, walking past my classroom, said to me between classes, “Monsieur, I don’t know what you were teaching before, but it…
We broke everything!
Hey folks, business will resume as usual soon. In the meantime, please be patient as the site is undergoing some pretty heavy back-end restructuring.
Guilt and KSP
I’ve been playing a bit of 0.22, which is the career mode update to Kerbal Space Program. I’m enjoying it, but perhaps not as much as I thought. I’m simply not good enough at the game to earn science points easily. I’m not stuck at the second tier of research, but I’m not sure how much fun it will be to get to the next. I may dive back into sandbox mode, but I feel like slugging it out. I bought into the game at this early stage; I feel…
Friday bus doodle Oct 25
Failure to Communicate
Natalie Joy is a cutie. And I love drawing her. It’s a rare gift to have a muse, model, best friend, and partner, all in one. I am drawing on my new phone, the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, and it is WONDERFUL. The Wacom-powered S Pen stylus is spectacular, and the built-in version of Autodesk Sketchbook is a delight to use. Not to mention that the bundled Samsung apps are surprisingly good. S Note in particular, with its Evernote integration, is a lot of fun to sketch in. I also…
Using Office365 with WordPress
I have been enjoying using the new Office. Full disclosure: I got my first year of Office365 for free. I took part in the preview and genuinely enjoyed it. I said as much on Twitter and was rewarded by the Office team with a year’s subscription at no cost. That’s been great for me – as a new teacher without a huge budget for tech, having the service free for a year has been incredibly helpful. But as I use it, I’m more and more aware of the fact that…
Unfamiliar Ground
Last night, while walking Leo around 10:00, I realized (having stumbled onto it without realizing) that what is normally a field of tall grass on the way home had been cut flat. Instead of comfortable darkness, orange high-intensity lights, even far away, revealed heretofore unseen topography that made this familiar home stretch seem completely alien. The options were to walk back the way we came, down by the river, and add another half-hour to our trip, or to press on. With little moonlight, and with the air cooling quickly, we continued.…