~Jason

LagerLad is based on the idea at www.milliondollarhomepage.com, where visitors can come to the site, select an area where they want an ad to appear, pay for the spot, and upload their ad.

The program infrastructure I wrote, which runs this new site, is for sale and will be available for download shortly at Intelliscript.net. If you’re interested, be sure to check it out.

Thanks!
~Jason

~Jason

But, I am fascinated by it all and am so excited that the Tories won this year. I pray that social conservatism is redefined and gains general acceptance in our society.

I stand for traditional family and moral values, smaller, less intrusive governement, freedom of choice, benefits (not punishments) for hard-working small business owners, and a careful balance of sensitive social programs.

Concerning the latter, I believe that Canada is more passionate than some countries about the government’s role in social issues, and I agree that this is an important, and Christian value. I think the new conservatism must somehow embrace social welfare systems while maintaining the strong ecomomic platforms conservatives are known for.

~Jason

This morning we loaded the bikes on the back of the van and drove to Bronte Creek Park. We met at Gary’s house, had a snack, and then rode through the park for hours. What a lot of fun!

When we were done, we had amazing hot soup with Gary… altogether a fantastic day!

(I won’t mention running out of gas and having our battery die on the way home this evening!)

~Jason

http://www.imagenomic.com/download.asp

I’d argue it has much better acting than most modern films, and the story and turn of events is riveting.

It’s about 11 jurors who want to convict a young man for killing his father— and one juror who disagrees. Absolutely fascinating.

~Jason

“Why,” you say? I’m glad you asked!

I’ll give you the background first: In February we’re doing Favourite Canadian Artists as the theme for Hamilton’s Best Valentine’s Party, and one of the songs has a low whistle in it (Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On). I didn’t have this key, so I thought I’d build my own.

I started out with the lathe, and turned a beautiful recorder shape, the bored a nice chamber down the center of it, but I couldn’t get the fipple— the whistle part— to make a very loud noise. Back to the drawing board.

So I decided to use PVC.

Wow! I can’t believe how much easier this is to work with! The fipple was quick and simple— in fact the whole whistle was completed in about 2 hours! It’s perfectly in tune, (and tunable, thanks to a coupling in the middle) so I know my flut-automatic program is working! This JavaScript program tells you how big the holes should be, where they should be, etc.

It’s not very loud, so I have to figure out how to get more volume— especially on the low notes.

To buy this whistle, also made from CPVC pipe, it would cost me anywhere from $80 to $160 USD. This cost me about $15, and I have enough pipe to make about 6 more whistles.

Anyone want to commission a low whistle?

~Jason

But a week ago I decided to stop allowing free downloads and ever since doing so have started getting a lot more purchases. So sorry to those of you who are inconvenienced, but I had to start paying for that web site if I was going to keep it going.

It’s a lesson to me: people won’t pay for something unless they have to. I guess I’m the same way, so I shouldn’t be suprised.

~Jason

~Jason