Came back to the office today to discover some exciting news – over the weekend the little shark game we just released pulled a “Megashark” and leapt out of the water to grab onto the #4 spot on the iTunes app store! There should be a Nerd Merit Badge for breaking the top 10. [...]

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We came home from camping to discover that the weird “broccoli” flowers growing in the front flower bed had finally bloomed pink. And what’s more, they were super popular with the bees – we counted a few dozen taking turns combing through the little flowers for pollen. With so many fascinating subjects hard at work [...]

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As a fun wedding after-party activity, my cousin Channy arranged for a set of casino tables to show up in the evening and handed out funny-money to play with. My dad and I decided to learn a new game and met up at the Craps table. I figured my math/gamer friends might find it interesting [...]

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I got to be a big jerk this morning. I took the scenic bike route to work today, and as I was coming up around a wooded-in corner I saw a hefty old pedestrian fellow slogging along in my lane. I was going uphill so I was traveling pretty slow… but apparently not as slow [...]

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As I was leaving the house this morning to get on my bike, I noticed a thick shimmering spider web strung between our rose bushes. As I bent down to look I came face to face with something hovering on a nearly invisible web – this enormous 2 and a half inch long Orb Weaver [...]

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I tried hard to drink in every bit of the fast-paced live-action Scott Pilgrim movie, which was packed full of neat little details and sight gags. I completely missed this clever trick in the trailers, but as soon as I saw it in the theatre I got so excited I yelled loudly whispered “LOOK AT [...]

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Another quick read I had a chance to scarf down on a train ride to Quebec city. “Rainbow Mars” is Larry Niven’s very clever take on why 19th century observations of the cities and canals on Mars didn’t hold up under later scrutiny – in his version of events a canal-digging civilization ( composed of [...]

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Over my recent travels I had some time to read – it’s so great to be a passenger rather than a driver. On the trip to and from Toronto I managed to breeze my way through two of famous food TV host Anthony Bourdain’s latest books, with mixed reviews.

In “The Nasty Bits”, he’s put together [...]

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Natasha and I caught an episode of a reality show last night called “100 Mile Challenge” where volunteers in Mission, British Columbia do a cold-turkey switchover to only eating food grown locally. It’s almost cheating to base the show there – with the Okanagan valley and Vancouver Island within striking range they have some of [...]

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During our train stopover in Montreal, Natasha and I stumbled into an opportunity to check out the insanely cool “Bodies: The Exhibition” event taking place at the Eaton Centre. I’d read about it in magazines – a german scientist (Gunther von Hagens) came up with a plastination method that treats cadavers so that all of [...]

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