The Reeves-Hall Family » Viral http://www.reeves-hall.net Andrew, Katya, Tolii, Tosha, ... Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:33:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Relief for Swine Flu? http://www.reeves-hall.net/2009/04/30/relief-for-swine-flu/ http://www.reeves-hall.net/2009/04/30/relief-for-swine-flu/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:21:08 +0000 AndrewRH http://www.reeves-hall.net/?p=2859 Not available in your local chemist.

Not available in your local chemist.

I received this in my email inbox today.  If anyone knows the artist who made this, then let me know so I can give them proper credit.  Better still, if some company ends up making this for real, then I’ll gladly link to them!

Brings new meaning to ‘viral’ advertising.

Many people think wearing a mask helps reduce the risk of catching the flu – it most likely doesn’t (just catch your sneezes in a tissue, dispose of it, and wash your hands).  However, for the paranoid…and creative…

Swine Flu Decorated Mask in Mexico City (Picture: AP)

Swine Flu Decorated Mask in Mexico City (Picture: AP)

And now on a more serious note, have a listen to this 2007 TED conference talk by Pulitzer winner Laurie Garrett, author of “The Coming Plague” and “Betrayal of Trust,” about the facts behind a plague (she refers to bird flu, or H5N1, the scare before swine flu, or H1N1; and the 1918 pandemic):

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*Andrew is I’m getting tired of writing in the 3rd person on this blog!

**Highly recommended restaurant: Kam Yi on Rosenheimer Straße, opposite the Hilton.  They serve Asian dishes – I especially like their summer rolls followed by a phở soup).  I get my fill of Bavarian food at lunch (and that’s more than enough…)

Occasionally, there’s travel further afield. And that’s fun. As a photographer, its always exciting to have new things to capture on the SD card – see our Travel gallery for some photos of I’ve taken around the world.

A couple weeks ago I put together a list of the places I had been in my life: Over a hundred! If you include every little town around Whitby, Ontario, where I grew up. So, probably its more like 50 “real” places. Even so, that’s pretty amazing. Might as well do it before the planes run out of fuel. I just don’t relish the idea of nuclear powered planes. Solar powered maybe; although taking off in rainy London might take a little while. Like a season. Or two.

Then, tonight, I discovered Matt. Some of you probably knew about him 3 years ago. Well, I have no excuse really – except maybe not watching North American TV anymore (he was on a few chat shows after his first video). Heck, I don’t watch TV much at all now – except for Fireman Sam. And sometimes I do that with my kids.

Still, I’m glad I stumbled across his videos. Now there’s a guy who’s traveled a lot. And for what? To see places…and to dance. How inspiring. He’s a sharp guy who knows how to tell a story (this I got from watching his 3-part lecture, after watching his travel videos).

Enjoy…and now I’m off to contemplate a journey to bed.

The original (published in 2005)…

The sponsored follow-up in 2006…

And the latest sponsored journey, 2008…

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Google Earth already has something similar, and has been available for a while: Google Sky (select “View” then “Switch to Sky”; or click the little Saturn icon at the top of its window). Google also lets you explore some other celestial bodies in detail: Mars and our Moon.
Perhaps Microsoft’s marketing machine is just that much bigger? The local planetarium at Intech (opening at Easter!) has been playing around with WWT in alpha form for a little while now.

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So, here are the links, and my scores so far…

paperplane1.jpgAt http://flightsimx.archive.amnesia.com.au : 91.705m (my rank was 17487 when 122,902,568 flights had been flown at their site); UPDATE: just beat that!, now I’ve flown 99.61m, and rank 13356 at 122,910,930 flights. Proof.


paperplane2.jpgAt http://www.xboxpaperplane.com.au : 138.051m (my rank was 103509 when 15,533,527 flights had been flown at their site).


And…something completely different: Noose the Loose Moose.

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