On top of the recent news that by being excellent stewards of their country’s oil wealth, each Norway citizen was now a “millionaire”* (as opposed to some oil-rich jurisdictions that weren’t quite so successful in this regard), comes this story about the National Library of Norway finding a way to make copyrighted works available to […]
I got Chris Hadfield’s “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth” as a Christmas gift and just finished it. That inspired me to revisit some of the videos he made on the International Space Station. How cool is this one? (And am I the only one who wonders how they ensure the little bubbles of […]
I don’t post a lot of pictures of food on my blog but I couldn’t let this one go by. After Pace’s swimming lessons today, we decided to check out a new restaurant called Coney Island Cafe which was rumoured to have a few varieties of poutine rather than the traditional fries/gravy/cheese curds version you […]
I digitized this from a VHS tape awhile back but don’t think I ever posted it (and when you watch it, you’ll see why!) One of the many highlights of my 1995 semester exchange to York England while in undergrad was taking a Film Production class (which happened to be taught by a guy who […]
Wired magazine tells the story of a British entrepreneur who has designed a system that can designate every three metre space on earth using a three word code. What3Words.com is a system that’s much more accurate and memorable than current GPS, postal codes, street addresses and other similar techniques to designate addresses. For example, […]
Boo – no Canada in this list of national flags made from 18 countries’ most representative foods – how easy would it be to make the red stripes of our flag out of back bacon and the maple leaf out of…maple syrup of course! Geez, one of the first results when you Google “Canadian flag bacon” […]
Spending a couple nights camping at beautiful Crooked Lake, one of the few campgrounds I know with lakeside sites. Wish I’d seen this list of camping hacks before we’d arrived!
Spent an enjoyable few days at our family cottage at Katepwa Lake. Here are some photos from the last few days… Paddle boat ride… Getting ready for Sasha’s first boat ride… Boat rides are relaxing Going fast = crazy hair! “I’m the king of the world!” Washing tub bath – a family tradition… Peaceful… Fishing […]
Found this clip buried in a folder on my hard drive… One thing I’ll always remember about this trip to a writing event I helped organize in Medicine Hat in 2002 – why do event organizers (even other writers who should know better!) often provide a huge meal right before an event when the energy […]
Going to Hawaii a year and a half ago was one of the best trips of my life and I’m constantly thinking about when we’ll be able to get back (short answer: probably not for a long time!) But if I can’t get there in person, I can pretend I’m there, even when I’m still […]
