Nearly a month has passed from my first day at UBC. Maybe it’s this MWF/TuTh schedule thing that makes time pass by so much faster. “Time flies when you’re having fun,” as Mr. Picard used to say, but the past month hasn’t been all fun; rather, it has been a lot of textbook reading (obviously), and a lot of note-taking (duh), and a lot of walking between buildings (evil 10 minute break to walk from Dempster Pavilion [computer science lecture] to the Mathematics building [roughly 900m apart + intelligently moving obstacles]). One month into the start of the year and Continue Reading
Dennis
I am currently a software developer at A Thinking Ape Entertainment Ltd. I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science with the Software Engineering Option. I primarily speak Python and C# these days, but in the past I've also done Objective-C, Java and PHP.
Outside of work, I'm a volunteer on the youth ministry team at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, and also on the Canadian Ski Patrol team at Mount Seymour. I'm also an avid transit enthusiast/photographer.
The wheels on the bus go round and round…
On September 2, 2006, a crowd of people watched as the buses whose home had been the Oakridge Transit Centre for the past years made their way to the new multi-million-dollar state-of-the-art garage called Vancouver Transit Centre. Many of the buses leading the parade were retired buses restored by The Transit Museum Society (TRAMS). I also took 3 video clips: 2102 pulling out of Oakridge V1109 The bus parade going down Oak Street
Bananas are good :D
Bananas. Containing three natural sugars – sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber, a banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world’s leading athletes. But energy isn’t the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet. Anemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of Continue Reading
mIRC scripting
mIRC scripts can be helpful in many ways. They can do almost anything from hosting simple IRC games, to keeping PM spam out, to protecting the user and channel. Scripted correctly, most of them don’t cause any annoyance or frustration. Scripted incorrectly, they can prove to be quite hilarious to watch 🙂 [16:22:54] (&Tikitiki) !down [16:22:54] * Q sets mode: -ao Tikitiki Tikitiki [16:22:55] * Q sets mode: +o Tikitiki [16:22:55] * Q sets mode: +a Tikitiki [16:22:57] (&Tikitiki) try banning me now [16:22:58] (&Tikitiki) omg [16:23:00] (&Tikitiki) STUPID SCRIPT [16:23:01] (&Tikitiki) rofl [16:23:14] * Tikitiki sets mode: -a Tikitiki Continue Reading
Poor camera :(
I found out today that the LCD screen on my digital camera had cracked. Now all that shows up are blobs of black and purple on a white background. *sigh* I’ve learned my lesson: Protect the LCD screen with more than a piece of plastic and carry it in a case. Perhaps one from ‘da Products will work better in the future. I read a thread about people complaining about the delicate nature of the LCD on Canon digital cameras. On the model I have, there is no built-in hard protector between the LCD and the environment. In my opinion, Continue Reading