Google has an application that allows you to monitor search trends of their engine. While this isn’t particularly useful so far as I can tell it does show some neat results if you play with it a little bit. I suppose you can argue using this tool on the relative importance of some things. I really noted the seasonal trends of a few search items.

• Skiing vs. Snowboarding
Triathlon vs. Cycling – notice spike during the Tour de France.
• Stanley Cup – Obviously missing in 2005.
• Olympics vs. Sport
• Christmas vs. Easter
• Oscar – Note the double spike, I guess people do some searching when nominees are announced.
• Gyms vs. New Years Resolutions
• Boston Marathon vs. New York Marathon vs. Chicago Marathon

It is also cool to note the growth of certain searches, but it has to be recent, because data older than 3 years was never recorded.

• Wikipedia vs. Britannica
• Myspace vs. Facebook
• Youtube vs. Video

And you can also see how some searches correlate with certain events, therefore search topics related to those things will appear to be correlated.

• Liberal vs. Conservative
• Paul Martin vs Stephen Harper
• Firefox vs. Explorer vs. Netscape

Here’s a parent with their child’s priorities in order…

Trainer before training wheels. Aero before normal bars. Steep seat tube before banana seat. Carbon fiber before plastic.

Video from Tonquin of Adrian Boere boot skiing. For more of the story about what happened at Derek’s Bachelor party check out the previous blog entry

I finished the logo for the Engineering Physics summer clothing order 2007.

Piranha is a 3:1 mixture of sulphuric acid (H₂SO₄) and Hydrogen Peroxide (H₂O₂), used for cleaning organic deposits in the nanofab, the UofA’s microfabrication facility. It is also , of course, the name of a flesh eating fish found in the Amazon river basin. For more information or to order clothing check out this document.

I was checking the weather from the CBC.ca website and saw a link for a “Falcon cam”. So naturally I get distracted from trying to figure out what the high is tomorrow for my excursion to Half-Moon lake and decide to take a peek at the said falcon cam. Following a short download I was greeted by a falcon pulling strips of flesh from a dead gopher in it’s talons and feeding it to it’s young. It wasn’t quite what I expected when I decided to follow the link, my imagination was more along the lines of hoping I was lucky enough to see the bird while actually there sitting on some eggs. Click Here to see the falcon cam.

Google has a new application associated with google maps. They drove down a bunch of roads in San Fransisco and took 360^opictures from the top of a car. Check out the entertainment from A random curbside in San Fransisco. I guess there are cars equipped with cameras I’m not sure if they are allowed to photograph absolutely everything it seems kinda like a good planning tool for illegal behavior. Speaking of which, the aquisition of these photos is breaking at least one law.

Making shirts for Intervarsity week of welcome at the university. Partly for fun and partly so people know who to talk with when they’re cruising around the butterdome.

I had to learn Illustrator to make these… It’s certainly a useful skill in my mind.

A horse pays a visit to a European Cycling Criterium. Check out the video on Youtube.

A couple old photos I dug up and decided were still funny enough to look at once in a while. The other 5 members of the “Krabbe Family” for about 6 months until their bloody demise.

Napolean, Duck, Goose, Skinny Whitey, Fat Whitey.

Jeremy Sit jumps ship on his beloved EE 350 class the week before the final exam leaving us to fend for ourselves up here is freezing cold northern Alberta. And what is he doing?? “Spring Conference of the Materials Research Society” my arse. What Sit was actually doing down there in San Fransisco doesn’t seem to be studious at all.