tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61410502011-04-21T13:44:04.339-04:00Space Cadet - First ClassThe future possibilities of space-travel, which are now left mainly to unfounded fantasy, could be more soberly treated without ceasing to be interesting and could show to even the most adventurous of the young that a world without war need not be a world without adventurous and hazardous glory. To this kind of contest there is no limit. Each victory is only a prelude to another, and no boundaries can be set to rational hope. - <i>Bertrand Russel</i>Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11556875209066078776noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6141050.post-1156251843450761842006-08-22T08:57:00.000-04:002006-08-22T09:04:03.460-04:00如果你在Montreal还有喜欢帮我练习中文说话，你送给我伊妹儿。Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11556875209066078776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6141050.post-1156171667472189582006-08-21T10:41:00.000-04:002006-08-21T10:47:47.490-04:00Noel dernier a Port Neuf, chez ma tante Therese. En fait, c'est la tante de ma femme. J'espere que je peux faire le raquette beaucoup plus bientot. En Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11556875209066078776noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6141050.post-1156138472683701512006-08-21T01:29:00.000-04:002006-08-21T01:40:33.270-04:00MultilingualI now officially declare this site to be multi-lingual. Well, depending on my ability to use my computer to enter characters in the desired language. For example right now, my computer will do traditional and simplified chinese with no problems, however I can't do a canadian french keyboard. Blame RedHat.現在,我在台灣,所以我會用中文寫這個網頁.要是你會看中文,請你幫我寫比較好.謝謝.加喜Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11556875209066078776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6141050.post-1146490976825283482006-05-01T09:42:00.000-04:002006-05-01T09:44:58.703-04:00I'm currently travelling for work to Las Vegas. During a flight from Montreal to Philadelphia, another passenger and I asked the stewardess about some land marks we saw. She responded that she never got a chance to look out the window during flights so she couldn't tell us. I often think that working as a flight attendant would be a neat job, but it is more like a scary combination of a nurse andJoshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11556875209066078776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6141050.post-1146317330563905132006-04-29T09:28:00.000-04:002006-04-29T09:28:50.566-04:00??????Concordia??????????????Jenny Wu?????????Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11556875209066078776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6141050.post-1145935311639205432006-04-24T23:21:00.000-04:002006-04-24T23:21:51.676-04:00Borderline GeniusMy wife went to an interesting "girls" evening over the weekend where they talk about various things. The savage neanderthal testosterone filled brute inside me finds this all a little too much crystal-aura-get-to-know-your-inner-child. I wasn't there, so who am I to prejudge.Actually it sounded kinda neat, as they were talking about birth, early childhood and it's influence on Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11556875209066078776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6141050.post-1142599980840944732006-03-17T07:53:00.000-05:002006-03-17T07:54:29.536-05:00Code Name: PorridgeOK I have -just figured out a way to talk about work without giving away any secrets! Code words!Apparently the original stealth fighter program name "Have Blue" was chosen because it was a complete non-sequiter(SP?) I have been working on a project for the past year or so and I am almost ready to put it to rest. But now I can talk about some new projects I'm working on, but ofJoshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11556875209066078776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6141050.post-1142569392046111472006-03-16T23:23:00.000-05:002006-03-16T23:23:12.076-05:00OK I have -just figured out a way to talk about work without giving away any secrets! Code words! Apparently the original stealth fighter program name "Have Blue" was chosen because it was a complete non-sequiter(SP?) I have been working on a project for the past year or so and I am almost ready to put it to rest. But now I can talk about some new projects I'm working on, but of course I will Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11556875209066078776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6141050.post-1142399147852801202006-03-15T00:05:00.000-05:002006-03-15T00:08:52.850-05:00My first PDA blog. Only a few more days (ok a week) until tamarih returns and I am getting excited! Of course, I would love to share with the world my love for my wife and expound on how lucky I am, but there is more to my life than tearfull separation. I have my work, my toys and my current brain thrill, Chinese. So, as a quick experiment with this PDA blog app,I will write something trivial in Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11556875209066078776noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6141050.post-1140499075107914062006-02-21T00:03:00.000-05:002006-02-21T00:17:55.120-05:00Tamarih is off to Mali again, though this time it is for five weeks. This gives me plenty of time to study for my two chinese courses at UQAM, as well as play around with some geeky things. The main one bugging my brain right now is 'speech recognition'.Last year, I had the chance to try out a Toshiba Tablet (M40 I think, the high-res 12" one) which was running XP tablet. It featured some Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11556875209066078776noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6141050.post-1118970864026435542005-06-16T21:03:00.000-04:002005-06-16T21:14:24.033-04:00This evening, Tamarih and I went to a performance called Ancient Culture or something featuring a group called Torotoro. It was Tamarih's first experience of a Maori cultural performance and our first view of an event as part of the Montreal Fringe Festival.It was pretty intense, and quite impressive with just two guys dancing around in thongs (or not) and loin(ish) cloths. Most of the maori/Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11556875209066078776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6141050.post-1118855854817083762005-06-15T13:03:00.000-04:002005-06-15T13:17:34.826-04:00Okay, so I'll attempt to start writing again. Of course the easiest thing to do is to complain.I signed up for google news alerts a long time ago. Just one mind you, and just for the keyword 'UAV'. So this morning I received a reference to an article about 'Lockheed Martin Tests Folding Plane'. In this article is wonderful evidence of the real speed of aerospace development. Early in the Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11556875209066078776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6141050.post-1082303489149461172004-04-18T11:51:00.000-04:002004-04-18T11:55:31.466-04:00Last weekend, Tamarih and I went to visit our friends Genevieve and Craig in Victoriaville. Craig is Australian, and Genevieve is Quebecoise who speaks english with an awesome 'strine accent. She sings beautifully and recently composed an lively, inspirational song for a Baha'i annual event about getting motivated. As she was playing/singing it for us I whipped out the iPaq and recorded a Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11556875209066078776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6141050.post-1077207372682231862004-02-19T11:16:00.000-05:002004-02-19T11:19:19.513-05:00All sorts of news.
I'm getting married. July 10, 2004. To Tamari Langlais. This rocks, I'm really excited.
I bought an iPaq 4150. It's small. It's cute. It's wireless. Why am I not writing this on it?
Nathan pointed me to a blog setup by Jennicutty. It's neat, and it links to all sorts of rad stuff. www.guessbot.com
More later.
Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11556875209066078776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6141050.post-1070744991817753592003-12-06T16:09:00.000-05:002003-12-06T16:46:41.693-05:00So, the title of this blog reveals a little about what I consider to be my long term goal in life. I want to help advance humanities movement into a solar system community. Currently, I believe this requires work on launch vehicle systems. I have no desire to leave my current employer, but if I was to get involved with a current launch vehicle group, I would pick from the following group.
Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11556875209066078776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6141050.post-1070219396357312292003-11-30T14:10:00.000-05:002003-11-30T14:10:58.760-05:00Aarrrghh.. my legs are killing me! I went out to a latin dance club (Cactus, St. Denis and Mont-Royal) last night for an hour. Got in free just before ten. I think it must be almost a year and a half since the last time I did any dancing, and today I am paying the price for it. Most of the time I was dancing meringue (Is that how it's spelt? It always makes me think of whipped egg white.) Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11556875209066078776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6141050.post-1070030334939239922003-11-28T09:38:00.000-05:002003-11-28T09:39:03.806-05:00I am lazy. Or perhaps pragmatic. I could have implemented some PHP, MySQL based blog system on engsoc, or deadsquid, but instead, I will stand on the shoulders of people who have already done the work. Why reinvent the wheel?Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11556875209066078776noreply@blogger.com0