At long last, the thesis behind my joint MSc in Sport Psychology/Sport Science from the universities of Thessaly and Leipzig, defended June 24th, 2015 in Trikala, Greece. For full citations see the original DOCX (only rendering correctly using the Delicious font) or PDF (the nice one without hyperlinks or the sheared-font one with). Results are …
“I don’t even know what to ask!” — Everyone So how does it all work? What is Bitcoin, even? Well, here’s my last summer’s talk on the tech first heralded by Nakamoto’s seminal 2008 whitepaper. The slides, transcript, and subtitles are free to use and chapter (plus FAQ) navigation is available right on YouTube. Subtitles …
Another staple of Vancouver is its phenomenal improv scene. From Instant Theatre to Blind Tiger to the Sunday Service to Second Storey Theatre to Vancouver Theatre Sports League — early homes to improv legends Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles — to my own personal favourites, the Fictionals, this city is just teeming with improvisers. And …
In about five years of living in Vancouver I’ve gotten a pretty good feel for the lay of the land: its magnificent nature, hilarious improv, world-famous sushi, the futuristic yet completely down-to-earth crypto community, the great cultural treasure that is The Drive, and the wonderful location in general clearly substantiating Raincouver’s other moniker of Hollywood …
I learned so much in interviewing Hou. His integrity and grounding presence shines through his smile, as you’ll quickly see. I’m only sorry about the audio. Most is quite bearable, but some I had to fade out to quiet the wind and planes and text vibrations. The camera auto-refocused often but this is less annoying. …
Originally started on Steemit, summarizing the original BBC article and adding a much broader perspective from talking with Chinese-Canadians in Vancouver. Cross-posted on Medium. China is creating a new social credit system to rate citizens’ trustworthiness. “By 2020, everyone in China will be enrolled in a vast national database that compiles fiscal and government information, …
A talk explaining some theory and then the practical elements behind regaining control over your Android device at DCTRL in Vancouver last December. The key topic was how to remove as much Google and manufacturer bloatware from Android phones as possible while still maintaining a fully functioning device, based on my experiences tinkering with my …
The interview is unfortunately only available in Polish but I’m sure someday soon AI will be able to quickly parse it into whichever language you need. If you can happily nod along to Polish then go on, see if you can pick out my accent. Video clip sources and topic timestamp navigation available through watching …
A fraction of our interview is presented below, but like with the Baltic interviews prior, it too was garbled up so only the clear, important bits made it through the editing process. You can navigate through topic timestamps by watching the below directly on YouTube. Fresh out of Vilnius, our cousin took us on a …
As with our Rigan friends, Lina’s interview was largely garbled up but I was able to salvage about 15m of it to put a voice to the beaming smile below. My sister makes a presence here as well, but Lina’s voice is immediately recognizable right from the outset. Video clip sources and topic timestamp navigation …
Here is a short outtake I was able to salvage from our interview (my phone was on its last legs), where we discuss some of the main points the writeup following dives deeper into. Irina is the first voice you hear, Dace the second, and the other lady with the Canadian accent is my sister. …
Bloodsport (1988, 92m, 6.8, 33|74%) is a cult martial arts action film made in the typical American Hollywood style, where the lines delineating good and evil are simple and audiences gather to either watch the fight scenes or the cute hero. It portrays the now-tired storyline of the young Westerner trained by an exotic, mysterious …