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Updates from August, 2005

  • After writing about Mac’s on this website for a couple years now, and talking about them with numerous people, I finally took the plunge and said goodbye to my Windows system. Instead, I now am the proud owner of a 12″ G4 Powerbook and I haven’t looked back.

    I’ve acually had the new Powerbook for almost 2 weeks now, but I wanted to hold off on posting about it until I had used it a bit and gotten a better feel for it. Things just seem “easier” on a Mac and while I was hesitant about dismantling my old system, I haven’t actually had the need for anything in the Windows world (aside from my old data files) that is making me question my decision.

    Over the next little while, I will be posting more about some of the new programs that I’m really liking that are making my life easier as well as other bits of Apple technology that I’m now using around the house.


    Andy 10:56 am on 8/29/2005 | 0 Permalink | Reply

     

  • All of you that know me, know how big of a Hootie & the Blowfish fan I’ve always been. A lot of people still think of them as ‘one hit wonders’ and they forget that the guys are still together and making great music. Their latest album, Looking for Lucky, has just hit stores and let me tell you – if you like ‘old school’ Hootie, you are going to love this album. I think the band is at their best on this album from the opening track State Your Peace to the radio single One Love and the catchy Get Out of My Mind – every song sounds great.

    If you haven’t listened to Hootie in a while, give this album a chance – at least a few listens through. If you’ve ever liked the band, I think it would be hard for you to not enjoy this album.

    Happy listening!


    Andy 9:26 pm on 8/23/2005 | 0 Permalink | Reply

     

  • Amanda was more than generous for my birthday this year and got me a round of golf at Silvertip golf course in Canmore. They weren’t even that busy that day so I was the only one in my group and Amanda was able to ride along in the cart and take lots of pictures. The scenery was beautiful, it was a great day, and the course was amazing. They even have GPS in the carts so that you know exactly how far you are from the green and even the group in front of you. With all of these awesome “features” of the course, it was sometimes hard to remember that I was actually out there playing golf!

    If you want to see the pictures, check them out here!

    UPDATE: Due to the requests in the comments, I will reveal my score. Although I had no feel around the super fast greens, I squeaked out an 89 down the stretch. I would have liked to have scored better since I hit the ball really well, but it’s not bad for not playing much this year and all of the “distractions” of the mountains!


    Andy 12:51 pm on 8/20/2005 | 2 Permalink | Reply

     

  • Last Wednesday saw the start of med school with O-week. In addition to getting to meet all my new classmates, we also had some time to learn a bit about what we’ll be up to for the next three years and also have some fun! This included a fake 3 hour exam put on by the second year students, the Med Olympics, a Calgary-wide scavenger hunt, and lots of other fun and pranks!

    One other great part about med school for technology geeks like me is that at the University of Calgary, they give each one of the med students a Palm Tungsten C PDA. I know the cost of these is virtually nothing compared to the amount of tuition we pay, but it still feels good to at least feel like you’re being given something for free! The great part about this model is that it has Wi-Fi capabilities making it easy to synch email and calendars anywhere that Wi-Fi internet access is available – which just happens to be the entire hosptial and Health Sciences Centre. There are also many textbooks and online databases that will be available as well so this should be one gadget that all students will really learn to appreciate.

    The real classes start this week so it’ll be interesting to see what that’s like – especially since I haven’t had actual lectures in quite a while.

    One more exciting note – I won’t be needing to buy a stethoscope since I won one during O-week!


    Andy 5:14 pm on 8/7/2005 | 0 Permalink | Reply

     

  • Hi everyone,

    We’re back from New Zealand after our wonderful honeymoon. We didn’t want our time there to end as it went by so quickly. We took about 600 pictures (sorry if that’s too many for all of you) and you can find them in the Photos section – there is a new album there with many sub-albums of the honeymoon pictures.

    We picked up the photos and negatives from the wedding photographer today – we’ll hopefully have some of those scanned soon and put up on the website as well. My uncle also captured some great photos of the wedding so we’ll also try to integrate some of those as well as photos taken with our camera (thanks Scott).

    I start medical school tomorrow – I’ll try and get back to doing regular updates, but things might be a bit busy for the next little while.


    Andy 9:36 pm on 8/2/2005 | 0 Permalink | Reply