We love you guys. You’re our neighbors and our friends. Occasionally we like to come on down and pay ya’ll a visit. We enjoy that, and we’d like to keep it that way. And we hope you feel the same. We read your news. We watch your television. We [...]

Turns out that Hasbro is suing the dudes who made Scrabulous, and our sturdy friend Facebook has taken the bend-over-and-smile measure of locking down the application from anyone in North America using it. That means if you go to play Scrabble(R) today you’re stuck using the version with the real wooden tiles stashed in [...]

I was thinking of writing an entry explaining two things: (1) my motivation for writing and posting as much as I do and (2) the apparent arrogance and self-importance that tends to come across in this blog. First, I write because I am as compelled to write as I am to breathe. And [...]

Karin and I ordered “The Golden Compass” from the local Video-On-Demand service this weekend as we found ourselves sitting at home on a Saturday night with not much else to do. Since reading the book a couple months back I’d been anxiously looking forward to seeing the film adaptation, especially in consideration of its (a) [...]

As the reading list fluxes as if it were written on the bellows of an old accordion, I find I need to devote some blog space to the manifestation of my own personal opinion of these efforts. I’ve just recently read:
jPod by Douglas Coupland. Extracted from the gritty bowels of post-bubble apathetic technolust, Coupland revisits [...]

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 [...]

Karin and I have seasons tickets to the Citadel Theater here in Edmonton, and we have done so for last three seasons since moving back to town. It’s really a great idea if you enjoy an occasional night out at a class-act production — if for no other reason than you end up with [...]

About five years ago when we were living in the urban sprawl of Vancouver our apartment was burglarized. We were suddenly very alone and vulnerable. It wasn’t the stuff, so much. It was rotten-to-the-core feeling of being helpless and insignificant. It was the sleepless nights. It was waking up at [...]

I know, I know. It hasn’t made the news in at least a month. But I cringe every time — EVERY TIME — I hear another one of those stories about people in an outrage about those magnetic “support the troops” ribbons from Walmart (or wherever the heck you buy them) on city [...]

It’s election day in Alberta. And not a particularly exciting election day, either. It’s municipal election day where you run off to pick — no, not the guys who decide health care issues, foreign affairs, or where research dollars are spent — the guys who determine where buses should run, how fast and [...]

Herr George would likely be the first to argue with the basic premise of this book.
Slashdot (as is becoming more and more rare, unfortunately — but that’s another post entirely) had an interesting review article posted regarding a controversial new work of non-fiction soon to be released detailing a theory that contradicts what many historians [...]

Karin and I went for dinner with the in-laws et al at Red Deer’s newest dining sensation, a modern mini-mall incarnation of Indian dining cuisine. I’ll start by saying the food was mostly pretty good. It was certainly not the “best” curry I’ve eaten; The naan was so-so (and misspelled in the menu), the [...]