misc

Find out why tea tastes different depending on where you live.

Posted on 15 December 2012 and filed under articles, CBC, misc

To what extent do we hold individual soldiers responsible for war?

Posted on 11 November 2012 and filed under articles, Best Of, Canada, comments, misc

Cleaning up my mental space, one task at a time.

Posted on 12 October 2012 and filed under articles, Best Of, misc, personal

Forget grammar, maybe we should learn how to speak the language first.

Posted on 9 October 2012 and filed under articles, Best Of, Canada, comments, misc

There’s nothing worse than choosing the line behind the person looking for a brand of cigarettes that doesn’t exist.

Posted on 25 August 2012 and filed under comments, misc

Sitting while you work is killing you. No, really. It’s the subject of much discussion this week. I’m not going to go into a detailed analysis of all the studies that have been done on this subject (a pretty good set of articles is linked to in the preamble to this Wirecutter article). But I […]

Posted on 25 July 2012 and filed under articles, Best Of, misc

Last year’s summer was cloudy and wet. Every month either set or came close to setting records for dark and rainfall. Unfortunately, this summer is starting to look like it might go the same way. Last year, I spent a bunch of time waiting for the weather to get better. This year, I’m just starting […]

Posted on 18 June 2012 and filed under articles, misc, personal

I played Monopoly when I was a kid. And it always seemed to take forever and boil down to sheer tedium near the end. This is probably partly because I had a short attention span, but also because I was playing it wrong. As pointed out by the Campaign For Real Monopoly, I didn’t know this […]

Posted on 7 April 2012 and filed under misc

This is a story about the internet making the world an amazing place. Back in December, I was on Tumblr, and someone I follow posted an image of a map breaking down “North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns.” I took a look, found it appealed to my inner language geek and reposted. But then […]

Posted on 26 March 2011 and filed under misc, technology

Yesterday I wrote about how my autobiography has changed over the last few years from being “hireable” to being “professional but personable.” One of the things I didn’t get much into was the challenge of presenting yourself in a short but sweet fashion. My short but sweet bio is, “I’m station manager of CFUR Radio and […]

Posted on 24 March 2011 and filed under how to, misc, writing

In a world where even the smallest action is chronicled by a Tweet or Facebook status update, Daytum is the logical next step. For the uninitiated (and this will be pretty much everyone), the website is the creation of a guy by the name of Nicholas Feltron, who in 2005 sent out what he called […]

Posted on 25 October 2010 and filed under articles, misc, personal, technology

UPDATE: Found it’s owner. Very happy to be reunited. We found it wandering around near Moore’s Meadow (at 1st and Claxton) on Sunday, October 17. Contact me if you have any ideas. Thanks!

Posted on 17 October 2010 and filed under misc

Having your own house adds yet another dimension to Calvin and Hobbes. Do you know how much it would take to replace this stuff?

Posted on 1 October 2010 and filed under house and home, misc

This is awesome. Click the pic above or right here and start playing asteroids. Steer with the arrow keys, shoot with space bar, move forward with the up arrow, and if you run out of things to shoot, press and hold B. I definitely did not make this, full credit to Erik Rothoff.

Posted on 29 September 2010 and filed under misc

Posted on 6 September 2010 and filed under misc