We’ve been here before. I’m a bit of a sucker for the pop-culture and philosophy book series, and recently added another two volumes to my collection, a collection that now counts as a “Collection” because it contains seven volumes. For those unfamiliar, there are now a couple publishers who now regularly put out [...]

If one ever needs a reminder of the sad state of medical and science reporting in the modern media, one can often just turn on the television and witness a lemming-like approach to sensational news stories. This morning, for example, after Karin and I watched last night’s The National (CBC) report on a new [...]

We’re all on the mend here after a few days of moderate (though merely annoying) head-colds, one of the souvenirs we brought back from Portland. (Alice will likely feel guilty ’cause I wrote that, but after her generous hospitality the least we could do is take some germs off her hands.) As far as [...]

I don’t usually like to gush about television (other than to lament about how I often watch too much, lower the bar, then still watch too much) but in the last few weeks or month every single one of the shows I had been following ended for the season giving me, essentially, absolutely no reason [...]

I thought I should share this. Someone has far too much time on their hands. Though, I’m not sure what is more disturbing: the fact that one of these exists, or the fact there is a matching opposite.
A Battlestar-esque Office Intro:

An Office-esque Battlestar Intro:

Make sure you have the sound on. And by the [...]

The PVR has been faithfully and quietly recording every episode of Lost for the last couple of months. This is good, though if only because I’ve been too disinterested to watch the quasi-weekly slog of plot as it is actually broadcast. I found, however, that when you string a number of episodes — [...]

Karin saw an interesting thing on television yesterday about dogs and how to approach an unfamiliar dog for the first time. (It was one of those dog-behavior shows that is on early Saturday mornings and that you only watch if you have a dog and are interested in this stuff.) The basis of the [...]

Whatever happened to this show? We used to watch it all the time, and occasionally I catch an episode on the tube, but are they still making it. Someone linked to a site that lets you make your own character for South Park (the animated sitcom, not the car dealership on Whyte Avenue). [...]

December 17
What do you get if you spend a lazy Sunday afternoon making videos using lame ideas and lacking any responsible content? You get a couple videos posted to YouTube.
Crouching Whippet, Hidden Dragon
I know a few people have been waiting for this one. Ryan and I shot some video on the digital camera [...]

One part of “installing” sod in one’s yard is the watering. Needless to say, less than 72 hours since this whole episode with the grass began (and yes, photos soon!) is that we need to stay relatively close to home to keep the water flowing. (Mind, that didn’t stop us from taking an [...]

…sad to see you go.
I found out the other day that CBC cancelled The RoundUp. I made sure I had my radio by my side for the last episode this afternoon. Chalk up another one for the culture homogenizers: gone, another Canadian institution.
Ah, Sad Goat. *Sniff*

You thought I was going to write about moving again, didn’t you?
I’m not — but then again, everything is related — interconnected — twined together somehow…
Two years ago I skewed my life in mysterious ways by deciding to unplug for a week. That’s right: perched in a lonely apartment on Vancouver’s mid-line section, I [...]