I was in a Wal-Mart up here in Aurora Ontario this weekend, and while sauntering by the electronics section I saw a couple of Flip Video cameras on display for sale. The price was something close to $155.00 as I recall. Up until now I think the Flip Camera was sold exclusively in the States. […]
It was the first night of soccer for my daughter last night. Let me give you the 3 minute rundown:
It was cold and damp (about 8C or 46F), moderately gusty and lightly raining. My dad and I were freezing. She was rosy-cheeked but kept warm with all the exercise, activity and good circulation that comes […]
Browsing through the Flickr Group of You Look Nice Today (a podcast I’m a recently quite fond of), I came across a Geekiest photo pool.
If you are in need of a good and hearty laugh today, just browse that pool of photos. Especially this one posted by Chris Pirillo. Check out his dad’s ‘fro. It […]
We arrived back from our five day sojourn to Vegas last night by way of San Francisco(!). Turns out Air Canada booked the connecting flights with not enough time overlap to satisfy United. So they had to send us back from Vegas via San Fran and then on to Toronto. Originally it was supposed to […]
In a comment to my previous post about Facebook, JakeT also ponders the signficance of Twitter and why I use it. Although Twitter is different things to different people, I’ll just describe the things I like about it and what it does for me.
I follow about 80 people and about 70 or 80 people follow […]
Driving in to work today I saw gas prices at $1.20/litre (regular unleaded) for the first time. Every day that the price continues to rise, the happier I get that I bought a small car last time out.
For our neighbours to the south, that’s about $4.50 per US. Gal.
But I’m not going to complain too […]
As someone with 6 years of successful fatherhood under my belt - what… no award? - I’ve often reminisced about my youth, or more precisely my parents’ handling of my youth. I model a lot of my parenting, as do most I assume, on my own parents. I like the way I was brought up […]
The TV arm of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has always been renowned country-wide for it’s hockey coverage and news, and that’s pretty much where the reputation always ended, unless of course you were a big Beachcombers or Hinterland Who’s Who fan. But they’ve been changing that reputation over the past few years.
One show that […]
I thought I’d better break out the camera and take a couple of shots of my new workspace before it gets buried in drawings and project files. This way I’ll at least have some evidence later on that indeed there are actual desk surfaces under all that crap.
Of course I could make the big hurrah […]
I recently arrived back from an almost two-week vacation down to Myrtle Beach and Disney World. While not completely “off the grid”, aside from a daily email check and a couple of blog comments, I pretty much unplugged. I gave the camera a decent workout with a few hundred snapshots just downloaded onto the pc […]