I found a nifty sidewalk chalk character outside a kids’ store during Westfest, a dinosaur monster someone drew among all the scribbling of the toddlers. I’ve been itching to bring a box of coloured chalks home and doodle out some art on the sidewalks in front of our building, but I haven’t gotten around to [...]

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We were out with Nigel and the family a little while ago and while Rowan was climbing around on the equipment at the park, some neighborhood kids borrowed her recumbent trike-thing that Nigel built and were racing it around recklessly, eliciting gasps from the adults until one of them finally (predictably) ran into another.
There was [...]

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To get out of the house the other night we went for a stroll through Westboro, which is a great little neighbourhood. The snow was coming down heavily and it was a bit nippy outside, so we ducked into a few little shops and galleries along the way, including a tiny and well-hidden art shop [...]

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Every so often I check in on this british company called “Advanced Rendering Technology” or (conveniently) ART for short. They make special chips for doing all your rendering mathematics very very quickly. Before, you could buy clusters of processors for some huge amount of money… and I’d always decided that if I were a silly [...]

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