TTC streetcars
So I crashed by bike yesterday. Normally that is no big deal, but I did it while riding along Queen St. East attempting to turn left. Now if this has ever happened to you, you know there is little time to react. One minute you’re spinning along and the next …
Welcome to Alberta…
…the closet of Canada. Every time I start thinking that Alberta might be becoming a little more cosmopolitan it does something like this: Under proposed legislation parents would have the ability to opt their children out of evolution classes and classes that discuss homosexuality. Really we are looking at two …
Chris Berry’s Menu Analytics
Chris Berry, a friend and colleague wrote a very interesting post on the analytics of restaurant menus. Chris took a restaurant’s online menu and analyzed the prices of items, numbers of items, average prices and much more. This is Chris’ first stab at it but the mind leaps at the …
Chris Berry’s Menu Analytics
Chris Berry, a friend and colleague wrote a very interesting post on the analytics of restaurant menus. Chris took a restaurant’s online menu and analyzed the prices of items, numbers of items, average prices and much more. This is Chris’ first stab at it but the mind leaps at the …
A letter to himself
Stephen Fry wrote a letter to his older self when he was 16. Now considerably older he has responded with a touching letter back. I know I have written letters to my older self, although I have no idea where those letters are perhaps it is time I responded too. …
Credit and the dangers of debt
One of my favorite shows is “Until debt do Us Part” with Gail Vox-Oxlade. To be honest the show just makes me feel supior because I am not as monumentally stupid with my money as the people she helps on the show. The average Canadian student who leaves school with …
Thinking about prejudice
I have been thinking about prejudice today. I was talking with a co-worker today about why everytime someone speaks out against Isreal they get labelled an anti-Semitic. I posed this question in response to the news frenzy around the Anti-Racism Summit and the response to the President of Iran’s speech. My …
Do I smell or something?
I am not sure whether I should be happy or disappointed so far with my Becel Ride for Heart results. On the one hand I have raised over $400 dollars, recieved the most donations I ever have, and have achieved my fundraising goal not once, but twice. On the other …