Suffering from a self-inflicted state of being rusty at posting, I’ll keep this short and sweet. The other day I was dropping off one of my boys at the bus, and asked him what was going on at school today. He informed me it was Cobra day, though it took me half a second to hear that clearly. This fact…
Quick Quiz of the Day
Alright! Time to have a quick voice from the geek section. I’ve been focusing on the business aspect of things the last month that my personal interest blog has run a little dry. So let’s get into it lite and interesting! This is a quick quiz: can you name the awesome historic toy/cartoon/comic character as seen below? Don’t need the…
Claytoons Site update
This is a way-late announcement as I have been focusing on the site proper. So time to close the circle of life and come on the blog to state that Claytoons.ca has had a major update. It’s been almost two months now since I’ve officially started Claytoons Digital Creations at a full-time endeavor. In that time I’ve had a few…
PlayBook won’t update BlackBerry World
Kind of an FYI, kind of an open question to BlackBerry. Who can win the race to answer how to solve this issue? ~ Clayton “Claytoon” Wilchowy
My wage is 85 product preference facts an hour!
At work yesterday, Pierre passed along a link, featuring a type of paywall he (nor myself) had ever come across before. This Nexus 5 review at KnowYourMobile.com allows you to read the first tast of their page, then blocks the rest of the content until you pay the piper for the rest. Paywalls are a common practice now for a…
Origin of Modern Signal Communication
Part of the joy of Toastmasters is the fact that I have to (labour of love) throw together speeches now and again. Goes without saying. Being a geek, those speeches CAN SOMETIMES have to do with technology. Here’s looking at you Kip. So today I’d like to share an outline from a speech presented last year. It’s got a lot…
Collaborative art – KADULT! (kid/adult) blend
Art. It needs to be posted! And so a little taste of a collaborative effort from the home front. Every now and again we do drawing challenges at the house. Sometimes they are ‘drawing wars’ where you try to draw the other person’s characters demise. Below is one of the other challenge types, where you can draw for a brief…
OS X time travels into the negaverse
This time travel note goes way beyond Time Machine. See I’ve been running OS X Lion since it’s launch, skipping Mountain Lion due to lackluster acceptance at the time it came out. No harm no foul. I’ve been working on an iOS application recently and had updated my iPad with iOS 7 early (out of eagerness to play). That done,…
Eye got my I on you
So I found myself the other day at the YMCA, listening to some pretty heavy music, while enjoying the rare chance at viewing cable TV being fed to me through the harsh glow of an elliptical exercise machine LCD. I was watching SpongeBob SquarePants. Less rare than you might be prone to believe. Well knowing me maybe it’s easy to believe. Anyways.…
Sketch of the Day: Captain Carrot
So I used to read a stellar DC comic titled Captain Carrot and the Amazing Zoo Crew. Truth be told I even purchased back issues as recently as Free Comic Book Day this spring when the boys and I were out galavanting. This was my retake on Captain Carrot. A modernizing of the anthropomorphic hero and a few of his…
Sketch of the Day: A-man okay
Quick sketch of the day to toss at ya. One day (a bit trimmer ago, and enough stubble up top to warrant a few scratches of ink) Annoying Man let me try on his suit when he wasn’t looking. And yes, that is upside-down Michael Cowpland standing in an old Corel logo. And yes, that is my old hamster powered…
The Fountains Controversy
Fountains. They can be found just about anywhere in the world. Are they a testament to beauty? To human ingenuity and craftsmanship? Or are they a gross desensitization experiment to selective, repulsive things. Like cat vomit. Well at least lion vomit. I didn’t have this epiphany until walking by this beautiful fountain housed within central park in Winnipeg. Don’t worry,…