Life is not a journey
I am living this right now. How do I get off? Alan Watts – Why Your Life Is Not A Journey from David Lindberg.
No CPP for you
The Canadian government is raising taxes to help pay for CPP. They don’t call it a tax, but it is. Anytime a government takes money away from you it’s a tax. They can call it an investment but here is what is really going on. The “Me” generation blew all …
Another landlord article
So there is another article regarding landlords and tenants and once again Toronto has sides with tenants without considering the greater issue. The article focuses on 500 Dawes Rd.which I have seen before and I must say looks like somewhere I would have lived as a student, but not someplace …
Pride 2016
Pride 2016 has come and gone and it was a challenging one on a number of fronts. Obviously Orlando weighed heavily on everyone’s minds and there were numerous signs showing support. The float in the picture above was empty… and later 49 marchers solemnly passed, each carrying a sign with …
Pride
I don’t normally go to PRIDE anymore. It was exciting the first few times I went, when I was younger and that part of sexuality was new to me. When I first saw a muscle bear in chaps in real-life. (only seen it on the internet before that) Or the …
No more landlords
My husband and I have been very fortunate in the property market here in Toronto. We managed to pull equity from our first home, a condo, and buy our house on Gerrard. We got some fantastic tenants for the condo who quite frankly took better care of it than we …
Ma’agalim
I came across this charming animation video on reddit which /u/xChipsus translated. Ma’agalim – Jane Bordeaux from Uri Lotan on Vimeo. Nights turn into daysDays turn into yearsAnd among them I was going faster in circlesWinds are blowing on meBlow on the back of my neckEverything seems too far …
Encouraging news
There were two news stories recently that I found very encouraging. The first was the Panama Papers. The Panama papers is this massive leak about the offshore holdings of the filthy rich. While having offshore accounts isn’t illegal in and of itself, it usually smacks of something nefarious and maybe …
Adobe Summit 2016
I was fortunate this year to get to go to Adobe Summit in Las Vegas. If you work in analytics, or marketing and you haven’t been to one I would highly recommend it. Now obviously because it is put on by Adobe they talk a lot about their products, but …