Lost TV episode filmed at King Intermediate School, Oahu?

In the episode broadcast on March 9, 2010, I thought the exterior of the school where Lost TV character Dr. Ben Linus, a history teacher, worked looked a lot like King Intermediate School in Kaneohe on the Windward side of Oahu. Can anyone confirm that?

MakerBot, 3D printing on the cheap

This looks pretty cool, 3D printing using ABS plastic with a robot design from MakerBot. Not that I'll be rushing out to get the plans, but there's a cool video on YouTube I saw through Robert L. Balliot's Ocean State Librarian blog's Research Link of the Week. Request for you Robert, please provide a permalink for the current research link, not just the past ones. While he suggests public libraries invest in this technology, many libraries such as my own can't even afford to buy books and other resources due to cutbacks. So I don't think something like this will be at the top of their list. This seems to be something that would currently be of more interest to an artist coop.

It was a dark and glowing day

Here's a photo I added a little artistic effect to. It was taken on a bike ride on March 3, 2010 at the corner of Lansdowne and Henderson looking south towards the Olympic Mountains.

S'abadeb exhibition reception at the Royal BC Museum, March 4, 2010

I attended a reception for supporters of the Royal BC Museum that gave us a special look into S'abadeb: The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists exhibition. I particularly enjoyed Director of Exhibitions and Visitor Experience Tim Willis' atlatl story about how he came close to spearing a poodle out for a walk on his first attempt at using this ancient spear-throwing tool.

AABC Newsletter article about my retirement

You can read a nice little summation of my career at the BC Archives written by my former colleague Ann ten Cate in the AABC Newsletter (Winter 2010; PDF file). The Newsletter also includes a post reprinted by permission from my Ten Thousand Year Blog, "Martin Knelman claims Canadian audio-visual heritage at risk, but is it true?"

And the games are done, long may they run to the final frontier

Loved Neil Young performance of "Long May You Run" as one of the closing songs of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. And Captain (William Shatner) James T. Kirk giving his I Am Canadian (We Dream Big) monologue. And Catharine O'Hara on "I'm Sorry" and Michael J. Fox letting everyone know that "We Claim You."

One more song with Michael Buble dressed as a singing Mountie and a purposeful costume malfunction where he turns into a lounge singer complete with big band backup.

Giant Mounties and hockey players, dancing maple leafs and voyageurs complete with canoes, and huge balloon beavers and moose capped off a great closing ceremony!

Post-closing ceremonies saw musical performances by some great Canadian bands and singers.

CTV commercial breaks during 2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremonies

Wasn't that less than classy of CTV to interrupt the 2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremonies with commercial breaks? They were running filler prior to the start of the closing ceremonies, why couldn't they have put all their commercials into that half hour?