The chain of events goes something like this:
1) Brad and his family travel to the fine (but chilly) city of Calgary to visit with a handful of folks (of to whom they happen to be related) who choose to live there for some reason, and also to attend a performance of Cirque du Soleil. [...]

I talk, but when it really comes down to it I don’t believe in luck. So, today being the eighth day, of the eighth month, of the two-thousand and eight — a day, obviously, peppered with “lucky eights” as per Chinese culture — doesn’t really have much meaning for me beyond the arbitrary confluence [...]

Well, as promised, the big announcement you’ve all been waiting for!  Not only were there multiple people who got it right, but there were exactly THREE people who guessed correctly that the only completely true statement was Statement #3 — and guessed that prior to the FIRST DAY MIDNIGHT DEADLINE as per the rules. [...]

Call it retroactive boredom. One day — I don’t remember when — a couple years back I was bored. Does that set the stage? I must have been typing odd conversions into Google, calculating the number of hours in a year, or the number of minutes in a decade. It was that [...]

If you don’t understand the title, let me elaborate by saying that it’s my half-birthday today. Thirty-one point five. How insignificant. But I am marking the non-occasion with a version one-point-five release of a photography project I’ve been sporadically working on over the past six (give or take) years.
Little did I know [...]

Mother Earth, that is. It’s Earth Day today — in case you hadn’t realized. If I could actually see the ground for the snow, I might have done something quasi-organic. Instead, we’ll be spending the day indoors burning fossil fuels to keep warm. On the bright side, I’m not driving [...]

You know you’ve been writing a blog for a long time when you can go back and reference the post you wrote last February twenty-ninth. Speaking of free days, last February twenty-ninth (one thousand, four hundred and sixty one days ago) I was in Banff, in the mountains, at a neuromuscular science conference representing my [...]

Black mark on my carbon score this year, I succumbed and bought an evil page-a-day calendar. You know the kind, of course, a year’s worth of paper stacked in a sheath of attention-deficit daily entertainment.
I justify these things (likely wrongly) because I only buy calendars from the discount bin after the new year has [...]

Karin and I spent the previous evening in the mall with a semi-automatic laser scanner preparing (upon demand) one of those dreaded-of-things, a baby gift registry. Of course, no one is expected to buy anything. But you know how this works: people tend to do that sort of thing whether we insist against it or [...]

Eschewing fascination with a view askance of the plighte of moderne morality, transcending a somewhat troglodyte decline of soul, et plus contradictory of the favoure of mere memetic sensibilities relating towards electronic vanities and such related, as they might be named here at a later date. Elegance of forme and function, spirit and soul, life [...]

I think I’m going to take tomorrow off. Sleep in. Get some rest. I think I’ll pretend that February 29th, 2007 isn’t even a real day, that it doesn’t exist, and that no one needs me for anything at all, whatsoever. Maybe I’ll get some reading or even some writing done. [...]

A week ago I posted a self sketch of me on South Park. Not too many of you felt compelled to send in your own south-park-self-portraits, but I did get a couple (plus I made one of my mother) for posting today.

Whatever, enjoy. Click on the thumbnails for [...]