Category: Life

I’ve changed my shopping philosophy, and have in the process began boycotting certain stores. Whereas previously my shopping destination depended on who had the lowest prices, it now depends on who pays their employees better. I mostly base this upon the pay of the frontend retail staff, as manufacturers get payed the same reguardless.

For instance, instead of shopping at Staples which offers their employees minimum wage, I opt for retailers like Futureshop which provide much better pay. Better yet are local businesses.

I don’t really lose money by not shopping at places like “Walmart” and “Staples”, despite the fact that they force their employees to tell you of their “lowest prices”. Its an illusion; maybe a quasi justification to for them to cheap out as much as they can at every turn, and offer their workers the lowest amount legally allowed.

One cannot realistically live on minimum wage, and its my disgust with such practices that cause me to make this move.

In my last year of High School, we were required to do a “final project” for our Communications Technology class. It was to include Claymation and the use of a greenscreen.

This was an interesting project to complete; namely because 3D Studio Max (which was used to produce the backgrounds) kept crashing every 2 minutes.

Download Video [MP4, 49MB]

Two years before I began working on EYNTO, I was a senior high school student applying to various universities. It had been drilled into our heads that we needed a 90% average to get into one; marks which I wasn’t even close to. Therefore, I needed something more. Something to not make the universities mechanically skip over my application.

That’s when I got working on a University Application video. The following was all done in the Christmas break of 2002.

Download Video [DivX, 97MB]

PS. I never actually submitted this movie.

Life is busy. Between constant 12+ hour shifts at work; an upcoming physics exam of some importance; japanese lessons; piracy film… it leaves me little time to update this blog for the next little while.

As life slows down in mid-July, mildly relevant entries on my behalf should begin seeping back. But until then, please have the lowest expectations from this site.

Whenever anyone posts a comment, I get an email informing me so.

Someone just posted spam in the form of a comment, for something I wrote 2 months ago. It consists of a URL to a gambling site, as well as some random text on gambling ensuing it. Newsgroups were ruined by selfish spammers; email followed… are blogs next?

Update on Piracy Film: I’ve amassed about 200+ pages of articles from journals on the issue of filesharing and copyright, and am now in the process of sifting through the stack.

I’m surprised to be honest by the sheer number of people who are against the principles of the media industries on this unbiast search.

Update: Deleted another spamtacular comment. This one was much more straight forward, with a URL to the “Online Top Casino”. Bastards.