BlogFlockA friend's wife suggested, about 10 years now, and I consider AquaFit for physical activity. That was during my running phase, so I didn't outride reject it if maybe keep it as an option along with yoga.
Fast-forward a decade, and a move across the country later, I started…
The organizers of Towel Day, the worldwide (universal?) celebration of the life of Douglas Adams on May 25th of every year reached out to me, and from them I received positive feedback about my idea to organize an event in Toronto next year. What I'd need for the event…
It’s Towel Day…again. I couldn't find any related events in Toronto this year, so I'll went out search of other hoopy froods who know where their towels were. Biking around Toronto Islands and Biidaasige Park, I saw zero people's towels. This time it happened on a weekday, a Canadian…
At China Books Review, Jeremiah Jenne pulls out of the archives The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Li Zhisui and reviews it with the context of over 30 years having now passed since its publication in 1994. The book allegedly detailed the life of Mao Zedong, longtime ruler of…
Several years and two weeks ago, Douglas Adams passed away. It continues to irk me greatly that such an intelligent and funny voice was silenced on that day, and regularly I think of what he would have loved and hated about the current era. He remains highly influential in my…
I’ve now seen, in quick succession, all three films by Edward Burtynsky and Jennifer Baichwal. This one follows Manufactured Landscapes (which I’d seen a couple of times previously to last month’s screening) and Watermark. Anthropocene makes the case that we’ve entered a geological epoch that follows the Holocene, which we…
I've lived in the same apartment in Toronto, near Queen & Spadina, for almost 3 years. Initially my commute to an office at Church and The Esplanade was taking the 510 streetcar from either Queen or King St. depending on where the winds took me. That seemed like the fastest…
I have reflected recently on my three years at Acquia and my three years living in Toronto, and today marks three years living in my downtown Toronto apartment. I got the keys to the place on December 1st, 2015, and spent the next two weeks slowly moving in, making…
You might remember such blog posts as my thoughts on the King St. Pilot and my long thread on Twitter on the subject. Since the pilot has started, I have used the Transit app more and more to give me transit directions. It does things like notify me when…
Joseph Planta, a podcaster who interviews notable people in public life, once posted the list of films he had watched over the course of the year.
The list I've been keeping since January 1st of films I've seen/finished in 2016. Up to 102 as of today. pic.twitter.com/c1PCVu2aiA
— Joseph…