Despite some anxiety about running in the winter (I have like zero body fat and prefer winter activities where I can bundle up), I ended up participating with the gang in the Winterman relay marathon, running 2 out of 8 of the 5K legs. The weather ended up better than we could have hoped for, [...]

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I just finished reading Jaron Lanier’s book “You Are Not A Gadget” which among other things (I’ll review it in a later post) brought up the subject of internet trolls, and the powerful temptation to slag people when you’re hiding, anonymous, behind your computer keyboard.
I’ve never understood the mindset of Youtube commenters. Maybe people are [...]

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Something’s going on in the magazine racks that I haven’t puzzled out yet. It seems like any magazine I like is priced way out of whack from it’s neighbors. At first I thought maybe I like magazines serving a niche market, but I saw a copy of “Urban Farm: Chickens” on the rack for $4.99 [...]

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I’m very excited by the glassblowing workshop I’m taking – I’m having a blast mixing colours into glowing hot glass and then twisting and squashing and blowing it into all kinds of amazing forms. The colour of blown glass is amazing – it’s so rich and saturated and has a brilliant quality that shimmers when [...]

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Stumbled on this amazing interactive interpretation of Van Gogh’s Starry Night and I’m totally blown away.

In hindsight, this piece is an obvious logical extension of the original painting. Van Gogh’s style calls out for this kind of treatment – it’s so full of energy and dynamism and spiralling brushwork. I wonder how something like this [...]

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Snapped a picture looking out over the experimental farm through this morning’s rolling fog. Those are trees and a little shed. No horizon line, though – just white meeting white.

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Despite the the cake and cards celebrating my birthday, I don’t think the implications of being 35 really sunk in until I got on the treadmill last night to practice for the Winterman run and had to update my age. I know it’s just used for target heart rate calculations, but it was a bit [...]

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I was at the hardware store again last week and needed a couple of things from their loose hardware area. Two bolts, four washers, four nuts. It was like 24 cents worth of hardware that I needed to make a pair of handy clamps.
I bring the bag to the checkout and the lady looks at [...]

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I went back to life drawing after a bit of a hiatus and had a really good night – I even exceeded my expectations a bit and managed to not horribly embarrass myself with my final drawings. The guy posing (Jarl) was a real pro – he was doing crazy dynamic poses using [...]

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Yesterday was kindof a disaster for buses – we were getting sleet and freezing rain, so inevitably they were running really late and/or were too full to pick us up when they came. Finally a 176 stopped for a gang of us on Merivale, and we packed in like sardines, only two blocks later to [...]

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