Andy Kaplan-Myrth
Andy is an internet policy advisor with the Government of Canada, with a background in technology law and an interest in how collaborative and social technologies are reshaping industries, governments, societies and the world. See more from me at http://kaplan-myrth.ca.
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My 8yo asks if Andre The Giant could fit our 3yo's head in his mouth. I have no idea. Any thoughts?
My 8yo asks if Andre The Giant could fit our 3yo's head in his mouth. I have no idea. Any thoughts? http://twitter.com/kaplanmyrth/status/161125681399463936
Andy grew a Mo
That's right -- I joined the other men in my group at work and grew a Mo(ustache) for the month.
Now, I'm not generally a huge fan of fundraising events in general, but this has been fun to do, so it feels like the right thing to ask for contributions to Movember Canada in support of men's health. My Movember page is here: http://mobro.co/kaplanmyrth
Due to the awesomeness of growing a moustache, I felt compelled to record most of the month of growth in this short video. Enjoy!
Finished dinner; the kids are now arguing about what song to dance to in the Michael Jackson Experience on Wii. They're cool lookin kids!
Finished dinner; the kids are now arguing about what song to dance to in the Michael Jackson Experience on Wii. They're cool lookin kids! http://twitter.com/kaplanmyrth/status/136237227733811200
Among the stranger things that happened this weekend: An off-duty cop criticised my Mo, and his dalmatian bit me. True story.
Among the stranger things that happened this weekend: An off-duty cop criticised my Mo, and his dalmatian bit me. True story. http://twitter.com/kaplanmyrth/status/135916428770553856
This weekend's highlight so far: Being dive-bombed by a huge owl in Gatineau Park yesterday. Beautiful!
This weekend's highlight so far: Being dive-bombed by a huge owl in Gatineau Park yesterday. Beautiful! http://twitter.com/kaplanmyrth/status/133187557558202368
Netflix's selection gets better every day
Not sure what awesomeness happened at Netflix Canada lately, but a heap of new movies came online today -- 131 movies and tv shows by my count. If you're still avoiding Netflix because you've heard it has a bad selection, it's time to look again and ask yourself if it's worth the cost of two movie rentals per month. I sure think it is.
Some of the highlights from today's batch of video: Robocop (1, 2 and 3), Inside Man, The X-Files (the entire series), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the entire series), 127 Hours, Fargo, The Great Escape, Hackers, Midnight Cowboy, Mr. Mom, Curious George, The Secret of Nimh, Star Trek IV and V, The Out-of-Towners, Six Degrees of Separation, Planes Trains and Automobiles, The Magnificent Seven, Black Hawk Down, UHF, Punch-Drunk Love, and Black Swan. And loads of movies I've never heard of that look terrific.
And despite some of the classics in there, what am I excited about showing the kids? "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo" -- they haven't even heard of break dancing, and I just can't get behind that!
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Ottawa-Carleton District School Board school year calendar for 2011-2012
It's a new school year in Ottawa, and yet another year when the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has not produced an online calendar for students and parents. That's the bad news. The good news is that it's easy for the community to share calendars and, as in the past four years, I'm sharing my calendar of the OCDSB school year dates. I figure as long as I'm putting them in my calendar, I might as well make it easy for other people to add them to their own calendar with just a few clicks. I personally use Google Calendar, but they use standard file formats for importing and exporting calendars, so you can use this with almost any calendar program you already use.There are a few different ways to access the calendar, each with its own address:
- If you want to import it into your own calendar, whether you're using Google Calendar or not), you probably want to use the iCal format:
- If you just want to browse to the calendar and see it as a web page, you can use the HTML link:
- You probably don't want the XML link, but Google provides it so I figured I'd make it easy to find here:
If you use Google Calendar, I encourage you to copy the URL and subscribe to the iCal version instead of downloading it and importing the file to your own calendar. The benefit of subscribing is that you'll automatically get any updates and changes I make to the calendar, including automatically getting dates in subsequent years. I've maintained this calendar since the 2008-2009 school year, and each year I just add the new school year dates to the same calendar, so those who subscribe get the new dates automatically added (albeit a couple of weeks late this year...)
Enjoy the calendar and, more importantly, have a great school year!
Me, to my 11yo: "I like spending time with you like this." Him: "Are you being sarcastic?"
Me, to my 11yo: "I like spending time with you like this." Him: "Are you being sarcastic?" http://bit.ly/pIncwa
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My kids must have seen The Trouble With Mr Bean (ep. 6) dozens of times, but they still laugh out loud every time. It's our fave episode.
My kids must have seen The Trouble With Mr Bean (ep. 6) dozens of times, but they still laugh out loud every time. It's our fave episode. http://bit.ly/p09CWt
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I'm testing whether I can use ifttt.com to send tweets to my blog by including
I'm testing whether I can use ifttt.com to send tweets to my blog by including http://bit.ly/qN9y4t
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