2009 annual report: steady
Let’s see, what happened in 2009? Well, we took a big trip to France, a relaxing trip to Nova Scotia and a weekend trip to Ottawa for my brother’s birthday. […]
Monthly Archives: December 2009
On the first four days of Christmas…
Here’s what we’ve been up to in the four days since we left you: On boxing day we enjoyed the main part of Nellie’s gift to me: gold seats at […]
Hopefully it will be less successful than Operation Eat Chocolate Until Even My Puke Smells Sweet
My my, what a Christmas morning. The crazy wind outside woke us up at 4AM, and we never really got back to sleep. We chatted with my brother and his […]
"Jesus Christ, Powell, he could be a f*cking bartender for all we know!"
Chrtistmas feels different this year. Maybe it’s because there’s not been any snow in Toronto (until today, but apparently it’ll be gone by tomorrow afternoon), or maybe it’s because all […]
TED
I don’t normally just re-post video, but I found these two TED talks particularly enjoyable and thought I’d share. Sean Gourley: the mathematics of war Clay Shirky: How social media […]
"I think that the closer you are to a flame and the more you see people getting burned, the funnier you get, if you’re at all human."
If you were a fan of The Wire — and if you weren’t, you should probably just stop talking to me now — Vice Magazine has a very long, very […]
Best songs of 2009
Lo and behold, my twenty favourite songs of 2009, listed according to artist: and you will know us by the trail of dead . “fields of coal” the antlers . […]
Somebody's got to lose
All week Maclean’s has been issuing ‘best-of-decade’ lists, focusing only on Canadian content. Best Canadian TV shows, best Canadian movies, and so on. Today was the one I was really […]
Gone quiet
You might have noticed that I’m hardly blogging these days. I’m also not reading most of my news feeds, and I don’t even turn on my Twitter client anymore most […]
"The dragon is hungry."
In an attempt to relax yesterday (after a bunch of Christmas shopping, and before I go back to work for the rest of today) we watched two movies: Doubt (imdb […]
