What's in my panniers:Today's route:View in a larger map

September 22Project Grizzly, 1996, 72min, Peter LynchA National Film Board of Canada documentary about the lifelong project of Troy Hurtubise, a man who has been obsessed with researching the Canadian grizzly bear up close in his homemade "grizzly-proof" suit of

I've been reading about so I changed the name on my telephone from 'Telus' to 'Buffalo' while it was plugged in this morning.

During low tide a 0.5m cubic hole is dug in the beach lowering the average elevation of the city by 0.00055 per cent.114,670,000.0m2 Surface area of Vancouver*2.0m Average elevation*0.125m3 Volume of hole114,670,000.0m2 × 2.0m = 229,340,000.0m3 Volume of Vancouver above

See Part 1 for details of the trip]This was my third bicycle touring trip after having ridden from Victoria to San Diego in 2005, and across Java, Indonesia in 2007. For this adventure my friend Hector planned the first half

While working on a contract these are the applications and programs I have running on my MacBook Pro (with OSX 10.4) at basically all times while designing and constructing a website. I can't work without these. A lot of Command-Tab,

in a larger mapRouteThe route is a circle with the first half following the Trans-Canada and its prevailing tailwinds north through the Fraser Canyon and then east to Kamloops, through the northern Okanagan and then gradually (and not so gradually)

A review in tabs—excerpts I found noteworthy in Susan Orlean's novel about orchid collectors in the swamps of Florida, about what passion really is and means. The non-fiction novel formed the basis for Charlie Kaufman's film , which inspired me

How much time and money does a 4th year design graduation project take? Nearly 1,000 hours and over $3,000.

You are invited to view the work of our Undergraduates and Graduates from the Design, Fine Arts and Media programs.Undergraduate ExhibitionMay 3-10 10am to 6pmGraduate ExhibitionMay 3-17 10am to 6pmPreview Night Friday May 1, 7pm to 9pmEmily Carr University of

A review in tabs—excerpts I found noteworthy in Yann Martel's novel about a boy trapped on a life raft with a zebra, hyena, orang-utan and tiger. Page 31"I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in

A quick and fun pro bono project for the organization I raced under for seven years. A kind of giving back to the community feel. I was in charge of the frontend design of their new race calendar and results

The original metre, developed in 19th Century France as a standard for all people, for all time.The original kilogram. I'm inspired by the idealism of those who developed the metric system which was partly logical, partly self-centred, and is still

The original metre and kilogram. Solid platinum-iridum, France, 1879-1889.Metric SystemStored in a vault at the French Academy of Sciences is the metre, the length by which all other lengths are judged. Created in 1890 the metre is a precisely machined

A video: students of the Emily Carr University make a winter morning pilgrimage to the grave site of their school's namesake, and Canadian painter, Emily Carr, in Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, Canada. Post-respects coffee at Cafe Fantastico in Cook Street

Page 38The question is this: is there such a thing as innate talent?The obvious answer is yes. Not every hockey player born in January ends up playing at the professional level. Only some do--the innately talented ones. Achievement is talent

A review in tabs—excerpts I found noteworthy in Carson Mell's—who as far as I can tell is a young independent writer—writing about Bobby Bird, "a classic rock star who's been producing rock albums of greatly varying quality since the early

Passages from films I've found particular poignant / relevant / inspiring of late.AdaptationJohn Larouche's pollination monologueNote: skip to 3-minute mark"Point is what's so wonderful is that every one of these flowers has a specific relationship with the insect that pollinates

BeirutNeutral Milk HotelTed Leo and The PharmacistsDan DeaconWeenSacred Harp singersMorrisseyPortisheadBrian EnoThe SmithsThe Cinematic OrchestraElvis CostelloBjörkDevendra BanhartCasiotone for the Painfully AloneRadioheadElectrelaneFeistErnst Reijseger And Mola SyllaTalking HeadsGirl TalkThe BooksJulee CruiseAesop RockDan BernCompared to my top artists from 2006 only three remained at