I cut up a purple cabbage a little differently than usual for coleslaw, from the stem up this time, and was struck by the beauty of it’s 3rd order spiral symmetry. Supercool and fractaly! Plus, the colours look “Pizzow!” (I made that word up) in a salad.
A little known fact: Cabbages are closely [...]

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My quest to get better TV reception just got more sinister – I’m now willing to follow the instructions of strangers on the internet, building scary-looking buglike contraptions in my basement.
This is a homebrew dipole antenna, as described by babblin5 in his youtube video “Coat Hanger HD TV Antenna!” (suggested to me by Kyle). Not [...]

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I recognise that this is an advertisement, but I had to share. This is what happens when you bring buckets and buckets of free paint to ugly grey parts of Brazil, France, London and India, and then get a director to shoot it in time lapse. Click the image to jump over to Youtube to [...]

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We were downtown last night for a life-drawing session with a twist – the models come in costumes. Dr Sketchy’s Anti-art School arranges for ladies in themed outfits to show up at Mercury Lounge and pose, and local animators and drawing enthusiasts show up to record it all in pencil. They’re generally racier costumes, but [...]

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Natasha and I attended an event in the market last night (which I’ll describe in depth later), but street parking was a huge hassle because the big parking garage was closed, so I drove around detours getting frustrated until I discovered that the parkade on Clarence and Dalhousie had some spots.
Returning to the car 3 [...]

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