I would like to dedicate one small send off to Bryght and all those who entered my web 2.0 life this summer. The past 4 months of geekliness were most wicked and wonderful. It is a rather warm and fuzzy feeling to be head deep in the flickr etc…community, one I know I will not leave, even though I now spend a great deal of time on a large educational peninsula.
Danke guys! (ahem Boris, kk+, Roland, Richard, Colin, Megan, Scales……everyone!)
p.s I am learning how to write code :O and can now formulate ugly html pages…….
Filed under: handfasting, jakeetzkorn, newcastleisland, petrinatorgerson, shaunessey, summer, wedding, wymanclan
So this coming month my cousin, Jake Etzkorn is getting married to his longtime girlfriend Shaunessey. This certain affair falls a little outside the usual scene. They are having a traditional Celtic handfasting ceremony on Newcastle Island. For those who perhaps knew as little as I did here is a blurb from the Wikipedia definition…..
“Handfasting is an ancient Celtic wedding ritual in which the bride’s and groom’s hands are tied together —hence the phrase “tying the knot”. It was a part of the normal marriage ceremony in the time of the Roman Empire. In the 16th century, the English cleric Myles Coverdale wrote in The Christen State of Matrymonye, that in that day, handfasting was still in use in some places, but was then separate from the Christian wedding rite performed in a church several weeks after the consummation of the marriage, which had already begun with the handfasting ritual. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, handfasting was then sometimes treated as a probationary form of marriage. See Historical Handfasting for an introduction to the historical roots of handfasting………“
Anyways, it will be an awesome ceremony for the two lovebirds. I love summer weddings and Wyman family gatherings!
Filed under: annaberger, apartmenthunting, kitsilano, mainstreet, mannequin, petrinatorgerson, summer, vancouver
………..In other words I want a great apartment in Vancouver to share avec my lovely friend Anna Berger (who is moving all the way up from St.Louis with only preconceived notions of Vancouver in tow). The mission at hand involves me attempting to find a two bedroom apartment to rent. In my wildest dreams this is in a fabulous old brick building around Main street with HUGE north/west facing windows and high ceilings and wood floors and a loft space and…………is at the moment impossible. So instead I’ve been checking out any two bedrooms I can that fall in the Main street/Broadway/borderline Kits areas. (I say borderline Kits
because the “UBC students in basements” revolution scares me)
The process of renting in Vancouver is scary and competetive, plus it moves extremely quickly because you know that everyone looking is refreshing craigslist just like yourself. There is little else in the way of easy and well organized online listings (renting.ca is o.k, yet limited). There is a possibility that I will enter the buying market so I have been poking at Realtors, but my last resort has been ringing managers doorbells.
At the moment my greatest success in the great apartment hunt was the discovery of my third roommate, a wire mannequin. With the mannequin, Anna and the possibility of Emma from Maine arriving on my doorstep I hope to be accommodated in the near future, wish me luck.
(My flickr provide a little more visual insite)
Filed under: bryght, drupal, drupalcampseattle2006, facebook, geeks, petrinatorgerson, web 2.0
This post may fall a little late as compared to all the others regarding DrupalCamp Seattle. Yet as a newbie in the business I figure my intake may have been a little different than the regular bloggular persons. As a non-developer I’ve managed to create a pretty good knowledge base for Drupal thanks to hanging out in a certain office. The guys at Bryght have been filling my head with web 2.0 for the past 2 months.
Taking Boris’s advice, I went to DrupalCamp with a project in mind. Pour moi the Drupal site of choice will be www.castlekids.com. This will be an Alumni site for all my uni friends from England. I figure we’ll need our own specific 2.0 site because flipping in between each other’s Facebook walls just won’t cut it any more. A nice simple site with blogging abilities and event planning will hopefully create more “turkeyfest-ish” action amongst us (who seem to be lurking in every corner of the globe- with Internet access no less).
In Seattle I learned to put my knowledge of Drupal together. At the moment I am going back to my modules notes in an attempt at content management. As this is a summer project “keep it simple and cool” will be my moto (no projects that take longer than my degree please!)
Yay for DrupalCamp helping me get my stuff together, I guess it’s go time……
Filed under: friends, isc, northvancouver, petrinatorgerson, summer, thanksgiving, turkey, turkeyfest, vancouver
This sunday a certain Turkeyfest went down at my house in North Vancouver. It was a make-up Thanksgiving dinner for some of my Westcoast England friends who were deprived of a certain poultry last October! The house kind of turned into a sauna but the food was well consumed (including mass amounts of pies!). Hazza to all ISC folks that came, I loved seeing you all again…….come eat the leftovers!
