the flying squirrel

2010! All in all, I think it was a good year. Personally, I mean. I have some issues with it geopolitically, but I don’t think we need to go into that. And, for a change, it went by without any significant job turmoil. That’s something! Back in January, I got myself dragged into the long-running [...]

As I was leaving for work yesterday, there was an interview with a guy on The Current on CBC yesterday morning about the Marshmallow Test. Basic premise is you sit a kid down in a room with a marshmallow and tell them that they can eat the marshmallow whenever they want. However, the experimenter tells [...]

So I left for work this morning, intending to walk to work as usual, braving uncleared sidewalks and bitter winds. After my fall on the ice a few years ago, I started using Yaktrax, which I highly recommend. They’re a bit of a pain to get on, though. So I left my house this morning [...]