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Empty toilet paper aisles at stores, as the world is currently being swept by a highly contagious viral respiratory disease. We’re on our third week of social distancing: staying home, avoiding physical contact with people (min. 2 metres distance), and only going out to stock up on groceries once a week or so. Since we’re […]
To commemorate nine months of Nova Scotian unemployment, I collaged all my job application rejections over a scenic photo of the lighthouse at Peggy’s Cove. This only covers a fraction of total applications; many other employers never got back to me at all.
Some shots from a visit to the Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum, a real live farm right down the road from us, with crops and animals and a historic house and a tearoom. We saw various animals, had lunch at the tearoom, and Ezra got to play a bit with some farm toys. The sheep […]
We have moved to Canada! Specifically we have attained Canadian permanent residency through the Express Entry process and moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Yes, it has been cold and snowy; yes, we have eaten donairs, poutine, and donair poutine; and yes, we have had Timbits and double-doubles at Tim Horton’s (although I find I prefer […]
Full Orlando Apr 2018 photoset Google Glass videos from Disney World Joined family in Orlando for a trip to Disney World and the 2018 McDonalds International Convention. Last such family trip to Disney World was in 2006 so it had been a while, and there are many more of us now: total group size was […]
The year 2016 brought an epic blizzard and a wave of sad high-profile deaths, including John Glenn, Prince, Princess Leia, Kathy Selden, Admiral Ackbar, R2D2, Snape, The Goblin King, Reverend Book, Chekov 2.0, The Big Lebowski, Henry Warnimont, Willie Wonka, Joe Patroni, Ali, Alf, and democracy. But death aside, 2016 will forever be most notable […]
Update, 9 Nov 2016: The political ascendancy of Donald Trump would be a fascinating and mildly amusing study in American celebrity culture, were it not such a potential threat to my safety and quality of life. Really no surprise that after years of a party defining itself through ostentatious wealth, belligerent ignorance, racial hatred, conspiracy […]
DC cherry blossom peak bloom came on a perfect Saturday just before Easter — early in the season after a warmer-than-usual winter. Crowds of people as always, but beautiful views of DC and the blossoms under a clear blue sky. More in the Cherry Blossoms 2016 photoset, part of an unbroken string of DC cherry […]
With the announcement of Project Wallaby, here are a few questions that various people have asked — added to the introspective voices in my head:
Full photoset: Paris/Amsterdam 2015 Video playlist With 6 years of accumulated airline reward miles, we took a 10 day vacation to Paris and Amsterdam over the summer.