Toronto was transformed at night on Saturday October 5th for some art thing called nuit blanche. Basically, it’s an event open all night with gallery’s across the city open for the public. Tom, Lucy and I spent all Saturday night and Sunday morning making trips to these exhibits, and had breakfast at 6-7am with Mike.

I was also surprised by meeting Armen there, and his brothers. It makes sense now.

While loads of fun (I didn’t know what we were doing when we met up. And I didn’t know how much I would enjoy it when I found out. But it turned out to be a great way to spend a Saturday night), I didn’t get home until later in the morning, where I crashed in my bed and didn’t wake up until 16:00 today. I didn’t manage to get any pictures because I didn’t bring my camera, but I did get a video of blinkenlights on my cell. They took over City Hall, and it was an entertaining light show. They also had it rigged up to play pong and tetris, but it was not well executed.

One internet phenomena that seems to be popular at Mozilla (at least, for some people) is rediculously cute animals and broken english in both in spelling and grammar known as lolspeak. So much so that Paul O’Shannessy (zpao if the name doesn’t ring a bell) created the bookmarklet that takes flickr images and turns them into canvas drawing overlaying text to it (called LOLify). The bookmarklet was based off of flolcatr, which brings more lols (well, some of the time anyways. The true lols come of the pics of middle-aged women).

Using that as inspiration, I worked on turning into a Firefox extension. Particularly because I wanted more flexibility out of it. For example, right now the bookmarklet takes random stuff out of the flickr comment and puts them into the image. But I wanted to add in my own stuff to either the top, middle, or bottom of the image and be able to align it left, centre, or right.

After spending all night doing it (I was afraid I would lose interest or get lazy if it took more than one day to complete), I uploaded what I had to addons.mozilla.org. After a good nap, I went back and fixed some pretty ugly errors and uploaded a much better version. I ended up with the name of kyoote (cutie), because it’s one of the words used to describe a fennec. And fennecs are extremely unrepresented as cute animals, even though they are adorable. And from today forward, let friday also be known as fen[nec]day.

Original image taken from deadstardro

So sit back this fenday and enjoy a meowtini :)

Update: Clarification based on comment

I have been falling back into unhealthy sleep patterns again. Lately, I’ve been going to bed at 4 and waking up at around 13-14. I haven’t quite found the reason why. When in MV on weekends, I liked waking up earlier (ok, maybe 10 early ;)) because I have the rest of the day to do stuff. And during the weekdays, 8:20 wake-up times are the norm.

My mom thinks it is because I’m not working, and hence I don’t have a a reason to wake up earlier. I don’t think that is the reason. Mainly because I’ve been struggling with this even when I was in college/high school. I think the real reason is the unfortunate location of my room, and the amount of light that is getting in.

My room has a large window that lets you look out into the street. Which actually kinda sucks for privacy reasons, so I tend to have it closed (blinds + curtains). Unfortunately, the amount of natural light coming in is negligible. So even mid-day, if the lights were off you couldn’t tell if it was 10 or 14. The nice thing about the apartments is that I was on the 3rd floor, and the blinds were open enough that you could tell it was morning or afternoon. At the very least, the bright sun would wake you up if the alarm clock didn’t.

Something that actually did help when I was in college was when the lights to my room where on while I was still sleeping. I would usually get up an hour after they were on. (how do I know? My mom would call me and turn on the lights at 8, and I was usually up at 9). I wonder if I should invest in a new alarm clock or get a room where the sun can wake me up.