Archive for the ‘Personal Stuff’ Category
Final thought on the Vancouver 2010 Olympics
As much as I was extremely happy for all the Canadian athletes at the Vancouver 2010 winter Olympics, especially the speed skaters, I’ve had this nagging feeling I want to get off my chest.
Maybe it’s too early to say it, but I didn’t like the blatant Canadian nationalism on display at the 2010 Olympic games [...]
Lunch and Adventure, my new blog: loudlunch.com
Hey all, I’ve been busy blogging at work behind the firewallz so I haven’t been so keen on updating my personal blog. But I have been pretty passionate about lunch-time lately. So in that vein, I decided to start writing about it on a new blog, Loud Lunch.
Loud Lunch will be dedicated to my favourite [...]
Wódka or Vodka? Or why being Polish is tough.
The team at Vice, recently put out this great, short little documentary-style film about the origins of vodka. As the writers allude, many countries lay claim to being vodka originators the way the Russians do, but none with so much difficulty (and legitimacy) as Poland.
Despite starting off a little slowly, and not doing the Ruskies [...]
Lost in Transition
A lot of stuff has been happening in the last couple of weeks. For those in the know, I started a new job: Product Designer with Desire2Learn in Kitchener. I complain about the commute from Toronto, but really I’m just fighting the idea of embracing something new. So far, the office has been great: receptive, [...]
Don Mills Road at Earth Hour
Don Mills Road, Earth Hour at OSC. Originally uploaded by grabka dot org.
We went to the Ontario Science Centre for Earth Hour; lots of fun, free hot chocolate, $1 popcorn, instructions for star-gazing, and some passionate African drumming.
I guess nobody told the apartments across the street to turn their lights off for that hour as [...]
Earth Hour @ the Ontario Science Centre
To anyone who is looking for something to do on Saturday afternoon, it’s Earth Hour (shut off everything electronic for an hour, @ 8:30pm). The Ontario Science Centre is running a bit of an event.
The Google calendar event for the Toronto Activity Club (TACKY) calendar.
For anyone who’s interested, I’ll be there at 7:30pm!
Bike is out for the season.
New colour for the spring. Originally uploaded by grabka dot org.
The weather has been co-operative, so I spent a few hours in the last couple of days doing a little bit of maintenance. Changed the oil, cleaned up the accidental oil spill, de-rusted the chain, adjusted the chain slack. There is something wrong [...]
Bridging the digital divide between rich and poor using cellphones.
Today is the 20th birthday of the World Wide Web, and in celebration there was this telecast on French TV from CERN about the future of the web. Stéphane Boyera’s five minute talk stood out as being particularly interesting to me.
There is a digital divide in the world, as there are 5 billion people that [...]