Back At It

The last few weeks have been busy. A trip to Belize, several celebrations with friends, and a trip to Toronto for my wife’s birthday. Combine the intake of …

Ikea Logic

I visited Ikea the other day and noticed something peculiar. The lot was about half full when I arrived. But the strange part is that the majority of …

Sideswiped

Chaos is fine, it’s the unexpected that gets me. I suppose, technically speaking, the unexpected is chaos — it’s what makes chaos chaos. But I typically thrive in …

Rain

It’s been raining on and off for the last couple of weeks. The trails are sticky and wet — and it’s poor etiquette to ruin trails by rutting …

Geek Time

It’s a good time to be a comic book geek. It has been for the last decade. While I haven’t read comics in years, the stories and characters are nostalgic. …

Is This Real?

Sebastian Junger is one of my favourite writers. He’s a former war journalist who spent time embedded in the Korrengal Valley — the Afghanistan of the war in …

Failures

The Lisa, NeXT, G4 Cube, MobileMe… These products aren’t household names. Mostly because they failed miserably. One might assume that their creator’s career would have been short-lived — …

On Being Interesting

I like thinking about perspective. I was talking to a friend today about a recent event in my life. He commented on how interesting my life is. My …

Shitty First Drafts and Mastery

I’ve written three separate drafts today that I couldn’t bring myself to publish. They were desperate attempts at something decent but ultimately forced distractions from the reality I’m …

Resist Control

I read a story a while back about a test flight, or a new manoeuvre — something related to planes anyway. The context doesn’t matter. Several crashes and deaths resulted from …