the flying squirrel

(This isn’t really a spoiler:) The Dark Knight has a useless, throw-away scene where Batman extracts a brick from a wall with a bullet-hole in it, takes it back to his Bat Lab and does a bunch of ridiculous CSI bullshit where he re-assembles the shattered bullet with computer imagery so he can glean a [...]

The Record interviewed a Lake Erie fisherman about what he does, about the lake and about the industry. What I liked particularly was his quote at the end, talking about pollution in the lake: I don’t think I’ve ever had that thought in my lifetime, that this is getting bad and it’s going to get [...]

Sunday was quite a bit less action-packed than Saturday. Everybody was pretty tired, me included. You’ll notice the Saturday post went up after 3am. I tried to get to sleep earlier but failed utterly. One of the things they tell you to do to fight insomnia is to get up and do something and then [...]

…in bullet form, as I am rather tired… Got up early to make it out to Gareth David-Lloyd’s guest Q&A. Not that I’m that big on Torchwood, but it’s Doctor Who-related. He was fun, though. Apparently he has a band. I went to a bunch of Doctor Who panels throughout the day, most of which [...]

I’m here in Toronto for Polaris, the convention formerly known as Toronto Trek. This is actually the first time I’ve been here for the whole weekend. Usually I’ve only ever driven down for the Saturday. The highlight of the day for me was stumbling across Rick Green in the dealer’s room and hearing about Hoverboy, [...]

It’s hot and sweaty today, so when I came into work, I wanted to go in through the cafeteria doors which is the fastest way to get to the disused gym/shower room to change shirts. Unfortunately when I opened the tinted cafeteria doors, I discovered that Sandvine, with whom we share an office, was having [...]

I’m a bit sad that a bunch of my favourite podcasts have gone off the air recently: CBC’s Search Engine announced they wouldn’t be renewed for a second season. Jesse’s still going to be posting new stuff come September, but the sophisticated news magazine about the interaction of the Internet and society is gone. On [...]