Filed under: 7forallmankind, designerdenim, drydenim, friends, nudiejeans, nudies, petrinatorgerson, rockandrepublic, skinny jeans, swedishjeans, unisex, vancouver
My current consumer addiction comes from Sweden and is rather leggy. No it is not a beautiful man but rather a line of jeans called Nudies. In a world where some of us pay too much for designer denim like the wide-selling 7 for all Mankind and Rock and Republic, Nudies seem to have a smaller hipster following. People who wear Nudies like to follow around others who do. They like to chat about how many times they’ve washed their jeans and compare wash induced fades. I was immdeiately attracted to the awesome slim fit, hot pockets and the allure of an exclusive jeans collective started by stylish Swedes.
My favorite, their “dry denim” line, encourages the owner not to wash their jeans for as long as possible to create personalized wear and tear lines (ex. wallet in back pocket and creasing behind the knees). And the best part is they are all “guy jeans” in a sense, but that holds no one back!
Flickr is loaded with nudie tags and there is even a fan-based website for people cataloging the visually appealing deterioration of their jeans.
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Although I’m known to like a “softer” genre of music, I’ve managed to stay faithful to one metal band called Southgate. They’ve been kicking around Nanaimo for years (and my good friend Ben happens to be their lead guitarist). I caught their show at the Piccadilly Pub in Vancouver friday night. Joined by another ancient Nanaimo band Koark, Southgate pulled in a heavy metal crowd which made for excellent people watching.
Southgate will be playing more Vancouver shows this summer and are working on a CD. I suggest their song “Euthenasia” but apparently that’s their girly song……”The Intro” is perhaps more of a classic.
Filed under: alexfritz, fifaworldcup, football, germany, petrinatorgerson, vancouver, worldcup, worldcup2006
As Duetschland prepares for fast footed Argentinians and Eastern European women in brothels on wheels, we in Canada are left glued to the tv at strange hours of the day. Our home team isn’t in the running but I find the Croatians rather lovable and France’s Hery makes it quite worthwhile.
In an attempt to feel the Word Cup vibe here in Vancouver I am connecting with my german friend Alex Fritz. Alex lives in Munchen and fits the “football crazy german boy” stereotype. He will be chatting with Roland and I on Friday morning after the first match of the tournament featuring Germany against Costa Rica.
Germany may not have Brasil-like standings going into the games but I have a feeling that the home team advantage will play in their favour (I’ve seen the German fans at a game….they really let loose). Alex is having a “little” gathering with some of his midly interested friends and is going to give us a play by play or will at least provide some highly excited football gossip.
Let the games begin!
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In the spirit of working at Bryght and becoming web 2.0 savvy I'm trying to inform all of my "unconnected friends" aussi. I think it's a safe assumption to say that the majority of younger people (lets say highschool/early university students) utilize their computers in the form of msn, limewire downloads, myspace and an essay or two (or three or four for BA students) typed up on Microsoft Word.
I threw together my own little web 2.0 guide today and sent it to a mass amount of my hotmail contacts (the usual suspects..myself included). It jumped into the world of Flickr, 43……., wordpress and touched on RSS feeds etc. I told everyone to check all these places out and then get back to me if they ended up using them.
Some may view the e-mail as a sign of extreme geekdom and wonder what has happened to me over here in Vancouver or perhaps start filling Flickr with millions of photos…..we'll see what happens.
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The Unisex Equilibria started in YVR in september 2005. At that fatefull moment including two (exactly the same) iBook G4s Kenneth and moi started to notice perhaps parallel tastes. There were the bags, the sidebar interest in communism, and t-shirts many t-shirts. We fought off the soul sucking halls of Bader with interchangeable closets and made great use of ALL the lovely things Brighton had to offer. In and out of the Equilibria wandered Camilla with Oscar Wilde ambitions in tow, and Emma whose main goal was to add cluttered flair. All over europe the Equilibria collected fur and danced and shopped for the perfect hairdressers. As of today the equilibria has officially moved to vancouver.
……… For the next few weeks we might live in denial and survive off falafels but soon enough we’ll accept main street as a new home base.
