I sleep a little easier every night since visiting the fortress at Quebec City – knowing that when invaders try to conquer the citadel, Canada’s elite royal guard have a secret weapon up their sleeve. State-of-the-art blue felt body armour. Razor-sharp solid golden horns. A breed distantly related to killer whales and ferocious arctic wolves. [...]

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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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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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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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I don’t want to like Swiffer Sweepers, because they’re environmentally irresponsible, flimsily built, and uneconomical. Every corporate automaton’s dream – a pay-per-use broom.
But man – can that thing ever collect dust!
Maybe it can be a sometimes broom. Like, for special sweeping occasions.

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I’m really serious about trying to absorb some more French culture. I was embarrassed on Parliament Hill when an American asked me who the French Canada Day festivities host was – I really had no idea. I think a French celebrity could live next door to me and I’d never be the wiser.
Comics
Centerpointe Library has [...]

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So Kert linked me to a cool MRI site the other day featuring cross-section views of the insides of various fruits and veggies. The author posted a bunch of DICOM files (the files right out of the MRI machine) and I grabbed them to play around with the layers. Turns out Photoshop will open a [...]

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