Yearly Archives: 2010

Retiring The Humanaught

It’s been a long time coming, but I’m finally retiring “The Humanaught” moniker. It’s been a good run, but time to hang up the handle and start publishing under a domain I’ve been sitting on for a couple years now — ryan-mclaughlin.com (that’s the cue to update your bookmarks). I started using “The Humanaught” back …

December 31, 2010
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Casey & The Wheelie Walker

When Casey first arrived our friends Kevin and Sammi gave us a walker. At the time I couldn’t begin to imagine Casey ever being big enough to use it. For the last month or two we’ve been using it as a way to keep him stationary while we do dishes, prep dinner or just to …

December 10, 2010
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My favourite photos

I think once, in my ignorance, I may have rashly stated that I would never be one of those dads that subjects anyone who’ll look to photos of their kid. As the majority of postings since Casey was born have proven, I was terribly wrong about that. But in an effort to revisit a time …

October 29, 2010
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Party of One

A life of extremes folks, that’s me. One minute I’m whinging about the non-stop craziness of being a new parent and the next I’m sitting quietly on a Wednesday night trying to remember the last time I ate vegetables (are mushrooms a vegetable?). Yep, I’m home alone. Button and I have been keeping each other …

October 27, 2010
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All Casey, all the time

Wow, so being a parent is pretty full-on eh? I am pretty sure it was mentioned on the box in small print, but all that flashy “Miracle of Life” sloganese blinded me and I didn’t catch it. Don’t get me wrong, I frigin’ adore being a dad, and I didn’t fully understand what love was …

September 11, 2010
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Video: How To Be Alone

The following is a beautiful poetic video by Halifax poet/performer Tanya Davis (filmed, edited and animated by Andrea Dorfman). I caught the following video on MSN’s video site (which streams surprisingly fast here in China). Unfortunately it doesn’t allow you to embed all videos, and I couldn’t find this on Vimeo either — so YouTube …

August 9, 2010
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Jane McGonigal’s +20 Crazy Idea

The counter-balance to yesterday’s insane video, this is game developer Jane McGonigal’s TEDTALK. It’s absolutely brilliant. Key take-aways: Gamers have spent 5.93 million years (collectively) playing WoW and solving its problems. By 21, the average kid in a country with a strong gaming culture will have spent 10,000 hours playing games (read Outliers for why …

July 11, 2010
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WoW WTF…

Though I consider myself a gamer (I’ve got an afternoon of Neverwinter Nights planned for today) and have played most all of Blizzard’s early stuff, I never got into WoW. It appears I’ve been missing out. I have no idea what a “guild” is, but this is the most amusing thing I’ve seen in a …

July 10, 2010
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If you eat food, you should watch this movie

I just finished watching Food, Inc. — a sobering, yet hopeful, documentary about the modern industrial food machine. It’s an incredible film and I don’t think anyone should take another bite before they watch it. It makes me appreciate that a lot of my food happens to come from small “farmers/wet” markets. Cheers to Ben …

June 6, 2010
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