Review: Minty Freshness with Linux Mint
Jan 24th
Ever since I installed Intrepid on the laptop, I felt that everything had slowed down. Maybe it was because it was an online upgrade and not a fresh install. There were also small glitches that kept bugging me. Things like unclean shut downs and startups and losing wifi connection every now and then.
So, when I happened to come upon Linux Mint based on Intrepid, I thought this was a good chance for me to switch my flavour of Linux but not go too far away. Linux Mint also looks a lot nicer and since I like to work on a More >
The Great Pictionary Post
Jan 22nd
Pictionary is a game in which you move around a board on the basis of your luck and also your skill in being able to draw to convey words and phrases to your team mates. Since everyone involved has varying degrees of skill in terms of drawing, the results can be decidedly funny to observe. It is also a good chance to see how differently 2 people see the same thing. This is a collection of drawings from a Pictionary game that I was part of. Before you look at the answers, see if you can guess what the person More >
Ontario Science Centre
Jan 22nd
I am a big science buff. I love watching both good and bad science. The speculative science that just wants to see something bad happen to the world and also the real science being made by real nerds. Science is fun. I watch a lot of shows on Discovery and National Geographic and I follow all the leading scientific/technological blogs.
Since I like science so much, the Ontario Science Centre (OSC) was a big disappointment. There were very few moments where I found myself looking on in awe at something and even less places when I ended up reading the placards More >
The Royal Ontario Museum
Jan 21st
I hadn’t been to a Museum in a really long time. The last one I had been to was on an island in the middle of the reservoir of a Dam! Yes it was! The island used to be the top of a hill! Yes!
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) had no such characteristics. It is in the middle of the city, has a very modern design and it is much bigger than the one on the island. Approaching the ROM without preparation can give you a headache. The outer walls are at weird angles that force you mind to bend More >
CN Tower
Jan 20th
Roaming around in Toronto is made a lot easier because of the City Pass. This basically gives you access to 6 or so places frequented by most visitors to the city and at quite a discount compared to if you had to go to each of the places separately. The problem is that you need to cover all these places in 9 days! Thats really not my kind of thing. Its too rushed, in my opinion.
The city pass lets you see:
- The CN Tower
- Casa Loma
- The Royal Ontario Museum
- The Hockey Hall of Fame
- The Ontario Science Centre
- The Toronto Zoo
The places that we decided More >
Photography Project No. 2: Light Writing
Jan 19th
Writing words with light turned out to be simpler than I thought. All it took was a dark room a 10 second shutter and aperture at f5.3. Check out my first practice shots below.
Random Movement
The light is from the LED flash of a mobile phone.
An Actual Word
I plan to improve upon this and experiment more with colours and different exposures.
Experiment 1: Depth of Field
Photography Project No.1: Depth of Field
Jan 19th
This is a set of shots that I have taken while going through a tutorial on Depth of Field. These are my first practice shots with a Bamboo plant and a fake flower. When I get a chance and a willing model, I will do some portraits also. The next couple of shots are with the fake blue flower.
So these were the first experiments with DOF. Like I said earlier, next I will try to get a few nice portrait shots.
Casa Loma
Jan 11th
What does a city get when a rich guy goes bankrupt?
The city gets all the rich guys things!
The story of Casa Loma is the story of Sir Henry Pellatt and his business ingenuity. He is said to have been really good at what he did and over achieved at every thing he did. He was the first to supply the city of Toronto gas powered lighting for streets and basically made his fortune from that endeavour. He also dabbled in many other businesses and made money in all of them.
In 1911 he decided to build a lavish home for himself More >
