Terahertz

Always fully read email subjects

Because when you skim a subject and see “SFU Notice: More gunfire at Surrey Campus” there’s cause for alarm, but when the actual email says:

Movie gunfire at Surrey campus

The sci-fi TV series "Caprica" will be filming at SFU Surrey and Central City on Friday night, October 30. The Dale B. Regehr Grand Hall (mezzanine level) will be used as a futuristic airport lounge.

The action may include running through the grand hall, down the staircase to the main entry lobby. The actors will carry and fire weapons and fake blood capsules will explode.

If you’re visiting, working or studying at the Surrey campus be aware that the film shoot will begin at 6 p.m. It should finish by 9 p.m. but will continue in the Tower lobby and outside on the Plaza until 4 a.m.

Campus access will remain open on Friday night. There may short periods when the cameras are rolling when people on campus will be asked to stop for a few minutes as they come in from street level or the parkade. Security guards will be posted to assist with the access. The Surrey Fire Fighters Computer Lab and all other study spaces on campus are open as usual without restrictions during this film shoot.

Then you can rest easy.

On a side note: It is pretty sweet to attend a school that’s been used to film shows like Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek in the past.

Update: For factual honesty, SFU has never been used in a Star Trek episode or movie. It has made the following though:

• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• Personal Effects
• Two for the Money
• Agent Cody Banks
• The Sixth Day
• Anti-Trust
• Fallen
• Kyle X/Y
• Masters of Science Fiction
• Battlestar Galactica
• Stargate SG-1
• Millennium
• X-Files.

Oh meme oh my

I’ll play along with the tag that was given to me by Dr. Jim at his little tea room and thinking shop (or some iteration thereof). So what is my “something unusual about yourself that I probably wouldn’t guess about you”

• I’ve never broken a bone and have 20/20 vision. The worst injury I’ve suffered was running my eye socket into a trailer ball hitch (missing my eye by less than an inch) and getting a few stitches for it. Beyond that my body’s in pretty prime condition.
• This is roughly how experimental physicists view the work of theoreticians and is roughly about how productive I am with grad-level homework assignments:
• When I was young (about grade 9/10) I wrote an essay for Social Studies about how I would vote Reform since the “West” wasn’t being heard and deserved a voice. I now realize that the “West’s” (meaning Alberta) voice is not that intelligent.

Anyways, for my half-dozen minus one tags, I choose:

Massimo at Exponential Book, Aditya at Heuristicism, Chris at In Vivo, Brian at Left as an Exercise, and Devin at Simulating Reality. Of course, feel free to propagate if I didn’t choose you.

What’s with hating the New Facebook?

Facebook recently changed their layout (or at least is demoing a new look). A lot of people are pissed and think its shit.

Well I've been on Facebook long enough to remember (2 years) when it underwent the last makeover, and people hated this one too. Does this just mean Facebook is getting worse?

I don't think so. I honestly think the New Facebook is better than the last edition. It's sleaker, it's faster, it gives me the information I want quicker. I don't have to see people's fucking stupid applications to write on their walls. I actually think new Facebook is sexy.

So all you anti-progress Luddites, learn to deal with change, especially when its for the better.

Oh yeah, and bring on the hate-comments!