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Rest in Peace: jFish

October 19, 2007 ~ October 27, 2008

I feel kinda weird doing this, but I guess I just feel a bit sad about little jFish. He passed away quietly at the bottom of his tank today after refusing to eat for several days and suffering from some form of paranoia. Our thoughts and prayers are with him as we know he is in a better place.

jFish in his early days enjoying his IKEA tank.

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Whiteboard of the Week – 4

Sorry guys. Unless terrible drawings of hedgehogs interest you, this week’s whiteboard is a bit lame. For the jolewriting impaired, the first line says, “I’m happy (or I have understood, am satisfied) with something when I can sum it up in a sentence.”, something from Tuesday @ 1AM. I would probably be more specific in my more lucid state as “one sentence” rather than “a” sentence, but yeah. This is a bit obvious.

Hedgehog (attempt 1 & 2) was me verifying if I could draw one or not. A long time ago I had found an adorable image of a hand drawn one but I couldn’t remember if I had drawn it or not. I’ll see if I can draw it for next week because it’s coming back to me now, but those were my attempts at the time. From far away attempt 2 looks worse than attempt 1, but attempt 2 definitely is cuter… you know the whole *having eyes* part helps.

The last part was just some notes for a TELUS essay contest. More on that some other time.

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Whiteboard of the Week – 3

This week I released my first whiteboard animation, as a social project. It is in French though, because I’m in French immersion so my projects are in French.

In any event it still has some cool stuff and I hope you like it!

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Ok, fine. There’s also a static Whiteboard of the Week. I’m not explaining this week though, because it’s not very meaningful and most of it was fairly context driven, but there was another guest drawer in this one. Make your guesses on what part it is!

Oh and the video of course:

P.S. I guess that sorta makes this the public of jolevideo. It’s been in private beta for a while, but that’s news for a day when my PSU isn’t fried. (Sigh…)

P.P.S. Thanks to Ashley for her contribution to the project! (No she isn’t the guest drawer.)

Written by jolephoto in: Personal,Whiteboard of the Week Tags: social, video, whiteboard

Whiteboard of the Week – 2

Wow so here I am publishing on time. It just about didn’t make it because my Quad crashed and I’m in the midst of repairing it, but I am writing it! Oo and next week you can expect a special animated special on presidential and parliamentary government systems (in French!), so look forward to that! Onto this week’s whiteboard…

Most of these were written last Saturday right after I erased it, but who cares.

Top-left is a demonstration of how audio is hucked through parallelograms. (A reference to using Windows in Parallels Desktop as an MP3 streamer/encoder)
Bottom-centre is the Bonjour QT Streaming boat. I tried explaining this one to my Mom and she gave me a funny look. Basically I was illustrating the way in which the QuickTime Streaming Server is very low configuration, because they speak Bonjour and start streaming right away, unlike Darwin Streaming server. Streaming folk get it.
Top-right we have the infamous vhat. Basically I express “what?” spoken in a German accent to be “vhat” but that looks way more like virtual hat than “what?” in German, and so I illustrated it.
Center-right is not my drawing (how can you tell?) but one by my sister. She likes to call me leoj. She claims I mumble, creating mumbleoj. (Yes, our entire family is pretty much this weird.) Anyway she’s mocking my electric scooter hack. (I’ll have to blog on that at some point.)

So that’s it for this week, and stay tuned for an excellent animation, and another WBoW next Saturday!

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