But so is every last Friday of the month. What made tonight special (either than the fact that my apartment building was on their route) is the sheer volume of bicycle riders present – all of whom, in some way or another, want to raise awareness of bicycling in the city. June [...]
There was a news article from CTV recently that interested me (here) – can gas prices put strain on our long-distance relationships? Now, the article chose to focus solely on intimate relationships and the sheer cost of driving and flying long distances, but why can’t we focus on greenhouse gases instead?
I’m very disappointed to say that I’ve had to throw out at least four of the recycled plastic (cloth) bags I’ve purchased from either Superstore or Safeway over the past 6 months.
Four bags. Each bag is composed of at least 85% post-consumer material plastic material. I wonder how many plastic bags each one represents?
[...]
A great watch..J.K Rowling’s address to the Harvard graduates of 2008.
Here is the link to the video.
After 3 weeks away from my crops, I returned home to a surprise: flowers. But not just any flowers, lettuce flowers. Apparently, lettuce have flowers.
I’m not sure why I’m so surprised by this – they’re angiosperms after all – but I guess seeing a 4-5 meter long stalk growing forth out [...]
Once again, Chris Jordan with a commanding use of aesthetics. This is as remarkable as it is horrendous. Go below the fold to zoom into the image.
How does one spend their first 24 hours back on solid ground? Well, while regaining my ‘land legs’ (read: opposite of sea legs – the feeling like you’re constantly moving even though you’re on solid ground. It sucks), I decided to visit the greater Vancouver regional district’s ode to over-consumption: Metrotown! Hurrah for [...]
Finally. After 3 years, I’ve finally finished the 44 Scotland Street trilogy by Alexander McCall Smith. I bought the first book during an unexpected ten hour delay in the Glasgow Airport a few years ago, and only discovered the other books recently, after a friend informed me that my letter to the author encouraging him [...]
So, I’m probably somewhere around here:
This leg of the cruise is the most popular one among everyone on board – the science personnel take on the officers and crew in a lunging competition. Why lunging? Well, you try taking long, unaided steps on a moving surface, chump. The competition follows a round-robin [...]
I usually make a music mix about 4 times a year, with the culmination of those mixes becoming a more focused annual mix. This is something I’ve done since 2002, and it’s always great to go back in time and check out a particular mix for a particular year.
Anyway, things have been [...]
What would you do if you won a $10 billion lottery tomorrow? What luxury items would you rush out and buy? The latest in sports cars, the latest in technology… I wonder how quickly we would tire of buying things and set our minds to saving the world.
Here’s a top ten list for [...]
THE GOD DELUSION (VIDEO)
RICHARD DAWKINS
APRIL 29th, 2008
“The God Delusion”
(April 29th, 2008, UBC Chan Centre)
Introduction by Dr. Patrick Keeling, Director, Centre for Microbial Diversity and Evolution.
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A preeminent scientist – and the world’s most prominent atheist – asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted [...]
Having just returned from a visit to the magic kingdom, the above was a question that continually haunted my consciousness. Disneyland was remarkably pristine in that cookie cutter, artificial, yet aesthetically pleasing way, but it must be a major sink in terms of waste, energy consumption, carbon emissions, etc.
Or is it? Maybe [...]
Technology is a w e s o m e.So, we’re somewhere around here. We’ve encountered some terrible weather. What’s terrible weather on a ship, you ask? Well, if in a few seconds, you go from seeing only water to only air outside your cabin’s porthole, that’s a pretty good indication to stay indoors my friend. [...]
Well, maybe the post title is a little on the hyperbole side of things.
Anyway, many apologies for being more or less absent from this blog for the last couple of weeks. As usual, the end of term chaos is partly to blame, but basically the last month or so has been especially time [...]
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Are you Crazy if you Electrify Your Bike?
I used to think that electric bikes were for crazy old guys with headphones that swerve down the bike path singing their own eccentric tunes. But recently, two of my friends have converted their commuter bikes to electric and they say they’re never going back.
My friend Jesse (pictured with his bike above) [...]