Tag Archives: science

For the Record…

I spent part of today chipping out the last of the ice on our driveway.  In mid-February.  In Saskatchewan. Last winter was one of the most brutal I can remember – usually we get 1-2 really cold snaps through the whole winter (which usually lasts from October to oh, let’s say April).  But last year, […]

Gorilla Cam

This is simultaneously the coolest and saddest thing I’ve seen. (The zoo does that to me.) It’s also got a nice twist at the end that proves we are, without-a-doubt, evolved from apes! 😉

Unwritten Rules for Reading and Photography

A couple semi-related Reddit threads… What are some unwritten rules of photography? My rules for reading

Quora Questions Qaptured

I’ve mentioned Quora a couple times before.  It’s a community-based Q&A site built by two ex-Facebook employees that some project will be bigger than Twitter and Wikipedia. The site lets you follow different topics as well as individual questions.  This approach gives you a pretty high degree of personalization and the weekly e-mail digest of […]

Hawaii Trip – Jelly Fish

Shea and I could’ve sat and watched this exhibit at the Maui Ocean Center for hours (except Pace was rushing to the shark tanks and it’s pretty hard to argue with that!)

Hawaii Trip – Snorkelling at Molokini

Molokini is one of the world’s best scuba and snorkel spots.  Shea and I went out yesterday for a tour and during the trip, I asked our guide to take our picture.  I expected him to just snap a quickie from the surfboard where he was sitting watching our group but instead he hopped off […]

Hawaii Trip – Honu

Spent the day on Anini Beach swimming with Honu, another amazing Kauai experience. Maui’s going to have to be pretty spectacular to compete with Kauai – everything from our condo and its ground-floor, watch the whales from your lanai, steps to a children’s playground location to the helicopter tour of the island to a visit […]

Politics in Full Sentences: The Story of Naheed Nenshi’s Purple Army

A great article on the behind-the-scenes of Naheed Nenshi’s improbable but ultimately successful campaign to become the mayor of Calgary (and if you want to get meta, there’s also a behind-the-scenes of how the original behind-the-scenes magazine article was compiled.)

A Small Pat on the Back (or Is That the Belly?)

As is often the case with many people who gain weight as they get older, I went from a high school graduating weight of 180 lbs to a “freshman fifteen” (okay, forty!) that took me up to around 220 in undergrad to a lifestyle in Calgary that was full of drinking beer, eating out and […]

Reasons Greetings!

On December 25, people around the world celebrate the birth of a man whose ideas not only changed the world but revolutionized it. Although the man’s religious beliefs evolved and changed over time, that doesn’t change the fact that he is widely regarded as one of the most influential people to ever have lived. I […]