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January 29, 2010

The original social networking tool.

These days, business cards are more important than ever. Sure, when I meet someone, I can give them my contact info and they can punch it into their phone right there, or they can Google me or find me on Facebook or Twitter later on, but these methods lack the tactile interaction you can have with a colleague or potential client by handing them a business card (something which is greatly underrated). When they pull it out of their pocket later, they’re reminded of your meeting earlier, even if they just toss it in the trash.

My deets.

So, with that in mind, I ordered business cards from Moo.com a couple of weeks ago. Today, they showed up.

Moo is an online stationary company that prints custom business cards, greeting cards, and postcards. I’ve not seen any of their other products, but I can say that the business cards that I received are some of the highest quality business cards I’ve ever felt (because, let’s face it, we all know that how a card looks and feels is as important as the information on it).

One of the great things about Moo is that they let you print multiple designs on the back of your cards. This is great for (and popular with) photographers, designers, artisans, etc., who can use their cards as mini portfolios. For mine, I photographed greetings written with Scrabble letters, and then Photoshopped them to make them a little more colourful and fun.

Some of the backs.

Moo also does MiniCards, which are a little less than half the size of a standard business card. I pondered ordering these instead, but thought I’d maybe try these full sized ones on for size first. I may the MiniCards a whirl next time.

My cards were printed on 16pt card stock (which is heavier than your standard business card), and shipped with a (fairly sturdy) paper box. They’re $21.99 USD for a pack of 50. After exchange, shipping, etc., my order came to $30.52 CDN, or about $0.61 per card. Not really cheap, but to be honest, I don’t plan to toss them out all willy-nilly, so for a heavy double-sided full colour business card, they’ll be worth it.

Now, if anyone is looking to hold a meeting where I could possibly have the opportunity to subtly show them off, let me know.

October 25, 2009

“Catholic Education: Principles and Prospects” lecture by Dr. William Sweet

Back on October 15th, Dr. William Sweet of St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia came to Charlottetown to give a lecture called “Catholic Education: Principles and Prospects.” The lecture was part of the St. Dunstan’s University Fall 2009 Lecture Series, and was held in the basement of St. Pius X Parish in Charlottetown.

I was talking to Fr. Dennis Grecco a couple of weeks before about the lecture series. Fr. Grecco was the main organizer of the three-lecture series, and I offered to help capture the talks on video for archival and future public consumption purposes.

I’ve uploaded a video, as well as a lo-fi MP3, of the lecture, which you can grab here:

William Sweet is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Philosophy Theology and Cultural Traditions at St Francis Xavier University, and has taught at universities all over the world. If you’d like to make use of this lecture for any purpose other than your own personal enjoyment or interest, you should really get in touch with him to make sure it’s okay.

October 13, 2009

Empire State.

We went to New York and New Hampshire on our honeymoon a few weeks back. I’ve finally started putting photos from our adventure online.

You can see the whole photoset on Flickr.

August 18, 2009

Night of the Living Tea Infuser.

I enjoy tea.

No, it’s not as manly as coffee, but I still like it. For a very long time, I only ever made it from supermarket-esque tea bags, but longed to make it with loose leaves in a tea pot or infuser. So, shortly after we were married, Rachel and I picked up this dinky tea infuser from The Kitchen Store in Charlottetown.

Tea infuser and zombie charm

We got it instead of an actual tea pot because it was only a few bones, and we figured we’d try it out to see how we liked the whole loose tea thing. As if being interested in drinking loose tea wasn’t sissy enough, the infuser came with this little sissy tea-cup charm on it. I knew it had to go, but had no idea what to replace it with.

A couple of weekends ago, Rachel and I found ourselves at How Bazaar!, a touristy shop found across PEI (and possibly beyond) featuring clothing, decorations, and trinkets from around the world. That was when I first met Little Wooden Zombie Guy.

Little Wooden Zombie Guy.

He was so wooden and undead and cute… As soon as I saw him (and his friends – there were several others like him) I knew he would make a great replacement to the dinky tea-cup charm. So home he came. I promptly replaced him at the end of the tea infuser, and put him to work.

Infuser in the cup

He may look innocent, but he’ll eat your brain. So watch it.

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