I really like the little video these guys have put together – it sortof reminds of me of “Where in the world is Matt”, and it’s getting me all excited about our upcoming Europe trip.

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

Also – very nice piano score.
Edit: I’ve been duped, sortof. The Washington [...]

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In Winnipeg the Fringe Festival is a big deal – Natasha and I joined the throngs of people wandering the exchange looking for fun and interesting independent performances. That is until the awful day I gave into one of Natasha’s ‘audience participation’ picks, and got called up on stage and made to do dog tricks [...]

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Natasha and I ducked into Ottawa U’s Tabaret Hall building on Saturday to get out of the rain on our way to see a Fringe festival play, and discovered some really fun art hanging on the walls. Manon Elder’s “High Tea” series captures portraits of awesome Canadian women holding teacups… from the neck down. This [...]

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Saturday May 14th, Montreal’s amazing ukulele-playing folk-rock performer Krista Muir is going to be in Ottawa at Raw Sugar as part of the launch tour for her new album “Between Atoms!”. Not only will she be joined by the dashing Jesse Dangerously (who strangely keeps touring with unrelated artists I like) – but her alter-ego, [...]

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Very excited congratulations go out to my friend Louis Dozois and his dedicated team at Northern Bytes who are living the dream by publishing their epic indie iPhone game, “World to Conquer“!

WtC is a turn-based hex-grid re-imagining of Final Fantasy Tactics, with more than a dozen character classes and tons of spells and powers. So [...]

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My cousin recommended I give “Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman!” a read if I was interested in having a bit of personal background on the famous Nobel-winning physicist. I’ve always found his lectures fascinating and easy to understand – Richard Feynman has a gift for education as well as physics. As a legend in science, [...]

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I took a train to Toronto this past weekend to catch The Go! Team in concert. I’m a big fan of their noisy, multi-layered, upbeat music and I knew their show was going to be something special. I also figured that, since they’re from England and don’t make a lot of visits to the colonies, [...]

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Natasha and I took advantage of our unhealthy downtime by getting caught up on a stack of movie rentals, and I’m behind on describing our theatre visits (thanks for the XMas gift cards!). Here’s a handful of quick reviews from stuff we’ve seen lately:
The Black Swan – Sexy McAwesome – Who knew watching Natalie Portman [...]

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One benefit of being sick all last week was that I had a chance (between naps) to catch up on some of my reading. Based on a half-recommendation from Greg (I think he suspected I’d already read it) I powered through chunks of Neal Stephenson’s Zodiac early in the week and, like the rest of [...]

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Madeleine L’Engle is one freaky-deaky young adult author. I read A Wind In The Door as a kid, but all I could remember was a vague recollection of talking mitochondria – so I gave it a second reading this week and rediscovered her trippy dimension-hopping, telepathy-wielding, scale-breaking stories.

The main character, Meg, is a confident, capable [...]

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